The Overnightscape Underground

1:12:42 – The 25th anniversary of my Anything But Monday college radio show, the history of ABM, psychic wars, podcasting can have a heavy toll on your life, how would me from 25 years ago react to my current situation, crushing disappointment, megalomaniacal dreams, food manufacturing, Zeitgeist: Moving Forward, resource-based economy, the brainwashed masses, living with contradictions, difficulties in sitting outside at the noodle place, hipsters, style over substance, CD scam, the world is utterly insane, doom fear, weirdly warm outside, later on with Bopozog / Bret from Indiana and Gwen from New York in the lower east side, the Andy Kaufman situation, bad hair day, Bret’s first plane ride and subway ride, airline security, displays of police power, bad areas turning into good areas, record stores, Strand Bookstore, Blue Stockings, Forbidden Planet, positive memories of crappy store environments, Tower Records, Other Music, Anime Crash, subway, Bret’s band – Calling Corners (callingcorners.com), Wicca, Electric Wizard, Gwen Sacre Bleu, microfame, had a great time meeting Bret and Gwen, my isolation, Artifact Coins from Ellusionist.com, decks of playing cards, coin tricks, socializing, and Schnipper’s.

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Attribution: by Frank Nora – more info at onsug.com

Released February 2011 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.

The 25th anniversary of my Anything But Monday college radio show, the history of ABM, psychic wars, podcasting can have a heavy toll on your life, how would me from 25 years ago react to my current situation, crushing disappointment, megalomaniacal dreams, food manufacturing, Zeitgeist: Moving Forward, resource-based economy, the brainwashed masses, living with contradictions, difficulties in sitting outside at the noodle place, hipsters, style over substance, CD scam, the world is utterly insane, doom fear, weirdly warm outside, later on with Bopozog / Bret from Indiana and Gwen from New York in the lower east side, the Andy Kaufman situation, bad hair day, Bret's first plane ride and subway ride, airline security, displays of police power, bad areas turning into good areas, record stores, Strand Bookstore, Blue Stockings, Forbidden Planet, positive memories of crappy store environments, Tower Records, Other Music, Anime Crash, subway, Bret's band - Calling Corners (callingcorners.com), Wicca, Electric Wizard, Gwen Sacre Bleu, microfame, had a great time meeting Bret and Gwen, my isolation, Artifact Coins from Ellusionist.com, decks of playing cards, coin tricks, socializing, and Schnipper's.

1:30:17 – Rough morning commute, clock cleaning, temple of false hope, Cinnabon, the latest Overnightscape Central, limping with numb toes, zonked out last night, Apples To Apples, the shocking realization that even The Marx Brothers are fading into oblivion, they used to show a lot of older stuff on independent TV stations, browsing in libraries, the Dewey Decimal System, Groucho Marx’s TV show “You Bet Your Life”, fell asleep in my chair, cold medicine, the world changed around 1995 – with the rise of the Internet and the decline of some aspects of pop culture, more choice makes for less commonality, the new adults coming out of the childhood system, synchronicity of Bora Bora, whatever happened to podcasting, marketing, home shopping, Aol Late Night, it helps to already be a movie or TV star, Kevin Smith, NetFlix on Boxee Box, Felix The Cat, The Story of India, the next day, upcoming 8th anniversary of The Overnightscape, NyQuil, The Overnightscape Underground listed yesterday as a sub-collection on the Radio Programs page on Archive.org, robot legs on 41st Street, Dee Daa, confusing websites, Lion King social media, QR code, 9/11 Memorial, World Trade Center, the most boring day of the 20th century (April 11, 1954), Fringe, Boxee Box, Riverworld, naked science fiction, weird Monday morning, new sidewalk shed design (scaffolding), Park Avenue walk/don’t walk signal, underground train yard, Creative Commons, weird hazy darkness in the sky, the movie “Zeitgeist: Moving Forward”, resource-based economy, how did we get tot this point?, greed, “the powers that be” as the remnants of an ancient civilization – trying to rebuild it, worker race, merging the two societies together, technological growth, quality of life, The Venus Project, all the corporations represented in Times Square, lovely evening, cat and bird cartoon, the deranged world can be aesthetically pleasing, the situation is not sustainable, everything buzzing along, the space-time continuum, another video screen in Times Square, the insane world, and all the weirdness keeps grinding along.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License.
Attribution: by Frank Nora – more info at onsug.com

Released February 2011 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.

In this episode: Mike’s musical origins, his bass player Jeff Hall, influences include The Beatles, U2, Radiohead, Rush, none of us are exposed to new music, how did we find Mike on the web?, Mike’s ever expanding vocal range, putting an emphasis on the original style of each song, sound recording techniques, a wedding gig request in Amsterdam, the 3-man vocal arrangement of 80s band Toto, Mike’s unique T-shirts, musical aspirations, American Idol, America’s Got Talent, and X Factor, original songs, the Pie Pizzeria in Utah, rock and roll in the future, future cover artists, is rock music dead?,

opinions on Tron Legacy (2010) starring Jeff Bridges, first person shooters on the PC, and more great cover songs (clips) from Mike, Jeff, and friends.

22:05 – Jig dolls!  Goodrob13 Music Show episode 5: More current music I actually like (Camera Obscura, Rilo Kiley, and Dolores O’Riordan), bad audio mastering, my extreme hatred of asymmetrical headphones, Creative Commons vs. copyrighted music and art, my Creative Commons photos on Flickr being used on blogs and in books, Frank Nora talking about jamendo.com free Creative Commons music site, jig dolls (also known as limberjacks- video), and not being able to copy and paste the file path in MS Windows or Mac OS X.