30:36 – They say you can’t get blood from a turnip, but how about water from a rock? Dave lets you in on how it might have been done. Also, correlation may not imply causation, but it can be a pretty good indicator that of two correlated events, one may be causing the other. What is sometimes less clear, however, is which is the cause and which is the effect. “Go Israelites, beat Amalekites!” Finally, take your father-in-law’s advice and learn to delegate before you work yourself to death.
Show art: Moses Draws Water from the Rock (1642) by Francois Perrier (1590-1650), Public Domain.
2:23:59 – Frank in NJ, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Bashed in the side of the head, book sale, lanternfly incident, Anthony Newly, Irwin Allen’s Alice in Wonderland (1985), Area of Hope, zip tie memory, goat tragedy, Flea Devil Solitaire update (3 Zonkers, Royalties), popcorn coffee, new music (Fauness, Drugdealer, Guided By Voices, King Gizzard the The Lizard Wizard), concert dream, Judy Mach 7, Deucedly Dank, The Hobbit (1977), sense of individuality, what pleases the observer, The Peripheral, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 1:43:41)… Joan Collins & Anthony Newley PT 1 Of 5 Rare Interview Rare Footage & Recordings. (excerpt) [YouTube], defective unit III by idealist [broque.de, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0], HBO Intro – Behind the Scenes [YouTube], Chiptune 01 – Last Chip Standing by Chewrafa [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 2.5], Irwin Allen’s Alice in Wonderland Part 1 of 2 – CBS Special Movie Presentation 12/09/1985 (excerpt) [YouTube], Ladybug Castle by Rolemusic [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY 3.0], Martin Denny : Exotica Music – Interview / Documentary. [YouTube], Locust Avenue by Choston Bands & Junkard Sane [Onsug, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0].
License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Attribution: by Frank Edward Nora – more info at TheOvernightscape.com
Attribution by PQ Ribber. Hosts appear courtesy themselves.
Released October 2022 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel based on a freeform monologue style, presenting diverse and fascinating hosts who craft thought-provoking, unique transmissions for now, and all future times!
2:33:30 – Frank in NJ, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Unit pricing, Sunday, Tape Land 164 – The Compleat Polarized Worlds (Summer 1985), Alive From Off Center, Curly Geckos Musing, foggy, reality suspicions, trash can motion, The Power of the Doctor, Flea Devil Solitaire update, Russell Brand, Phrivl: The Reality Jamboree, Phrivl: The Seaweed Brunch, Bell Atlantic, talking points, Silicon Beachcomber, Billy Beck System, Discmaster, The Box, Beck, the 1990s, Metal Hall of Fame, tofu time, House of the Dragon, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 1:52:57)… Chiptune 02 – Spacechip by Chewrafa [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 2.5], The Happy Hugger (Commercial Offer, 1980) [FuzzyMemories.TV], Single Ride by BOREA [Jamendo, CC BY-SA 3.0], Gleaming the Cube (1989) Trailer [YouTube], What Kind Of Human by Gino Pertot [FreeMusicArchive, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], GTE Commercial from 1987 [YouTube], Sonar Despierto by Zifhang [blocSonic, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0], Colin Hay of Men at Work MTV interview – 8/12/85 [YouTube], Nock by Tree Bag Ask [Onsug, CC BY 4.0], TWILIGHTS LAST GLEAMING stereo radio advert London 1977 [YouTube], Strange Music 1 by misha64u [Jamendo, CC BY-SA 3.0], The Making Of Luxor Las Vegas Documentary 1993 (1/4) [YouTube], H8 U by LukHash [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0].
License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Attribution: by Frank Edward Nora – more info at TheOvernightscape.com
7:53:48 – Welcome to Tape Land! On each episode, I’ll present the audio of a cassette tape or historic material from my personal archives.
This episode is part of a sub-project within Tape Land called “Video Phase 2022”. I recently began transferring a ton of old video tapes to digital, and have been posting selections to YouTube. Here, I’ll be releasing the audio tracks of these videos, as well as linking you to the YouTube videos, and The Internet Archive.
The Compleat Polarized Worlds (Summer 1985)
“Polarized Worlds” is a Doctor Who fan film made by a group of teens in Bridgewater Township, NJ, in the summer of 1985. Thought lost, director Frank Edward Nora found a Beta copy of the original over 36 years later, and released it online in December 2021.
“The Compleat Polarized Worlds”, at nearly eight hours long, is the entire contents of the two VHS tapes they used to film the movie. It includes numerous takes and bloopers of all the scenes, the cast and crew goofing around, “behind the scenes” interviews, a number of conceptual videos inspired by art films, and other miscellaneous stuff. It’s a fascinating real look into the world of Generation X teenagers in the mid-1980s.
The audio of most of this was released as “Video Kids 85” on The Onsug between 2007 and 2009. But this is the first time the video version has been released.
Released 10/23/22
License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Attribution: by Frank Edward Nora – more info at onsug.com
[0:00:00] John as Cyril in basement [0:00:23] Testing the camera in Frank’s father’s office [0:00:54] Figuring out the camera in the basement [0:03:17] Getting ready for filming, back porch and back yard [0:27:42] Making of Doctor Who, rehearsing, back yard [0:43:02] Hanging out in the basement [0:58:35] Conceptual Video: The Chair, basement [1:05:17] Conceptual Video: Rat Music, basement [1:13:23] Charles talking about Nova Scotia [1:14:09] Scene 7 filming, Jim’s back yard [1:16:34] Scene 9 filming, Jim’s back yard [1:25:05] Scene 10 filming, basement [1:36:04] Frank’s grandmother Evelyn, TV room [1:36:49] Audio overdub test, basement [1:37:24] Comic books, basement [1:39:04] Conceptual Video: New Wave Corner, basement [1:45:58] John and Chris, basement [1:52:36] Doctor Who TV broadcast [1:55:52] Conceptual Video: Cat Hyme, basement [2:01:01] Conceptual Video: Chris Live, basement [2:09:22] Conceptual Video: New Wave Corner 2, basement [2:14:36] Conceptual Video: Name That Definition, basement [2:21:55] Alpha Flight comic books [2:24:33] Scene with Frank as The Black Guardian [2:25:47] Intermission [2:27:11] Ginger the Cat, back porch [2:30:33] Credits Sequence work [2:33:52] Ginger the Cat 2, basement [2:35:14] Doctor Who TV broadcast (no sound) [2:36:59] Title Sequence work [2:41:21] Chris overdub [2:44:25] TARDIS arrival scene, back yard [2:48:11] Waiting for people to arrive, back porch [3:01:53] Scene 1 filming [3:09:17] After filming, back porch [3:12:06] Preparing for filming, back porch [3:20:40] TARDIS scene filming, back yard [3:27:20] Morglif scene filming (Scene 10), basement [3:38:27] Doctor and Terry scene filming, basment [3:44:05] Scene 12 filming, basement [3:52:44] Chair, basement [3:53:00] Scene 12 filming continues, basement [3:55:41] Discussing the script, basement [3:56:30] Before filming, back porch [3:57:09] Tumella scene filming, back yard [3:58:37] Terry shot scene filming, back yard [4:02:13] Morglif scene filming, basement [4:07:14] Random ape scene [4:07:56] Szalzo scene filming, basement [4:17:34] Scene 5 filming, basement [4:18:36] Conceptual Video preparation, John and Chris, basement [4:25:05] Conceptual Video: Led Zeppelin, basement [4:31:51] Tarzan? [4:34:05] The Nuclear Movie [4:43:29] Black Guardian scene, basement [4:48:40] Scene 16 filming, basement [4:54:07] Preparing to film, Lynn’s back yard [4:57:17] Polarized World scene filming, Lynn’s back yard [5:00:47] Scene 16 filming, Lynn’s back yard [5:28:48] TARDIS scenes, Jim’s back yard [5:33:28] Interview with Lynn, Jim’s back yard [5:34:46] Aquila & Tumella scene filming, Jim’s back yard [5:38:53] Cyril shooting Terry scene filming, Jim’s back yard [5:45:15] Ginger the Cat, back yard [5:46:11] Fun before filming, back yard [5:50:54] Scene 2 filming, back yard [6:01:03] White Guardian scene filming, Jim’s back yard [6:13:32] Chris overdubbing a sitcom [6:15:50] John and Chris overdubbing TV shows [6:18:28] Tumella scene filming, back yard [6:38:09] Jim’s Introduction, basement [6:39:22] Morglif and Black Guardian scene filming, basement [6:40:44] Portal scenes filming, basement [6:47:12] Doctor and Morglif scene filming, basement [6:58:08] Cyril and Morglif scene, basement [7:00:22] Alternate Reality filming, back yard [7:13:12] ARGH – a whole day of filming lost, basement [7:15:53] Ending scene filming, basement [7:25:09] Terry Regeneration scene filming, back yard [7:26:42] Chair & Robe scene, back yard [7:30:15] Ending scene filming continued, basement [7:37:21] Open Credits filming, back yard [7:38:28] Correcting a negative scene that was filmed in positive [7:39:17] Credits effects work [7:44:01] Opening Titles [7:45:23] Doctor Who TV footage [7:50:59] Glynnora Productions Presents [7:53:11] Doctor Who
4:07:33 – Frank in NJ, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Computer game dream, cold medicine, Liz Truss resigns, unwell turtle dove, lost worlds of software, Duane Blehm, Discmaster, Post Malone on Magic Arena, Clerks III (2022), sports, delusions, drugs, telephone and elevator dream, creativity and self-obsession, bad coffee, Old Soap, new soap (Baylis & Harding – Goodness – Oud, Cedar & Amber), Jean-Michel Jarre – Oxymore, innovation can be annoying but it’s necessary, Flea Devil Solitaire update, A Christmas Story Christmas, looking backwards at greatness with mediocrity, Andor, Shinedoe – Freedom Riders, morphic resonance, lip balm review (Hurraw! Lip Balm – Vanilla & Orange, Moon, Unscented, Coconut Mint & Lemongrass, Coconut, Coffee Bean, Licorice, Root Beer), Montana, The Peripheral, Kick-Ass (2010), Ready Player One (2018), thoughts on metaverse, Strawberry Alarm Clock, tricky trays, what pleases the observer, Generation X, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 3:26:21)… Impossibles – Frankenstein Jr. – Opening Titles [YouTube], Crumbling Castle by King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard [Bandcamp, CC BY-ND 3.0], The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot [Poetic Duets, LibriVox, public domain], Ascen (fake Boards of Canada song, origin unknown) [collection].
License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Attribution: by Frank Edward Nora – more info at TheOvernightscape.com
Attribution by PQ Ribber. Hosts appear courtesy themselves.
Released October 2022 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel based on a freeform monologue style, presenting diverse and fascinating hosts who craft thought-provoking, unique transmissions for now, and all future times!
32:05 – Cold Open: “Goat Busters”, Something The Cat Dragged In, THAT Time Of Year Again For Milt, This Thing, Mummy Paint, Fusebox ID Liner, Timo’s World: “Halloweenie”, Twisted Epiphanies: “Estate Sale”, Show Close.
We ain’t afraid of no goats, thanks, to our contributor to this edition of the show, Jodi Lorimer for the fiendishly fun “Estate Sale” piece. Thanks as well to Kenzie Main for ID Pronouncements.
And remember to visit the Fusebox Store for updates, thoughts, comments, fears, regrets, and genuine Fusebox Swag: TheFuseboxShow.com
2:41:32 – Frank in NJ, plus the Other Side. Topics include: Hackers dream, rain delay, dreams continue, The Rings of Power, Service Station Villain, the charm of the fantasy genre in the early years, Andor, House of the Dragon, Marvel Snap finally released, baseball history, aroundsquare modular copper Knucklebone, conspiracy stuff, Coin Pouch weapon charm, eye getting better, Bleach is back, Phrivl: casino table game Tricksy Tell, The Power of The Doctor, Yankees-Guardians ALDS Game 5, RightRice Risottos, Cleveland lost, and much more… plus the Other Side (at 1:56:25)… WMAQ Channel 5 – Sign-On, “Meditations” & Opening of “The Health Field” (1982) [fuzzymemories.tv], Gold River chewing tobacco | 1982 tv commercial [YouTube], WGN Channel 9 – Sunday Matinee – “The World of Hans Christian Andersen” (Opening, 1977) [FuzzyMemories.TV], Ice Town by Fuzzy Daupner [collection], Bobby Fuller Four – KHJ Big Kahuna Theme [Archive.org], Palm Vision – Beauties (Original Mix) by PalmVision Official [Soundcloud, CC BY 3.0], Riunite Wine (Commercial, 1980) [FuzzyMemories.TV], WMAQ Channel 5 – NewsCenter5 Update, Break & Today Excerpt (excerpt) (1975) [FuzzyMemories.TV], Opening sequence to the 1980s NBC show Real People [YouTube], Helium Moon by Olde Men on Acid [Jamendo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Space Drugs by Ant_DK [Jamendo, CC BY 3.0], Good Night by Radioactive.Cake [Ektoplazm, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0], Clara Bow Sends A Message [YouTube], North Point Mall ?????????? by The VHS Dreams Foundation [Soundcloud, CC BY 3.0], Vintage 70’s “Calgon Take Me Away” commercial [YouTube], Emotion by Rock-80s [Jamendo, CC BY-SA 3.0], The Endless Corner by Harmonic Defiance [blocSonic, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0].
License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Attribution: by Frank Edward Nora – more info at TheOvernightscape.com
30:17 – With their Egyptian pursuers all washed up, the Israelites celebrate on the shoreline. Sister Miriam is the hit of the party, and shows promise as a pop singer. In the days that follow, however, they must face the harsh reality that drinkable water, edible food, and usable routes are not easy to find. Fortunately they have friends in high places who can airdrop K-Rations, engineer massive gamebird kills, and show them how to purify water. When it comes to navigation, however, Moses and Aaron are on their own, and it takes them forty years to figure it out.
Show art: The Songs of Joy (1896-1902) by James Tissot (1836-1902), Public Domain.
