The Overnightscape #637 (10/19/07)
- October 18th, 2007
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The Overnightscape #637 (Friday, October 19, 2007 / 20:00 / 9.4 MB / theovernightscape.com) – Tonight’s subjects include: Little train station rituals, show history, a photo of great artifacts, old reviews, beverage review (“Metromint Lemonmint Water”, “Metromint Orangemint Water”), comments on the blog (Mike Barclay (from the beverage industry) on the recent “Pure Cool” beverage reviews), Flash intros, VHS tapes, Dazzle device, Twin Peaks, and anger. Hosted by Frank Edward Nora (frank@theovernightscape.com)
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The Overnightscape #636 (Thursday, October 18, 2007 / 20:00 / 9.4 MB / theovernightscape.com) – Tonight’s subjects include: The Synchronicity of the Dryer Balls, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. States that are 2 states away from the border, the random phrases, the nature of reality, hypnopompic phrase “Warp Garden Pervasive”, passing through a sea of information, “As Seen On TV”, executive stress relievers, wandering around drug stores, “I want Dryer Balls”, areas of the body that are harder to dry after a shower, laundry accessory review (“DryerMax– Dryer Balls”), juggling, Nellie’s Laundry Nuggets, interesting tactic, and Lake Border USA. Hosted by Frank Edward Nora (frank@theovernightscape.com) 
The Overnightscape #635 (Wednesday, October 17, 2007 / 20:00 / 9.4 MB / theovernightscape.com) – Tonight’s subjects include: Got rid of the tarot cards, getting into bed after a shower, zonking out, rescuing cats from an apartment where the apartment right next to it was gutted by a massive fire, cat carrier issues, trying to figure out the “falafel on the side” concept, finger burn healing, super obscure Tarot-like cards “Reflexions”, and crazy hair. Hosted by Frank Edward Nora (frank@theovernightscape.com) 
The Overnightscape #634 (Tuesday, October 16, 2007 / 20:00 / 9.4 MB / theovernightscape.com) – Tonight’s subjects include: Embarking on a new experiment – a series of 20-minute episodes, Mercury retrograde hitting the show hard, audio equipment difficulties, the word “podcasting”, longform audio, a very special beverage review (a can of Japanese “Original Blend UCC Coffee” with a lot of history), EPCOT Center, another show, conspiracy theories, birthday presents, converting old media to digital (vinyl records, VHS tapes, etc.), record selling failure, Culture Club “Colour By Numbers” album, recordios, ancient tape recorder, vacuum tubes, VHS to DVD, “The Dirty Pair”, “Golgo 13”, a fragment of a super obscure TV show (“Q.E.D.” (1982)), and steampunk sci-fi. Hosted by Frank Edward Nora (frank@theovernightscape.com) 
The Overnightscape #633 (Saturday, October 13, 2007 / 1:37:00 / 44.4 MB / theovernightscape.com) – Tonight’s subjects include: “The 40th Birthday Show – Part 2”, time passing, Tangle Therapy, secret project update, Schadenfreude, Avenue Q, announcing grand schemes that will neveramount to anything, Future Life magazine, Laserium, big radio plan email, the beauty of the imperfection of mankind, NYC audio (street drumming on 42nd Street), NYC audio (Anti-Ahmadinejad Protest at the United Nations), mobs of people and school buses, baricades, Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, orange police nets, police vans everywhere, protest signs, speakers, sentry tower, dead end, stage, non-threatening body language, news trucks, the bicycle cops, Tudor City Greens, the “Mongolian Seating Area” depressing deli, dialectics, puppet masters, weird silver curved building, blending in, NYC Audio (40th Birthday, Part 2) Fedex Kinkos, Copy Kingdom, Heroes, working at the copy center at the NYU Bobst Library, unpleasant words, prepress, scanner operator, ThunderScan, ImageWriter, glass cylinders, ancient computer equipment, Scitex, Dolev, stripping, “young fella”, no parties, “The Money Masters”, dangers of credit cards, giving advice, hoarding objects is a life misery, OCD, all the boxes in one room of madness, Katagiri, TV shows (“Heroes”, “Jouneyman”), sitting by the Roosevelt Island Tram, Lucius Vorenus, Spy Magazine offices in the Puck Building, miso, Japanese toy review (“Littlebony”), candy review (“Pop Rocks” – Candy Cane, Sour Surprise, and Chocolate), Japanese coffee review (“Sapporo Jack Black Mocha Blend”, “Roots Aroma Black”), overflowing garbage cans, exploring Bloomingdales, fancy shops, seventies feel, South Spoon Bank, Home Depot, cool internal spaces, Metro Level closed, cologne review (“Narciso Rodriguez For Him”), musk, amber, “Narcheezo”, W train, subway fear, life after death, lives as songs, building corner, statue of Jackie Gleason as Ralph Kramden from “The Honeymooners”, weather manipulation, chemtrails, conspiracy websites, new flyer holder thingie, the free ribbon, the happy ending, leftover ice cream cake, and beautiful metal bottles. Hosted by Frank Edward Nora (frank@theovernightscape.com) 
The Overnightscape #632 (Friday, October 12, 2007 / 1:46:00 / 48.5 MB / theovernightscape.com) – Tonight’s subjects include: “The 40th Birthday Show – Part 1”, sirens, raining like mad, wet commute, bigger umbrellas, dryer, minor celebrities born on the same day (comic book artist Rob Liefeld and Olympic figure skater Tiffany Chin), sounds of the bus stop, feelings inside, facades, traumatic job, corporate politics, creative projects over the years, Obliviana Super Occult Amusement, connecting with people, bus stop people, lusting after power and money, Port Authority, 20 years ago, 4 sets of 10 years, The Golden Age of Video Games, Corridor of Losers, puberty, girls, an entertainment empire in my mind, 7 Train, a puzzling time, experimental publications, a slacker in 1991, ezine, subway conductor, Grand Central Terminal, Fuzzy Daupner, CarrieEngdahl.com, Internet radio station Bluffcosm.com, Macchiato Espresso Bar, sippy lids, expensive coffee, The Mini Car Show, 9/11, the lost year 2002, beginnings of The Overnightscape, the birth and “death” of podcasting, heading down to Maui Tacos for lunch, taxi flower art, 25th Anniversary of the opening of EPCOT Center, Walt Disney’s last great vision, EPCOT Gallery, soap, dark rides, memories of World of Motion, puberty and facial hair, memories of a childhood friend and his mother, “Mr. Mustachio”, solo trips to Walt Disney World, happy endings, buying dice at The Compleat Strategist, I Ching, Surfers Dining Room, Haiku Wet, theming, azul, sad video, The Magic Cow, guy with cat on his head, pixellated camouflage, two bathrooms, cigar, A View From Space, food ingredients, l-cysteine, rest room signs, time travel, the occult, supernatural beings, religion, obsessed with interdimensional travel, psychic wars, grates above the train tracks, gag reflex, focused on a big idea, personal power, tape recorder show planning, infallibility of the I Ching, Mercury retrograde, and wisps of black plastic. Hosted by Frank Edward Nora (frank@theovernightscape.com) 
The Overnightscape #631 (Saturday, October 6, 2007 / 1:40:00 / 45.8 MB / theovernightscape.com) – Tonight’s subjects include: “At a Street Fair in Brooklyn, Part 2″, Atlantic Terminal, paper towels, blatant chemtrails, Atlantic Antic street fair, Flatbush Ave., Long Island, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Iran, UN protests, Laurie Anderson, books, monthly bus pass, finger healing, safety, show milestones (4.5 year anniversary, 500 hour mark, 30,000 minute mark), intermissions, different year measurements, “Pylones” store opens in Grand Central, The Obtuse Angle podcast archive going offline, Archive.org, Virgin Megastore update, Nirvana, Utah, Kurt Cobain’s daughter Frances is 15, The Gallery at Fulton Street mall is dead, needing portapotty and falafel, barriers, absinthe drinking, the hallucinogenic oils of the wormwood, trouble on the falafel line, ginger lemonade, a sea of people at the street fair, Obama, Hegelian dialect, Arp Axxe synthesizer, convertible, corn, bail bonds, wine sorbet, human ingenuity, dry cleaning label as toothpick, evil marionettes, big dog, plastic film on dishwasher control panel, pet peeve, nice beer logo, homeless guy sign system humor, Tangerine Flair, Spentgag (pretending to clear the throat while saying “Illuminati”), nasty fish smoke, Silly String, getting weary of the noise, drumming, balloons, checking out the ship, the BQE, Adopt-A-Highway, Brooklyn Marine Terminal, German Navy sailor explains the ship, the chemtrail phenomenon, sheeple and sleeple, humidity, funnel cakes, time for cigar (“Aurora”), hanging out in a little park by the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, sunscreen, everyone tapping away at their little computers, writing in little notebooks, meaningless drivel, people eating ice cream, rustic foliage, Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, Outerbridge Crossing, scary random adventure in Staten Island, 209, “Sunbathing” by Lush, Spentgag (“Don’t call me Shirley”), homonyms, puns, jokes, vegetarian issues, Rainman, the pomposity of “assembly”, what happened at Burritoville?, Michael Moore barricaded in Maui Tacos, merging into traffic, random gaps, waiting for a taxi with flowers, old-fashioned cars, Amity Street, health logo, footbridge, honeymoon Sebring convertible, age tofu, fish shavings, and the sushi place is closed. Hosted by Frank Edward Nora (frank@theovernightscape.com) 
The Overnightscape #630 (Friday, October 5, 2007 / 1:55:00 / 52.7 MB / theovernightscape.com) – Tonight’s subjects include: “At a Street Fair in Brooklyn, Part 1”, 33rd Annual Atlantic Antic, Hoyt-Schermerhorn subway platform, mass transit, subway advertising, payphones, sky full of chemtrails, “you are here”, finding the street fair, giant sand castle of the Taj Mahal and giant model airplane for Kingfisher Airlines in the Port Authority Bus Terminal, wine sorbet, balloons, My Little Pony, Corn King, police baton twirling, drumming, retro signs, craft ales, massage, Cartridge World costume, early birthday party, CDs, annoyances of taking a New Jersey Transit train, rainbow, cigars and hard drive, arriving at Frank’s wife Denice’s booth, old time photographs, sushi pillows, talking to Denice about her clothing company 
The Overnightscape #629 (Monday, October 1, 2007 / 1:11:00 / 32.5 MB / theovernightscape.com) – Tonight’s subjects include: Late night recording session (3:08 AM – 4:29 AM), getting nocturnal, movie review (“Whatever Happened To Baby Jane” starring Joan Crawford and Bette Davis), “Mommie Dearest”, Blue Oyster Cult, Kim Carnes, obscure information from an article in a 1982 issue of Games Magazine (“Travelling The Road To Rouing” – rubber band-powered balsa wood model plane combat), The Rou Review, RC Combat Association Forum, Macy-Dash Roucraft Company, analog TV, vertical hold, Macrovision VHS copy prevention, “The Ice Storm” (1997), black box, TV news closed captioning error (“carousel” spelled “kara cell”), “Dear Courtney”, ephemeral things, the preservation of a classic Coney Island carousel, 600 for 600 email (#121 – Jerry from SoCal), “Green Onions” by Booker T and the MGs, Stax, the songs Howard Stern used to play during live read commercials (such as “Whot’s Happening” by The Mar-keys), a vague video billboard on 42nd St., The Howard Stern Show, Opie & Anthony, the secret project, toy review (“Boing Light Ball” (large) by Active People), colored light, white ribbed rubber, the internal mechanism, Podcast Expo, NYC taxi cab colorful flower art (“Garden in Transit”), absinthe drinking information, steam explosion update, and Mr. Jesse the Cat running around in the middle of the night. Hosted by Frank Edward Nora (frank@theovernightscape.com) 
The Overnightscape #628 (Saturday, September 29, 2007 / 1:16:00 / 34.9 MB / theovernightscape.com) – Tonight’s subjects include: The taint of DRM, issues with a Pop-Tart variant, another California mystery area code, Bunta Block, caveman living, taking out the trash, knocking over the box of puppets, lost Puppet Community feature, Polly Cobain, the unclaimed yellow pages, shaving off the sideburns, soap review (“Tom’s of Maine Natural Care Lavender Natural Moisturizing Body Bar”), tallow, Dr. Bronner, snack review (“Nature’s Path – Organic Frosted Toaster Pastries – Blueberry”), following instructions, touching hot things briefly, finger burned by a superhot flake of pastry, toaster over mishap, sear mark, two fork method, college girl uses witchcraft on a Pop-Tart, vegetarian corn dogs, weird supermarket, remembering the Rowe-Manse Emporium, the Beanie Baby craze, shopping channel guy, VHS tapes, staining the laptop, remembering Cocaine Energy Drink, Brawndo, beverage review (“Pure Cool” – Mojo Cool, Tropical Tiki, Triple Chill), “Popcorn Indiana”, random drunken journey and injury, movie theater in the basement, the Zune section, Virgin Megastore to be renamed “Zavvi”, Israeli biscuits, petabytes, exabytes, zettabytes, yottabytes, metric prefixes, crappy backup tapes, pebibytes, 7-11, 1 Times Square, sunflower seed confusion, Nicogel, “greelight” (Sniglet) – the unexplained green lights inside esalators, busted escalators, antibacterial lights, green fire engines, Verizon Fios, capping, Bell Atlantic, tearing up the streets, DSL nightmare, horrendous customer service, Fios pricing, chatting with customer service, and a quick pear update. Hosted by Frank Edward Nora (frank@theovernightscape.com) 
The Overnightscape #627 (Tuesday, September 25, 2007 / 1:47:00 / 49 MB / theovernightscape.com) – Tonight’s subjects include: Violent device, difficult area code, listener email (Joshua from Sacramento – Tuolumne pronunciation), proposed Web 2.0 pronunciation website, forgetting things, Howard Stern, “The Mind-Body Connection” by Dr. Sarno, the human brain, back pain, OCD, Barry Farber, the lack of ability in the moment to perceive that a feeling will not persist, the oldest man in the world, human body as robot, the afterworld, Frank’s 40th birthday, tiring of pop culture, detoxing, chemtrail dust, poisons, The Master Cleanser, caffeine withdrawal headache, addicitions, chemical amusements, coolness of coffee, condensation, beverage review (“Java Monster Coffee Energy – Loca Moca”), making fun of Starbucks, Mr. Sasha the Cat, shredding printouts of the sci-fi novel “Severe Repair”, proofreading at malls, sounds of the shredder, The Overnightcase Video Reviews (Manny the Mailman – “De Olifant – Matelieff” cigars and “Oban Single Malt Scotch Whisky”. His son Mike (the Monkey) – “Celestial Seasoning Zingers To Go – Tangerine Orange Wave Herb Tea”), Overnightcase website, dream company Jobox Entertainment, busted Wiki, secret review from the past with Roel from the Netherlands (“Celestial Seasoning Zingers To Go – Tangerine Orange Wave Herb Tea”), Dasani, Poland Spring, World of Disney, Minnie Mouse Princess Leia figurine, FAO Schwartz, mouth injury, mini WWII Jeep for kids, giant fantasy stuffed animals, the falling dollar, Harry Potter, Smurfs, Myachi Hand Sack, Alex Jones, Pogs, Apple Store, new iPods, iPod games (“Vortex”, “iQuiz”, “Klondike”, “musika”), Coverflow, annoyed by how a guy uses his iPhone, Museum of Modern Art, Van Gogh, Picasso, Toulouse Lautrec, Soviet Modernist Architecture, Korg M3 synthesizer, shocking price quote for transferring 16mm movies to DVD, flavor names, kinky white hairs on the sideburns, balding, and the Pocket Knock Gel Ball Pen. Hosted by Frank Edward Nora (frank@theovernightscape.com) 
The Overnightscape #626 (Thursday, September 20, 2007 / 1:40:00 / 45.8 MB / theovernightscape.com) – Tonight’s subjects include: Long drama of storage units, Pasadena, tracking a $20 bill on WheresGeorge.com, Livingston Mall, caffeine withdrawal headache, Daily Detox II, NYC audio (“Tyra Banks Show in the Port Authority Bus Terminal”), lame celebrity sighting (“Tyra Banks”), Corridor of Losers, sad sounding music, Evian, NYC audio (“Looking for the Bird Guy in Times Square”), waking up after noon, the origins of the mess, finding maps and mannequins on the side of the road, the arcade with the roller disco in the basement, dust of ages, pictures of things sold on eBay long ago, turning nocturnal, fixing the computer fried by a brief power outage, living like a caveman, Twittering and Flickring Carrie Engdahl at Mexicali Blues, bad Google Maps directions, papers from my life, overheating the shredder, scanning, the Scan’n’Shred, Beaux Gens hair salon card, “The Name of This Band is Talking Heads”, dream review (“Fake Alien Invasion”), numbers on the moon, Mr. Sasha the Cat purring, weird pinball, rooftop playground, fighting for your rights, flipping over a little vehicle, flea market with Elvira-like celebrity, bad bathroom, “The Watchmen”, the idea of selling the old minicomics, scratch on arm, drinking some absinthe, distracting the public with the likes of Britney Spears and O. J. Simpson, ad review (“CBS/Cadillac – mini flash drive of new TV shows embedded in Entertainment Weekly magazine”), “Mad Men”, “Curb Your Enthusiasm”, Lucius Vorenus, time travel, going to shopping malls 1974, Charlie Sheen is cool, “Loose Change”, David Spade, retro noises, and a rubber polar bear melting. Hosted by Frank Edward Nora (frank@theovernightscape.com) 
The Overnightscape #625 (Tuesday, September 18, 2007 / 1:08:00 / 31.1 MB / theovernightscape.com) – Tonight’s subjects include: The Overnightscape Tour (in NYC with Roel from the Netherlands and Manny the Mailman – Part 2 – Interesting Places in Midtown Manhattan), hot sauce review (“Blair’s Original Death Sauce”), three spoonfuls of death, F&B, food court, 3rd Ave., Greenacre Park, waterfall video, Roel and Manny’s travels, Channel 4 Irish Pub, Maroon 5, Nintendo Wii tennis tournament, Dah Hammarskjold Plaza, the semi-hidden “Katherine Hepburn Garden”, metal deer, quotes in the stones, the fabled bench, tiny scary chair, secret duty free shop, elves, fountains, Martin Short, singer with keyboard, audience participation, United Nations, Tudor City Greens, 42nd St. view, tranquil location, depressing deli “Mongolian Seating Area”, rooftop area, stumbling upon the scene of the steam explosion on 41st St., people in the hole, blown-up stores, Grand Central Station, statues of ancient gods, Vanderbilt Hall, stars on the ceiling, soldiers, weird stairway at Oren’s Daily Roast, Ciao Bella gelato, Dave from Work calls, Times Square sound sculpture, video billboards, King Kong, popcorn, on the Times Square webcam with people on Twitter watching, lame celebrity sighting (“Chuck Scarborough”), Ferris wheel, teleportation, flash mob, human psychology, putting random songs on the iPod, floating duster, entertainment contexts, supermarket, and a blond puppet’s hair. Hosted by Frank Edward Nora (frank@theovernightscape.com) 
The Overnightscape #624 (Saturday, September 15, 2007 / 54:00 / 24.7 MB / theovernightscape.com) – Tonight’s subjects include: Ashtrays, artificial meat, Botany Bay, magazine review (“TV Guide”), beverage review (“Carpe Diem Botanic Water – Vitalizing”), Carpe Noctum, “Seize the Day” software with “Living Worlds”, candy review (“Hawaiian Host – Maui Caramacs”), The Overnightscape Tour (in NYC with Roel from the Netherlands and Manny the Mailman – Part 1 – In The Cigar Store Smoking Lounge), cigar review (“Acid Wafe”), smoking laws, marijuana coffeehouses in The Netherlands, prostitution, European geography, taxes and laws and cars, forbidden door, tofu turkey, ventilation, hat fashion, sex on TV, risk, pipe tobacco, cellular damage, soap review (Bath & Body Works Hand Soap – “Sea Island Cotton”), ignorance, cotton gin, the ancient gods and the Atlanteans, “Walking With Dinosaurs – The Live Experience”, toy dinosaurs as a kid, and the shredding of the novel. Hosted by Frank Edward Nora (frank@theovernightscape.com), 
The Overnightscape #623 (Wednesday, September 12, 2007 / 1:17:00 / 35.3 MB / theovernightscape.com) – Tonight’s subjects include: The First Overnightscape Mission (Frank, Roel from The Netherlands, and Manny the Mailman on a journey to retrieve The Overnightcase from Jason from New Jersey), real criminal youth, Arizona, 8th Anniversary of the Sega Dreamcast, Confederation Bridge to Prince Edward Island, beverage review (“Full Throttle Mother”), types of pears, Pine-Sol voting, guy gets upset trying to buy cigarettes, co-workers don’t get a reference to a Brady Bunch episode, Afterworld.tv, Bud.tv, missed Governors Island for the season, 20th Anniversary of NetHack, military time, driving around New Jersey at night, West Milford, Jungle Habitat, Weird New Jersey, Space Farms, crappy zoos, Benelux, Tri-State Area, Corridor of Losers, Lukoil, home improvement, The Devil Tree, The Evil Farm, mail delivery, easy and hard turnarounds, navigation, spilling water, arriving at Jason’s house, dog, beer, in the basement, opening The Overnightcase, vials of Scotch, the secret reviews, Jason reviews the candy “Gaper Apotheker Zwart Wit Zout”, Oban, Weird Staten Island, remembering Leoscorp Variety at the Kinnelon Mall, pure fun, the forum, 600 for 600 email #120 (“Owen from New York”), the new iPods, Coby, Palm Foleo cancelled, oatmeal confusion at Simply Food, secret project, and filling the sinuses with ammonia gas. Hosted by Frank Edward Nora (frank@theovernightscape.com) 
The Overnightscape #622 (Monday, September 10, 2007 / 2:55:00 / 80.1 MB / theovernightscape.com) – Tonight’s subjects include: Special “9/11 Truth” Episode… Frank joins the 
The Overnightscape #621 (Saturday, September 8, 2007 / 1:14:00 / 33.9 MB / theovernightscape.com) – Tonight’s subjects include: Synthesizers on the rough commute, Overnightscape Mission and Tour (audio coming soon), NYC audio (“Midtown Journey With New Microphones”), construction site, a mass of wires, hands-free, 42nd Street, Mary Poppins, confused man, $10 bill with an interesting message written on it, Times Square, Dreamcast, Blowout Video, audio sculpture, 47th Street, the “Gilligan’s Island” angle, pinball machine, the other-dimensional thing, Diamond Row, Futurama, Phish, dazzling sparkliness, Zaro’s Bread Basket, Blue Flowers Cafe, crabmeat juicy little bun, compressed gas, Cafe Metro, Devon & Blakely, cheap bagel, pompous Audi store, Leona Helmsley, a street of evil, Toyota “everything bagel” billboard, people fighting, Juan Valdez, brainwashed people, klutz rights, microphone techniques, audio from a distant party, going outside, the light on the ceiling, the missing binoculars, knowing one’s neighbors, Conspiracy Workshop (Five Day 9/11 Truth Event in NYC, WeAreChange.org), 9/11/01 experiences, freedom, politicians, NYC audio (“Angry Phone Guy”), and thoughts of deletion. Hosted by Frank Edward Nora (frank@theovernightscape.com) 