The Overnightscape #700 (Monday, May 12, 2008 / 49:00 / 22.5 MB / theovernightscape.com) – Tonight’s subjects include: Welcome to the new “700 era” of the show!, the door opening abilities of cats, the recent 5th anniversary show, MadPlayer old firmware, show stats, The Overnightscape Underground, approaching the milestone of a month’s worth of audio, shorter shows (under an hour each), ringing the spring from the squeaky chair (hanging from laser pointer, hit by mini ruler), new logo (black and yellow), spelling confusions, beverage review (“Purple”), Orac, micro-celebrity moment (meeting Michael from NJ at The Health Nuts), Tudor City Greens, listener email (“Rich from North Carolina”, “Andie from Australia”), the urination issue, cursing, burping, listener audio (“Wayne from Sparetime Radio”), the upcoming audio comment system, PodGlo, the number 700, prime numbers, Harshad number, Frank’s experience with the AT&T EasyReach 700 number service from the early 90s, cleaned up the studio, creative projects, Nomadi Entertainment, Halfevil Graphics, Obliviana Super Occult Amusement, business card vending machine, 900 number “party lines” in the subway, survey, 800 numbers, Alitalia, bright yellow lights make you black-and-white in real life at MoMA (Olafur Eliasson – Take Your Time), and a fan on a very long cord flying around. Hosted by Frank Edward Nora (frank@theovernightscape.com)
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May 11th, 2008 at 8:42 pm
Another major Milestone, is this one for the Guinness books!? Then letterman, then a deserved holiday and sponsors!!! Cummon universe do your kabballah stuff, this guy got enough karma to save the world help him out here. Actually dude you should take that holidays anyways, I was looking at RV’s other day, imagine setting off on a nice camping adventure? Congratulations on the 700th Episode, It feels like we’eve watched you grow up from a little kid into adulthood, Strangley It does feel like a whole bygone era of the overnightscape has passed, I for one will miss the longer shows but it all makes sense to keep changing and keeping it interesting for yourself, much more important then for us listeners, we just love your enthusiasm for your work, let no mistake be made a lot of work goes into the overnightscape, it feels kind of sad in a nostalgic kind of way that those days are gone, but the anticipation and curiosity of the depth and complexity the new shows will bring.
May 11th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
………….has the aroma of a well matured whiskey, with its golden nugget of wisdom colour, chilled to perfection.
Viva le Overnightscape!
May 12th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
Boostah’s comment, above, inspires this question: What product or service would be the perfect sponsor for The Overnightscape? A fine whiskey, perhaps? A cigar? A chocolate vegan cigar with a slight taste of fine whiskey?
Anyway, happy 700! Going to try out the audio comments system later, if I can think of anything to say!
May 13th, 2008 at 5:49 pm
Hi Frank,
Congratulations regarding your 700th episode! A while back, Greg and I talked about the crazy 1-900 phone number fad on The Paunch Stevenson Show. Every actor, musician, and cartoon character had a 1-900 number in the early 1990s. It didn’t make sense. People were paying $5 per minute to listen to a recording.
I don’t remember that 1-700 phone number service though. It seemed too convoluted for its own good.
Based on your description, I want to check out that Olafur Eliasson exhibit at MoMA. Seeing people in black-and-white should be cool. For his next exhibit, he should set something up that would allow people to see other people in 3D!
May 18th, 2008 at 3:06 am
It’s funny you got that email from Andie talking about you not recording your bathroom sequences and then you go on to talk about someone saying to someone else that they were glad, “they didn’t have to piss in someone’s back pocket.” It’s interesting because in Australia there is an expression, “to piss in someone’s pocket,” meaning to “blow smoke up someone’s ass.” Ironic since Andie is Australian.