Archive for July, 2011

The Overnightscape 803: Fake Windows (7/29/11)

1:18:09 – The annoying 3D trend, Nintendo lowers the price of their 3DS by $80, smartphone games, Virtual Boy, Alice in Wonderland, virtual reality, horses, Sega, area code 803 in South Carolina, South of the Border, fireworks, M-80s, possibility of going to South Carolina right now, Irn-Bru, new products, Obliviana Day, OsoaWeek, 1994, AOL, BBS, karate chop, septagon, Nightweek website, Nightweek ideas, night radio, the Google Street View car drives by, I’m gonna be on Street View!, new bus gate, total length of Star Trek, Nightweek logo, the former Hello Pasta, total length of Doctor Who, a new Staples, shopping entertainment, new album “Mohribold” by Andrew Taylor (seems to be inspired by the early works of Mike Oldfield), Duran Duran, raining, puppets, endings, beginnings, fake windows, the new Trader Sam’s Tiki Bar at the Disneyland Hotel, South Somalia, The Oranges, strange commemorative coins, Bryant Park, EA, dancers, caltrops, cantrips, Concept Ships, Concept Robots, Concept Vehicles, Concept Tanks, Eataly, theory of The Upper City, morphogenetic fields, monkey network, Million Dollar Quartet, ABC Carpet, The Conran Shop, Paragon Sports, giant stores, Area X, and finding the underground bus gate.

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The Overnightscape 802: Video Fighter Eggs (7/26/11)

1:20:09 – Transit character Stoic 2, Borders closing, Willowbrook Mall back when it was cool, comic books, buying a Vinylmation Robot at the Disney Store, a wonderful happening, the Nightweek concept, cheap MP3 player, Clinique Post-Shave Healer at Sephora, Google+ arbitrarily suspending people’s accounts, Second Life, last visit to Borders, video fighter eggs dream, new Overnightscape shirts, area code 802 – Vermont, Any Winehouse, Norway, conspiracy theories, return of Beavis & Butthead, Sifl & Olly, IRS’s The Cutting Edge, Burritoville, serious injury, The National Lampoon Radio Hour, and septagons.

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The Overnightscape 801: The World (7/21/11)

2:10:27 – Bryant Park, cigars, Sheets energy strips, heat wave, vibrations, timelines, sprinklers, bus annoyances, The World of Sid & Marty Krofft, Marilyn Monroe, orchestra, new road, yellowjacket and shriveled flowers, the cats were scared, red sun mystery, happiness, sky paranoia, pointless arcade, the day world and the night world, dialectical thinking, global warming, love of knowledge and adventure, fairness, Pepsi, end of the Space Shuttle program, gay marriage, economic concepts, movie review (“Cars 2”), Marley’s Mellow Mood, drugs, 1993 Utah visit, Nirvana album Nevermind, cult leaders, Spotify, The Spice Girls, Ruby Wax, John Lennon, Star Trek: The Next Generation, new game “Diversion”, and much more.

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

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The Overnightscape 800: Night Cobra South (7/15/11)

45:00 – Sitting at the southern edge of Central Park in NYC, the beautiful scene, the night bench, Reactable, nice surprises, North Dakota quarter, got onto Spotify, Stereolab album “Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night”, bags of cans and bottles, Sherwood Schwartz dies at age 94, the cultural impact of Gilligan’s Island and The Brady Bunch, the power of television, Apple Store under construction, area code 800 and 800 numbers, relevance of telephony, possible scammer, starting a cult, my old 800 numbers 1-800-THE-VOID and 1-800-OBLIVIANA, scams, Alitalia Airlines, Jim Donnelly, Techy2, MadPod, origins of podcasting, the history of The Overnightscape, Google+, Mercury Retrograde mistake, and ferns.

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

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The Overnightscape 799: Video Village II (7/14/11)

1:08:41 – Scenes of an amusement plaza, restaurant of dirty water, marketing scheme family, haunted coin game outrage, the overnight road construction outside my window, symbolism of a new road, Cairo Shootout, baseball sign for kids, interdimensional travellers, Video Village II, ad for rich people in Architectural Digest, Kevin Bacon quote, vague setup in Times Square, mudita, Howard Stern and video slots, Jackie the Jokeman, spider bite, Mercury Retrograde, Violtordo, Overnightscape updates, Callisto.fm, are clouds holograms?, snack review (Zapp’s Limited Edition Voodoo Gumbo Potato Chips), first trailer for the movie “John Carter”, Barsoom, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Dejah Thoris, time travel movies, and Monk Time.

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

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The Overnightscape 798: Astral Slush (7/12/11)

1:24:11 – Transparent Canadian currency, Overnightscape Central – Tell Me a Story, The Story (1986), waterfall, telepathic dating, college psychic wars, ice synchronicities, Ice Town, pasta shops, Space Shuttle Atlantis, space travel, flat earth, firmament, space can be bright and hot, TV/movie reviews (Peep Show, True Blood, Torchwood, Summer Wars), crushing warehouse pallets, Orange Berry Blitz from the Jamba Juice secret menu, teaching chimps to communicate, Flash games on Android, Hooters, attraction, and Nintendo.

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

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The Overnightscape 797: Orange Egg Lotion (7/10/11)

3:39:38 – Oil change, That Girl, That Darn Cat, A Hard Day’s Night, Comic Explosion (Nutley, NJ), Hero Illustrated, Jimmy the Idiot Boy, Ultraverse, alternate timelines, Carrie Ann Carroll on BalconyTV, Facebook games Who Wants to be a Millionaire and Slotomania, Google+, new couch, Wii games Bit.Trip Flux and Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Episode 1, candy review (Marvel Heroes Candy Sticks, Chewbies Liquid Taffy – Apple, Orange), candy cigarettes, DJ clips from Codamagger Lullabies #1 (1/29/11), The Incredible String Band, True Lime, clip from Brown 2nd Fun & Wrestling (11/9/85), The Overnightscape System, cassettes, alternate reality games, noodles, and sorting out tons of State Quarters in a binder.

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

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The Overnightscape 796: Peaceful Baboon (7/7/11)

1:18:08 – The Food Emporium BridgeMarket, Roosevelt Island Tram, King Kong, The Conran Shop, campers, information in books and magazines, copyright issues, psychedelic experiences, TJ Maxx, Maxim Magazine, Fox News, out of touch with news “celebrities”, drilling noises, Japanese stores, Replicant Magazine, anime figurines, Summer Wars, loading dock fun over, The Last Wound-Up, Bamberger’s, WOR, America’s Got Talent, baboon update, escalator disaster in China, and the importance of wearing motorcycle helmets.

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

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The Overnightscape 795: Theme Park Cities (7/5/11)

1:41:22 – Bus terminal weirdness, a bridge of visions, theme park cities, economic issues, health food lunch, David Stockman, Ronald Reagan, percent age of USA, pixellated fireworks, The Pixies, The Safety Dance, broken leg story, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, barbeques, fall off chair, robotic Mickey Mouse, airsoft, Carrie Ann Carroll on BalconyTV, helping a bus driver, a baboon loose in New Jersey, Rainbow City, and Smartfood.

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

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The Overnightscape 794: High Line (7/1/11)

1:16:27 – The Overnightscape is back on track, mysteries of concrete, rough commute, return of the middle name, 42nd Street memories, The Overnightscape Sidetrack, Bell Atlantic, images of vending machines, jackhammering, and a journey along the entire length of  The High Line – an amazing park in NYC.

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

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The Overnightscape 793: Bowling Green (6/30/11)

1:49:39 – A new video screen on the Port Authority Bus Terminal, The Smurfs, Broadway City Arcade, berries, violent video games, human bodies, reincarnation, Bowling Green, World Trade Center, Harry Potter, energy in the park, the sixth sense, ampules, beverage review (Marley’s Mellow Mood – Berry), overly-sweet drinks, social media sites, and optimistic predictions.

License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Attribution: by Frank Nora – more info at TheOvernightscape.com

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