Archive for July, 2012

The Overnightscape 898: Oceania (7/27/12)

1:00:00 –   The 2012 Summer Olympics could have been in NYC, astrology, 1976 Olympics, new Smashing Pumpkins album “Oceania”, creative indulgence, Oceana synchronicity, Inramble, The Rampler, pep (past-editing paranoia), new weirdnesses, King Aroo, comic strips, celebrity deaths (Sally Ride, Sherman Hemsley, Chad Everett), The Jeffersons, Medical Center, slipping into a slightly different and better alternate world, Star Trek: The Next Generation, new Fairway supermarket, Erivan Yogurt, Kim’s Magic Pop, Lurisia Water, Toffifee, Outback Beans, dreamlike Third Avenue, giant greeting cards, sub-dimensions of America, Berocca, The Strand, Heroes For Wargaming, new location for Forbidden Planet, anarchist literature, cursed pavilion, farewell to a pasta station, LittleBigPlanet Karting, new Pinball Arcade tables (Creature From The Black Lagoon, Black Knight), simulated hologram, America’s Got Talent, Spiderbait song “Black Betty”, Static-X, Powerman 5000, Rob Zombie, Black Lodge dress, mind control, home before the storm, faces in the clouds, an eye in the sky, The Club, and That’s Entertainment. F1848

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The Overnightscape 897: Lookers (7/22/12)

2:00:00 –  Movie theater incident, Fred Willard, Paul Reubens, Real People, video buffering, Casey Kasem, Hello Larry, tiki synchronicity, the other movie theater incident, conspiracy theories, violence, beverage review (Java Monster – Kona Blend), online restaurant reviews, tempeh, Quick Stop (convenience store from the movie Clerks (1994)), Kevin Smith, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992), Mike’s “The Twin Peaks Adventure”, cults, Keith Haring, Tenga, Doug Henning, David Lynch, your heroes always disappoint you, A Hard Day’s Night scene with Wilfred Bramble, The Black Lodge in Elle Magazine, fox, spider, PlayStation 3 games (Pinball Arcade, Dyad), Funhouse, time drug, I was on TV in the Times Square crowd on Project Runway, the dark side of Walt Disney, Field Station: Dinosaurs, Scout Willis arrested, traffic light weirdness, the young tech expert archetype, Diddy, Meadowlands Racetrack, the horse racing world, felt like I was back in the 1970s, remembering the “Andy Kaufman Lives” phenomenon, Yannick Joker, and theories about 2009. F1847

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The Overnightscape 896: Drilling Into The Earth (7/18/12)

1:00:00 –  Drilling into the earth, Grand Central Terminal, The Gong Show Movie (1980), Digg, Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001), thoughts on The Overnightscape Underground, That’s Entertainment (1974), The Pro From Dover, copyright questions, Times Square, Men in Black 3 (2012), Ted (2012). Tony Hawk’s Project 8 (PS3), Hallmark ornaments, Episodes (Showtime), Seize The Day, Living Worlds, throwing out the old heavy TVs,  and nail salons. F1846

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The Overnightscape 895: Heptagonning (7/13/12)

2:11:48 –  Heptagonning, Peter Potamus and So-So, ape incidents, wave of weirdness, cigar, Rockefeller Center, temporary buildings, rich and poor, Tony Hawk videogames, Burnout Paradise, Need For Speed World, Next Issue magazine app, comic book distribution, buying stuff online instead of in a store, object printers, horns, discovered a new shape, more heptagonning, Led Zeppelin album Presence, Pictures of Matchstick Men, Times Square, The Naked Indian, rampling, stores, Dhalsim, pole grease incident, Paul’s grandfather from A Hard Day’s Night, Sanford and Son, low level weirdness, metallic mimes, dowloading toys, Iron Man, some lost audio, Overnightscape Central, obscure things, green coffee, beverage review (Starbucks Cool Lime Refresher), search for the pole, 1001 days since the Radio Vacation, Edward Scissorhands, back and forth in Times Square, Ape, Keith Haring, “new adult concept” Tenga, smile hassles, immersed in a miasma of narcissistic joy, 1Q84, Groove Tube toy, Nutella heir death, Tetra Pak heiress death, enjoyability of an ultra rich lifestyle, Overnightscape Central synchronicities (graves, rubber bands for braces), receipt codes, synchronicity theory, monk, Funhouse pinball on my telephone, Bowcraft, technological change, Mr. Sneeze, crummy arcade, Marble Madness, Ouya, in the studio, weird bus ride home, Seize The Day – Living Worlds, If I Can Dream, meat, Big Brother, grease, F for Fake (1975), UFOs, Orson Welles on The Dick Cavett Show, the stuff of The Twentieth Century, visions of the future, analog electronic media, and preserving some ideals from the previous century here on The Overnightscape Underground. F1845

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The Overnightscape 894: Ape (7/10/12)

2:32:05 –  Ape. F1844

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The Overnightscape 893: 90ana (7/8/12)

1:54:01 –  CQ (2001), conversation pits, divide and conquer, investigating virtual realtiy, a visit to OSgrid, awkward conversation, trivia, list of discontinued foods and beverages, The Overnightscape Handbook, Pepsi Blue, Crystal Pepsi, PB Max, Orbitz, Mountain Dew Pitch Black II, dn-L, Moonlight Tobacco Co., microbreweries, magazines on Google Books, Spy Magazine, 90ana, checking out the March 1996 issue of Spin Magazine, Fruitopia, Tori Amos, Plymouth sailboat logo, square corporate “weirdness”, coffee break music, San Francisco Bay – Rainforest Blend – alternative “K-Cups”, Bob Dole, Green Day, interpersona travel, Possum Dixon, Possum Kingdom, Christian Bale, disposable cameras, Children of the Bong, Red Dog Beer, drifting through the 90s, Boys For Pele, Kamel Reds, loci.com from 1997, corporate rebellious lifestyle brands, Revolution X, Ad Lib, Lithos, multimedia CD-ROMS, Pat Buchanan, Magic: The Gathering computer game, Red Peters, music retailers, Saga, Tortoise, Melting Hopefuls, Tom Waits, Beautiful Girls (1996), British early 90s dance scene, The Box, Beck “Loser” video, netpubs, subliminal messages, Moonlight Tobacco Co. ad, another music break, ramen noodles, classified ads, 1-800 numbers, time gimmick occult ad idea for time travellers, recordings from the 90s, The Overnightscape Underground archive, listening to this episode 20 years from now, and 2012-2015 – the time of massive change. F1843

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The Overnightscape 892: Option 5 (7/7/12)

3:53:46 – Mall’s odd elevator, dinner party to-do lists from the mid-1800s, new definitions, dream tech, altered states, scientific expalantion for astrology, technology of perception, cycles of aspects, sky as readout, mysteries of light, holography, polarization, experience as the reason, the mystery gas station, the car rental waiting room, Flipboard app, tallest building in Europe opens – “The Shard” in London, LA II, emotional baggage from past lives, rail journey to Radburn, Secaucus Junction, serious travellers only, Frank Lautenberg, Best Buy vending machine, potable water, videogame overworld, bridge plate, pocket computers, Psion Series III, Nokia phone backgamon, evolution of phone games, superfoods, electronic cigarettes, unenthusiastic employees, Odd Couple actors (Jack Klugman, Tony Randall, Walter Matthau, Jack Lemon), photocopies, Macaron Cafe, macaron review (Honey Lavender, Green Tea), restaurant review websites, sevenkittens on Ustream, Japanese cash, Ukon Power Turmeric Extract Drink, Smartfood product line expansion, Pretzel M&M’s, La Flor Dominicana Reserva Especial El Jocko maduro cigar, heptagonal pattern show art, exploding cigars, zero interest in the new Batman movie, Tobacco is Wacko, postmodern architecture, the convenience store bit, Sony Store, PlayStation 3, things from the past that I should have already heard of, I Was Kaiser Bill’s Batman by Whistling Jack Smith, 4 explanations for the phenomenon, Magic Journeys, bad things are bad, Biff Tannen, difficulty whistling, Winston No Bull Comedy Break, wavy facades, The Russian Tea Room, Carnegie Hall, water mistake, bathroom break, Time Warner Center, cigar kicked my ass, feeling beat up, boom box in the trash, beer on tap, Gorilla Brand Cold Brew Pure Black Coffee, other Gorilla brands, false umbrella icons, Namco Quick & Crash, u’s with dots on them, comedian Tom Rhodes, Mr. Rhodes (TV Series 1996–1997), Stephen Tobolowsky, Radiohead, True Stories (1986), psychic experiences in college, leaf, insect hassle, The Kevin Masters Show starring Tom Rhodes, Rich Hall, memories of Howard Stern making fun of Woody Allen marrying Soon-Yi, a gorilla reflection, LA II, We Need A Little Christmas by Percy Faith, Tucker’s Witch (TV Series 1982–1983), Kim Cattrall, old real estate logo, virtual reality update, telepresence, Apple iGlasses prediction, microbew beers, Jeremy’s Microbatch Ice Cream, Moonlight Tobacco Co., 90ana, Zippos, horrible costumed characters in Times Square, a guy dressed up as Satan with a pimp hat, ClarisWorks, radio show ideas (puppets, second person/text adventure style), LMFAO, carboard box head “robots”, “the end of the world is nigh” trope, 120 Minutes, Danielle Dax album Blast The Human Flower, Lotte World, indoor theme parks, drifting into alternate dimensions, Mrs. Beasley, the pan flute, Project Runway, B-roll, The Overnightscape Handbook, Ultramarines, Tiny Size Chicklets synchronicity, pink lock, The Overnightscape, The Promenade Shops at Clifton, vandalism, new trend of fire pits, listening to the storyteller while sitting around the campfire, premature ending, missed my bus, Jamba Juice, the next morning in the studio, bus ride home with pink sky and Brazilian singers, new gas station name, 21 Jump Street (2012), Murder One (TV Series 1995–1997), playing Namco Quick & Crash at Ontario Mills Mall in California, Lush song Sweetness and Light, good deed. Mr. Jesse the Cat, coffee mishap, synchronicities in this episode, tobacco archive, the complete convenience store bit, Pocket Hawgs, grandiose point of sale, Option 5, NJ cloud, PS3 game Blur, and a Creative Commons song – Hard To Believe by Doug Rice. F1842

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The Overnightscape 891: Screaming Javelins (7/4/12)

2:14:21 –  New explorer badge concepts, demolition in the morning, super tour guide ideas, an ancient clock in Times Square, a kid flipping out, the fear of nuclear war, The Man in the High Castle, The Axis of Evil, real estate signs, Oscar’s Beef Booze And Broads, weird people and wretched pigeons, losing the will to fight, everything retro, Andy Griffith has died, Oscar Madison in the real world, pop culture – food – tech – occult, The Twentieth Century, new Rush album Clockwork Angels, synthesizer sounds, Star Trek, a haze of despair, Red Bull and Little Lad’s Herbal Corn, Duran Duran, Culture Club, Macho Condor 2, the monologue format, Las Vegas, cinema rides, Cinetropolis, escalator issues, “1981 – The Year in Review” on Fridays, Melanie Chartoff, Rich Hall, Nightstation, Frank from July, New Wave Theatre, more on Andy Griffith, inspired by Butt-head, Opie & Anthony, Salvage 1 (1979), Wonder Woman, Nightstation, a little musical journey (Guest List Girls by ninetynine, King Kong Kitchie Kitchie Ki Me O by Roger McGuinn, this is a humalong (feat. featherbeard) by Rhoda, Turkey in the Straw by United States Air Force Strings, Digital Stimulation by The Units, Ruben Ranzo by Roger McGuinn, Gimme by Christine), sorting out music, creative souls crippled by narcissism, King Kong, folk songs, ice cream truck song, Cirqus Voltaire pinball, Bagman (1982), Super Bagman (1984), Red River Valley, sea shanties, Christine information, Screaming Javelins, paint chips, and one more song: The Child by Doug Rice. F1841

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