Archive for the ‘Feb11’ Category

Frank Nora Show 1658 – Queen Horns (3/1/11)

1:46:46 – Ticket line mysteries, mass demolition, the weekend, comic book store memories, Lady Gaga’s new video “Born This Way”, occult symbolism, early Nirvana resistance, a cornucopia of occult imagery, the future of The Overnightscape Undergrounds, the idea of 4 channels, taxi trouble, SCTV, The Muppet Show, rag wizard hat, Motorhead concert, The Young Ones, Lemmy, alcoholism, your corporate overlords, blast of wind, pocket radio station, levels of presentation, books “You Couldn’t Ignore Me If You Tried” and “Sucker Punch – The Art of the Film”, watched The Academy Awards last night, James Franco, Anne Hathaway, awkward acceptance speeches, Kirk Douglas, The King’s Speech, nearly forgot to get my bus pass, my reactions to the latest Overnightscape Central (The Future of Onsug), teamwork, mailing lists, the post test, conspiracy topics, the goal, the channel as a mini resource-based economy, levels of content, celebrity, a healthy future in entertainment, guidelines, Creative Commons, creator endorsement, hours of content per day, Grammar Girl, lists of episodes, flyers, need for a contextual “hook”, top 10 lists, ritualistic modes, transmissions, podcasting, Charile Sheen on Alex Jones, the news media as a scripted product of the powers that be, analysis of the occult symbolism in the new Lady Gaga video “Born This Way”, the devil, the video itself has horns, unicorns in triangles, Nazis, “as above, so below”, A Clockwork Orange, monarch slave symbols, Janus, butterflies, mirrored images, lack of sensuality, queen horns, reptilians, cloning imagery, well-dressed zombies, G.O.A.T., good and evil, theory that “Lady Gaga” is a set of clones, a crazy woman walks by, pseudoephedrine, drugged once again, Welsh tour group, show naming, I Ching, the palindrome “e-radio do I dare”, forgotten mix CDs, horrible camera software, Picasa, Facebook, wifi cameras, The Rampler, Porno Jim, live shows, Lordi Films, Five Faces of Fear, typecasting, people who the last time you saw them they were a little kid and now they’re an adult, The Dark Crystal (1982), analog texture, more symbolism, “Teenage Riot” on Vice TV, snack review (Kettle Brand Tias! – Salsa Picante), unoriginal slogans, biodiesel, looking for rat statues, giant Norton sphere in Grand Central, NJ Transit “MyBus” service, rogue telephone pole signs, underpaid and disillusioned, Steve Miller Band song “Space Cowboy”, Beatles song “Lady Madonna”, Paul McCartney’s pseudonym “Paul Ramon”, The Ramones, you learn something new every day about rock and roll, Sucker Punch (2011), Boxee Box apps, The Guy Bauer Half Hour, Tom Green, pepper arrogance, and American Idol.

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Attribution: by Frank Nora – more info at onsug.com

Released February 2011 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.

Frank Nora Show 1657 – Somerville (2/26/11)

46:03 – Frank and Peter explore the town of Somerville, NJ. Memories of Somerville, alleyway, Quality Comics, cat, Division Street, the classic shopping center is torn down, The Evil Farm, surprise meeting with Alex at Incogneeto, we talked for a long time, the book “Vintage Fashion Accessories” by Stacy LoAlbo, walking down Main Street, bike rides, luxury apartments, Las Vegas housing market, McMansions, Neet Stuff, Hobnob, gentleman with top hat, fondue, the classic Somerville Circle, Cinema I-II-III, early settlements, dog bakery, the old style of storefronts, Kigali, magic and costume store, record store, wine store, storefront station idea, antiques, grand jury duty, crimes, dinner at Splash of Thai, stir fried wild boar, mee krob, chocolate souffle, Thai iced coffee, super hot green curry, Dunkin Donuts, coconut coffee, Reverse Boston Creme donut, observing some antiques, WWII sonar machine, cymbals, sexuality and beverages, Heathers, as soon as we hit the border the show has to end, parking lot combat, stationery, Summerville, Heat Miser, train station, “take the train to the plane”, After Man, the early days of sushi, criminals, jury duty, closed gas station, and the border.

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Attribution: by Frank Nora – more info at onsug.com

Released February 2011 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.

Frank Nora Show 1656 – Not Yet Fording (2/25/11)

2:27:50 – Commuting delays, lasagna breakfast, famous palindromes, accident in the Lincoln Tunnel, futuristic soldiers, protests in The Middle East, scripted events, Libya, Gaddafi, Reagan, Pan Am, Bob Grant, doom hype, dwelling on the crash, using time travel to find crashless timeline, the higher self, the I Ching hexagram of a fox carefully crossing a frozen river, liking doom, conspiracy theories becoming mainstream, simulation, creativity, culture, creation and distribution of works, AR, media history, dawn of the Internet, Creative Commons, Creator Endorsement, hippie communes, heading over to Broadway, Five Guys fries for dinner, the upcoming 25th anniversary of Zope, musicals, compostable bowls, recyclable food, Belgian fries (pommes frites) places that used to be in NYC, Le Frite Kot, had too many french fries, hydration, Green Day, Beyond Onsug, forum mortality, the accident in th Lincoln Tunnel this morning, Thai food, remembered the name of the little caffeine boosts – “Stok”, email, the beautiful rainy Times Square at night, newspaper machins, weird high (Alka-Seltzer Plus, french fries, cigars), St. James Theater, the balcony level, seating, Broadway musical review (“American Idiot”), the squealing crowd, lack of grooviness, weird and perverted, bad poetry, humorless and bland, prepackaged rebelliousness, posing, U2, Pearl Jam, Bruce Springsteen, sexual music, lighting, the late bus, the vile chant, drug addicts, Repo Man, ordinary people, the next day with pouring rain, umbella, the 25th anniversary of Zope, the history of my comic strip character Zope, space madness, your characters are like alive in your mind, co-ed bathrooms, won the 1986 worst minicomic of the year award, Nixie 59, created the new Zope website and drew the anniversary comic last night, ComicCMS, out in the rain, Hard Rain screensaver in After Dark, the old Macintosh computing culture, Flying Toaster, theories, Todd Rundgren, OvalTune, Green Day song “Basket Case”, new Smurfs Mega Bloks, the plans for tonight and tomorrow, put my very first website from 1995 online at franknora.com/obliviana1, falafel burger, 3rd Avenue tour with J. Wiz and M. Wiz, crutches in the garbage, dinner at Menchanko, sumo wrestler food, potato starch, Philadelphia, Camden, checking out the hippie architecture, statues of rats, reading the plaque, smoke breaks by the loading dock, arrows, listening to the archives, cyclical obsessions, stagecoach, chessboard, senator offices, office building criminals, red metal art swing, cursed building, Corridor of Losers, PiranhaKid, Ess-a-Bagel, bagels in Tokyo, Charlie Sheen, Conran Shop, food court, building security, Lipstick Building, touch an Oscar, Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark, Citigroup Center, Piada, socializing, disappearingspoons.com, melting gallium spoons in hot water, Zombie Stormtrooper Bobblehead, subway opera singer, Overnightscape Central, the future of Onsug, Somerville, NJ, and whispers.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License.
Attribution: by Frank Nora – more info at onsug.com

Released February 2011 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.

Frank Nora Show 1655 – Dabbin’ Fever (2/23/11)

1:16:37 – Recovering deleted files, listening to random recovered Overnightscape segments, reviving old Macs and iPods, unexpected weird window into the past, crummy winter weather, ironic aspect of the slogan idea “Radio Undefined”, Chicken Over Veggies, Web 2.0, surprise announcement of BlogWorld East, Podcast Expo, marketing hype, selfish dreams, a mini resource-based economy, NYC podcasting scene, Times New Roman, Artifact Coins, little forgotten caffeine boosts, new NYC outdoor smoking ban, Doctor Who “Brigadier” actor died, kora, hammered dulcimer, tuning, analog synthesizers, American Idiot musical, Justin Guarini, learning the songs and dances of a Broadway show, performance and repetition, recording, setlists, the cruel entertainment industry, hippie architectue, the golden girl statue may remain, Dee Daa disappointment, vegetarian food, Indian food, depressing music in the afternoon, Grand Central Dining Concourse, ATM vestibule window, amazing constructs, the ceiling is the street, review of Artifact Coins by Ellusionist, magicians, decks of cards, coin magic, antique coins, magic message boards, pre-worn blue jeans and guitars, coin reeds, coin talk, cool little objects, Amadeus, Last Action Hero, went to  bingo hall and played bingo for the first time, non-profit organizations, Ladies Auxiliary, Dabbin’ Fever – The Winner’s Ink, the E-Max bingo computer, the complexities of bingo, the “Bingo Dog” song, the bingo system, hardway bingo, what is going on behind closed doors, the rules of bingo, distorted photocopy, and Bodoni.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License.
Attribution: by Frank Nora – more info at onsug.com

Released February 2011 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.

Frank Nora Show 1654 – Clone Paranoid (2/22/11)

1:21:47 – Little Christmas villages, Department 56, filming models of cities, Presidents’ Day, Important Ideas, rules and guidelines for the channel, bus station alarm, line police, Chicken Over Veggies, Howard Stern, Opie & Anthony, offensive material, the world is in shades of gray – not back and white, this society is insane, bad words, zero tolerance policies, cold weather, usage of commercial music, advertising, promotion, shoelace problems, hippie building changes, icicles, bingo, lo-fi archives, kitten animation, someone who looks like me in the Fischerspooner music video “Emerge” from 2002, my familiarity with what I look like in pictures and video, Warren Fischer looks like me, whistling, freaking out, cloning theory, a clone is like a twin, Attack of the Clones, Jango Fett, ability to recognize faces, The Prince and The Pauper, clone paranoia, laser printer, pasta lunch, Overnightscape Central, Midnight Citizen, weird snow dust, Michael Keaton, troublesome pockets, caught up with Fringe, I love Fringe, alternate realities, Dr. Walter Bishop, Peter Bishop, Olivia Dunham, Twin Peaks references, Dr. Jacoby, Josie Packard, profanity example, NetFlix, Dark Shadows, Barnabas Collins, Inherent Vice, Red Dwarf, video services, Mystery Science Theater 3000, advanced ancient societies, cloning experiment theory, White Horse cigars, White Owl cigars, George Burns, anti-check fraud pens, Radio Undefined, Bluffcosm.com slogans, going to see the Green Day musical “American Idiot”, The Monkees, new Guess store, new fiber cream “Dishevel”, and warm up at the bookstore.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License.
Attribution: by Frank Nora – more info at onsug.com

Released February 2011 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.

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