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This week’s episode now available:

“Summer 2009 Ep. 11 – Pasta” – 4 hours (broadcast on WFMU 2am-6am, Sat. 9/5/09). Topics include opening a box from Simon from Nevada, dreams, time stores, licorice Mr. Hyde monster cereal “Mr. Doha”, Fonnjo Foon, 15 Minutes Ago In The Stairwell, The Arcade of Ideas (observations from the commute), torrential rain, the WFMU podcast of the show, possum innards, living in a furniture store after the apocalypse, and a whole lot more. NYC recordings: Pasta (9/2/09) 18:59, Grand Central (1/28/09) 31:15, Dream Road (with Peter) (8/30/08) 20:02, Coconut (8/25/09) 18:56. Reviews: Chex Mix Chocolate Chunk Bars, Japanese beverages (“Coca-Cola Plus – Green Tea Flavor”, “Pepsi Shiso”), etc. Pinball Corner with “Haunted House”, “Hawkman”, and “Hercules”. Phone calls with Jim Sally from Canada, Roel from The Netherlands, and Brandon from Canada. Theme song “Minimoog” by Matthias Becker and Klaus Stühlen, from “Vintage Synths Vol. 1″ ©1990 Originalton West (originaltonwest.de) – used with permission.

Videos from this episode:

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/2107435

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/2107769

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ug: September 2009 Update (9/7/09) 20.2 (37:35 / 34.7 MB)
The Overnightscape Underground – September 2009 – Track 2
“Your Late Night Broadcast” online at onsug.com
Created by Frank Edward Nora (frank@theovernightscape.com) in New Jersey, USA
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37:35 / 34.7 MB -Frank in The Overnightscape Studio in Northern New Jersey, with an announcement about the future of his various radio shows. Here’s a basic overview of what’s going on:

The Rampler with Frank Edward Nora (on WFMU) will continue.

The Overnightscape Underground will continue.

OnsugBox is nearing completion.

The Overnightscape and The Rampler are now ended, and will not continue. However, just about everything that these shows represent is being continued on the WFMU show and in the Underground.
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License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/). Attribution: by Frank Edward Nora – more info at onsug.com

I’m thinking of taking a break from The Rampler this week… so there may not be any shows posted till the next WFMU show this coming weeked (Sept. 5).

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“MASTERMIND” - 21:03 / 19.5 MB - Frank in NYC in the afternoon. The fancy part of 57th Street, Invicta Venom Reserve Watch,the game “Mastermind” from the 70s, logic, plastic shield pet peeve, Tourneau, Louis Vuitton cool purse window display, criminals, knockoffs, The King of Fighters, melancholy music, American Idol, schtick, decades, the millennium, the goose eggs, the Y2K bug, Cloverfield, horsies, music, dancers, and parallel parking with a horse cart.

(This recording was broadcast at the beginning of the 8/29/09 WFMU show, but somehow it had a lot of weird static, so here it is in good audio quality.)

“Summer 2009 Ep. 10 – Mini Jumbo“ - 4:00:08 / 220 MB

Listen to the show at WFMU: http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/32742

MP3 download and video available at: http://onsug.com/archives/1320

WFMU Podcast of “The Rampler with Frank Edward Nora” coming soon…

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“VIRGIN” - 21:29 / 20 MB - Frank in NYC in the afternoon. Panter Tango cigars, Serif Gothic, the economy, the gutting of out-of-business places, Virgin Megastore, a mini giant tennis ball, jai-alai, time travel, Lipstick Building, Irn-Bru, Bar Code, arcades, Charmin Rest Rooms, furniture store, Burrito Express gutted, and Sonic the Hedgehog.

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“CHOICE POSITION” - 43:22 / 39.9 MB - Frank in NYC in the morning. The late bus is late, Ted Kennedy died, Jello Biafra, the new direction for the show, urinals, Areaware, Talking Heads, Rush, blueprints for shark jumping, Kevin Smith, Mary Poppins, the parameters, loose and tight, hang ups, Hegelian Dialectic, beggar, Shock Treatment, the synthesis of the 2 types of Ramplers, pickpockets, 9/11, “leaping” into the new format on 366, and huevos.

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“DISCONNECT” - 48:08 / 44.3 MB - Frank in NYC in the morning. Talking about some of the difficulties that arise in doing talk radio shows, and how these difficulties relate to the current situation.

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“CODAMAGGER” - 53:08 / 48.9 MB - Frank in NYC in the morning. Working on the OnsugBox, feeling like it’s back to square one, decade naming, 3D movies, “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs”, drugs, Times Square, absinthe, dream (“Band Member and Future Shop”), La Roux, The Lava Children, Jean-Luc Ponty “Tchokola”, the situation post-Overnightscape, branding, marketing, haircut problem, the bald look, idea for a new brand called “Codamagger”, motorcycles, whiskey, power tools, tattoos, bars, hard rock, beer, casinos, weapons, and blackjacks.

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“Summer 2009 Ep. 9 – Style Piglet“ - 3:59:58 / 220 MB - Frank broadcasting live from WFMU (wfmu.org) 91.1 FM in Jersey City, NJ, on Saturday, August 22, 2009, from 2:00 AM to 6:00 AM. Topics include the “Horrible Bag”/”Vaccine Bag” containing two scary child mannequin heads from a department store going out of business, EVP attempts with the heads, whooping cough vaccine character and concert in TImes Square, Hurricane Bill, Typhoon Vamco, haircut problem, Alpha Flight, movie “It Might Get Loud”, live Rifftrax of “Plan 9 From Outer Space”, vanity license plates synchronicity, an apocalypic sun vision, and much more. NYC recordings: Hepburn (8/17/09) 22:48, Brooklyn (8/18/09) 23:17, Theater (8/19/09) 17:40. Reviews: DynaPep Supercharged Energy Micro-Shot, Japanese snack (Bourbon Pakila), Japanese beverage (Roots “Peak Andes” Roast One Coffee), and more. Pinball Corner with “Doctor Who”, “Popeye Saves The Earth”, “Star Wars”, “High Speed II: The Getaway”. A great phone call with Tommy from Keansburg, New Jersey, on a wide variety of topics (including The Hindenberg, The Amish, Shelley Winters, the movie industry, and much more). Songs in the “Rampler music” genre: “All That Time (I Spent With 209)” by BellyBrain/Peter Bernard, and “The Rampler” by Sherri West of The Lava Children. Theme song “Minimoog” by Matthias Becker and Klaus Stühlen, from “Vintage Synths Vol. 1″ ©1990 Originalton West (originaltonwest.de) – used with permission.

Playlist for this show on WFMU: http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/32665

The Rampler page on WFMU: http://wfmu.org/playlists/OS

Live streaming video archives: http://www.ustream.tv/Rampler/videos

ONSUG page with videos embedded: http://onsug.com/archives/1294