Saturday, July 28, 2012

Boogie Bottoms

A long ole show recorded over several days in the field. Topics include: middle school and the last great bash of Mike McCready; coffee pot disaster; Jessica’s text dispatches from Savanna, GA.; “The Twin Peaks Adventure” podcast; rainy Friday morning; night world vs. day world and adults acting like children; (spit-take) “damn fine coffee…and hot!”; “Batman “shooting; “South Park” zip line episode; the evolution and broken promises of TV Land; Orson Welles and “F for Fake” (1973); walking around Boogie Bottoms; map folding; thoughts on gun control; “Marjoe” (1972); getting ready to watch “The Dark Knight Rises”; drinking coffee on the porch the next morning with wet socks; Boogie Bottoms review; SPOILER FREE “Batman” review”, and; Alan Rickman.

Music for this show:
 All Music is Creative Commons, Share-Alike, and is available on Jamendo.com.
 
Check out “Marjoe” here.

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Released July 2012, on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and often clever hosts presenting unique programs, historic archival material, and recombinant productions, thereof.

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Watching the Skies

A possible UFO sighting on my paper route? Also: close-up deer encounter; new show formats; Andy Griffith and how celebrity deaths come in 3's; Carl Sagan and ''Cosmos''; Time travel, wormholes and ''Back to the Future; FedFlix -- ''Straight Up'' video starring ''Louis Gossett, Jr., and; Louis C.K., ''Huck Finn''.

Music for this episode:
All Music is Creative Commons, Share-Alike, and is available on Jamendo.com.

"Straight Up" video available here.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License. Attribution by Mike Boody.

Released July 2012, on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and often clever hosts presenting unique programs, historic archival material, and recombinant productions, thereof.

Sunday, July 1, 2012

Story of a 3 Hour Pass

Night radio...in the day! Stopping by a park bench on my way home from the paper route, finishing a cigar, and thinking about the future of -- what else? -- the Downtown Drive-In. Then, onto the other job -- at the zip line -- working from my tree house office on a three hour pass through tour with guests coming and going. Hang out with me and the birds and talk about some pop culture on the back half of this very long and experimental episode.

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Released July 2012 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.

Thursday, June 21, 2012

The Front Stoop

I take a walk through Lakeview on a Saturday night after some kids take over my stoop, and end up in the park at midnight talking about tobacco addiction and working on the Downtown Drive-In (which one is worse for my health?). Then, cut to a few nights later in the studio, with updates on the DD-I, and reflections about "Prometheus" (some SPOILERS).

Music
"Sultan Soul" by the Bayou Trio (CC-Share Alike)
 

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License. Attribution: by Mike Boody – more info at onsug.com.
 
Released June 2012 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.

Saturday, June 2, 2012

The GrillMaster

Hanging out in the driveway on a wet hot Alabama summer night, then finishing up on a bike ride the next cloudy morning. Talking about the Downtown Drive-in, multilevel marketing cults, and coffee black. Also: the Talking Heads, snark, and being the so-called ''Grill Master'' (aka: in charge of other people's happiness).

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Tuesday, May 22, 2012

The DRIVE-IN just got real!

THE DOWNTOWN DRIVE-IN  
         presented by The Midnight Citizen 

Be a part of the first audience! We'll be watching the 1963 horror classic "The Sadist" starring Arch Hall, Jr.

FREE ADMISSION
     but spaces are limited

  Thursday, June 7 
 at 8 pm
behind the Lyric Theater in downtown Birmingham, at the corner of 3rd Avenue and 19th Street North! 



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WHAT'S THIS ALL ABOUT, ANYWAY?

 
Well, folks, it’s here. After months of scrimping and saving and cultivating, the Midnight Citizen Drive-in is ready to go. Who wants in?

What is The Midnight Citizen Drive-in, you ask? Friend, I ask you, what isn’t this amazing project, and what can’t it offer the lonely heart movie fan, desperate to escape the ear-blasting, antiseptic environment of the overcrowded Megaplex and all its seat-kicking pre-teens in Team Edward t-shirts? Read More...


Sunday, May 6, 2012

Between Night and Day/Where to Begin


After a month away from the microphone, I get on back to it with an extensive, in depth interview with the awe-inspiring, and perhaps mildly — yet entertainingly — delusional Duke Fightmaster, of “This American Life” fame, who quit his lucrative day job to follow his creative ambition, of hosting a late night talk show on You Tube. Duke’s story makes me wonder if I should do the same. Do you need the “day” to make the “night” happen. Also, was my mind-bending car wreck perhaps a happy accident — something that might allow me to follow in Duke’s footsteps and focus all my energy on creative pursuit?

If you haven’t heard Duke Fightmaster’s odd story, check it out here.

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Released May 2012 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Between Want and Need

I have a cleansing moment of clarity...and then lose it, as I continue to figure out how a person actually ''grows up''. Also: Drive-in Movie project update Mike Daisey and ''This American Life'' Popcorn Noir Sci-fi Channel in the mid-90s.

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Released March 2012 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.

Monday, March 12, 2012

Too Old for this Spit

My first reflections of visiting the extensive hiking trails of the new Red Mountain Park in Birmingham, and the long, hard process you have to go through to buy anything behind a glass case in Wal-Mart. Also: out-of-school, out-of-mind; The "Wilhelm" scream; Eddie Murphy.

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Thursday, March 1, 2012

MobMov

An exercise in getting my groove back. Here’s a show to re-create the narrative; a self-pitying look at what this new year has looked like to me, as well as a glance at my new project, “MobMov”. Plus: “The Sadist”, and dealings with Alabama’s ongoing controversy, HB56.

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