Thursday, July 30, 2015

Video Aside -- "Shazam!"

Mike takes you to the oldest, restored outhouse in Homewood, AL, and explores the career of Jim Nabors ("Gomer Pyle, USMC").


Saturday, July 25, 2015

Episode 129 -- "Third Place"

 http://onsug.com/shows/Jan15/onsug_Jan15_midnightcitizen112.mp3

Join Mike in the studio late at night, exploring all things about the great American movie theater. Topics include: Jason and the keeled-over, barfing drunk guy at opening night of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake (2003); first time going to the movies alone when I was in the fifth grade; first job memories of working at the Colonnade movie theater in 1998; thinking about the experience surrounding the movies -- bookstores, ambling, what happens after the movie's over; the smells, the snack bar, and everything sensory; just found out about the shootings in a movie theater in Louisiana RIGHT before I started the show, and; much more!  

Show time: 1:23:43

Music for this episode is from the New Midnight Cassette System by Frank Edward Nora (Creative Commons License 1.0 Universal).

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike United States License. Attribution by Mike Boody. Released July 2015, on The Overnightscape Underground and The Midnight Citizen.

Thursday, July 23, 2015

Saturday, July 18, 2015

Episode 128 -- "Snobs v. Slobs"

 http://onsug.com/shows/Jan15/onsug_Jan15_midnightcitizen112.mp3
Join Mike in the studio late at night, and on an excursion to the Alabama countryside. Topics include: Sylacauga, AL and its various claims to fame such as the Hodges Meteorite and being the birthplace of Jim Nabors (Gomer Pyle, USMC); checking out an old census report of living Civil War veterans in 1909; field recording from riding around the golf course compound late at night where I went for a work retreat this week; Video Asides; Doesthedogdie.com; "I Dream of Jeannie" turns 50; Barbara Eden on the Today Show; "Harper Valley PTA"; field recording from the hotel room; can't sleep; the golf compound staff left some right wing Christian literature for me to read; TV reviews -- "True Detective" and "Life's Too Short" with Warwick Davis; Snobs vs. Slobs, and; much more!

Show time: 1:58:02

Music for this episode is from the New Midnight Cassette System by Frank Edward Nora (Creative Commons License 1.0 Universal).

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike United States License. Attribution by Mike Boody. Released July 2015, on The Overnightscape Underground and The Midnight Citizen.

Video Aside -- "In the Studio at Night"


Join Mike for a tour of the Midnight Citizen podcast studio. 

Saturday, July 11, 2015

Episode 127 -- "Shadow States"



 http://onsug.com/shows/Jan15/onsug_Jan15_midnightcitizen112.mp3
Join Mike in the studio late at night. Topics include: memories of the VisionLand amusement park in Bessemer, AL and the dead shopping center Watermark Place next door; Amanda Peterson, teenage star of the 1980s, dead at 43 and remembering her claim to fame in "Can't Buy Me Love" (1987); Harper Lee and "Go Set a Watchman"; movie review of "The Nightmare" (2015); shadow people; "Cloak Man" dream review from when I was six; how to get a free oil change at Pep Boys, and; much more!

Show time: 1:42:18

Music for this episode is from the New Midnight Cassette System by Frank Edward Nora (Creative Commons License 1.0 Universal).

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike United States License. Attribution by Mike Boody. Released July 2015, on The Overnightscape Underground and The Midnight Citizen.

Saturday, July 4, 2015

Episode 126 -- "Interviewing Fireworks"


 http://onsug.com/shows/Jan15/onsug_Jan15_midnightcitizen112.mp3

Join Mike in the studio on a Saturday night, and also on the porches and streets of Birmingham, AL. Topics include: Happy 4th of July!; interviewing fireworks; the Dick Tracy Watch story; sarcastic Americanism; got a new coffee percolator; podcasting and misconceptions; awful movie trailers; "Jurassic World" review, and much more!

Show time: 2:07:43

Music for this episode is from the New Midnight Cassette System by Frank Edward Nora (Creative Commons License 1.0 Universal).

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike United States License. Attribution by Mike Boody. Released July 2015, on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com) and The Midnight Citizen.