Episode 163 -- "Alamo Survival Tips for Davy Crockett from George Romero"

Join Mike on the porch late at night, reflecting on such topics as the death of Prince at age 57; the Bat Dance; what those guys defending the Alamo could've learned from watching "Night of the Living Dead", and much more!

Show time: 49:29

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Episode 161 -- "Sin City of Alabama"

Hang out on the porch with Mike on a chilly Saturday night. Topics include: Spaghetti-O's turns 50!; a trip to the 90's via a Dilbert Coffee mug; how to buy alcohol in Alabama; dry counties; Pavlovian ice cream trucks; channel surfing -- "Pawn Stars", HGTV and "Forrest Gump"; TV review -- "11/22/63"; did Oswald act alone; John Carpenter's "Lost Themes", and much more!

Show time: 1:07:41

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Episode 144: "'Friday the 13th' Marathon"

Join Mike as he watches all eight of the original Paramount "Friday the 13th" flicks with friends Jason and Adam.

Show time: 12:06:26 

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Episode 139: "The Garfield Cult"

Join Mike in the studio late at night. Topics include: saw a "reindeer nose" on a pick-up truck today; starting Christmas too early; procrastinating with taking Christmas decorations down and every other mundane, rote task; cults; junk furniture shopping in the alley; found art; recollections of living in squalor when I got my first apartment; the Futon story; fleas; more audio from the "Friday the 13th" marathon; a field trip to McDonald's to test out their "all-day breakfast" on the night crew; TV review -- "The Leftovers", and much more!

Show time: 1:41:17

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 Non-commercial Share Alike US License. Attribution by Mike Boody. Released October 2015 on The Midnight Citizen and The Overnightscape Underground.

Episode 134 -- "Finding the 2 Sisters"

Join Mike in the studio late at night. Topics include: getting out of town and re-charging batteries; the quaint town of Springville, AL, where there is nothing to do; the unsuccessful search for the quintessential small town diner; small town romanticism vs. reality; IBC Bottle confusion; Nielson sent me a dollar to fill out a survey about my TV habits; celebrity deaths -- Wes Craven and Dean Jones; smoking a pipe outside; movie review -- "A Walk in the Woods", and; much more...

Show time: 1:29:36

Note: Apologies for the bad sound quality in the field segment of this episode. Not sure what happened there.

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 Non-commercial-Share Alike US License. Attribution by Mike Boody. Released September 2015 on The Midnight Citizen and The Overnightscape Underground.

Video Aside -- "Wes Craven Pinball"

Join Mike for some pinball and video games at Paramount in downtown Birmingham, AL.

Episode 131 -- "Candle S'mores"

Join Mike in the studio late at night. Topics include: candle review of "Campfire" by the Great Bear Wax Co.; making s'mores over the candle; new Dr. Seuss book "What Pet Should I Get"; Roddy Piper; playing some video of the 13-hour "Friday the 13th" marathon from March I did with friends Jason and Adam; TV review: "Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp"; movie review: "Mission:Impossible -- Rogue Nation", and; much more!

Show time: 1:23:31

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-Non-commercial-Share Alike United States License. Attribution by Mike Boody. Released August 2015 on The Midnight Citizen and The Overnightscape Underground. 

Video Aside -- "Letterboxing in the Woods"

Mike takes you on an urban scavenger hunt.

To learn more about Letterboxing, go to letterboxing.org.

Episode 130 -- "The Midnight Realm Amusement and Experiential Park"

Join Mike in the studio late at night. Topics include: an audio journey through the proposed Midnight Realm Amusement and Experiential Theme Park in Muscle Shoals, AL; Walt Disney and his grand designs, camera presence; Michael Eisner; sad celebrity deaths -- Max Fleisher artists and amusement park conceptual designer Vincent "Val" Valentine and wrestler, actor "Rowdy" Roddy Piper; TV review -- "The Jinx" (2015); Movie review -- "Lost Soul: the Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's 'Island of Dr. Moreau" (2014); Birmingham YA author John Green; the "Magical Pixie Girl" trope, and; much more! 

Show time: 1:30:06

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 August 2015, on The Overnightscape Underground and The Midnight Citizen.

Video Aside -- "Shazam!"

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

Video Aside -- "War Memorial"

Mike visits a Civil War monument under fire in Linn Park.

Video Aside -- "In the Studio at Night"

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

Video Aside -- "Late Night Golf Carting"

  

Mike finds himself at a unique golf retreat in the Alabama countryside.

CREEPFEST -- "Alone in the Dark"

Be sure to come back tomorrow night for another ALL NEW EPISODE!!!

The boys are back for another late-nite monster show throw-down. Jack Palance and Martin Landau play a couple of head cases on the loose in "Alone in the Dark". Along the way, Vince presents some interesting cold war conspiracy theories about the flick.

Fall Hits

Join Mike, walking around the streets of Birmingham, AL on a Saturday night! Topics include: Fall coming on, and football season; must be hard to be a hardcore football fan, and a player, too; Halloween coming on; haunted houses; watching people get scared in the past at Sloss "Fright" Furnace; decade nostalgia; I almost got hit by someone texting; the human need for love sometimes supercedes the human need for survival; I've had a hard week, but how I know things can ALWAYS be worse; I had to take a show down; dangers of the digital world; movie "The Naked City" and annoying detective show formulas, and; much more!

Show time: 1:45:44

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Ultimatum

 Mike in the studio on Saturday night, talking about his girlfriend's mother being murdered (on the television show, "Ghost Adventures"); the ongoing struggle to have a lottery in Alabama; a BIG announcement about the future of "The Midnight Citizen; Howard Hessman and "Head of the Class"; "Dear Stacy" Hollywood column and pre-Internet trivia gathering; indulgences; the television schizophrenia of my childhood in the early 90s; Eve Plumb, and more!

Show length: 1:03:10

Music for this episode by Mister Electric Demon from the album "Around my Cream". All music is Creative Commons Share-Alike, available onJamendo.com.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivs 3.0 United States License. Attribution by Mike Boody. Released May 2014, on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com) and The Midnight Citizen (themidnightcitizen.com).

Faux Navigator

Join Mike in the studio late at night. Topics include: starring in "adult" sci-fi horror without knowing it; making a new Creepfest with old friends; picking apart the flaws of "Ghostbusters" (1984), and much more!

Show length: 59:36

Music for this episode by Mister Electric Demon from the album "Around my Cream"; the Bayou Trio; Persson. Closing theme is by Dave Smith from the "Avalon Beach" soundtrack. All music is Creative Commons Share-Alike and is available on Jamendo.com. 

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivs 3.0 United States License. Attribution by Mike Boody. Released February 2014, on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com) and The Midnight Citizen (themidnightcitizen.com).

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! 

POST A COMMENT HERE OR ON THE FACEBOOK WALL FOR AN INVITE!   
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...

SPECIAL -- "I am the Galleria"

Nothing “special”, really; just some recordings of me and Jessica walking around the Galleria mall on Black Friday. WITNESS the chaos, without worrying about being trampled upon by avaricious Americans, and FEEL the intensity of the third degree by a righteous security guard we run briefly afoul of.  Other topics and random ambiance ensue.

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Let's Go Camping!

Here’s a bunch of audio I got on my camping trip to Noccalula Falls, AL to do my Halloween show, which will be posted this weekend. Very raw and unpolished, recorded with an indescreet Zoom, which draws some very curious stares from random passersby, mainly in Wal-Mart when I’m buying food and beer for the campsite. Topics include equipment check, ”Henry Winkler and Fonzie”, jackhammer outside my bedroom window, the cat’s meow, flat tires, a trip to the Briary to pick up some cigars, road work that leads to about a one hour detour, Super Listening, Chadcast, “I just put the ketchup on the last burrito!”, Frank Nora and the Overnightscape, Occupy Wall Street, vacation follies, Wal-Mart shopping, beer buying, hobo chicken, Evil Dead, a nice morning stroll around the camp ground, a final cigar, a return to civilization and responsibility, and being solicited crack at the country filling station.