Originally released on Bluffcosm.com in November 2001. Edited from “Classictronica #2″, recorded at a NAVA video game collector’s meeting at Video Game Connections in Howell, NJ.

Some potentially “offensive” content.

This is one of my favorite “Blufftoons”. Blufftoons were the audio pieces on my Internet radio station, Bluffcosm.com. The idea was that a piece of non-music audio could be listened to over and over just like a song. To me, this Blufftoon is a real nihilistic treat.

Originally released on Bluffcosm.com in November 2001. Recorded at a NAVA video game collector’s meeting at Video Game Connections in Howell, NJ. Two more episodes of Classictronica (#3 and #4) were recorded, but never released - they will be coming to Station Unlimited at some point.

Some potentially “offensive” content.

Originally released on Bluffcosm.com in March 2001. Original Description: “A computerized radio show all about video games! Recorded at the March 2001 NAVA video game collector’s meeting. Chock full of weirdness, sick topics, “adult material”… and also some stuff about video games.”

Recorded at Video Game Connections in Howell, NJ. Some potentially “offensive” content.

This one is not my best work… but there’s still a lot of interesting stuff to check out.

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Google Maps satellite view of the location of this recording.

Originally released on Bluffcosm.com in February 2001. Original Description: An excerpt from “The Motor Excursion Ruffians #1″, a brand new 3-hour show on Bluffcosm.com! Frank, Pete, and Nick play with CD-ROMs and bags in a field of snow. Recorded 2/11/01.

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Google Maps satellite view of the location of this recording.

Originally released on Bluffcosm.com in February 2001. Original Description: A Computerized Radio Show on the Road! Join Frank, Pete, and Nick on their zany journey. Features include “Fun with Walky-Talkies”, “Foods from The East”, “The Killer Bag”, interviews, wacky conversions, and more!

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7/4/07 - I re-listened to this, and I have to say it’s an awesome recording. During the show I mention how I intended to do more episodes on a regular basis - but that never happened, unfortunately. There is #2, from 2003, which I will release at some point…  Also, I realized that the end of this episode is a lot like the ending of the final episode of The Sopranos! We are in a restaurant and the tape ends abruptly with no warning!

This copy of the old site has a LOT of dead links and outdated information. But it does contain a lot of very interesting stuff!

“The Bluffcosm 5-Minute Vacation From Sanity” is a feature made up of various clips and outtakes from other Blufftoons from Bluffcosm.com (my old Internet radio station). The end result of 5 minutes of audio strangeness that can be quite enjoyable to listen to over and over again.

#6 was released on Bluffcosm.com in February 2003.

This piece was also released in Daily Podcast From Another Place (October 2004 to January 2005).

“The Bluffcosm 5-Minute Vacation From Sanity” is a feature made up of various clips and outtakes from other Blufftoons from Bluffcosm.com (my old Internet radio station). The end result of 5 minutes of audio strangeness that can be quite enjoyable to listen to over and over again.

#5 was released on Bluffcosm.com in November 2001.

This piece was also released in Daily Podcast From Another Place (October 2004 to January 2005).

“The Bluffcosm 5-Minute Vacation From Sanity” is a feature made up of various clips and outtakes from other Blufftoons from Bluffcosm.com (my old Internet radio station). The end result of 5 minutes of audio strangeness that can be quite enjoyable to listen to over and over again.

#4 was released on Bluffcosm.com in May 2001. Original description: Get ‘em on film. Uh-oh. Hey Robert. What’s up? Get your underwear back? No. Damn! Damn the system!

This piece was also released in Daily Podcast From Another Place (October 2004 to January 2005).

“The Bluffcosm 5-Minute Vacation From Sanity” is a feature made up of various clips and outtakes from other Blufftoons from Bluffcosm.com (my old Internet radio station). The end result of 5 minutes of audio strangeness that can be quite enjoyable to listen to over and over again.

#3 was released on Bluffcosm.com in March 2001. Original description: Don’t shoot the food! Get out of my sight! They tried to drive me crazy! George F. Will!

This piece was also released in Daily Podcast From Another Place (October 2004 to January 2005).

“The Bluffcosm 5-Minute Vacation From Sanity” is a feature made up of various clips and outtakes from other Blufftoons from Bluffcosm.com (my old Internet radio station). The end result of 5 minutes of audio strangeness that can be quite enjoyable to listen to over and over again.

#2 was released on Bluffcosm.com in February 2001. Original description: We had a party in Kerhonkson once, it was called Mountain Madness, and they always thought it was gonna be like this. GET DOWN IMMEDIATELY!

This piece was also released in Daily Podcast From Another Place (October 2004 to January 2005).

“The Bluffcosm 5-Minute Vacation From Sanity” is a feature made up of various clips and outtakes from other Blufftoons from Bluffcosm.com (my old Internet radio station). The end result of 5 minutes of audio strangeness that can be quite enjoyable to listen to over and over again.

#1 was released on Bluffcosm.com in January 2001. Original description: The Bluffcosm 5-Minute Vacation from Sanity… the name says it all!

This piece was also released in Daily Podcast From Another Place (October 2004 to January 2005).

“The Motor Excursion Ruffians”, starring me (Frank Edward Nora) and Peter Litkey, began as a successor to our previous show, “Train Crap & Blood”. The idea is that we have so much freedom that we never use… you can just get in a car and drive and who knows where you’ll wind up!

Episode 1 of “The Motor Excursion Ruffians” was recorded on February 11, 2001, in western New Jersey and released on my old Internet radio station, Bluffcosm.com. Episode 2 was recorded on April 4-5, 2003 (between The Overnightscape #4 and #5), on a visit down to see our friend Bryan in Virginia. Over 8 hours of material was recorded - but it was never released. I plan on releasing both of these here on Station Unlimited in the near future.

This past Saturday, June 16, 2007, I got together with Pete and we went on a “motor excursion” without thinking of “The Motor Excursion Ruffians” - in fact, I didn’t even know if I was going to record at all. But I started recording some stuff, and later in the day we both realized we were doing a new episode of “The Motor Excursion Ruffians”!

Here is a description of the recording…

After waking up at 4:30 AM and waiting 5.5 hours for White Stripes tickets, I was about to go to sleep when Peter called me… we decided to get together and go on a trip, featuring a torrential Thunderstorm and hail, roof parking of The Fashion Center mall in Paramus, NJ, coffee from Blimpie, weird spiral staircase, old school architecture, heading north on Route 17, Woodbury Common Premium Outlets in Central Valley, NY, super heavy pottery, free drinks and CDs, finding the food court, Le Gourmet Chef, Pretzel Time, the cosmic lemonade balance, Pete chooses an item from the Protocol Personal Products Convenience Center in the men’s room, candy review (”Ora Labs XStreme Sour Drops - Strawberry”), Folz, Pringles vending machines, finding the exit, Le Creuset, Lladro, dust collectors, Route 6 - cool road, Bear Mountain State Park, free parking, merry go round closed, tranquil feeling, ice cream vending machine, a walk around Hessian Lake, forbidden rock climbing, vending machine deaths, vehicle, out of breath, living a screensaver, exercise, a methaphor for life, cigar, chipmunk, Canadian geese hissing, the goose fight question, the judgement of the ice cream deception, flags, “It’s a Mistake” by Men At Work, Pallisades Parkway, Fort Lee, Mitsuwa Marketplace (”The Japanese Mall”), Hungary and Hungarian stuff, food court, food samples, Auto Freak, hoji tea coming out of the wall, packets of unknown material, Pete tries some natto, A Bathing Ape, Pocari Sweat, exploring the supermarket, Creap, Re-Ment, miniature cleaning supplies, Frank spends all his money, miso choice, deer joke, soothing music
The United States of Whatever, Liam Lynch, Sifl & Olly, The Sharper Image, and finding the way out of Edgewater.

On Monday, June 11, 2007 I was walking through Times Square in NYC and I saw a street fair called “Taste of Times Square”. Iwent went for 2 blocks on 46th St. from Times Square to 9th Ave. I walked the full length of it and realized it would make a great “Place Sounds” piece (a recording of an audio environment). So I started recording and heading back through the fair.

Unfortunately, things didn’t work out like I planned. First of all a lot of the musicians I had seen on the first walk thru were taking their breaks. Then it started to rain… lightly at first and then it turned into a real downpour. And then I realized I had pressed pause by accident and lost a lot of the stuff I was recording.

This piece is the final result - the first in the “Place Sounds” series on Station Unlimited (and the first release in over 6 months!). I look forward to recording more “Place Sounds” in the future - it is certainly a different kind of audio content than what people are used to, but in the right frame of mind such stuff can be very enjoyable and intriguing to listen to.

Welcome to the new version of the Station Unlimited website! Over the past week or so I have converted all the existing content of Station Unlimited into WordPress format. I have “backdated” all entries to reflect the original date of release.

The logo below is the old logo on the site… the logo above is one I am considering as the new logo…

Podcast RSS feed: http://stationunlimited.com/feed

Flying home and conclusion…

Disneyland Part 4…

Disneyland Part 3…

Disneyland Part 2…

Disneyland Part 1…

Jerry from SoCal (1:41), Yaz - Ben from CodedSignal.com (4:51), Soccergirl (2:23), Bibb and Yaz (3:20), Creative Cow (1:54), Tracy from Feedburner (:58), Greg from RadioTail (1:07), Jim - Greg - RealIntelligence - Nate and Di - Kevin - Body Painting (6:10), Jim and Velvet (1:59)

Heading over to Ontario Mills Mall (:21), Approaching Mall, Edwards Cinema, etc. (:45), Approaching Mall - seeing various stores (:38), Approaching Mall - parking (:53), Outside mall - Starbucks guy - coffee tank (3:41), Entering the mall (2:55), California National Guard - Black Market Minerals - Geode (3:09), In the mall - Neighborhood 3 - “World of Mall” - Walking thru… mall food… (2:40), Bagels - Mr. Pibb - Bruegher’s Bagels (:27), Encumbered in Big Food Food Court (:39), Food Court - Gameworks Arcade - lots of games - (4:06), Playing air hockey with Becky (2:42), Leaving mall - Improv - Mountain (1:55)

Day 2 Intro - ATM (1:02), Jones Soda Reviews - Sound Pollution (7:52), Sound Pollution - Mountain (:56), Exhibit Hall - Becky - Brad - Chris (:58)

Exhibit hall - Jim Interview Soccergirl (:48), Exhibit hall - talking to Leo Laporte (3:08), Podcast Awards - EatFeed (1:30), Podcast Awards - Person of the Year - IT Concversations (1:15), Podcast Awards - Best of Show Award Winners - People’s Choice Awards (3:54), Podcast Awards - short (:06), Podcast Awards - nominated but lost (:10), Podcast Awards - Marina’s - Orange Lounge Radio winner (1:53), Podcast Awards - Podchick and Soccergirl and Pizza Babe (13:03), Dr. Floyd - pre-Yahoo party (1:11)

Podcast Expo - arrive (:56), Glenn - Woodstock of Podcasting (1:38), David Lessky (1:30), Jason from Budget Blinds (2:54), Coffee (:26), Confused - Conference Center - enter keynote(1:36), Before keynote - looking at sessions - ambient sound - seats (2:19), Before keynote - B-roll - Kaja, etc. (2:09), Before keynote - murmering crowd - Leo Laporte (1:20), Before keynote - 8:58 AM - bag - etc (2:10), Before keynote - conferences - hot women - etc (1:48), Keynote begins - Jason Calacanis (2:47), After keynotes - exhibit hall - (:46)

OnStar - Becky - (4:17), train - dca mention (:56), approach disneyland (:41), parking garage (:31), tram - wait (:22), tram - rain - ride (1:57), downtown disney - signage (:14), dca entrance (:47), soarin over california - condor flats (:39), inside soarin over california (:40), quick Disney noise (:04), after soarin over california (:39), grizzly river run (2:39), California Screamin’ Roller Coaster (7:16), Paradise Pier - launch of Roller Coaster (:50)

JFK Airport - Jim, Brother Love, Greg, Jason - before boarding plane… Have to go to bathroom… (:41), Walking onto plane… (1:44), (wasn’t recording…) On the plane… talk about coffee, etc. (1:54), Tarmac… talking about flight, business cards, etc (2:21), On the plane… coffee… etc. (3:21), In the air, Staten Island… headin’ over Jersey… (:55), Over Philly (:32), Sudoku … coffee crush… 6.47 miles in the air (2:22), Crossing Mississippi - Missouri - Google Maps, video podcast (1:54), OK, NM, CO - knock over coffee… (:28), NM… Rocky Mountains… large lumps of the land… (2:29), test (:10), JetBlue snack - (1:06), Arizona - ice crystals - (1:06), California - landed - (:31), Ontario Airport (:46), Baggage carousel (:30)

Recorded on Tuesday, May 10, 2005, at a bar called “One and One” (at the corner of 1st Ave. and 1st St. in Manhattan). Starring Greg Narain (Beercasting.com / Sparkcasting.com), Steve Warren (InteractiveNYC.com), Frank Edward Nora (TheOvernightscape.com), and waitress “Myar”.

I’m still not sure what happened with the whole Sparkcasting thing, but in any case, here is the complete, unedited “Forgotten Beercast” from that long ago day…

This second part of Frank’s journey to Governors Island was not played on The Overnightscape and is available exclusively here on Station Unlimited.

This first part of Frank’s journey to Governors Island was played in its entirety on The Overnightscape #536 (9/4/06).

Recorded on Saturday, July 29, and Sunday, July 30, 2006. On this Audio Field Trip, my wife Denice and I travel from northern New Jersey to a wedding in western Massachusetts. Phil and Sarah, listeners to The Overnightscape, are getting married at a Quaker retreat called “Woolman Hill”. On this recording, you’ll hear about the long drive up, the creepy motel, arrival at the wedding, the wedding ceremony, walking through a cornfield the next day, visits to the Yankee Candle Flagship Store and the Hampshire Mall, and much more.

This release consists of the raw unedited audio (minus the corrupt segments). It is a long, rambling piece of audio, and the “narrative” suffers a bit from the loss of some of the segments. But there is a lot of interesting and very varied stuff in this audio. Hopefully I’ll do an edited version at some point that will be an easier listen.

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Flickr photo set of the pictures taken during this recording (at Washington Rock State Park in Green Brook Township, NJ). Starting at about 19:55 into this segment. 

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