Tape Land 190 – Birthday 2001 (October 2001) [released 1/6/26]

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1:25:38 – Welcome to Tape Land! On each episode, I’ll present the audio of a cassette tape or historic material from my personal archives. Notes: 2:55 pm, Sun. 10/7/01, Belleville, NJ, Columbus Day Parade, celebrating my birthday today, U.S. attacks Afghanistan, later, Martinsville, NJ, made my first tape here 24 years ago (Birthday 1977), Peter, cars, jokes, beer, tour, travel, sports, lawsuit, gunpowder, war, opening gifts, book from 1813, Pocket Ref, wine, eBay, gift cards, Dean Rusk, instant lottery, 9/11, more info on the “Bells & Buttons” song (turns out it was “The Quangle Wangle’s Hat” by Edward Lear, 1877), cats, calling Julie, China, Hungary, dinner is served, candles, singing Happy Birthday, business, birthday cake and ice cream, coffee, flags, Tue. 10/9/01, in a movie theater (probably in NYC) with my brother John to see Mulholland Drive (2001) for the first time, weird hyper people in front of us, our initial reaction to the movie, later at Hoboken Terminal, something that occurs to me, damaged reality, 9/11, Menlo Park Mall, Hollywood Heat pinball, Weird University, Williams Pinball Classics, comics on the subway, world becoming so weird and dreamlike, Severe Repair, cigar issues, waiting for the train, Obliviana Super Occult Amusement, moving forward, enough with these mind games, Audio Territory on the Frontier of Reality. License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Attribution: by Frank Edward Nora – more info at onsug.com

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