https://jfwiki.org/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=Andrewfromvibes&feedformat=atomThe Joe Frank Wiki - User contributions [en]2024-03-29T10:34:59ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.39.3https://jfwiki.org/index.php?title=Third_World_Country_(Includes_Raymond)&diff=8611Third World Country (Includes Raymond)2019-09-02T19:28:55Z<p>Andrewfromvibes: </p>
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''"I first saw Raymond washing and waxing cars on my block."''<br />
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"Raymond and Third World Country" is the name of a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[In the Dark]]. It was originally broadcast in [[1995]]. Raymond was originally broadcast as a half hour program.<br />
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== Synopsis ==<br />
Joe's relationship to a homeless guy in the neighborhood who washes his car and does yard work. He then moves in behind his garage without Joe knowing at first. Joe trys to make Raymond move his belongings from behind Joe's garage by leaving a note, but then Raymond never returns. Joe puts his thing on the other side of the alley after several week. He then fantasizes about Raymond returning while Joe is in the shower, and what might happen. Will Raymond try to fight Joe? Will he ask for money? The Raymond segment Ends. Next, Someone delivers a nonsense monologuein English with mangled Spanish words mixed in, prays the Our Father. Next, Joe talks about inviting in a homeless guy. He used to be an electrician. He is form Hungary. Joe offers him his girlfriend's clothing that she is throwing out. They give him some leftover Chinese food, and he throws it up. They let him take a shower, and then they can see his face better; he looks sicker than when he was dirty. They play some records for him, and he falls asleep. Joe sleeps in the same room to make sure he does not do anything, but then discovers the next morning that he stole the records. Joe talks about finding the homeless unpleasant. An interview with a couple homeless guys on the street. One is from Mississippi, and he talks about how he found a crate of hard liquor one time, and him and his friends were drunk for a month straight. Joe talks about beggars he saw in India, and tattooing the images of valuable jewelery on one's skin. The beggars travel in packs and try to wear you down with sympathy. They use dead children they claim are their own, but they really come from a pile of dead children all the beggars use to get sympathy; and then money from tourists. Joe and his friend accidentally ended up on a beach where toothless men perform fellatio for money. Then they see a room full of girls in saris, some naked, and Arab men who pick the ones they want. Joe does not know if it is for a couple hours, the night, or the rest of their lives.<br />
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== Interesting Facts ==<br />
This program originally appeared as two half hour programs.<br />
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== Music == <br />
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* "Fellini (Trip-Down Mix 96 BPM)" - Hortuma (from [https://www.amazon.com/Fellini-Vol-2-Hortuma/dp/B071CR79TV "Fellini, Vol. 2"], 1996)<br />
* "Bridge of Sighs" - Shakti with John McLaughlin (from [https://www.amazon.com/Natural-Elements-Shakti-John-Mclaughlin/dp/B00000JM4T/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=shakti+natural+elements&qid=1567452476&s=gateway&sr=8-1 "Natural Elements"], 1977)<br />
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[[Category:1995]]</div>Andrewfromvibeshttps://jfwiki.org/index.php?title=The_Queen_Of_Puerto_Rico_(Show)&diff=8610The Queen Of Puerto Rico (Show)2019-08-31T16:59:57Z<p>Andrewfromvibes: </p>
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''"He was seventeen, on vacation with his mother and father in the Caribbean."''<br />
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"The Queen Of Puerto Rico" is the name of a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[WBAI and NPR Playhouse]]. It was originally broadcast in [[1983]].<br />
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Joe published a [[Queen of Puerto Rico, The (book)|book of the same name]], containing a slightly modified version of the program text in short story form.<br />
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== Synopsis ==<br />
A teenage boy visits a Caribbean island with his parents. He watches the pink lady in a bar. He meets her on the beach. Brief monologueabout driving through the countryside against the sounds of a racing car. He meets a man in a bar who invites him to a beach house. He gets stoned and drunk and winds up in bed with the man. A man in a hospital imagines he is in a resort. The man follows the boy to the airport, later calls him and sends him letters, invites him to visit and becomes the queen of Puerto Rico. He wears his grandmother's necklace, think s of the pink lady. He writes the man and asks for money. The man goes to the hospital. Later he drops out of school and returns to the island. More scenes of a confused man in the hospital. The boy gets a job on the island, begins wearing makeup, becomes the pink lady. Breakfast in the hospital.<br />
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== Interesting Facts ==<br />
Shares some text with Fat Man Down (not the same audio) <br />
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== Music == <br />
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* "Morning/Midday" - M'Boom (from [https://www.amazon.com/MBoom-Max-Roach/dp/B0000029JO "M'Boom"], 1979)<br />
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[[Category:Serious_Monologue]]</div>Andrewfromvibeshttps://jfwiki.org/index.php?title=Nausea&diff=8609Nausea2019-06-06T00:15:36Z<p>Andrewfromvibes: /* Music */</p>
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''"One afternoon I drove by a voluptuous, scantily dressed female hitchhiker."''<br />
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'''Nausea''' is the name of a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[Work In Progress]]. It was originally broadcast in [[1989]].<br />
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== Synopsis ==<br />
* Joe watches an attractive fake hitchhiker. <br />
* Notes on women in bed. <br />
* Joe's father published novels in France, authored distorted titles, won the last Nobel prize in literature. Nobel prize in literature replaced by other prizes. <br />
* Something is missing from my life. <br />
* Fredrick and Josephine find debauchery as sailors in the far east, go mad, imagine that they are at sea, fish from their apartment, and become monks. <br />
* Becoming a monk and developing polyps. <br />
* Verbal martial arts and being compelled to use it against everyone. "<br />
* Why did [people do things]" monologue, random pondering. <br />
* Joe is a race car driver. <br />
* Monologue on rain - man knows he has to leave his wife before the rain ends.<br />
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== Music == <br />
* "El Lamento de los Ayatollah" - Roberto Musci & Giovanni Venosta, (from [https://www.amazon.com/Tribal-Portraits-MUSCI-ROBERTO-GIOVANNI-VENOSTA/dp/B07895XNP5/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=urban+and+tribal+portraits&qid=1559780101&s=gateway&sr=8-1 "Urban And Tribal Portraits"], 1988)<br />
* "The Kiss" - Harold Budd, (from [https://www.amazon.com/White-Arcades-Harold-Budd/dp/B000006X6X/ref=tmm_acd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1559779982&sr=8-1 "The White Arcades"], 1988)<br />
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[[Category:1989]]</div>Andrewfromvibeshttps://jfwiki.org/index.php?title=Nausea&diff=8608Nausea2019-06-06T00:11:09Z<p>Andrewfromvibes: /* Music */</p>
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''"One afternoon I drove by a voluptuous, scantily dressed female hitchhiker."''<br />
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'''Nausea''' is the name of a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[Work In Progress]]. It was originally broadcast in [[1989]].<br />
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== Synopsis ==<br />
* Joe watches an attractive fake hitchhiker. <br />
* Notes on women in bed. <br />
* Joe's father published novels in France, authored distorted titles, won the last Nobel prize in literature. Nobel prize in literature replaced by other prizes. <br />
* Something is missing from my life. <br />
* Fredrick and Josephine find debauchery as sailors in the far east, go mad, imagine that they are at sea, fish from their apartment, and become monks. <br />
* Becoming a monk and developing polyps. <br />
* Verbal martial arts and being compelled to use it against everyone. "<br />
* Why did [people do things]" monologue, random pondering. <br />
* Joe is a race car driver. <br />
* Monologue on rain - man knows he has to leave his wife before the rain ends.<br />
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== Interesting Facts ==<br />
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== Music == <br />
* "El Lamento de los Ayatollah" - Roberto Musci & Giovanni Venosta, (from [https://www.discogs.com/Roberto-Musci-Giovanni-Venosta-Urban-And-Tribal-Portraits/release/1868916 "Urban And Tribal Portraits"], 1988)<br />
* "The Kiss" - Harold Budd, (from [https://www.discogs.com/Harold-Budd-The-White-Arcades/release/964447 "The White Arcades"], 1988)<br />
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[[Category:1989]]</div>Andrewfromvibeshttps://jfwiki.org/index.php?title=The_Death_Of_Trotsky&diff=8603The Death Of Trotsky2018-10-09T23:29:41Z<p>Andrewfromvibes: /* Music */</p>
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''"The bus leaves in the evening from the Buena Vista station, crosses 27 bridges to the valley of the crumbs."''<br />
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'''The Death Of Trotsky''' is the name of a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[WBAI and NPR Playhouse]]. It was originally broadcast in [[1979]].<br />
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== Synopsis ==<br />
Fictionalized, third-person account of Trotsky's assassin, cut with assorted other events. Joe reads a poem. First person scenes from a hospital, a cemetery. Stalin is Trotsky in disguise. Prayers full of Nada. Being afraid of nothing. The problems of analysts. Toes engaged in a discussion of socialism, a woman lays an egg, a bird becomes a war plane. Kierkegaard regrets the decision not to marry, is taunted by children shouting "Either, Or," make a leap of faith before an audience. Trotsky is serenaded by a terrible orchestra. A holy man is buried for forty days. Falling asleep while killing Trotsky. A pregnant old man in a golf course. The power of confession. Nihilism; Nietzsche is accused of killing god; Freud treats a kleptomaniac; the future determines the past. Trotsky's killer leads a revolutionary cadre into the woods, becomes lost, discovers that their side has already won and become corrupt, and captures dissidents. <br />
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== Interesting Facts ==<br />
The nada prayer appears in Ernest Hemingway's short story ''A Clean Well Lighted Place''<br />
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== Music == <br />
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* "Xibaba" - Donald Byrd (from [https://www.amazon.com/Electric-Byrd-Donald/dp/B000TERKR8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1539127923&sr=8-1&keywords=donald+byrd+electric+byrd "Electric Byrd"], 1970)<br />
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[[Category:1979]]</div>Andrewfromvibeshttps://jfwiki.org/index.php?title=Blues_Singer&diff=8602Blues Singer2018-09-29T23:40:35Z<p>Andrewfromvibes: /* Music */</p>
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<div>"Blues Singer" is the name of a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[Somewhere Out There]]. It was originally broadcast on [[unknown]]<br />
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== Synopsis ==<br />
Joe is a blues singer. The music of daily life and car accidents. He accidentally kills a woman with a knife, burns down a store, and drowns a hotel manager. "Life is . . ." Joe is a preacher and the mayor tries to shut him down. Nonsense verse against a rhythmic backdrop. Looking in the mirror and seeing greatness. <br />
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* "It Could Be Sweet" - Portishead (from [https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000001FI7/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&linkCode=sl1&tag=thwhsh00-20&linkId=d1afc4fef5c179c8c0ae89dfa6c1988c "Dummy"], 1994)<br />
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=== [[User:Spblat|Spblat]] === <br />
This has always been one of my favorites. Lots of nice shocking stuff. "So I drowned him in the toilet." "She died of a heart attack while I was stabbing her."<br />
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[[Category:Narrative_Monologue]]</div>Andrewfromvibeshttps://jfwiki.org/index.php?title=Till_You%27re_Gone&diff=8601Till You're Gone2018-09-15T20:21:46Z<p>Andrewfromvibes: </p>
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''"It was one of those hot and humid summer nights. I'd just finished working out at the stadium where I was practicing for the Olympic trials in the decathalon..."''<br />
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"Til You're Gone" is the name of a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[WBAI And NPR Playhouse]].<br />
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== Synopsis ==<br />
A ticking clock, and music: "Your father was a picture on the wall. . ." Actors read personals ads. Joe talks about a brief beach-side fling with a woman when he was a college athlete. A couple on the beach, Philip and Doris, fight about looking at other women. A panel discussion about the importance of Freud's diet and the origin of German food. Philip and Doris fight in a restaurant. Joe visits the town of his childhood and is berated for not having written by the wrong mother. Joe is in a battle against an army of women in a laundry room. Joe visits his mother. Philip and Doris fight in bed. A consciousness lowering group. Pianos as lovers. A mock movie news program about German war criminals disguised as Latinos, observant Jews, catholic priests. Second person reminiscences about love among Nazis. An academic discussion and interpretation of the acted scenes.<br />
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== Interesting Facts ==<br />
The version of this on joefrank.com differs slightly from the original broadcast.<br />
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== Music == <br />
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* "Cool Out" - Leroy Hutson (from [https://www.amazon.com/Hutson-Leroy/dp/B00000369V "Hutson"], 1975)<br />
* "Valley of the Shadow" - Thomas Newman (from [https://www.amazon.com/Little-Women-Soundtrack-Thomas-Newman/dp/B0013DDODS/ref=tmm_msc_title_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1537042818&sr=1-1 "Little Women Soundtrack"], 1995) <br />
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[[Category:1979]]</div>Andrewfromvibeshttps://jfwiki.org/index.php?title=Jewish_Blues&diff=8600Jewish Blues2018-09-15T20:13:23Z<p>Andrewfromvibes: </p>
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''"Well I visited Bellevue once, and ah, I saw him..."''<br />
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"Jewish Blues" is the name of a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[WBAI And NPR Playhouse]]. It was originally broadcast in 1978.<br />
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== Synopsis ==<br />
Sequence from a live WBAI call in show with a studio panel: sound effects calls, someone asks for directions, aggressive women, a texan describes star wars, the constitution. Interview with a Jewish blues guitarist, broken with scenes from his life. The origin of the blues in Jewish mythology, the unleavened 5th and 7th. The singer looks for work in night clubs. His son converts to Christianity. He tells his wife about it. He goes to a rabbi who has lost his faith. He gets a job working in a nightclub frequented by rowdy, cynical religious leaders.<br />
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== Interesting Facts ==<br />
The converted son clip is used in [[Reprise]].<br />
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* "Selflessness" - John Coltrane (from [https://www.amazon.com/Selflessness-Featuring-My-Favorite-Things/dp/B005VR964S "Selflessness Featuring My Favorite Things"], 1968)<br />
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[[Category:Live]]</div>Andrewfromvibeshttps://jfwiki.org/index.php?title=A_Call_In_The_Night&diff=8599A Call In The Night2018-09-15T20:09:34Z<p>Andrewfromvibes: </p>
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''"We were in the garden, I sat in my wheelchair..."''<br />
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'''A Call In The Night''' is the name of a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[WBAI and NPR Playhouse]]. <br />
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== Synopsis ==<br />
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The first segment of this episode is a monologue, where Joe describes someone's memory from their childhood. A childhood fish story with heavy sound effects. Discordant voices overlapping. <br />
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The next segment alternates between scenes from a play and a panel discussion of the same play. The play is by the (fictional) playwright "Joseph Molka" and is about a man and a woman's clumsy "date" in an unnamed city in the midst of a terrible plague outbreak. The man and woman meet in an art museum and have a playful exchange, and it is established the man is a visitor from out of town. The woman, whose name is "Jo" is a local resident and in a bit of exposition tells about the fatal plague which she treats largely as an inconvenience. A stranger accosts the couple and as he talks becomes progressively more agitated and irrational- this is the effect of the plague. The couple escapes the museum. All throughout the play sounds of coughing are heard.<br />
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The panel discusses the plague, feet symbolism and the supermodernist movement. <br />
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We return to the earlier monologue, which is apparently playwrite Molka's journal- this time, observations of his mother on vacation.<br />
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The play continues into the next scene, with the couple going to a Chinese restaurant. Their familiar unease at being anglo-saxons in a Chinese-American environment is amplified when the waiter turns out to be increasingly abuse and irrational. He too is a plague victim, and the couple escapes the restaurant.<br />
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The next segment is a different kind of monologue: a gallows erected on a bridge and guards charged with asking passers where they are going and killing them if they swear falsely. <br />
<br />
Back to the play, the couple takes a cab to the woman's apartment. All seems to finally be going well with the romantic evening until the cab driver starts driving erratically, and he turns out to be another plague victim. <br />
<br />
Finally the couple reaches Jo's apartment. The following discussion concerns itself with the sensory and religious themes in the play. Questions of determinism and freedom. <br />
<br />
The final segment is a repeating monologue: A story is repeated several times, changing slightly with each telling. While Molka's having an operation for club feet his father dies and his mother claims his father as gone to Boston. He travels to Boston, searches the city, picnics in a cemetery and becomes paralyzed.<br />
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== Interesting Facts ==<br />
The text is nearly identical to [[Call In The Night, A (Remix)|A Call In The Night (Remix)]], except the sound effects are heavier in the original and the Joe's monologues are slightly modified and delivered with very different emphasis and set to different background sounds.<br />
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== Music == <br />
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* "4:00 A.M., June; The Sky Was Green" - Peter Schickele, Stanley Walden & Robert Dennis (from [https://www.amazon.com/Open-Window-Peter-Schickele/dp/B01EJN14K8 "The Open Window"], 1969)<br />
* "That Lucky Old Sun" - Yusef Lateef (from [https://www.amazon.com/Yusef-Lateefs-Detroit-Latitude-Longitude/dp/B001232LVK "Yusef Lateef's Detroit"], 1969)<br />
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== Commentary ==<br />
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{{commentary}}<br />
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== External Links ==<br />
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[[Category: Absurd Monologue]]<br />
[[Category: Scripted Actors]]<br />
[[Category: Panel Discussion]]<br />
[[Category: Sound Effects]]</div>Andrewfromvibeshttps://jfwiki.org/index.php?title=Loner&diff=8598Loner2018-09-15T19:41:27Z<p>Andrewfromvibes: </p>
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''"One, two o'clock in the afternoon, after calling these major motels where I wished I could have stayed..."''<br />
<br />
'''Loner''' is the name of a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[In The Dark]]. It was originally broadcast in [[1994]].<br />
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== Synopsis ==<br />
A man talks about his life. A futile search for his motel. Paranoia, getting bad vibrations from people, being taken as gay. He declines an offer to go into town, avoids a car crash. He's introduced to a transvestite in a Paris bar, wakes up in a strange car having been robbed. Creative women are hard to find. Driving around with a couple of drunk women, hitting an owl, making crafts out of its carcass. In-home nursing for people in the Castro, experiences in San Francisco, living in the Tenderloin. Wanting to travel, make art. Blacking out on a bus and waking up under a truck in an olive field. Paranoia. He'd give up drugs if he met anyone with similar interests. Going out with gay nurses at work. Drugs and gambling. <br />
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== Music == <br />
* "Gulliver" - Green Isac (from [https://www.amazon.com/Strings-Pottery-Green-Isac/dp/B000NQ2BOE "Strings & Pottery"], 1990)<br />
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== Commentary ==<br />
{{commentary}}<br />
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== External Links ==<br />
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{{In The Dark}}<br />
[[Category:Real_People]]<br />
[[Category:1994]]</div>Andrewfromvibeshttps://jfwiki.org/index.php?title=Tell_Me_What_To_Do&diff=8596Tell Me What To Do2018-06-04T00:02:40Z<p>Andrewfromvibes: </p>
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''"He didn't really notice her in the beginning."''<br />
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"Tell Me What To Do" is the name of a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[Work In Progress]]. It was originally broadcast in [[1986]].<br />
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== Synopsis ==<br />
A married man has an affair with a woman from his office who was abused by her stepfather as a young girl. Carl Sandburg poetry backed by organ music.<br />
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== Interesting Facts ==<br />
Organ music is excerpt from Turtle Dreams by Meredith Monk<br />
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== Music ==<br />
* "かかし (A Scarecrow)" & "手編の音符 (Teami No Onpu)" - Aragon, (from [https://www.discogs.com/Aragon-Aragon/release/3257841 "Aragon"], 1985)<br />
* "Turtle Dreams (Waltz)" - Meredith Monk, (from [https://www.amazon.com/Turtle-Dreams-Meredith-Monk/dp/B0000031RX "Turtle Dreams"], 1983)<br />
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== Commentary ==<br />
{{commentary}}<br />
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== External Links ==<br />
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{{Work In Progress}}<br />
[[Category:Serious_Monologue]]</div>Andrewfromvibeshttps://jfwiki.org/index.php?title=Cocktails_Before_Dinner&diff=8595Cocktails Before Dinner2018-06-03T23:52:55Z<p>Andrewfromvibes: /* Music */</p>
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''"In this modern technological age, we humans have more than made up for our physical inferiority to animals."<br />
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'''Cocktails Before Dinner''' is the name of a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[Work In Progress]]. It was originally broadcast in 1986.<br />
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== Synopsis ==<br />
* Making up for our inferiority to animals with technology. <br />
* Our relationship to our bodies. <br />
* Experiencing the moment of sleep, death. Ways to die. <br />
* Breakfast at small tables. <br />
* Remembering youth in a cab on the way to a hospital. <br />
* Buying a gun to prepare for nuclear war. <br />
* Our inability to comprehend the dimensions of the inverse. <br />
* Alexander the Great finds a walled city, weighs a human eye. <br />
* Being uncomfortable when an actor at a play emerged from the audience. The audience, everyone, as actors. Everyone as a star of their own life; life as recognition. Tonight's program from the viewpoint of his life, the audience's life. <br />
* Houdini examined. <br />
* "A jukebox or a coffin." <br />
* Joe's past as a teacher: experiencing department meetings in the manner of a student. Sex among teacher and among students, the school's playboy sadist. <br />
* Joe the filmmaker. A film about St. Florence, patron saint of the unexpressed, funded by dressmakers and shot in Iceland. Filming in white and black. <br />
* Second person dialog with a hitchhiker. <br />
* Mimicking those one visits. <br />
* Description of a dance. <br />
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== Interesting Facts ==<br />
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== Music == <br />
{{Power Spot (Jon Hassell) }}<br />
{{59th Street Bridge Song (Simon & Garfunkel) }}<br />
* "Polaris" - Aragon, (from [https://www.discogs.com/Aragon-Aragon/release/3257841 "Aragon"], 1985)<br />
{{Wing Melodies (Jon Hassell) }}<br />
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== Commentary ==<br />
{{commentary}}<br />
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== External Links ==<br />
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{{Work In Progress}}<br />
[[Category:Serious_Monologue]]<br />
[[Category:Absurd_Monologue]]</div>Andrewfromvibeshttps://jfwiki.org/index.php?title=A_Landing_Strip_In_The_Jungle&diff=8594A Landing Strip In The Jungle2018-06-03T23:47:51Z<p>Andrewfromvibes: /* Music */</p>
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''"The first day I arrived there I checked into an odd looking hotel."''<br />
<br />
Landing Strip In The Jungle, A is the name of a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[Work In Progress]]. It was originally broadcast in [[1986]]."<br />
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== Synopsis ==<br />
*Joe is staying in a hotel in Sri Lanka, becomes involved with Ali, a young street hustler and drug dealer. Joe eats a bundle of hashish the kid sells him, then goes to dinner and is overcome by the drug. He flees to his room, his mind reeling, and has a reveletory insight: life is utterly meaningless. The next day he gives the rest of his money to Ali.<br />
*Monologue: Disjointed thoughts and images. <br />
**The city at night. <br />
**Wrapping fish in the bible. <br />
**"I recently went to Venice to buy the larynx of a famos tenor; it's something new I'm into now." <br />
**Dressing statues, swinging dead birds on strings, an old woman and child investigator sitting in an oil drum at the airstrip, waiting for things.<br />
**A beautiful woman is transformed into a manservant in a brothel.<br />
**"A fish will never understand my fear of drowning, will it?" <br />
**Joe is a wealthy colonial businessman tricked into facilitating the overthrow of the government. <br />
*Monologue: wanting, longing, needing - is anyone fulfilled? <br />
<br />
*Panel: Joe moderates a survival contest - being swallowed by a whale, attacked by vampire bats. This is a competition to see who can describe their most harrowing ordeals. [[:Category:Arthur Miller|Arthur Miller]], playing "TC Jones", is interviewed by Joe on his adventures in Brazil. Another actor or two chips in, disputing the importance of the story. [[Lester Ainslie]] tells of being swallowed by a whale. TC frequently interrupts.<br />
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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schopenhauer Schopenhauer]: theory of the will. Desire is infinite, fulfillment limited.<br />
*Joe rapidly describes a third world city, interspersed with threats of violence and dice rolling, set against intense, energetic music. <br />
*Joe is repeatedly robbed in the stairway of his apartment every few weeks, meets the mugger years later in Manhattan. <br />
*Watching a prostitute with an abnormally large rear who specializes in old men. <br />
*Joe is awarded a $5000 grant for filming a piano dismantled in timelapse, but uses the money to move out of town.<br />
*Rapid absurd monologue: the most enigmatic of deities, filling a bowl on one's head by walking into a river, using one's third eye to cheat at cards.<br />
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== Interesting Facts ==<br />
<br />
The line about collecting the larynx of a famous tenor is repeated in [[Philosophy]].<br />
== Music == <br />
{{Regiment (Brian Eno / David Byrne) }}<br />
* "Dream Theory" - Jon Hassell (from [https://www.amazon.com/Dream-Theory-Malaya-Fourth-World/dp/B000003S2I "Dream Theory in Malaya: Fourth World, Vol. 2"], 1981)<br />
* "Taaw" - Youssou N'Dour (from [https://www.amazon.com/Immigres-Youssou-NDour/dp/B00000DDD2 "Immigrés"], 1981)<br />
* "Mimosa" & "Midday" - Michael Brook (from [https://www.amazon.com/Hybrid-Michael-Brook/dp/B000003S2Z "Hybrid"], 1985)<br />
* "Tribe" - Andy Summers & Robert Fripp (from [https://www.amazon.com/Bewitched-Andy-Summers/dp/B000002GGS "Bewitched"], 1984)<br />
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== Commentary ==<br />
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=== [[User:Spblat|Spblat]] ===<br />
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Not much of the older stuff works for me, but this wasn't too bad. [[:Category:Panel Discussion|Panel discussions]] are almost universally lost on me, and this was no exception. I really liked the "intense, energetic music" near the end.<br />
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[[Category:Absurd_Monologue]]<br />
[[Category:Panel_Discussion]]<br />
[[Category:Lester Nafzger]]<br />
[[Category:Arthur Miller]]<br />
[[Category:Fred Coffin]]</div>Andrewfromvibeshttps://jfwiki.org/index.php?title=A_Tour_Of_The_City_(Part_2)&diff=8593A Tour Of The City (Part 2)2018-06-03T16:45:06Z<p>Andrewfromvibes: /* Music */</p>
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''"You're riding in a cab in the rain. The windshield wipers swish back and forth."''<br />
<br />
'''A Tour Of The City (Part 2)''' is the name of a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[WBAI and NPR Playhouse]]. It was originally broadcast in [[1984]].<br />
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This program was broadcast in two parts, the [[Tour Of The City, A (part 1) | first part ]] is 60 minutes long. The second part is 30 minutes.<br />
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== Synopsis ==<br />
Competitive suicide jumping into Waterworks Gorge. Breakdown in a plant. "Something is missing from my life" dialog. President talks about eating nothing as a child. Fishing with dad. Walking into one's own funeral. <br />
<br />
<br />
== Interesting Facts ==<br />
*Material from this program was later included in the programs [[Nightride]] and [[Black Hole]].<br />
*The text from this program was published in the form of a play.<br />
<br />
== Music == <br />
{{Remote Viewing (Tangerine Dream) }}<br />
* "Höre, der du wagst" & "Brüder Des Schattens" - Popol Vuh (from "[https://www.amazon.com/Bruder-Schattens-Lichts-Popol-Vuh/dp/B000F6ZP5E/ref=tmm_acd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1528043570&sr=8-2 Brüder Des Schattens - Söhne Des Lichts]", 1978)<br />
* "Music For Mallet Instruments, Voices And Organ" - Steve Reich (from "[https://www.amazon.com/Drumming-Mallet-Instruments-Voices-Pianos/dp/B00166PGYW/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1528044077&sr=8-8&keywords=steve+reich+mallet+instruments Drumming, Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ, Six Pianos]", 1974)<br />
{{Six Marimbas (Steve Reich) }}<br />
{{On Land (Brian Eno) }}<br />
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== Commentary ==<br />
{{commentary}}<br />
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== External Links ==<br />
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<br />
{{WBAI and NPR Playhouse}}<br />
[[Category:Scripted_Actors]]<br />
[[Category:Sound_Effects]]</div>Andrewfromvibeshttps://jfwiki.org/index.php?title=A_Tour_Of_The_City_(Part_1)&diff=8592A Tour Of The City (Part 1)2018-06-03T16:44:05Z<p>Andrewfromvibes: /* Music */</p>
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''"You're in a commercial jet, circling above a city."''<br />
<br />
'''A Tour Of The City (Part 1)''' is the name of a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[WBAI and NPR Playhouse]]. It was originally broadcast in [[1984]].<br />
<br />
This program was broadcast in two parts, the first is 60 minutes long. The [[Tour Of The City, A (Part 2)|second part]] is 30 minutes.<br />
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== Synopsis ==<br />
Second person monologue: You arrive in a plane which nearly crashes. Cab driver talks about suicide methods. Scenes from a street. The principals are introduced in monologue. Voltgen gives an electrocism lecture to a novice. Electrocism ceremony. A man bathes his disabled wife. Seeing a speck in the desert that becomes a wall of water and a giant drawn by horses. Religious orders and commandments. Bizarre boxing matches: a knight and a caveman, a housewife and a giant bug. The president addresses the public via loud speakers. The mans wife confronts him. Hero mythology. Discussion with Voltgen about love. Electrocism initiation. Man argues with his wife, gets a threatening phone call, is watched by a helicopter. President hums a childhood song over loudspeakers. Sounds of an explosion. A man talks about watching people from a helicopter. President asks people to spy on their neighbors. <br />
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<br />
== Interesting Facts ==<br />
*Material from this program was later included in the programs [[Nightride]] and [[Black Hole]].<br />
*The text from this program was published in the form of a play.<br />
<br />
== Commentary ==<br />
{{commentary}}<br />
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== Music == <br />
{{Remote Viewing (Tangerine Dream) }}<br />
* "Höre, der du wagst" & "Brüder Des Schattens" - Popol Vuh (from "[https://www.amazon.com/Bruder-Schattens-Lichts-Popol-Vuh/dp/B000F6ZP5E/ref=tmm_acd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1528043570&sr=8-2 Brüder Des Schattens - Söhne Des Lichts]", 1978)<br />
* "Music For Mallet Instruments, Voices And Organ" - Steve Reich (from "[https://www.amazon.com/Drumming-Mallet-Instruments-Voices-Pianos/dp/B00166PGYW/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1528044077&sr=8-8&keywords=steve+reich+mallet+instruments Drumming, Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ, Six Pianos]", 1974)<br />
{{Six Marimbas (Steve Reich) }}<br />
{{On Land (Brian Eno) }}<br />
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== External Links ==<br />
<br />
<br />
{{WBAI and NPR Playhouse}}<br />
[[Category:Scripted_Actors]]<br />
[[Category:Sound_Effects]]</div>Andrewfromvibeshttps://jfwiki.org/index.php?title=Arena&diff=8591Arena2018-06-03T16:23:29Z<p>Andrewfromvibes: </p>
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''"They stood at the water's edge, the waves mounting, then crashing and sweeping up the coastline..."''<br />
<br />
'''Arena''' is the name of a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[WBAI and NPR Playhouse]]. It was originally broadcast in [[1979]].<br />
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== Synopsis ==<br />
We hear Joe alternately discussing his own writing process and typing at a keyboard. His story describes a romance between an American woman and a bullfighter. The narrative alternates with acted scenes and sound effects. Every scene degenerates into references to bull fighting. The couple swims naked in the sea, encounter a whale. Panel discussion: being terrified of text after reading Black Beauty, writing to purge anxiety, the history of writing. Story: reckless passion in a race car. Panel: reading and the downfall of civilization, the danger of self examination. Joe: the universe as a succession of writers inventing worlds. Story: a scene in a hotel room above a festival, the bull fighter's childhood, a fisherman living far from water and fishing for scrap ("You cannot eat a coat"), reading doesn't compare to bullfighting, scar stories. Story: scene in a church, stained glass featuring the resurrection of a wealthy donor, animals communicate with god. Joe: hammering a nail into your heart with your own brocaded slipper. Panel: man wasn't meant to read, college course reading lists. Joe: Melville's physical struggle when writing. Story: a scene in a cafe, she begs him to stop fighting bulls, a model bull fight using steak knives tied to a chair. A man and woman fight - he wants to watch TV and she wants to read. A television program: the fastest piano player interview. Panel: the consciousness lowering group. Joe: finding a dead whale on the beach, the mess in one's bathroom. <br />
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<br />
== Interesting Facts ==<br />
This program is also available in the [[Somewhere Out There (series)|Somewhere Out There]] series as [[Arena (remix)]].<br />
<br />
== Music ==<br />
{{Solea (Miles Davis) }}<br />
* "Section I" - Steve Reich (from "[https://www.amazon.com/Music-18-Musicians-Steve-Reich/dp/B000026258 Music for 18 Musicians]", 1978)<br />
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== Commentary ==<br />
{{commentary}}<br />
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== Cast ==<br />
Tim Jerome, Annalee Jefferies, Paul Mantell, Rosemary Foley, Avery Hart, Matt Basford, Lester Nafzger, Eric Sears, and Joe Frank<br />
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== External Links ==<br />
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Member stream: https://www.joefrank.com/streaming/shows/?jfsearch=Arena<br />
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Single show: https://www.joefrank.com/shop/arena/<br />
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[[Category:1979]]</div>Andrewfromvibeshttps://jfwiki.org/index.php?title=Lies&diff=8590Lies2018-06-03T16:20:56Z<p>Andrewfromvibes: /* Music */</p>
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''"At some point when I was in high school I lost my draft card, and my folks changed houses, and I think there was a period of two years there, or three years, or four years, when the Army lost me. They couldn't find me."''<br />
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'''Lies''' is the name of a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[WBAI and NPR Playhouse]]. It was originally broadcast in [[1982]].<br />
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== Synopsis ==<br />
* A guy avoids the draft by pretending to take drugs.<br />
* A military intelligence officer at a translation center in Vietnam during the war.<br />
* A pair of radical women screw up a revolutionary bank robbery and go on the run.<br />
* A man talks about having been politically active. <br />
* A man meets a woman in a deli; "it had the cadence of witty repartee without the wit;" her roommate makes bagel and cream cheese paperweights, he goes to her place later. She tells him about a rape long ago, about a marriage to a man who shits in bed. <br />
* Joe is a social climbing night watchman, lists things he must do every night, discusses office people. <br />
* Scenes from the office - a board room filled with terror, one with giggling idiots, a woman shouts colors against a background of machinery. <br />
* Joe buries his boss and takes his place. <br />
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== Interesting Facts ==<br />
The first 30 minutes of the 1985 Martin Scorcese comedy [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088680/| After Hours] plagiarizes the plot setup and portions of woman-in-the-deli segment from "Lies". Joe recounts learning about this plagiarism in the 90 minute version of [[No Show]], and his decision to accept a settlement and remain uncredited on the film. <br />
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Coincidentally, [[Larry Block]] appears as a taxi driver in the film, a role that originates with this episode.<br />
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== Music == <br />
{{Ceres Motion (Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Co.) }}<br />
* "T on a White Horse" - Eberhard Weber (from "[https://www.amazon.com/Following-Morning-Eberhard-Weber/dp/B000XTCABA/ref=tmm_msc_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= The Following Morning]", 1976)<br />
{{Part One (Phillip Glass) }}<br />
{{I Will Wait For You (Mantovani) }}<br />
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== Commentary ==<br />
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== External Links ==<br />
[http://andrewhearst.com/blog/2008/05/the_scandalous_origins_of_martin_scorseses_after_hours The Scandalous Origins of Martin Scorsese’s After Hours]<br />
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[[Category:1982]]</div>Andrewfromvibeshttps://jfwiki.org/index.php?title=Summer_Notes&diff=8589Summer Notes2018-06-03T16:16:25Z<p>Andrewfromvibes: </p>
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"Summer Notes" is the name of a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[WBAI and NPR Playhouse]]. It was originally aired in 1979. It was rebroadcast without change under the title "Summer Notes (remix)." In 2004, a portion of this program was set to an [[Summer Notes (short film)|animated short film]]. <br />
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== Synopsis ==<br />
*Interview with an armed guy on the beach. <br />
*Scenes in which a sugary couple encounters disaster, interspersed by a panel discussion.<br />
*A sailing trip that ends lost in the fog. <br />
*The history of picnics and picnic etiquette. A hike that ends in berry picking and poisoning. <br />
*A man in the street tries to get attention - offers little girl sandwiches and sings "you are my sunshine." <br />
*Outdoor theater, performing scenes according to the time of day. <br />
*The street performer fights with passers-by, threatens them, then apologizes.<br />
*The history of theater. <br />
*The couple builds a fire and catches the forest. <br />
*Joe interviews people about resort communities - Woodstock, a nature resort in the Cook islands, and some sort of retirement community. <br />
*The couple argues, watches multiple televisions. <br />
*Animated monologue describing scenes of summer: a man on the subway shouts, "I'm not dead"; an idyllic neighboring family man goes mad; Houdini's act as the ultimate form of protest; a blind man carries a cripple on his back; shooting people at the beach as art; Joe repeats lines from the street performer and the acted dialog; "the sun shines from one place in the sky." <br />
*Beach technology: radios, beach scanners, seismographs. <br />
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== Interesting Facts ==<br />
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== Music ==<br />
* "Hard Work" - John Handy (from "[https://www.amazon.com/Hard-Work-Carnival-Impulse-2/dp/B005J6QBDU/ref=sr_1_1_twi_aud_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1528042422&sr=8-1&keywords=john+handy+hard+work Hard Work]", 1976)<br />
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== Commentary ==<br />
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[[Category:Lester Nafzger]]</div>Andrewfromvibeshttps://jfwiki.org/index.php?title=The_Death_Of_Trotsky&diff=8588The Death Of Trotsky2018-06-03T16:10:04Z<p>Andrewfromvibes: /* Music */</p>
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''"The bus leaves in the evening from the Buena Vista station, crosses 27 bridges to the valley of the crumbs."''<br />
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'''The Death Of Trotsky''' is the name of a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[WBAI and NPR Playhouse]]. It was originally broadcast in [[1979]].<br />
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== Synopsis ==<br />
Fictionalized, third-person account of Trotsky's assassin, cut with assorted other events. Joe reads a poem. First person scenes from a hospital, a cemetery. Stalin is Trotsky in disguise. Prayers full of Nada. Being afraid of nothing. The problems of analysts. Toes engaged in a discussion of socialism, a woman lays an egg, a bird becomes a war plane. Kierkegaard regrets the decision not to marry, is taunted by children shouting "Either, Or," make a leap of faith before an audience. Trotsky is serenaded by a terrible orchestra. A holy man is buried for forty days. Falling asleep while killing Trotsky. A pregnant old man in a golf course. The power of confession. Nihilism; Nietzsche is accused of killing god; Freud treats a kleptomaniac; the future determines the past. Trotsky's killer leads a revolutionary cadre into the woods, becomes lost, discovers that their side has already won and become corrupt, and captures dissidents. <br />
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== Interesting Facts ==<br />
The nada prayer appears in Ernest Hemingway's short story ''A Clean Well Lighted Place''<br />
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== Music == <br />
{{Solea (Miles Davis) }}<br />
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== Commentary ==<br />
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[[Category:1979]]</div>Andrewfromvibeshttps://jfwiki.org/index.php?title=The_Death_Of_Trotsky&diff=8587The Death Of Trotsky2018-06-03T16:09:37Z<p>Andrewfromvibes: /* Music */</p>
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''"The bus leaves in the evening from the Buena Vista station, crosses 27 bridges to the valley of the crumbs."''<br />
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'''The Death Of Trotsky''' is the name of a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[WBAI and NPR Playhouse]]. It was originally broadcast in [[1979]].<br />
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== Synopsis ==<br />
Fictionalized, third-person account of Trotsky's assassin, cut with assorted other events. Joe reads a poem. First person scenes from a hospital, a cemetery. Stalin is Trotsky in disguise. Prayers full of Nada. Being afraid of nothing. The problems of analysts. Toes engaged in a discussion of socialism, a woman lays an egg, a bird becomes a war plane. Kierkegaard regrets the decision not to marry, is taunted by children shouting "Either, Or," make a leap of faith before an audience. Trotsky is serenaded by a terrible orchestra. A holy man is buried for forty days. Falling asleep while killing Trotsky. A pregnant old man in a golf course. The power of confession. Nihilism; Nietzsche is accused of killing god; Freud treats a kleptomaniac; the future determines the past. Trotsky's killer leads a revolutionary cadre into the woods, becomes lost, discovers that their side has already won and become corrupt, and captures dissidents. <br />
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== Interesting Facts ==<br />
The nada prayer appears in Ernest Hemingway's short story ''A Clean Well Lighted Place''<br />
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== Music == <br />
{{Solea (Miles Davis) }}<br />
* "Section I" - Steve Reich (from "[https://www.amazon.com/Music-18-Musicians-Steve-Reich/dp/B000026258 Music for 18 Musicians]", 1978)<br />
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== Commentary ==<br />
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[[Category:1979]]</div>Andrewfromvibeshttps://jfwiki.org/index.php?title=The_Eighty_Yard_Run&diff=8586The Eighty Yard Run2018-06-03T16:04:05Z<p>Andrewfromvibes: /* Music */</p>
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''"Now the story of my, as I like to call it, my infamous eighty yard run, is a rather twisted, convoluted tale."'' <br />
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'''The 80 Yard Run''' is the name of a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[WBAI And NPR Playhouse]].<br />
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== Synopsis ==<br />
* Boxing - a small boxer fights a very large boxer.<br />
* Bullfighting - the first bullfighter to show fear, and his final dedication.<br />
* Iowa city - the Athens of the midwest.<br />
* Football in Iowa.<br />
* An erotic encounter in a crowded theater.<br />
* An amateur football game with no rules.<br />
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== Interesting Facts ==<br />
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== Music == <br />
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* "Son of Stiff Neck" - Larry Coryell & Steve Khan (from [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06Y3DNDZ2/ref=dm_ws_sp_ps_dp "Two for the Road"], 1977)<br />
{{Hydra (Grover Washington, Jr.) }}<br />
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== Commentary ==<br />
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=== Bob Carlson from KCRW ===<br />
"The 80-Yard Run was the first Joe Frank program I ever heard. It was produced back in 1977. It confused me and scared me a little, because while it was hypnotizing, it was also unsettling. Part of it seemed like autobiography, part of it was about boxers of the 1950s, and the end just spun off into a surrealistic dream. In other words, it had some of the same elements that Joe continued to perfect during his decades of work.<br />
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I know that Joe didn’t like The 80-Yard Run very much. His is voice higher than his later shows, the sound mix isn’t always perfect, and Joe even takes a break to get a cup of tea halfway through. But I like the roughness of that very early episode. It shows Joe’s creativity while it was still percolating, while he was still getting a handle on what he was doing. [http://curious.kcrw.com/2018/01/remembering-joe-franks-hallucinogenic-journeys]<br />
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=== Ira Glass ===<br />
“I felt everything I understood about radio was broken in an instant,” Glass says, “when he said, ‘I am going to fix myself a cup of tea, and be right back in a moment.’ And there is this break” [https://slate.com/culture/2018/01/joe-franks-last-interview-before-his-death.html]<br />
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