Dreamland: A Compilation
| Series | |
|---|---|
| The Other Side | |
| Original Broadcast Date | |
| October 24, 2000 | |
| Cast | |
| David Franks, William Reinert, Grace Zabriskie, Stanley, Joe Frank | |
| Format | |
| Real People, 58 minutes | |
| Preceded by: | Karma Memories |
| Followed by: | Karma Crash |
"Basically time is just a dimension of the universe."
Dreamland (A Compilation) is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series The Other Side. It was originally broadcast on October 24, 2000.
Synopsis
This show is all re-used material, none from Dreamland; Dreamland isn't even mentioned.
'Basically time is just a dimension of the universe...' A homeless guy explains how people use sound to harm others.[1]
2:20: Guy talks about what happened to him when he came to California, became homeless. He explains that America is a big dog, Los Angeles a giant tick on it that's going to explode.[1]
4:30: 'Geneticists and computer scientists are really working together towards a better future for everyone' making perfect clones to replace people.[1]
5:50: Guy explains why he hates garbage.[1]
7:00: Guy says that his mother (adopted) flirted with him.[1]
8:10: Guy says that when he was in Hawaii he found out he was the king of the universe, talks about drummers, Buddha, and Jesus.[1]
10: A crazy 'preacher', prankster David Franks, wants to come over for a séance with a resistant woman. (apparently a found tape).[2]
16:30: A guy tells about when he became psychotic in Manhattan. He worries that people think he's gay.[3]
18:10: Guy tells about when he was drinking in Paris. A fellow drugged him; he woke up drunk in a car on the street.[3]
20:20: Guy tells of times he blacked out. Once, on a bus trip from California to Oregon, he woke up under a truck in Corning, California. He thinks he was drugged on the bus.[3]
22:20: Guy wants to 'meet the right lady', get exercise, meditate, tarot cards, music.[3]
23:10: Guy describes his nervous breakdowns.[3]
24:10: Guy imagines he could be drug-free if he had friends like him.[3]
25:20: Guy's baffled by his stupidity, takes too many pills.[3]
26:40: Crazy preacher David Franks calls person (sounds like a woman to me; preacher addresses him/her as 'brother'), leads him/her in a crazy prayer ('Clytemnestra's daughter ... African Eurasian tiger pussycat'...).[4]
35:00: Some dial-a-prayers.[2]
42:00: A woman Grace Zabriskie talks about bliss, which comes upon her unawares, for no discernible reason, how much she likes it, how it makes her life worth living.[2]
45:10: A guy calls the tarot reader, wondering if this other man loves him.[5]
46:00: A woman calls him as a wrong number; he insists on reading her cards.[5]
49:40: A guy remembers his father, how much he misses him (he's dead), how he could always rely on him, talk to him about anything. The father commandeered a street-sweeper in Georgia, drove it into a cemetery. He misses his friends too, dead and alive. He talks about a picture in his room looking at him, over-hearing pay phone conversations.[5]
54:20: The guy from Loner tells of being in a strange town, gambling all night, forgetting his motel, spending all night looking for it.[3]
A paranoid homeless man, a bizarre telephone preacher, and a lonely male nurse share the stage of this surreal program.
Also see Dreamland.
Music
- "Rock Hammer" - Thomas Newman (from Shawshank Redemption Soundtrack, 1994) | YouTube [Intro]
- "Gulliver" - Green Isac (from Strings And Pottery, 1990) | Apple Music [16:11]
- "Shut Up Pedro" - Thomas Newman (from The Linguini Incident, 1992) | YouTube [34:42]
- "Insomnie Nemurenai (Instrumental)" - United Future Organization (from Insomnie Nemurenai, 1992) | YouTube [48:56]
Miscellanea
The NPR Playhouse announcer says,
You've been listening to Joe Frank, 'The Other Side'. This program was called 'Dreamland' [sic] with David Franks, William Reinert, and Grace Zabriskie, special thanks to Stanley. Production: J. C. Swiatek; production assistance: Esmé Gregson.
Who's Stanley? The homeless guy in the beginning? Who's William
Reinert? The loner? Or one of the guys from the tarot hotline? Reinert's only other credit is Streetwise - could he have been the 'homeless' person?
- Joe uses the music "Rock Hammer" (a cut from the score of Shawshank Redemption) in Dreamland: A Compilation; his character uses a rock hammer in Escape From Paradise.