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''"A month ago I visited my mother in Columbus Ohio."''

'''Performer''' is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[Work In Progress]]. It was originally broadcast in [[1989]].

== Synopsis ==
*[[:Category:Lester Nafzger|Lester Nafzger]], on the phone, talking about his argumentative mother, 81. They have a tremendous dispute over hypnotism.

*Superstition: counting 12 babies in arms for 12 days of good luck.  Then, the 13th day.
*Lester tells us his 26 (and counting) definitive Life Reference Points, or 'linchpins', of his existence.   Events that didn't make the list.
*Lester seems to know the height of everyone he knows. He's a numbers guy.
*Performances: looking for Jerry Rickshaw. Joe and Lester discuss the performance. What Jerry Rickshaw means to Lester.  
*Where's Charlotte.  
*My Teeth Are So Much Uglier Than Yours.  
*Discussion of the role of an artist.  
*Performances: Missing Barbara. Cartoon. Big Band. 
*Lester describes the boogie boys: musical saboteurs. 
*A serene mother-and-baby scene. 
*Lester tells of his struggle to close the nearly 100 holes in the poorly-built wall connecting his furnace room to a porno theater next door. Then we hear audio from a porn movie.
*Lester recites the weight of everyone he knows.

== Music == 
{{Watermark (Enya)}}
{{River (Enya)}}
{{Alternative 3 (Brian Eno)}}
{{Aragon (Brian Eno)}}
{{All Blues (Miles Davis)}}
{{The Dream (Ry Cooder)}}
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theme_from_New_York%2C_New_York "New York, New York"] <!-- version TBD -->

== Miscellanea ==
*In this program and in [[A Landing Strip In The Jungle]] Lester uses the name [[Lester Ainslie]].
*We hear two tracks from Enya's "Watermark" album in this program.

== Commentary ==
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=== [[User:Spblat|Spblat]] ===
Life reference points! Fascinating how we all process the passing of our lives in different ways. 

== External links ==

[[Category:Scripted_Actors]]
[[Category:Telephone]]
[[Category:Mock_Interview]]
[[Category:Lester Nafzger]]
[[Category:Julie Renick]]
[[Category:1989]]
[[Category:Work In Progress]]
[[Category:Unknown_air_date]][[Category:Show]]
[[Category:Show_by_date|19890001]]	{{Airdate|airdate=1989}}{{Series|series=Work In Progress}}{{Cast|cast=[[Lester Nafzger]], [[Julie Renick]], Joe Frank}}