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''The first day I arrived there I checked into an odd looking hotel.''

'''A Landing Strip In The Jungle''' is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[Work In Progress]]. It was originally broadcast in [[1986]].

== Synopsis ==
*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 revelatory insight: life is utterly meaningless. The next day he gives the rest of his money to Ali.
*Monologue: Disjointed thoughts and images. 
**The city at night. 
**Wrapping fish in the bible. 
**"I recently went to Venice to buy the larynx of a famous tenor; it's something new I'm into now." 
**Dressing statues, swinging dead birds on strings, an old woman and child investigator sitting in an oil drum at the airstrip, waiting for things.
**A beautiful woman is transformed into a manservant in a brothel.
**"A fish will never understand my fear of drowning, will it?" 
**Joe is a wealthy colonial businessman tricked into facilitating the overthrow of the government.  
*Monologue: wanting, longing, needing - is anyone fulfilled?  

*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.

*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schopenhauer Schopenhauer]: theory of the will. Desire is infinite, fulfillment limited.
*Joe rapidly describes a third world city, interspersed with threats of violence and dice rolling, set against intense, energetic music.  
*Joe is repeatedly robbed in the stairway of his apartment every few weeks, meets the mugger years later in Manhattan.  
*Watching a prostitute with an abnormally large rear who specializes in old men.  
*Joe is awarded a $5000 grant for filming a piano dismantled in timelapse, but uses the money to move out of town.
*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.

== Miscellanea ==

The line about collecting the larynx of a famous tenor is repeated in [[Philosophy]].
== Music == 
{{Regiment (Brian Eno / David Byrne) }}
{{Dream Theory (Jon Hassell)}}
{{Taaw (Youssou N'Dour)}}
{{Mimosa (Michael Brook)}}
{{Midday (Michael Brook)}}
{{Tribe (Andy Summers - Robert Fripp)}}

== Commentary ==
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=== [[User:Spblat|Spblat]] ===

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.

[[Category:Serious Monologue]]
[[Category:Absurd_Monologue]]
[[Category:Panel_Discussion]]
[[Category:Lester Nafzger]]
[[Category:Arthur Miller]]
[[Category:Fred Coffin]]
[[Category:1986]]
[[Category:Work In Progress]]
[[Category:Unknown_air_date]][[Category:Show]]
[[Category:Show_by_date|19860007]]	{{Airdate|airdate=1986}}