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''I have drunk gallons of Chablis, danced the samba, sat outside the casino in the hours before dawn...''

'''Stories For Nothing''' is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[Work In Progress]]. It was originally broadcast in [[:Category:1988|1988]].

== Synopsis ==
Joe tells of his luxurious life in Monte Carlo, ending up telling of a
guy whose image was burned into stone by the blast at Hiroshima, then
a list of accomplishments: 'I have drunk gallons of Chablis...'.  He
repeats this list a few times in the show.

3:40: Joe tells of a guy who lives in a cave in Ios, a Greek island.

5:20: The guy travels in Afghanistan with his girlfriend Margo.  They
get dysentery, have to line up to use the outhouse, get terrible care
at a hospital.

6:50: The couple is in Iran a month later.  They see a garbage truck
dump its contents on a village, the villagers pick out the good parts.

8:00: They're broke on Mauai, stay at a health club owned by a
disbarred psychiatrist (he too too many 'LSD tablets'), run by Tommy
K.  Tommy holds a 'trial' for the psychiatrist for giving dope to
teenagers, has him beaten up.

12: 'I have drunk gallons of Chablis...' again

14:40: 'Gide called the soul that particle of soil...' - nonsense
monologue.

18:10: A dysfunctional family: drug addict father, schizophrenic son,
daughter who ran off to live with an alcoholic painter, drop-out son
who developed arthritis at 18, Vietnamese adoptee who didn't adjust.
The mother tired of it, drove off, picked up a hippie couple, let them
drive while she napped in back; hours later she figured out they had
stopped for a broken red light all day, so she drove back home.

22:50: Journalist for a city magazine interviews the new police chief
while terribly stoned.  The chief's PC turns into a lamb, so the
reporter leaves.

27: The journalist walks in Berkeley Hills park with others, walks
behind an archery range.

30: 'I have drunk gallons of Chablis...' again

32: A guy plays fetch with a date's dog until the ball goes out the
window, the dog after it, 10 storeys up.<ref>This is an old joke/urban
legend; R. Crumb drew a comic version of it.</ref>

36:10: One Sunday morning in Santa Monica a TV producer gets
jay-walking ticket, which he tears up and ignores.  2 years later, on
his way to a shoot, a cop stops him for a busted tail-light, arrests
him for the old warrant.  His girlfriend is named Margo.

41:20: They (producer & Margo?) drive to a party in Hollywood Hills.
The 'Nouveau Melrose Mickey Rourke' motorcycle gang confronts them
ineffectively.

44:40: The guy walks in a small park in North Hollywood, watches some
derelicts, a dead bird in a fountain, takes a taxi with a retired
boxer cabbie.

47:10: 'I have drunk gallons of Chablis...' again

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Repeated discordant monologue: Monte Carlo, a privileged life, living out of hotels, the spasms of the sphincter muscle, Flemish primitives, earthquakes, Hiroshima.  Living in a cave off Greece, getting dysentery while traveling through Afghanistan, traveling through slums in Iran, putting a hotel owner on trial in Maui.  Having forgotten one's life, never having said anything that didn't immediately seem untrue.  A ruined suburban family: the mother runs off and discovers that she's spent a day stopped at a red light on the edge of town.  A stoned newspaper man interviews the chief of police, strolls through an archery range.  A man goes to meet a blind date, accidentally sends her dog out of a high window.  A film director is arrested for an unpaid jaywalking ticket. A yuppie motorcycle gang crashes a party in a wealthy neighborhood.  Wandering through LA at night.  
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== Music ==
{{Djina Mousso (Nahawa Doumbia)}} [Intro]
{{World Rhythm - Part 5 (M Harre Harren)}} [3:07]
{{Red Wind (Gabrielle Roth And The Mirrors)}} [17:23]
{{Dancing Path: Flowing (Gabrielle Roth And The Mirrors)}} [36:13]

== Additional credits ==
The original broadcast credits state: "Technical production by Carey Breese."

== Footnotes ==

[[Category:Absurd_Monologue]]
[[Category:1988]]
[[Category:Unknown_air_date]]
[[Category:Show]]
[[Category:Show_by_date|19880002]]	{{Airdate|airdate=1988}}
[[Category:Work In Progress]]
{{Series|series=Work In Progress}}{{Cast|cast=Joe Frank}}