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''Oh Midnight Special, I ride the rods a hobo, not homeless...''

'''Road To Hell (Remix)''' is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[The Other Side (Series)|The Other Side]]. It was originally broadcast in [[:Category:2001|2001]].

== Synopsis ==

This show is all re-used material, the first 20 minutes from 'The road
to hell', the next 11:30 from 'A landing strip in the jungle', a
segment from 'Journal', the rest from 'Words' (in a different order),
with a segment from 'Emerald isle'.

Train sounds.

0:50: A paean to the hobo, the first few seconds of Country Joe
McDonald's 'Hold On It's Coming' repeating in the background - 'Oh
midnight special, I ride the rods a hobo&hellip;'<ref name=roadtohell>originally aired in [[Road To Hell]]</ref>
<ref>The version in the remix has portions removed: the call before he
left for WW2, envying the lot of Eskimos&hellip;</ref>

6:20: Joe describes a scene in a ski lodge.  He inscribes an
attractive woman's cast, 'Regret not the momentary impulse.'<ref name=roadtohell />

12:00: Christmas in New York, 'Carolers standing beneath the street
lamp', the Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center, midnight mass at St
Pat's&hellip;<ref name=roadtohell />

14:30: Joe describes a New Year's Eve party, which gets wild.
Miracles happen.  Someone smothers to death underneath the jackets
thrown on the bed.<ref name=roadtohell />

20:00: Joe describes living in the Lower East Side, getting mugged
regularly, meeting the same mugger 10 years later.<ref name=jungle>originally aired in [[A Landing Strip In The Jungle]]</ref>

23:50: Joe describes working for Rosemont (Rosamond?)  Electric.  The
boss tells them to drink scotch, not vodka, at lunch so the customers
will know they're drunk, not stupid.<ref name=jungle />

24:30: Joe describes the building he lives in, 'a partially burned out
shell of a turn-of-the-century industrial building', the prostitute he
could see in an adjacent building, the broken glass and bottle caps
on the street, the street scene in general, the broken piano in the
alley, the art project it inspired that got Joe the money to move
out.<ref name=jungle />

28:40, Joe claims to do and be all sorts of remarkable things for 2
minutes, 'I am a statue carried in a cart&hellip;'<ref name=jungle />

31:30: Joe ruminates on how one is the star of one's own life but a
bit player in the lives of others, 'When you're walking in a city
during evening rush hour&hellip;'<ref>originally aired in [[Journal]]</ref>

33:40 A distorted voice (lowered pitch) tells of a family arriving on
an oil platform in a flotilla of paper bags.  After years they move to
the mainland, take menial jobs, their descendants eventually
succeeding by becoming lawyers who snare innocents in Kafkaesque
lawsuits.<ref name=words>originally aired in [[Words]]</ref>

37:30 An explanation of 'balance of payments' as the emperor getting
paid his weight in gold every year.  Eventually an emperor gets so fat
he splits, the exudate digesting everyone in the kingdom, the largest
incident of external digestion in the history of nutrition.<ref name=words />

43:50: A woman (French-accented?) talks about falling in love with a
beautiful man, 'The first time, first time I remember I fell in love&hellip;'<ref name=words />

45:00: The distorted voice recounts how his defective garage door
remote control launches nearby ICBMs.<ref name=words />

47:30: Joe's normal voice delivers a paean to women of all kinds, 'O
woman, possessor of the mysterious womb&hellip;'<ref>originally aired in [[Emerald Isle]]</ref>

54:00: Distorted voice is tired, 'I'm tired of putting pants on my
legs&hellip;'<ref name=words />

55:10: Distorted voice, 'In the mailroom brown shoes square in the
middle of the night&hellip;' and other random things.<ref name=words />

55:50: Distorted voice recounts 2 dreams from last night, followed by
other surreal events.<ref name=words />

<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="width:95%; overflow:auto;">
<div style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;">Legacy Synopsis</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">

<li>Train sounds. 
<li>A poetic celebration of the hobo. 
<li>A ski lodge, writing "regret not the momentary impulse" on a cast. 
<li>Founding fathers, the Articles of Confabulation and the bill of human bondage. 
<li>General Deities Incorporated. Christmas in New York. 
<li>Throwing a New Year's Eve party - a guest suffocated beneath coats. 
<li>Getting mugged weekly in the stairway of Joe's apartment, then meeting the same guy years later. 
<li>Rapid monologue amidst glass-style minimalist orchestral music: I am a statue in the park... walking into the river and filling a bowl on one's head, using a third eye to cheat at cards. 
<li>Individualism amidst mobs, perception of a radio program. 
<li>Deepened monologue: immigrants mistaking an oil rig for America, getting menial jobs, raising middle class children. 
<li>The balance of payments: taxation by weighing noblemen. 
<li>A woman with a french accent talks about falling in love. 
<li>A malfunctioning garage door opener. 
<li>Describing a fantasy woman. 
<li>Odes: Oh woman, high school cheerleader, businesswoman, nurse, homemaker, secretary, stewardess. 
<li>Deepened monologue: being tired of life, the legions of the dead. Dreams: discovering one is still married to an ex wife,  being a cartoon character spun off as a plastic doll. 
<li>A being oiled by women in a room full of video games with a glass floor while a man reads holy books, wanting to go away, watching an old man dance with a beautiful young girl.
</div></div>

== Music == 
{{Music-Stub}}
{{Hold On, It's Coming No.1 (Country Joe McDonald)}} [0:30]{{Unidentified|id=need to identify the drone at ~6m and later / need to identify the overlaid music at ~39m}}
{{New York/Brazil (Lee Ritenour)}} [11:49]
{{Midday (Michael Brook)}} [19:32]{{Unidentified|id=Sax piece at 28:37m}}
{{Fratres (The 12 Cellists Of The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and Arvo Pärt)}} [38:11]
{{The Kiss (Harold Budd)}} [47:07]

== Shared material ==
* [[Road To Hell]]
* [[Words]]
* [[A Landing Strip In The Jungle]]
* [[Emerald Isle]]
* [[Journal]]

== Footnotes ==

[[Category:Absurd_Monologue]]
[[Category:2001]]
[[Category:Show]]
[[Category:The Other Side]]	[[Category:Show_by_date|20011216]]	{{Airdate|airdate=2001-12-16}}
{{Series|series=The Other Side}}{{Cast|cast=Joe Frank}}