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''There was a man who lived in an apartment complex in a city.''

"''Windows''" is the name of a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[The Other Side (series)|The Other Side]]. It was originally broadcast on October 10, [[1999]], and explores a variety of themes surrounding love.


== Synopsis ==
*Monologue: A man watches a quiet, sad woman across the courtyard from his apartment window.  He falls in love with her and sends her flowers when she looks particularly unhappy.  One night he sees her bring a man to her apartment; he decides to leave the city, but a cab driver talks him out of it.  He returns to find that she is gone.  The woman's point of view description of meeting a quadriplegic on a bridge after contemplating suicide.  
*Telephone conversation: [[Debi Mae West]] discusses her love affairs: one that ends after a drunken five day weekend, a psychic who tells her she and the man have been together in past lives, a man who refuses to give her oral sex.
*Monologueon love: "they say that love is more powerful/precious/etc...." Love as a fine wine, as becoming [[Wikipedia:Edward Teller|Edward Teller]].  A clown commits [[Wikipedia:Hara-kiri|hara-kiri]] after being dumped by a harlequin. A relationship breakup as fission.  Love as heroin.  Description of a Love Anonymous support group.  Why love?  Joe chooses to be a bachelor for the rest of his life, join a mens club, build a latrine. 
*Telephone conversation: Debi meets an old friend at a theater who offers her oral sex.  
*Monologue: Love is an old man fishing off a bridge.  Joe remembers an explosion that kills his father and leaves him mute. 
*Telephone conversation: Debi talks about being dropped off for school on a holiday.


== Interesting Facts ==
Includes loops of the Lomax Parchman Farm recordings.

== Music == 
{{Dusk You and Me (Groove Armada) }}
{{Brooks Was Here (Thomas Newman) }}
{{Compass and Guns (Film Version) (Thomas Newman) }}

== Commentary ==
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=== [[User:Pete|Pete]] ===
A look at love, cynical at times yet with underlying hope. Deeply romantic at times, just plain hedonistic at others. Looking for where the truth lies in between, if such a thing exists.

A favorite quote of mine from this show:
:"But I say that love is getting run over by a streetcar in 1928, losing your leg, becoming Edward Teller, inventing the atom bomb, and pretending not to be angry."

== External Links ==

*[http://www.joefrank.com/amember/shows/index.php?request=288 Listen to this program at www.joefrank.com] (subscription required)
*Christopher Steininger is working on a [http://www.christophersteininger.com/windows.html graphic novel] based on this program.


{{The Other Side}}
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[[Category:Karma_Style]]
[[Category:Debi Mae West]]