Karma (Part 7)

Karma (Part 7)[1]

Series
The Other Side
Original Broadcast Date
6/18/2000
Cast
Larry Block, Kristine McKenna, Jack Kornfield, Debi Mae West, Joe Frank
Format
Karma Style, 1 hour
Preceded by:	Karma (Part 6)
Followed by:	Bad Karma

My next door neighbors are a married couple.

Karma (Part 7) is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series The Other Side. It was originally broadcast on June 18, 2000.

Synopsis

• Joe: He contemplates his successful neighbors, being alone. He babysits for them; mentions his experience with cancer; talks about going to visit a dying uncle during a blackout and turning away out of fear that he would be blamed for the man's death.
• Jack Kornfield: imagine being told a cancer diagnosis is a mistake.
• Joe: He pays a medical bill for his maid's child; imagines marrying the woman.
• Larry Block and Joe: A discussion of French toast, high end maple syrup, expensive vodka, medical drugs, hip psychiatrists.
• Kornfield: A TS Eliot poem; caring and not caring
• Joe: a dream of Kate wearing braces
• Larry and Joe: avoiding Kate when she returns from Rome. Larry discusses people who are too self confidant.
• Kristine McKenna: pride and jealousy; Joe's theme of being replaced by another man.
• Joe: trying to fill a Saturday without Kate.
• Debi Mae West: A messy relationship with a boss at the office.
• Kornfield: a monk is dissatisfied with a series of monasteries. A master faces death. No one expects to die.
• Joe: Kristine is bitten by her fighting cats, ends up in the hospital. A woman dies in the ER.
• Kristine: a man on the ward screams and seems to be dying. Growing spiritually just in time for the body to die.
• Joe: A birthday party. A comedy writer who has an assistant carry around a briefcase with his entire advance for a film and two tape recorders, one recording the present, one playing what happened twenty four hours previously. He is rude in a cafe, then buys the place piece by piece. He squats and shits in the airport terminal.
• Kornfield: the scale of the universe, microscopic and cosmological empty space.
• Debi: she wants tantric sex.

Music

• "Re-arrange" - Cinematic Orchestra (from Talkin Inside The Beat, 1999) | YouTube

• "Spacebeach" - Arling & Cameron (from Music for Imaginary Films, 1999) | YouTube
• "Brazil" - Antonio Carlos Jobim (from Stone Flower, 1970) | YouTube
• "Colours" - Big Bang (from Dribbling / Colours, 2000) | YouTube

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