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''Oh Midnight Special, I ride the rods a hobo, not homeless...'' | ''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 [[2001]]. | '''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 == | == 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…'<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…</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…<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…'<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…'<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…'<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…'<ref>originally aired in [[Emerald Isle]]</ref> | |||
54:00: Distorted voice is tired, 'I'm tired of putting pants on my | |||
legs…'<ref name=words /> | |||
55:10: Distorted voice, 'In the mailroom brown shoes square in the | |||
middle of the night…' 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> | |||
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<li>Train sounds. | <li>Train sounds. | ||
<li>A poetic celebration of the hobo. | <li>A poetic celebration of the hobo. | ||
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<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>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. | <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 == | ||
{{Music-Stub}} | {{Music-Stub}} | ||
{{Hold On, It's Coming No.1 (Country Joe McDonald)}} | {{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] | |||
{{New York/Brazil (Lee Ritenour)}} | {{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] | |||
{{Fratres (The 12 Cellists Of The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and Arvo Pärt)}} | {{The Kiss (Harold Budd)}} [47:07] | ||
== Shared material == | == Shared material == | ||
* [[Road To Hell]] | |||
* [[Words]] | * [[Words]] | ||
* [[A Landing Strip In The Jungle]] | |||
* [[Emerald Isle]] | |||
* [[Journal]] | |||
== | == Footnotes == | ||
[[Category:Absurd_Monologue]] | [[Category:Absurd_Monologue]] | ||
Latest revision as of 12:18, 4 November 2024
| Series | |
|---|---|
| The Other Side | |
| Original Broadcast Date | |
| 12/16/2001 | |
| Cast | |
| Joe Frank | |
| Format | |
| Absurd Monologue, 58 minutes | |
| Preceded by: | In The Dark (Remix) |
| Followed by: | Plerophory Of Pain |
| Purchase | |
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. It was originally broadcast in 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…'[1] [2]
6:20: Joe describes a scene in a ski lodge. He inscribes an attractive woman's cast, 'Regret not the momentary impulse.'[1]
12:00: Christmas in New York, 'Carolers standing beneath the street lamp', the Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center, midnight mass at St Pat's…[1]
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.[1]
20:00: Joe describes living in the Lower East Side, getting mugged regularly, meeting the same mugger 10 years later.[3]
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.[3]
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.[3]
28:40, Joe claims to do and be all sorts of remarkable things for 2 minutes, 'I am a statue carried in a cart…'[3]
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…'[4]
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.[5]
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.[5]
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…'[5]
45:00: The distorted voice recounts how his defective garage door remote control launches nearby ICBMs.[5]
47:30: Joe's normal voice delivers a paean to women of all kinds, 'O woman, possessor of the mysterious womb…'[6]
54:00: Distorted voice is tired, 'I'm tired of putting pants on my legs…'[5]
55:10: Distorted voice, 'In the mailroom brown shoes square in the middle of the night…' and other random things.[5]
55:50: Distorted voice recounts 2 dreams from last night, followed by other surreal events.[5]
Music
This is an incomplete record of the music in this program. If you can add more information, please do.
- "Hold On, It's Coming No.1" - Country Joe McDonald (from Hold On It's Coming, 1971) | YouTube [0:30]
- "New York/Brazil" - Lee Ritenour (from Festival, 1988) | YouTube [11:49]
- "Midday" - Michael Brook (from Hybrid, 1985) | YouTube [19:32]
- "Fratres" - The 12 Cellists Of The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and Arvo Pärt (from Tabula Rasa, 1984) | YouTube [38:11]
- "The Kiss" - Harold Budd (from The White Arcades, 1988) | YouTube [47:07]
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 originally aired in Road To Hell
- ↑ The version in the remix has portions removed: the call before he left for WW2, envying the lot of Eskimos…
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 originally aired in A Landing Strip In The Jungle
- ↑ originally aired in Journal
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 originally aired in Words
- ↑ originally aired in Emerald Isle
