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== Synopsis == | == Synopsis == | ||
Lester Nafzger tells of visiting his mother in Columbus, Ohio when she | |||
was 81.<ref>She was born in 1907 or 1908, so this would be | |||
1988/9.</ref> She and Lester argue about the existence of hypnosis, | |||
which she rejects but Lester accepts, gets irreconcilably mad with | |||
him. | |||
3:40: Nafzger tells of his belief that if one sees 12 babies in arms | |||
12 days of good luck will follow. | |||
5:50: Nafzger tells of meeting his little brother Dickie for the first | |||
time when he's 3. It was the first of 26 ‘life reference | |||
points’ he's always remembered. | |||
12:10: Joe, speaking for the first time, asks if there are other | |||
events that didn't make the list. Nafzger mentions an auto | |||
accident and discovering that he had the power to manipulate Dickie. | |||
14:20: Joe points out that #21 was 2 songs Nafzger wrote for his | |||
new-born daughter, but he sang only one. They talk about this. | |||
15:30: They talk about today's weather. | |||
16:10: Nafzger says he likes to go to Barlow's (a bar). He | |||
stands between a tall guy and a short guy one day, which inspires him | |||
to list the heights of people he knows. | |||
19:10: Nafzger performs his theatre piece about looking for Jerry | |||
Rickshaw (a name he made up). No one knows him. They tell him to go | |||
away.<ref>One of the voices could be a woman's; Julie Renick is | |||
the only woman in the cast.</ref> | |||
22:30: Joe and Nafzger talk about what he wears when he performs. | |||
23:30: Nafzger performs, ‘Where's Charlotte?’ which | |||
sounds like a father trying to get his young daughter to come out of | |||
hiding. | |||
24:20: Joe says that he performed this at a club in Boca Raton. | |||
Nafzger says that it was after the club closed. | |||
25:00: They talk about audience response. | |||
25:50: Joe introduces his next piece, ‘My Teeth Are So Much | |||
Uglier Than Yours’, performed in Stockholm with the Miles Davis | |||
Quintet (they're all friends of his). | |||
26:30: Nafzger performs ‘My Teeth Are So Much Uglier Than | |||
Yours’ - a man morbidly self-conscious about his teeth. | |||
28:20: They talk about the nature of his work. | |||
29:30: He performs ‘Missing Barbara’, first performed in | |||
1987 at Soldier Field during halftime of a Bears-Vikings game. He | |||
doesn't know that anyone noticed | |||
34:10: He performs ‘Cartoon’ - 2 rude guys ogle women at a | |||
bar. | |||
36:00: He performs ‘Big band’: he's an emcee at a | |||
small club in upstate New York.<ref>He uses the name Lester Ainsley, which he also uses in the fast-piano segment of other shows and as the guy swallowed by a whale in [[A Landing Strip In The Jungle]]</ref> Someone told him that his mother had | |||
just died (though it wasn't true). The band's vocalist | |||
hadn't shown. He has to make patter in his absence. He mentions | |||
the recent death of his mother repeatedly. | |||
40:00: He tells of Boogie Boys, musicians who join bands to sabotage | |||
their performances. | |||
42:30: He tells of seeing a babe in arms in the town park that | |||
morning. (He lives in Woodstock.) | |||
43:00: His furnace room shares a wall with a movie theatre. They | |||
didn't make money showing art-house or mainstream films so they | |||
switched to porn. He noticed a hole in the wall of the furnace room, | |||
patched it, then noticed many more holes and cracks, spent months | |||
sleeping on a cot in the furnace room the better to patch them. | |||
51:00: He lists the weights of people. | |||
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<div style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;">Legacy Synopsis</div> | |||
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*[[:Category:Lester Nafzger|Lester Nafzger]], on the phone, talking about his argumentative mother, 81. They have a tremendous dispute over hypnotism. | *[[:Category:Lester Nafzger|Lester Nafzger]], on the phone, talking about his argumentative mother, 81. They have a tremendous dispute over hypnotism. | ||
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*Lester tells of his struggle to close the nearly 100 holes in the poorly-built wall connecting his furnace room to a porno theater next door. Then we hear audio from a porn movie. | *Lester tells of his struggle to close the nearly 100 holes in the poorly-built wall connecting his furnace room to a porno theater next door. Then we hear audio from a porn movie. | ||
*Lester recites the weight of everyone he knows. | *Lester recites the weight of everyone he knows. | ||
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== Music == | == Music == | ||
{{Watermark (Enya)}} [3:32] | {{Watermark (Enya)}} [3:32] | ||
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== External links == | == External links == | ||
== Footnotes == | |||
[[Category:Scripted_Actors]] | [[Category:Scripted_Actors]] | ||