Iceland (Part 2): Difference between revisions

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== Synopsis ==

13 minutes of this episode is about Lila and Iceland. Most of the

rest is Joe's amazing new radio ministry. 6 minutes repeat segments

from Part 1. There's an odd travel vignette and other oddments.

A note at jfwiki reads, 'The version of this program currently

available on Joefrank.com is a slightly longer remix of the original.'

Iceland originally came in 3 parts. Later, it was distributed as 2

parts, the second an abridged version of the original Parts 2 and 3.

Later, the original Parts 2 and 3 were release again and the second

Part 2 was identified as 'Part 2, remix'. The segments of Part 2 that

are reused from Part 1 aren't in Part 2, remix. Could Part 1's second

version have had segments from the original Part 2 inserted?

Joe tells us how debased society has become. In response Joe says he

has started a new religion with a radio ministry. He hasn't figured

it out yet, is working on it. He describes possible unifying symbols.

Physicians, artists, sculptors, couturiers, draftsmen are at work

designing the stuff of the new religion despite having no idea what

its principles are. He asks for donations from the audience.

8:10: Joe tells us that Lila is always late, tells of losing their

reservation at a restaurant because they arrive late, have to wait for

an opening. She gets mad at Joe for not forcing the issue with the

maître'd.

9:50: Joe describes Lila making him late for movies, which he hates.

13:30: Joe describes practicing

[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno%27s_paradoxes Zeno's Paradox] in

eating, halving his steak repeatedly, so it takes forever to eat.

He's still working on a meal he was served in 1978 in celebration of

Uncle Oscar's birthday at Chez Wong in North Hollywood.<ref>There's a

Chez Wong in Lima, Peru.</ref>

14:30: Joe is fascinated by a woman he sees, but can't place where he

met her. After considering the possibilities, he asks her; she

doesn't recognize him. Joe bumps into a waiter carrying a huge tray

of champagne glasses. Trying to catch his balance, he briefly dances

a tango, then falls. The room applauds.<ref name=iceland1>originally

aired in [[Iceland (Part 1)]]</ref>

18:00: Joe plants suspicious packages at the airport then calls in a

bomb threat, enjoys resultant bedlam.<ref name=iceland1 />

18:50: 'Wearing a duck suit, I stroll down to the boat pond where

divorced fathers spend Sunday afternoons with their children. I don't

know exactly why I do it. Perhaps it's because my visits to the City

Planning Commission, to medical boards of inquiry, and to the Criminal

Court Building, have met with such derision.'

19:30: 'Lying in a hay wagon in Germany, rolling along a moonlit

country road, I gaze across a field at a darkened farmhouse window,

and see a naked woman standing in a tin bathtub, holding a light bulb

in one hand, and reaching for a socket dangling from a frayed wire.'

(sound of electrocution)<ref name=iceland1 />

20:10: 'I gaze out the window at the traffic on 8th Avenue. Silent,

still on the bed, his mouth open, a small pool of saliva collecting on

the pillow, Boris lies motionless. Then he begins to moan, and pukes

up a handful of pills he swallowed. Time to go to the telephone. How

wearying. I look at my watch.'<ref name=iceland1 />

21:00: Joe describes the open-air market in Marrakesh. Joe dances to

the music of an Arabic ensemble to the crowd's applause. Then he

discovers that his fly has been open and his shirt-tail had come out,

gotten into a tureen of lamb stew, and soaked the crowd.

23:30: Joe describes how he strains to act naturally, in detail.

26:00: Joe recounts the dinner party at some of his oldest friends,

how late Lila makes them. She's sympathizing with a neighbor whose

husband left her; then, Lila's mother calls, distraught about her

son's arrest for voyeurism in a women's bathroom at the Hilton. After

that, she puts a lot of effort into her makeup, then tries on

different outfits, asking Joe what he thinks. Just after they get out

the door, the phone rings: Professor Vogel has died; she's to come to

the reading of the will. She describes their fieldwork with Bedouin

tribesmen, everyone's passion for the work, his nursing of her after a

scorpion sting.

34:40: 'Never trust a naked man who attempts to sell you a skin graft.

The edge of the paper contains the kernel of wisdom. Don't ever hook

your thumbs in your vest when using a public toilet.'

35:20: Joe tells the miraculous good luck of the people who call to

donate to his radio ministry: cures from cancer, marvelous fortunes,

unexpected pregnancies, business success; and the terrible luck of

those who don't: incurable injury, plane crash.

<div style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;">Legacy Synopsis</div>

We're witnessing the decline of civilization. People feel spiritually disconnected. Joe announces the founding of a new radio ministry. Deciding on iconography for the new religion. More critique of Lila; she's always late, meeting Lila for a movie and for dinner. Zeno's paradox - eating a meal forever by repeatedly halving one's food. Joe approaches a familiar stranger in a restaurant, knocks into a waiter who begins to dance. Leaving unmarked packages in an airport and calling in bomb threats for fun. Wearing a duck suit to a pond in the park. Scenes from a market in Marrakech. Dancing in the square with an open fly, dripping lamb stew. Straining to be natural, trying to carry oneself in a positive way. Trying to leave for a dinner party with Lila. She comforts a lonely neighbor, talks with her mother on the phone. Lila's exhibitionism. They are told that Vogel has died, make plans to attend the funeral. She describes working with him studying compulsive behavior in nomadic tribesmen. Random one-liners, ("never trust a naked man who tries to sell you a skin graft.") The radio ministry solicits donations. Stories of donors who receive miracles, those who did not donate are ruined.

</div></div>

== Music ==

{{Ode To Perfume (Holger Czukay)}} [Intro]

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