Road To Hell

Road To Hell[1]

Series
Work In Progress
Original Broadcast Date
1989
Cast
Joe Frank
Format
Absurd Monologue, 1 hour
Preceded by:	The More I Know You
Followed by:	Nausea

Oh Midnight Special, I ride the rods a hobo, not homeless...

Road To Hell is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series Work In Progress. It was originally broadcast in 1989.

Synopsis

Train sounds.

A poetic celebration of the hobo.

A ski lodge, writing "regret not the momentary impulse" on a cast.

Founding fathers, the articles of confabulation and the bill of human bondage.

General Deities Incorporated. Christmas in New York.

Throwing a new years party - a guest suffocated beneath coats.

Getting mugged weekly in the stairway of Joe's apartment, then meeting the same guy years later.

Rapid monologue amidst glass-style minimalist orchestral music: I am a statue in the park... walking into the river and filling a bowl on one's head, using a third eye to cheat at cards.

Individualism amidst mobs, perception of a radio program.

Deepened monologue: immigrants mistaking an oil rig for America, getting menial jobs, raising middle class children.

The balance of payments: taxation by weighing noblemen.

A woman with a french accent talks about falling in love.

A malfunctioning garage door opener.

Describing a fantasy woman.

Odes: Oh woman, high school cheerleader, businesswoman, nurse, homemaker, secretary, stewardess.

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.

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.

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
• "New York/Brazil" - Lee Ritenour (from Festival, 1988) | YouTube
• "Fratres" - The 12 Cellists Of The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and Arvo Pärt (from Tabula Rasa, 1984) | YouTube [added later; not in the original broadcast version]

Shared material

• Words

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