Nausea

Nausea[1]

Series
Work In Progress
Original Broadcast Date
1989
Cast
Joe Frank
Format
Absurd Monologue, 1 hour
Preceded by:	Road To Hell
Followed by:	Bad

One afternoon I drove by a voluptuous, scantily dressed female hitchhiker.

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

Synopsis

• Joe watches an attractive fake hitchhiker.
• Notes on women in bed.
• Joe's father published novels in France, authored distorted titles, won the last Nobel prize in literature. Nobel prize in literature replaced by other prizes.
• Something is missing from my life.
• Fredrick and Josephine find debauchery as sailors in the far east, go mad, imagine that they are at sea, fish from their apartment, and become monks.
• Becoming a monk and developing polyps.
• Verbal martial arts and being compelled to use it against everyone. "
• Why did [people do things]" monologue, random pondering.
• Joe is a race car driver.
• Monologue on rain - man knows he has to leave his wife before the rain ends.

Music

• "El Lamento de los Ayatollah" - Roberto Musci & Giovanni Venosta (from Urban And Tribal Portraits, 1988) | Bandcamp

• "The Kiss" - Harold Budd (from The White Arcades, 1988) | YouTube
• "Just Is" - Flux Of Pink Indians (from Uncarved Block, 1986) | YouTube

• "The Race" - Yello (from Flag, 1988) | YouTube
• "Balthus Bemused By Color" - Harold Budd (from The White Arcades, 1988) | YouTube

Additional credits

The original broadcast credits state: "[P]erformed by Joe Frank, and created in collaboration with Arthur Miller and David Rapkin. It was recorded and mixed by Jeff Sykes."

Miscellanea

• The beginning of this show is the premise of Joe's Playboy Video The Hitchhiker

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