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pussycats'… <ref> Larry Masset | pussycats'…<ref> Larry Masset says he got this tape from | ||
Andrei Codrescu, gave it to Joe. | Andrei Codrescu, gave it to Joe. | ||
https://hearingvoices.com/2008/12/hv040-spirit-world/ </ref> | https://hearingvoices.com/2008/12/hv040-spirit-world/ </ref><ref>re-used in [[Prayer]] and [[Holy Land]]</ref> | ||
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Revision as of 18:17, 2 March 2021
| Series | |
|---|---|
| In The Dark | |
| Original Broadcast Date | |
| 1994 | |
| Cast | |
| Joe Frank, Arthur Miller, Ryan Cutrona, Larry Block | |
| Format | |
| Absurd Monologue, Telephone, 30 minutes | |
| Preceded by: | Hit Man |
| Followed by: | That Night |
"I'm at 1305 Lindbrook Road, about three houses past the blinking traffic light."
A Natural Disaster is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series In The Dark. It was originally broadcast in 1994.
Synopsis
A man (Arthur Miller) makes a phone call to the void, asking for help. An earthquake has caused his home to collapse, he's buried under it. He speaks calmly. His address changes the 3 times he tells it.
2:20: Joe describes what happens in earthquakes, blames the earth, takes vengeance on a pile of dirt by stabbing it.
4:20: A street preacher (Ryan Cutrona) tells people the awful things that will happen to them in the apocalypse, thinks the earthquake is funny, a harbinger of the punishment God will inflict on them.
6:50: Crazy preacher (David Franks) calls person (sounds like a woman to me; preacher addresses him/her as 'brother'), leads him/her in a crazy prayer ('Clytemnestra's daughter ... African Eurasian tiger pussycats'…[1][2]
11:50: Joe talks about fire, lights a match, describes the damage it can do. He puts out the match, demonstrating his superiority to it.
14:20: Joe talks about hurricanes and tornadoes, the damage air can do. He punishes it by capturing it in balloons, sucking it up with his vacuum cleaner.
17:30: Joe takes retribution on water for the floods it has caused by boiling some and smashing ice with a hammer.
18:10: A man (Larry Block) describes making love in a building destroyed by the earthquake, how great it was. They go to other destroyed places to make love in.
20:30: Joe lists notable earthquakes of history and their mortalities.[3]
- A man trapped in his house calmly telephones for help long after an earthquake.
- Monologue: taking vengeance upon the earth for natural disasters; stabbing earth with a knife.
- Old man preacher character prophesies doom, laughs at the earthquake.
- Prank telephone spirit and prayer call ("Repeat after me.").
- Monologue: an address to a lit match; contemplating fire. Imprisoning the air in balloons as revenge for Hurricanes and tornadoes; torturing air by passing it through a filthy vacuum cleaner.
- Larry describes making love in the rubble after an earthquake.
- Joe reads a list of historical earthquakes and their death tolls.
Music
- "Atom Dream" - William Orbit (from Strange Cargo 2, 1990) | YouTube
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