Obsessions

Obsessions[1]

Series
Somewhere Out There
Original Broadcast Date
January 21, 1996
Cast
Joe Frank
Format
Absurd Monologue, 57 minutes
Preceded by:	Three Shingles
Followed by:	Bible Salesman

I was at a party, it was late, I was about to go home.

Obsessions is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series Somewhere Out There. It was originally broadcast on January 21, 1996.

Synopsis

• Joe becomes obsessed with a woman at a party, in an elevator, and in a cafe which later disappears.
• Joe is a rock star and gives a speech to a college graduating class.
• Joe is shipwrecked in the Amazon and displays his modern gadgets to the natives.
• A woman in a strip club tells Joe about about her disturbing dream.
• Mixed absurd monologue: a hummingbird lands on a rolling car, an underwater hotel during a monsoon, a brothel where patrons are offered medical records of the prostitutes, an enlightened prison, a woman smears cake batter on her breasts and plays the piano, a woman uses a Nordic-track in front of a tv with winter scenes.
• Ridding ourselves of the weight of dead men's thoughts.
• Were human beings meant to live in the moment?
• Some, too much, enough.
• A completely uneventful trip commemorated.

Music

• "Beautiful" - Babble (from The Stone, 1993) | YouTube [0:20]
• "Funky Worm" - Ohio Players (from Pleasure, 1972) | YouTube [31:33]

Template:Meaning In The Tone ('95 Space & Oriental) (Silent Poets) [33:45]