Karma (Part 2)
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"Karma (part 2)" is the name of a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series The Other Side (series).
Synopsis
- Larry Block: tequila with salt and lemon. Getting drunk and eating.
- Joe: imagining paralysis while watching Kate dance coincident with her dancing alone.
- Jack Kornfield: A Burmese monk decides to immolate himself because of relationship trouble.
- Larry: A poem about dying fish at a market. Joe suggests asphyxiating the fish monger. Pushing a fisherman into the sea.
- Joe: Kate dreams of Joe as a fish.
- Kornfield: A monk in an aquarium.
- Larry: A poem: "your poet only." Non-competitive love and screen-plays. A collaborative dialog writing by email.
- Kornfield: Leading a meditation after a fight with his girlfriend.
- Joe: Kate and finances. Kate gets a starring role in a film.
- Kornfield: a disciple invites damnation by sharing a sacred mantra with everyone.
- Larry: Trading scenes by email for "Love throughout the ages," a flip play set in a hotel room.
- Kornfield: examination by observing oranges
- Joe: Trying desperately to end a conversation. Leaving things at each other's houses. A prayer for separation.
- Larry: His email relationship comes to an end. Svengali the hypnotist; "when will you ever stop talking to yourself."
Interesting Facts
Music
- "Spacebeach" - Arling & Cameron (from Music for Imaginary Films, 1999) | YouTube
- "Brazil" - Antonio Carlos Jobim (from Stone Flower, 1970) | YouTube
- "Re-arrange" - Cinematic Orchestra (from Talkin Inside The Beat, 1999) | YouTube
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