Why I Don't Love You Anymore
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| Series | |
|---|---|
| Work In Progress | |
| Original Broadcast Date | |
| 1986 | |
| Cast | |
| Joe Frank | |
| Format | |
| 1 hour | |
| Preceded by: | Rose |
| Followed by: | Tell Me What To Do |
Have you, uh, ever been in a restaurant or a theater...
Why I Don't Love You Anymore is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series Work In Progress. It was originally broadcast in 1986.
Synopsis
- Having an upset stomach in a public place and discovering a befouled toilet. Forming a bathroom etiquette hit squad, the Sanitation Corps, to call out and humiliate those who leave messes in bathrooms.
- Getting vengeance on inconsiderate neighbors who make noise at night by entering their apartment as a floor waxer and re-wiring their hi-fi with an internal power source and a remote control you control. Degaussing their cassettes and talking in a loud voice when you meet them in the hallway.
- Kidnapping boom-box carriers and locking them in sensory deprivation chambers.
- Is befouling our environment uniquely American? The garbage on the floor of subways and theaters. People are animals. The line between begging and mugging.
- Joe and his friend pick up a young ballet dancer in a bar and return to Joe's apartment. She is nearly raped while Joe plays the piano.
- Freedom dominates our pop-culture, yet we feel enslaved. Consumerism and commercials which play on our anxiety. Time saving devices.
- The story of Dave, a laid-back, cynical, but good-hearted photographer. "How to identify a road kill," DC bumper stickers. He's a regular at a strip club, makes a facetious bid for mayor, turns to Joe on the verge of a breakdown.
- Joe the gas station attendant: A man with broken headlights drives backwards, collides with a man who's been driving with two flat tires for months and only has two wheels. A car full of beavers. A couple who fight over who is the best parent drive off and abandon their child. Joe waits for his wife to return - she left on an errand twelve years ago. A bus full of people who've taken a vow of silence, with note pads on chains around their necks. A man arrives, looks at a map, remains sitting in his car for days, shrivels and ages. Natural catastrophes spare the station. Joe meets himself after passing through a sand funnel.
- Bringing class war to Limousine passengers: forming a pie corps, reporting their cars stolen, musing their hair, planting roach lice. *A classroom lecture on life goals, quality of life. The leisure class has time to go insane. A singer becomes famous, troubled. A man inherits wealth, finds no comfort. The tragedy of the unemployed poor.
Music
This is an incomplete record of the music in this program. If you can add more information, please do.
- "She's Leaving The Bank" - Ry Cooder (from Paris, Texas, 1985) | YouTube
- "Mimosa" - Michael Brook (from Hybrid, 1985)
- "Weasel And The White Boys Cool" - Rickie Lee Jones (from Rickie Lee Jones, 1979)
- "Ho Renomo - Cluster & Eno (from Cluster & Eno, 1977)
- "Woe Be To Khorazin" - Popol Vuh (from Fitzcarraldo Soundtrack, 1982) | YouTube
- "Dream Theory" - Jon Hassell (from Dream Theory in Malaya: Fourth World, Vol. 2, 1981)
Commentary
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External links
- Transcript of the end of this program at MetaFilter.