Obsessions
From The Joe Frank Wiki
Series | |
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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]
- "Meaning In The Tone ('95 Space & Oriental)" - Silent Poets (from New Chapter, 1995) | YouTube [33:45]