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|data8 = [[:Category:Karma Style|Karma Style]], | |data8 = [[:Category:Karma Style|Karma Style]], 58 minutes | ||
|data4 = 7/9/[[2000]] | |data4 = 7/9/[[:Category:2000|2000]] | ||
|title = [https://www.joefrank.com/shop/bad-karma Bad Karma][https://www.joefrank.com/streaming/shows/?jfsearch=Bad%20Karma] | |title = [https://www.joefrank.com/shop/bad-karma Bad Karma][https://www.joefrank.com/streaming/shows/?jfsearch=Bad%20Karma] | ||
|data6 = [[Jack Kornfield]], [[Larry Block]], [[Kristine McKenna]], [[Ruth Seymour]], Joe Frank | |data6 = [[Jack Kornfield]], [[Larry Block]], [[Kristine McKenna]], [[Ruth Seymour]], Joe Frank | ||
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''I'm sitting at a dinner party, attended by Pol Pot, Hitler, Stalin, and Mao.'' | ''I'm sitting at a dinner party, attended by Pol Pot, Hitler, Stalin, and Mao.'' | ||
'''Bad Karma''' is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[The Other Side (Series)]]. It was originally broadcast on July 9, [[2000]]. | '''Bad Karma''' is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[The Other Side (Series)|The Other Side]]. It was originally broadcast on July 9, [[:Category:2000|2000]]. | ||
== Synopsis == | == Synopsis == | ||
Joe tells of a dinner party attended by notorious murderers (Hitler, | |||
Stalin, Pol Pot…) and a 'children's table' with smaller-scale | |||
murderers (John Wayne Gacy, Gary Gilmore, Ted Bundy…) The head | |||
table attenders talk about aesthetic matters: clothes, floral | |||
arrays… Joe wonders why he's there. | |||
6:10: 'I have a defective aortic valve…' 'John',<ref>relying on | |||
the credits - possibly a pseudonym</ref> in the hospital, describes | |||
his condition, his life and family. Joe asks questions, some | |||
heartless. | |||
15:10: Larry, apparently having heard a recording of the call, calls | |||
it 'freelance sadism', identifies Joe as a 'friend of a friend' of | |||
John. | |||
17:10: John says it's not much of a story; Joe says it would be a | |||
better story if he were sicker. John says he wouldn't be talking to | |||
Joe if he were sicker. | |||
18:00: A woman, interrupting via call-waiting (remember that?) tells | |||
Joe to call. | |||
18:10: John feels sorry for Joe that he wants him to be sicker. | |||
22:20: Joe and Larry talk more about John. | |||
22:40: Ruth Hirschman<ref>then KCRW's GM</ref> calls Joe to tell him | |||
they can't air 'suck my [bleep]', even though it's attributed (in a | |||
dream) to Joe's mother. She says, 'Graphic sex, Will tells me, is not | |||
permissible.'<ref>'Will' is Will Lewis, longtime KPFK (the Pacifica | |||
station in LA) GM; Ms Hirschman worked there before KCRW. Mr Lewis | |||
was the GM when the [[Wikipedia:Symbionese Liberation Army|Symbionese Liberation Army]] left a tape of their | |||
demands in a sofa in a nearby alley, called KPFK, told them of it. | |||
KPFK aired the tape. The LAPD searched the station, probably | |||
illegally. They stuck microphones near the cops' mouths when they | |||
spoke, broadcast it. Mr Lewis spent days in jail. Ms Hirschman hired | |||
him as a consultant at KCRW.</ref> | |||
24:10: Joe and Larry talk more about John. Joe says John's in denial. | |||
25:30: Kristine talks about what's allowable in art, whether it | |||
excuses the wrongs of the artists' personal lives, cites the example | |||
of Picasso. Then she talks about Joe's calls to John in the same | |||
light: how good a show would Joe have to produce to make it worth | |||
hurting John? She says she knows 3 stories that Joe won't air because | |||
they would hurt others involved. She says Joe's not a bad person. | |||
30:00: Larry talks about his possible skin cancer. | |||
32:30: Jack Kornfield talks about Buddhist vows. He says we must | |||
commit ourselves to what we do. | |||
36:40: Kristine opines that Hitler thought he was doing a grand thing, | |||
that all the great killers thought they were. She says good people | |||
feel guilt, bad people don't. | |||
39:40: Joe was walking down a country road in Tunisia or Morocco - he | |||
wasn't sure - it was a dream. He was in an oasis; he had come there | |||
to speak with god. He asks some silly questions. Then he says he | |||
really wants answers about animals killing other animals, as seen on | |||
<i>National Geographic</i> TV. Joe wants to know how he's supposed to | |||
pray to a god that created this. God's in a director's chair, | |||
stylishly dressed; he plays some silly tricks; Joe decides he doesn't | |||
like the dream. | |||
47:20: Joe changes his dream to a club in Prague with euro-trash band | |||
and other weirdness. | |||
51:20: Now he's outside, in the dark; bodies hang from the lamp-posts; | |||
a pit is filled with bodies. A revisionist historian speaks, calls | |||
this fake, calls for the extermination of Jews. A crowd is enthused. | |||
54:10: Joe walks into the country. Joe waves a car down. His mother, | |||
father, and he, as a boy, are in the car, on their way their country | |||
home. They wave him in, but he refuses. They're killed at a | |||
checkpoint, then buried. | |||
56:30: Joe wakes up, drives to Seattle Coffee, buys a coffee and an | |||
<i>LA Times</i>, reads about his suicide. | |||
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="width:100%; overflow:auto;"> | |||
<div style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;">Legacy Synopsis</div> | |||
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"> | |||
*Prison song, "No More, My Lord". | *Prison song, "No More, My Lord". | ||
*Monologue- Joe is at a dinner table with Hitler, Pol Pot, and other brutal world figures. Serial killers are seated at a children's table. They discuss tailors, flower arrangement, kitchen decorating, children's books. | *Monologue- Joe is at a dinner table with Hitler, Pol Pot, and other brutal world figures. Serial killers are seated at a children's table. They discuss tailors, flower arrangement, kitchen decorating, children's books. | ||
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*Joe - A dream. He's in an undefined country, enters a building to find an oasis in a vast desert. He meets god and asks him a list of questions. Cruelty in nature. | *Joe - A dream. He's in an undefined country, enters a building to find an oasis in a vast desert. He meets god and asks him a list of questions. Cruelty in nature. | ||
*Joe - A new dream: Joe's in a nightclub in Prague. The club is filled with priests and built on an old graveyard. He leaves, passes mass graves, bodies hanging from lamp posts. A revisionist historian speaks to a crowd, says the bodies are paper dolls created by Jews in order to trick people into thinking they've been persecuted, demands thir eradication as punishment. Joe leaves, terrified. He's offered a ride by a car carrying his young parents and himself as a child. He refuses the ride and watches as the car is stopped at a police checkpoint and his family shot. He awakes from the dream, opens the newspaper to read a story of his own suicide. | *Joe - A new dream: Joe's in a nightclub in Prague. The club is filled with priests and built on an old graveyard. He leaves, passes mass graves, bodies hanging from lamp posts. A revisionist historian speaks to a crowd, says the bodies are paper dolls created by Jews in order to trick people into thinking they've been persecuted, demands thir eradication as punishment. Joe leaves, terrified. He's offered a ride by a car carrying his young parents and himself as a child. He refuses the ride and watches as the car is stopped at a police checkpoint and his family shot. He awakes from the dream, opens the newspaper to read a story of his own suicide. | ||
</div></div> | |||
== Music == | == Music == | ||
{{Viginti Etduo (Marcel)}} | {{Viginti Etduo (Marcel)}} [Intro] | ||
{{No More My Lord (Jimpson)}} | {{No More My Lord (Jimpson)}} [0:13] | ||
{{High Priestess (Karma)}} | {{High Priestess (Karma)}} [18:13] | ||
{{Rearrange (Cinematic Orchestra)}} | {{Rearrange (Cinematic Orchestra)}} [32:02] | ||
== Additional credits == | == Additional credits == | ||
The original broadcast credits state: "With [[Larry Block]], [[Kristine McKenna]], [[Jack Kornfield]], and Joe Frank. Special thanks to John. Portions created in collaboration with [[David Rapkin]]. This program was recorded and edited by JC Swiatek, and mixed by [[Bob Carlson]]. Music consultant: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Golubi%C4%87 Thomas Golubić]. Production assistance: Esmé Gregson." | |||
== Miscellanea == | == Miscellanea == | ||
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== Commentary == | == Commentary == | ||
I was listening to KPFK the day the LAPD searched, followed the story of Will Lewis's incarceration, remember the <i>LA Times</i>'s supporting the cops.[[User:Arthur Peabody|Arthur Peabody]] ([[User talk:Arthur Peabody|talk]]) 22:59, 10 January 2022 (EST) | |||
== Footnotes == | |||
[[Category:Karma_Style]] | [[Category:Karma_Style]] | ||
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[[Category:2000]] | [[Category:2000]] | ||
[[Category:Show]] | [[Category:Show]] | ||
[[Category:The Other Side]] [[Category:Show_by_date|20000709]] {{Airdate|airdate=2000-07-09}} | [[Category:The Other Side]] [[Category:Show_by_date|20000709]] {{Airdate|airdate=2000-07-09}}{{Series|series=The Other Side}}{{Cast|cast=[[Jack Kornfield]], [[Larry Block]], [[Kristine McKenna]], [[Ruth Seymour]], Joe Frank}} |