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|title = Bottle for a Headstone [https://www.joefrank.com/streaming/shows/?jfsearch= | |title = [https://www.joefrank.com/shop/a-bottle-for-a-headstone A Bottle for a Headstone] [https://www.joefrank.com/streaming/shows/?jfsearch=A%20Bottle%20for%20a%20Headstone] | ||
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''I stand before you an innocent man.'' | ''I stand before you an innocent man.'' | ||
'''Bottle for a Headstone''' is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[Online]]. It was originally broadcast on December 6, [[2004]]. | '''Bottle for a Headstone''' is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[Online]]. It was originally broadcast on December 6, [[:Category:2004|2004]]. | ||
== Synopsis == | == Synopsis == | ||
Joe defends himself in court from charges that he raped Miss Sinclair, | |||
recounts minute details of her home and estate. Joe claims he was | |||
working in his lab on a cure for a rare disease that affects | |||
beautiful young women. The first girl cured has a restraining order | |||
against him. Joe admits he took advantage of his role as a radio star | |||
to seduce young women. When he gets home from court, his girlfriend | |||
remonstrates with him about all the young women with whom he has | |||
affairs. He says his successful therapy with Dr Nierenberg has cured | |||
him.<ref>Joe gets a recorded message from Dr Nierenberg in [[When I'm Calling You]] | |||
when he calls Tele-health of Los Angeles.</ref> She leaves him. | |||
13:40: 'Later that night, alone in bed, I dreamt I was a | |||
diplomat attending a reception at a foreign embassy. But I stank so | |||
powerfully that it was as though a toilet had exploded wherever I | |||
stood. Finally, I was ushered into a small antechamber where a butler | |||
attempted to wipe away the urine and feces that covered my tuxedo with | |||
a clothes brush. But as he did this, he seemed to be erasing me as | |||
well. With every stroke of the brush, another part of my anatomy | |||
disappeared, and I realized he was destroying me. And I grabbed at | |||
the brush, and as we fought over it, my shoulder bumped up against a | |||
button, and the fireplace moved aside, revealing a hidden passageway. | |||
And I ran into it, down a long dark tunnel and up a flight of stairs, | |||
and then out into the great, open, starry night of a meadow filled | |||
with fragrant grass - when I saw, passing above me, a dirigible from | |||
which depended a large gondola. And in the gondola, I could see a man | |||
in a striped suit clutching at the bars of a cage in what was | |||
apparently a prison transport ship.' | |||
15:00: Joe finds himself at the apartment of Veronica, a beautiful | |||
movie star (in porn films). She invites him in for a drink, and talk | |||
about her movies. He gives her an envelope of money. They make love. | |||
After, Joe dreams he's a bullfighter, gets impaled on an umbrella | |||
stand.<ref>Compare the fate of the bullfighter in [[Arena]]</ref> When | |||
he wakes they talk about his work as a registered nurse. | |||
22:00: Joe consults famous psychologist Weinberg about Joe's obsession | |||
with death and women. Weinberg tells him to go to the morgue and make | |||
love to a corpse. | |||
24:00: Joe tells us that Joe Frank is just a character he created who | |||
he pretends to be. | |||
26:40: Father Malcolm was a priest. Bertram was the only Jewish | |||
altar boy. Father Malcolm kissed him, which rendered Bertram mute for | |||
2 years, made him the best student at the yeshiva. | |||
28:20: After seeing <i>Triumph of the Will</i> Bertram cultivated | |||
German friends and German culture. He joined a motorcycle gang. They | |||
terrorized a town in New Mexico, lived as bandits. | |||
31:40: Bertram became a mime.<ref>Bertram Fields was the name of the | |||
mime in [[Either Or (Part 1) | Either/or]]</ref>. A mysterious woman, named Veronica, | |||
dressed in black, knocks on his hotel room door, says he can help her, | |||
mentions a person he doesn't know. <ref>This is similar to a segment | |||
of [[Islands]]: both women are dressed in black, claim a mutual | |||
acquaintance unknown to Joe, claim they can be an asset to the firm - | |||
though Bertram has no firm. This story is also used in [[The Box]]</ref> She claims to work for a firm that | |||
makes a machine that creates time, describes its amazing properties. | |||
Trying to put her off, Bertram claims to have an appointment for | |||
breakfast with friends, though it's midnight. When she remonstrates, | |||
Bertram explains with an outlandish story. | |||
38:30: The phone rings 5 times; neither of them pick up. When there's | |||
a knock at the door, she makes Bertram hide in the closet. The man | |||
who comes in seems to have the same experience Joe did with Veronica | |||
at 15:00. Bertram rigs a hangman's harness on himself in the closet | |||
to shock her when she opens the door. | |||
41:30: Joe talks about the mysteries of time. | |||
42:40: Bertram seduces Veronica. Afterwards, at 2 AM, he leaves, | |||
claiming that he teaches a dance class at 3 AM, then cleans subway | |||
cars at 5. | |||
49:10: A few days later they (Bertram and Veronica?) take a ride on hay wagon in the country. | |||
Joe wonders if they're real or characters in a novel or serialized | |||
stories. A passing car veers off the road to miss their wagon, crashes. A | |||
priest falls out of it, dead, also a whiskey bottle. Bertram and | |||
Veronica bury him then perform an improvised service. They drink some | |||
of the whiskey, pour the rest on the grave. It's Father Malcolm. | |||
They write his name, birth date, and today's date, in chalk on the | |||
bottle, use it as a headstone. | |||
52:20: 'I don't think I'm rationalizing when I say that adultery is | |||
merely what happens when the normal course of events in the biological | |||
life of a man are defined by the boundaries of marriage. If you | |||
didn't have marriage, there would be no adultery, but man's behavior | |||
would be the same. It's completely contextual.' | |||
52:40: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pull_my_daisy_(poem) 'Pull my daisy'] - David Amram<ref>Originally a poem written by | |||
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Ginsberg Allen Ginsberg], | |||
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Kerouac Jack Kerouac], and | |||
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_Cassady Neal Cassady] in the | |||
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exquisite_corpse exquisite corpse] | |||
manner. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Amram David Amram] set | |||
it to music. This rendition comes from Amram's 'No More Walls' album; | |||
the singer is Lynn Sheffield. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Frank Robert Frank] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Leslie Alfred Leslie] made [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pull_my_daisy a short film of the same name] in 1959: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_12rctV5Z84 The YouTube link] </ref> | |||
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<div style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;">Legacy Synopsis</div> | |||
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"> | |||
*Joe in the courtroom defending himself against her accusations, but he knows absurdly too much about her home and lifestyle. His alibi: treating young children with horrific diseases, but his witness cannot appear because of a restraining order. Flirting with a juror. I object! | *Joe in the courtroom defending himself against her accusations, but he knows absurdly too much about her home and lifestyle. His alibi: treating young children with horrific diseases, but his witness cannot appear because of a restraining order. Flirting with a juror. I object! | ||
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*Then they killed Father Malcolm? (I lost track here, 40 to 50 minutes) | *Then they killed Father Malcolm? (I lost track here, 40 to 50 minutes) | ||
*Ends with a rendition of 'Pull My Daisy', a poem written by | *Ends with a rendition of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pull_My_Daisy ''Pull My Daisy''], a poem written by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Ginsberg Allen Ginsberg], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Kerouac Jack Kerouac], and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_Cassady Neal Cassady].<ref>Ginsberg, Kerouac, and Cassady each wrote alternate lines seeing only the line before. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Frank Robert Frank] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Leslie Alfred Leslie] made a short film based on it in 1959 - this rendition's singer is Lynn Sheffield.</ref> | ||
</div></div> | |||
== Music == | == Music == | ||
{{Keepin' It Steel (The Anvil Track) (Amos Tobin)}} [Intro] | |||
{{The Goodbye Highway (Tim "Love" Lee)}} | {{The Goodbye Highway (Tim "Love" Lee)}} [14:55] | ||
{{Pull My Daisy (David Amram)}} [52:46] | |||
== Footnotes == | == Footnotes == |