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== Synopsis == | == Synopsis == | ||
0:40: Joe talks to Nina ([[Sally Rainer]]?), who called in, about her | |||
personal life. | |||
8:40: A girl and 2 boys flirt on the phone, apparently on a conference | |||
line.<ref name=other>(re-used in [[The Other Side]]</ref> | |||
14:00: 2 'experts' ([[Tim Jerome]] and [[Arthur Miller]]) talk about | |||
how distance makes lovers more passionate, that prisoners and their | |||
lovers who get used to talking over the phone, separated by a barrier, | |||
find that more erotic than being together, that some prefer to stay | |||
imprisoned, others set up separation walls in their bedrooms. | |||
17:20: The experts opine that reliance on the phone is separating us | |||
in real life. 'people who have phones in their cars, phones in their | |||
wristwatches, phones built into their underwear, phone implants in | |||
their ears, in their breasts, in their groin.' 'whereas technology | |||
originally served to draw us together in the sense of the global | |||
village, it seems as though it's turned back on itself and is indeed | |||
separating us more than ever' | |||
19:40: [[Arthur Miller]] tells of the guy who carried so many phones | |||
that they crushed him, speculates that the telephone may be the | |||
most-effective birth control. | |||
23:20: Joe and Lily ([[Julie Renick]]?) get into a personal | |||
conversation on a conference line. (Both have called in.) He's put | |||
off by her manner, says so. | |||
29:10: Joe, in a distorted voice<ref>similar to that in | |||
[[Words]]</ref>, describes the strategy of a phone conversation, | |||
analogizes it to chess, says that IBM has worked out the best tactics, | |||
to most-effectively sell to customers, to 'win'. How one can use | |||
these tactics in personal conversations. He goes on to talk about | |||
detecting stress in voices, using silence effectively. | |||
34:40: Joe tells of his friend, a recording engineer, who got out of | |||
paying for a missed psychiatrist's appointment by adding fake | |||
background noises, but suffered in the end because he didn't get the | |||
care he needed. | |||
35:40: Some payphones allow adding background sounds to fool the | |||
callee. Joe observes that this won't work on a picture-phone. | |||
36:10: Joe deplores the tyranny of the telephone. | |||
34:40: Joe observes that, on the telephone, you can look like anything | |||
and still be Alain Delon. | |||
37:30: Joe and Lily resume their conversation. | |||
43:10: Guy (distorted voice) answers a pay phone on his way home about | |||
2 AM, converses with a female stranger who is watching him.<ref name=other /> | |||
48:10: Joe and Lily have phone sex. | |||
52:20: Tim Jerome and Arthur Miller return to talk about undulations. | |||
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<div style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;">Legacy Synopsis</div> | |||
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Joe talks to a woman on a telephone chat line and asks an endless series of questions- being a clown in New York, first sexual experience. A woman and man fight about a woman caller who won't talk when she picks up the phone. Some people chat on a chat line. Panel discussions: a long distance couple whose passion is heightened by the distance between them; prison visitation experience heightened by further separating the parties; a man who covers his body with portable telephony equipment; the phone as the ultimate form of birth control. Joe talks to another woman on the chat line - he's suspicious of her, tries to fight with her, "when do you like to be touched?" Deep, distorted voice: a phone conversation as a chess game, computerizing a telemarketing call, people as unconscious voice stress analyzers, lonely people and answering machines, silence as an argument parry, excusing a missed psychiatrist appointment with recorded airport terminal sounds, bar room phones that supply artificial background sounds, the urgency of a ringing telephone, appearing suave on the phone no matter what you look like. Joe talks to the woman on the phone: people who believe they are in touch are deluded, conversation as a board game, being a certain way, bathing. A distorted voice talks about picking up a telephone in a booth and having a suggestive conversation with a strange woman. Joe and a woman engage in a telephone encounter. Panel discussion: telephone modulation as an allegory for human communication. | Joe talks to a woman on a telephone chat line and asks an endless series of questions- being a clown in New York, first sexual experience. A woman and man fight about a woman caller who won't talk when she picks up the phone. Some people chat on a chat line. Panel discussions: a long distance couple whose passion is heightened by the distance between them; prison visitation experience heightened by further separating the parties; a man who covers his body with portable telephony equipment; the phone as the ultimate form of birth control. Joe talks to another woman on the chat line - he's suspicious of her, tries to fight with her, "when do you like to be touched?" Deep, distorted voice: a phone conversation as a chess game, computerizing a telemarketing call, people as unconscious voice stress analyzers, lonely people and answering machines, silence as an argument parry, excusing a missed psychiatrist appointment with recorded airport terminal sounds, bar room phones that supply artificial background sounds, the urgency of a ringing telephone, appearing suave on the phone no matter what you look like. Joe talks to the woman on the phone: people who believe they are in touch are deluded, conversation as a board game, being a certain way, bathing. A distorted voice talks about picking up a telephone in a booth and having a suggestive conversation with a strange woman. Joe and a woman engage in a telephone encounter. Panel discussion: telephone modulation as an allegory for human communication. | ||
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== Music == | == Music == | ||
{{Self-Initiation (Bill Nelson)}} [Intro] | {{Self-Initiation (Bill Nelson)}} [Intro] | ||
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* The [[Wikipedia:The Tape-beatles|Tape-Beatles]] track [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgKajW79uXU&t=22m59s "I'm Waiting"] on [https://www.discogs.com/master/43529-The-Tape-beatles-Music-With-Sound ''Music With Sound''] consists entirely of manipulated samples of material from "Lines". | * The [[Wikipedia:The Tape-beatles|Tape-Beatles]] track [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgKajW79uXU&t=22m59s "I'm Waiting"] on [https://www.discogs.com/master/43529-The-Tape-beatles-Music-With-Sound ''Music With Sound''] consists entirely of manipulated samples of material from "Lines". | ||
== Footnotes == | |||
[[Category:Telephone]] | [[Category:Telephone]] | ||
[[Category:Panel_Discussion]] | [[Category:Panel_Discussion]] | ||