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''My father was a very, very popular and wonderful teacher.''
''My father was a very, very popular and wonderful teacher.''


'''Mountain Rain''' is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[Somewhere Out There]]. It was originally broadcast on June 9, [[1996]].
'''Mountain Rain''' is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[Somewhere Out There]]. It was originally broadcast on June 9, [[:Category:1996|1996]].


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== Synopsis ==
== Synopsis ==
Joe tells of his father, a beloved professor, dying in hospital.  Joe
sees a horrific crash on the street.  His father pulls out his IVs and
wires.  Joe goes to fetch a nurse, finds her copulating with a
patient.  He hears his phone ring, goes back to his father's room:
it's his wife, Darlene,<ref> Darlene is his wife in [[Prison Songs]],
the hostess in [[Obsessions]]</ref> angry about missed alimony
payments.  Joe prays for his father, after which he dies.


5:30: At the funeral a few days later, Joe's mother goes to the
coffin, wails, falls dead.  They put her in the coffin.  A
thunderstorm washed out the road to the cemetery, so they take an
alternate route and get lost.  A bridge collapses under the cortege.
The cemetery floods, coffins and skeletons float away.  Lightning
strikes the church, setting it and the people inside on fire.  A
traffic helicopter crashes into a mausoleum.  Two shabbily-dressed girls
emerge from the underbrush, throw stones at Joe, call him a Jew
bastard.  Joe decides the universe is malignant.
11:20: Joe has a powerful dream of an angel.  Then he starts seeing
her everywhere, becomes obsessed with her.
15:10: Joe sees her in a neighborhood restaurant.  They spend the
evening together: a walk, a ride in a horse-drawn carriage, a jazz
club, a cabaret, shopping at the drug store.  She goes home in a cab
that leaves before she gives Joe her phone number.
19:00: Joe recalls being at a resort when a child.  His parents were
dancing, in love, stylish.  After it starts to rain, everyone else
flees, but his parents continue to dance.  'It was the happiest most
memorable and most deeply moving time in my life; it was the only time
I felt truly at peace.'
26:30: Joe recounts a dream, seeing a 'Sicilian
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loni_Anderson Loni Anderson]' at a
restaurant.  They leave together in a cab while Joe's girlfriend,
Justine,<ref>also his girlfriend in [[Justine]] and [[The Sacred]]</ref>
leaves in another.  His cabbie has to wait to pick up
another passenger, a pony.  Joe can't wait because he has to get to
Justine's, so he gets out, hails another cab, ends up in a bus.  Joe
sees the woman in the street, on a ladder, breasts exposed, squirting
milk.
28:30: Joe recalls when he was about 19.  He meets a 29-year-old woman
in a club.  He goes home with her.  They make love.
32:20: Joe recounts his expedition to climb
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K2 K2]. Joe recruits a team of
completely-unprepared people.  They carry the wrong equipment.  They
don't prepare.  They get out of shape.  They forgo maps.  They bring a
marching band.  They take LSD and get drunk.  Many die.  They never
climb the mountain but like to think they did.  They get together
annually to remember the expedition.
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<div style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;">Legacy Synopsis</div>
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*Joe watches his wonderful and respected father painfully wasting away.
*Joe watches his wonderful and respected father painfully wasting away.
*A grisly car accident occurs outside his hospital window. Joe's father is near death.  
*A grisly car accident occurs outside his hospital window. Joe's father is near death.  
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*Flashback to age 19 in the village meeting a woman. She takes him home and seduces him. Joe objects that he doesn't know her, so she impatiently shows him some pictures and tells him the basic facts of her life. "OK, now you know me." They spend the night. They argue over a poster of the earth.
*Flashback to age 19 in the village meeting a woman. She takes him home and seduces him. Joe objects that he doesn't know her, so she impatiently shows him some pictures and tells him the basic facts of her life. "OK, now you know me." They spend the night. They argue over a poster of the earth.


*Climing K2. "And so we had a prodigiously psychedelic experience."
*Climbing K2. "And so we had a prodigiously psychedelic experience."<!--video now private: <ref>This [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY908oLJVmw segment] is on the Joe Frank channel of YouTube</ref> -->
 
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== Music ==  
{{Valencia (Rachid Taha) }}
{{Buried At Sea (MC 900 Ft Jesus) }}
 
== Commentary ==


{{Commentary}}
== Music ==
* [[Judith Owen]] vocalizes and David Brown plays sax for the opening segments, backed by 'Valencia'
{{Valencia (Rachid Taha)}} [Intro]
{{Buried At Sea (MC 900 Ft Jesus)}} [31:59]


=== [[User:Spblat|Spblat]] ===
== Additional credits ==
The original broadcast credits state: "[C]reated in collaboration with [[Arthur Miller]] and [[David Rapkin]]. Recorded, edited, mixed, and music looping by [[Bob Carlson]]. With special guests vocalist [[Judith Owen]] and sax player David Brown. Thanks also to Jennifer Ferro, Carly Eiseman, and Esmé Gregson."


I thought the descriptions of the angel in his dreams were quite touching.  The last 30 minutes or so of this program describe the K2 ascent, a hysterical account of a hapless attempt to climb a nearly impossible mountain. "And so we had a prodigiously psychedelic experience." There's an absurd list of provisions in the K2 monologue.
== Footnotes ==


[[Category:Absurd Monologue]]
[[Category:Absurd Monologue]]
[[Category:Serious Monologue]]
[[Category:Serious Monologue]]
[[Category:Absurd Lists]]
[[Category:Absurd Lists]]
[[Category: Somewhere Out There]]
[[Category:David Rapkin]]
[[Category:Arthur Miller]]
[[Category:Judith Owen]]
[[Category:Somewhere Out There]]
[[Category:Show]]
[[Category:Show_by_date|19960609]] {{Airdate|airdate=1996-06-09}}
{{Series|series=Somewhere Out There}}{{Cast|cast=Joe Frank}}
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