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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. 2 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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*Climbing K2. "And so we had a prodigiously psychedelic experience."<ref>This [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY908oLJVmw segment] is on the Joe Frank channel of YouTube</ref> | *Climbing K2. "And so we had a prodigiously psychedelic experience."<ref>This [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY908oLJVmw segment] is on the Joe Frank channel of YouTube</ref> | ||
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== Additional credits == | |||
Closing credits: 'This is Joe Frank. You've been listening to | |||
"Somewhere out there". This program was created in collaboration with | |||
Arthur Miller and David Rapkin; recorded, edited, mixed, and music | |||
looping by Bob Carlson, with special guest vocalist Judith Owen and | |||
sax player David Brown. Thanks also to Jennifer Ferro, Carly Eiseman | |||
and Esmé Gregson. "Somewhere out there" will return next week | |||
at the same time.' | |||
== Music == | == Music == | ||
{{Valencia (Rachid Taha)}} [Intro] | {{Valencia (Rachid Taha)}} [Intro] | ||
{{Buried At Sea (MC 900 Ft Jesus)}} [31:59] | {{Buried At Sea (MC 900 Ft Jesus)}} [31:59] | ||
Judith Owen vocalizes and David Brown plays sax for the opening segments, backed by Taha's 'Valencia'. | |||
== Footnotes == | == Footnotes == | ||
[[Category:Absurd Monologue]] | [[Category:Absurd Monologue]] |