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== Synopsis == | == Synopsis == | ||
Kevin cleans and maintains pools with Dave, the boss, who listens to | |||
weather radio and surf reports while Kevin works. | |||
3:40: Joe says that the notion of cataclysm isn't remote, describes | |||
the danger of earthquakes, fires, floods, storms from the sea. | |||
5:00: Joe tells of the aftermath of the flooding of Marble | |||
Creek.<ref>It sounds like Malibu to me, but I don't know of a Marble | |||
Creek there.</ref> | |||
5:50: Joe tells of burglaries in the neighborhood, that they seem to | |||
be done by neighbors, possibly because people were living beyond their | |||
means. | |||
7:40: Kevin drives a Toyota Landcruiser with a rollbar. He's a fast | |||
driver, has driven drunk and stoned. | |||
10: Kevin works at the Marble Inn on the weekends. He plays darts in | |||
the back for money after hours. He snorts cocaine when it shows up. | |||
One night a man is shot in the parking lot. Kevin encounters the man | |||
who shot him, drives him off. The guy drops his gun while running | |||
away. Kevin picks it up, notes that a gun not registered or connected | |||
to him could be useful some day.<ref>Apparently the man who dropped it | |||
was Anton Chekhov.</ref> | |||
13:10: Saturday morning Kevin grinds the meat for burgers, prepares | |||
the other ingredients. | |||
14: One night after work he sees sheriff's deputies chase a speeder in | |||
a Jaguar. The Jaguar crashes into a bench. The deputies shoot him a | |||
dozen times. | |||
15:50: One night the Inn catches on fire from the fat in the burger | |||
meat, burns to the ground. | |||
16:20: Kevin's father, a pilot with Pacific Airlines<ref>fictional - | |||
the airline of this name is Vietnamese, started in 1991</ref>, gets | |||
him a job as a line technician at the airport <ref>apparently | |||
Hollywood Burbank airport; its name has changed over the years.</ref>. | |||
Kevin likes the job, the action that happens, including the C-5 and | |||
SR-71.<ref>I think this is a mistake: the SR-71 flies out of | |||
Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton; I don't think the runway at Burbank is | |||
long enough for it, and the security certainly isn't high enough. | |||
Lockheed built it and they're based in Burbank, and used to operate | |||
the airport, but that's all coincidental. A C-5 could land and take | |||
off on Burbank's longest runway, but I don't know why it would. The | |||
cities of Burbank, Glendale, and Pasadena own the airport. It's | |||
mostly commercial traffic. The private traffic Joe describes sounds | |||
like Van Nuys airport, but it's even less likely to have military | |||
planes. It would have that little Beechcraft Joe says NASA has there. | |||
I think Joe conflated the 2 for dramatic purposes.</ref> | |||
20:20: Joe crashes the airport's station wagon, keeps his job anyway. | |||
22:20: Joe explores a DC-3 with luxurious appointments, including a | |||
waterbed; it had a collection of porn videos. | |||
23:20: A nearby strip club, the Fabian, has a pictures night, popular | |||
with horny old men. Kevin attends, but doesn't take pictures. The | |||
club also has peep shows. | |||
25:10: Joe describes a brothel, the Circus of Love, on La Cienega. | |||
Kevin gets a sauna and a massage, passes on the sex. He sees the same | |||
woman week after week; eventually, they talk. Her name is Donna. | |||
26:30: Donna was born in Springfield, Ohio. She was a sickly child. | |||
Her father owned a bookstore. Her sister was 9 years older. Her | |||
father is cruel. Racing down a hill on the of a bicycle, her sister | |||
tells her to stick her foot in the wheel; she does, breaks it; her | |||
father does nothing for her. The man who lent her father the money to | |||
open the bookstore takes Donna to a physician.<ref>Joe mentions the | |||
Maryland Hotel in Chicago on Rush Street, which is real.</ref> | |||
She gets pregnant, marries Jim. Jim beats her late in the pregnancy, | |||
damaging the baby, which dies after a few weeks. She divorces Jim, | |||
works at a mobile home manufacturer. She takes a job emceeing a drag | |||
show. She learns how to be a woman from them. Her boss at the | |||
manufacturer attacks her on a business trip; she files a complaint, | |||
but they do nothing, so she quits and takes a job at a TV factory. | |||
Donna's father passes out while driving; the accident kills | |||
her mother. | |||
36:20: A famous stripper, Pearl, comes to the club, takes a shine to | |||
Donna, hires her as her assistant. Their first gig is at the Silver | |||
Slipper in Washington.<ref>'Bawdy Silver Slipper Slips Into History -- | |||
and Folklore' | |||
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1981/06/29/bawdy-silver-slipper-slips-into-history-and-folklore/e496ac90-50b8-4ad2-a1bf-bedddb75a426/</ref> | |||
They become lovers. The next club is lacking one of its dancers, so | |||
Donna fills in. The crowd boos her for her small breasts; she sasses | |||
them back, which impresses the owner. A group of old men form a fan | |||
club for her. | |||
40: Pearl gives Donna a silicone treatment to enlarge her breasts for | |||
her birthday. A few years later they go bad; it turns out it's | |||
industrial silicone; she gets a mastectomy. She leaves Pearl, creates | |||
a fresh act. Porn films drive down the prices strippers can get; the | |||
clubs are dirty and roach-filled. | |||
43;10: A guy gets shot next to her at the bar she's working. The | |||
bartender drags the body behind the bar, tells the cops he knows | |||
nothing, then throws the body in the alley after they leave. | |||
46: Turner joins the Army as a buck private, rises to become a pilot, | |||
is a captain when he goes to Vietnam. He flies Birddogs<ref>Cessna | |||
O-1, a small single-engine prop plane | |||
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cessna_O-1_Bird_Dog</ref> to spot the | |||
enemy, particularly to help artillery aim at them. | |||
49:20: After discharge, Turner visits an Army buddy in Red Bank, New | |||
Jersey, who deals drugs. Turner sells a pound of marijuana for them; | |||
they get busted. Turner gets 2 months in county jail. He has to | |||
fight with a would-be rapist, Hinckins (sp?). | |||
52:40: Turner gets out in March, drives to Sonora, California, where | |||
his widowed mother lives. He moves to the Stanislaus river, lives in | |||
a tent, shops in town every 2 weeks. He walks around the forest, | |||
swims, gets to know the animals. After 6 months he rents a cabin and | |||
enrolls in Columbia junior college, takes jobs as a bartender and | |||
dealing cards. He sees all the players as losers. One, Hardy, sings | |||
'Jesus blood never failed me yet'<ref>Gavin Bryars, whose music Joe | |||
used in a few shows, captured this from an actual homeless person. | |||
It's an interesting story. | |||
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus%27_Blood_Never_Failed_Me_Yet | |||
</ref> | |||
<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"> | |||
The story of Kevin, who works as a pool cleaner. The owners don't know or care how anything works, and the surfer wonders how they would survive a catastrophe. Earthquakes, storms, floods, and mudslides occur in Los Angeles. Kevin gets into car accidents. Kevin works at a bar and restaurant full of antiques, takes drugs; someone gets shot, and Kevin acquires the gun. The bar burns down and he gets a job working in an airport, crashes the airport truck, and explores a luxurious plane. A description of strip clubs. The story of Donna, a masseur. She grew up in a poor rural house with an abusive father. She becomes pregnant, marries someone, gets an office job. Her mother dies in a car wreck. She runs away with a stripper and becomes a stripper. | The story of Kevin, who works as a pool cleaner. The owners don't know or care how anything works, and the surfer wonders how they would survive a catastrophe. Earthquakes, storms, floods, and mudslides occur in Los Angeles. Kevin gets into car accidents. Kevin works at a bar and restaurant full of antiques, takes drugs; someone gets shot, and Kevin acquires the gun. The bar burns down and he gets a job working in an airport, crashes the airport truck, and explores a luxurious plane. A description of strip clubs. The story of Donna, a masseur. She grew up in a poor rural house with an abusive father. She becomes pregnant, marries someone, gets an office job. Her mother dies in a car wreck. She runs away with a stripper and becomes a stripper. | ||
Turner is an Army private who advances rapidly and becomes a pilot. After being discharged, he ends up in jail for selling marijuana. After being released, he lives in a campsite in California. An old derelict named Hardy sings a religious hymn. | Turner is an Army private who advances rapidly and becomes a pilot. After being discharged, he ends up in jail for selling marijuana. After being released, he lives in a campsite in California. An old derelict named Hardy sings a religious hymn. | ||
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== Music == | == Music == | ||
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This edited version is mostly the character studies from Night (Part 1) along with a small amount of Night (Part 2), eliminating the cult material. | This edited version is mostly the character studies from Night (Part 1) along with a small amount of Night (Part 2), eliminating the cult material. | ||
== Footnotes == | |||
[[Category:Serious_Monologue]] | [[Category:Serious_Monologue]] | ||
[[Category:Absurd_Monologue]] | [[Category:Absurd_Monologue]] |