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|data4 = January 21, [[1996]] | |data4 = January 21, [[:Category:1996|1996]] | ||
|title = [https://www.joefrank.com/shop/obsessions Obsessions][https://www.joefrank.com/streaming/shows/?jfsearch=Obsessions] | |title = [https://www.joefrank.com/shop/obsessions Obsessions][https://www.joefrank.com/streaming/shows/?jfsearch=Obsessions] | ||
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''I was at a party, it was late, I was about to go home.'' | |||
'' | '''Obsessions''' is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[Somewhere Out There]]. It was originally broadcast on January 21, [[:Category:1996|1996]]. | ||
''' | == Synopsis == | ||
(thunder and rain - there's a lot of thunder and rain backing | |||
and in interludes) | |||
Joe, at a party, about to leave - 'the food was pedestrian, the wine | |||
was annoyingly ironic', falls in love with a beautiful woman across | |||
the room. The hostess Darlene tries to get him to spend the night | |||
with her. By the time Joe gets free the beautiful woman has left. | |||
5:30: In the elevator on the way out Joe falls in love with | |||
another woman; Joe doesn't have the courage to talk to her. | |||
8:00: Joe goes into a coffee shop. The waitress is the woman who's in | |||
his dreams every night. Joe falls in love. He orders dozens of | |||
dishes, many of which one doesn't find in coffee shops. Joe passes | |||
out, wakes up in the emergency room. After a few hours they release | |||
him; he returns to the coffee shop, which has been razed, is now | |||
inhabited by homeless. | |||
13:30: 'I have walked through a great ancient temple…' | |||
14:10: Joe used to be a rock star. He basked in the adulation, | |||
enjoyed the luxury. | |||
19:20: 'We're all wounded children…' | |||
20:40: Joe's in bush country, where no White man has ever gone. The | |||
boat<ref>in bush country?</ref> capsizes. Only Joe survives. He | |||
fascinates the natives with all his gear: coffee maker, pastries, | |||
camcorder, satellite TV… They agree to sell the mineral rights | |||
to their land; Joe makes the deals on his satellite phone. They waste | |||
all the stuff they get, end up impoverished, long for their old lives.<ref>re-used in [[The Loved One (Remix)]]/[[Lover Man]]</ref> | |||
26:30: Joe books first-class passage to Mallorca, ends up assistant | |||
cook on a tramp steamer. | |||
28:10: Joe goes to a strip joint with friends. A woman in a black | |||
dress chats him up, tells of a dream about having sex with her | |||
15-year-old daughter, invites Joe to meet her. | |||
31:10: 'Funky worm' (Ohio players) | |||
34:00: Joe remembers being in Tumescent, New Mexico.<ref>no such | |||
place</ref> He notices his pickup rolling into Interstate | |||
4.<ref>which is in Florida</ref> | |||
35:20: Joe remembers when he stayed in a hotel in Kowloon during | |||
monsoon season; it flooded. The hotel's brothel provided medical data | |||
(x-rays, scans, blood tests…) about its women. | |||
38:00: 'We need to ask questions that probe…' | |||
39:10: Joe remembers the time he spent in a prison in Mindanao, all | |||
that he learned. On work release, he's president of a major financial | |||
services company in Italy. | |||
== Synopsis = | 40:10: Joe sees a woman smear cake batter on her breasts, then plays | ||
the piano ecstatically. He sees another woman working out on a Nordic | |||
track. | |||
41:50: 'We need to rid ourselves of the weight of dead men's | |||
thoughts.', discard the past in general. | |||
42:50: Joe debates internally whether people should for today or | |||
tomorrow: we're happy living for today, make progress because we live | |||
for tomorrow. | |||
48:10: 'Some is enough; enough is, sometimes, too much…' Joe | |||
talks about muchness. | |||
50:20: 'This is Joe Frank. You have been listening to "Somewhere out | |||
there", created in collaboration with Arthur Miller and David Rapkin; | |||
music production by, and edited and mixed by, Bob Carlson; special | |||
thanks to Jennifer Ferro, [https://www.brunoguez.com Bruno Guez], and Jason Bentley.<ref name=bentley>a | |||
long-time DJ at KCRW</ref> | |||
52:30: 'During the entire voyage nothing interesting happened.' Joe | |||
tells about cruise to Mallorca from 26:30. Despite everyone finding | |||
it so dull, all the passengers stay in touch, write a multi-volume | |||
account, try to stage a reënactment. | |||
<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"> | |||
*Joe becomes obsessed with a woman at a party, in an elevator, and in a cafe which later disappears. | *Joe becomes obsessed with a woman at a party, in an elevator, and in a cafe which later disappears. | ||
*Joe is a rock star and gives a speech to a college graduating class. | *Joe is a rock star and gives a speech to a college graduating class. | ||
*Joe is shipwrecked in the | *Joe is shipwrecked in the Amazon and displays his modern gadgets to the natives. | ||
*A woman in a strip club tells Joe about about her disturbing dream. | *A woman in a strip club tells Joe about about her disturbing dream. | ||
*Mixed absurd monologue: a hummingbird lands on a rolling car, an underwater hotel during a monsoon, a brothel where patrons are offered medical records of the prostitutes, an enlightened prison, a woman smears cake batter on her breasts and plays the piano, a woman uses a Nordic-track in front of a tv with winter scenes. | *Mixed absurd monologue: a hummingbird lands on a rolling car, an underwater hotel during a monsoon, a brothel where patrons are offered medical records of the prostitutes, an enlightened prison, a woman smears cake batter on her breasts and plays the piano, a woman uses a Nordic-track in front of a tv with winter scenes. | ||
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*Some, too much, enough. | *Some, too much, enough. | ||
*A completely uneventful trip commemorated. | *A completely uneventful trip commemorated. | ||
</div></div> | |||
== | == Music == | ||
{{Beautiful (Babble)}} [0:20] | |||
{{ | {{Funky Worm (Ohio Players)}} [31:33] | ||
{{Meaning In The Tone ('95 Space - Oriental) (Silent Poets)}} [33:45] <!-- audiotag ftw --> | |||
== Additional credits == | |||
The original broadcast credits state: "[C]reated in collaboration with [[Arthur Miller]] and [[David Rapkin]]; | |||
music production by, and edited and mixed by, [[Bob Carlson]]; special | |||
thanks to Jennifer Ferro, Bruno Guez, and Jason Bentley."<ref name=bentley /> | |||
== Miscellanea == | |||
Some stations omit the credits. | |||
== Footnotes == | |||
[[Category:Absurd Monologue]] | [[Category:Absurd Monologue]] | ||
[[Category:1996]] | [[Category:1996]] | ||
[[Category: Somewhere Out There]] | |||
[[Category:Show]] | |||
[[Category:Show_by_date|19960121]] {{Airdate|airdate=1996-01-21}} | |||
{{Series|series=Somewhere Out There}}{{Cast|cast=Joe Frank}} |