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<i>Solea</i> (Miles Davis, <i>Sketches of Spain</i>) | |||
1:20: Sound of a typewriter, then Joe's voice narrating a story about 2 people, José (a bullfighter - [[Tim Jerome]]) and Susanna ([[Annalee Jefferies]]?), at the shore, watching the waves crash, 'and to him they (the waves) were like bulls, they kept on coming, one after another, in stubborn and despairing fortitude'. <ref>An homage to how [[Eighty Yard Run]] ended?</ref> | |||
1:50: José and Susanna take up the story themselves. José's mother took him to the shore when he was a child, rubbed them (her children) against the rock to get them clean. She's head over heels in love with him. He tells bullfighting stories. | |||
5:50: <i>Music for 18 Musicians</i> (Steve Reich). | |||
6:20: July 15 - Joe complains that he can't get the beach scene right, wonders why characters he writes can cause him such frustration, as though they had lives of their own. | |||
6:40: Joe wonders, 'When will that book on Dominguín arrive?' <ref> Luis Miguel Dominguín https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Miguel_Dominguín was a famous bullfighter. Thanks to Chris Pirazzi for this reading.</ref> | |||
7:20: [[Arthur Miller]] remembers when he was a child and first learning to read. His father, also a psycho-anthropologist, gave him <i>Black beauty</i>, which terrified him. A woman ([[Rosemary Foley]], [[Avery Hart]] are the other women in the cast) avers that people write to purge their pain. Another man ([[Lester Nafzger]]?) enters the discussion. <ref>I haven't figured out how many voices are in this segment.</ref> | |||
10:30: Joe narrates José and Susanna's story again, to the sound of his typewriter and <i>Solea</i>. Their car is careening on the coastal road. Driving fast excites José. | |||
12:50: The panel discusses the dangers of reading. | |||
16:50: Joe sometimes feels that he doesn't really exist, that he's a character in someone else's novel, that that author is a character in someone else's novel... so on to the 'universal author father'. | |||
18:10: Joe's bedroom is a mess; he's missing parts of his novel. | |||
18:50: Joe narrates José and Susanna's story: they've just made love. José tells Susanna that it's like fighting the bull. José tells the story of his childhood: 13 children in 1 room, his mother a prostitute, his father a fisherman who caught no fish. He tells more bullfighting stories. | |||
22:50: Joe narrates, says that Susanna senses that this will be their last night together. | |||
23:50: They go to a church. José explains the scenes in the stained glass. | |||
27:10: Joe tells of one of José's bullfights. | |||
29:30: One of the panel (Arthur?) avers that had God wanted man to read he would have given him the ability at birth. Panel discusses reading more. | |||
31:50: April 22, evening - Joe feels imbued with a sense of doom, can't write, tells of Melville's difficulties writing (fictional). <ref>Note the previous date was July 15.</ref> | |||
33: Joe narrates: José and Susanna are at José's favorite café. | |||
33:30: José tells Susanna how beautiful she is. They say they'll be together forever; she wants him to stop fighting, because it's dangerous. To demonstrate that he can't die in a bullfight he ties steak knives to the legs of a chair, has Susanna play the bull so he can demonstrate how good a bullfighter he is. The scene ends with a lame pun. | |||
39:20: Joe narrates José's death. | |||
40: A redneck couple argues the relative merits of watching television (his preference) and reading (hers). | |||
44:20: To prove that TV has culture, the guy tunes to a performance by fast pianist Alan Baron. Joe's the host, takes calls, Lester Ainsley (sp? - [[Lester Nafzger]]), another fast pianist calls in. He's angry that Alan Baron won't have a piano-off with him; Baron says Ainsley's a famous pest on the fast piano league. They have an angry argument. <ref>Re-used in [[Emergency Room]]</ref> | |||
50: A meeting of 'Consciousness-lowering' (CL), most (all?) of the panel. <ref>Re-used in [[Til You're Gone]]</ref> | |||
55:50: November 13 - Joe walks along the shore, collecting stones, sees a dead whale; his bathroom is messy. | |||
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We hear Joe alternately discussing his own writing process and typing at a keyboard. His story describes a romance between an American woman and a bullfighter. The narrative alternates with acted scenes and sound effects. Every scene degenerates into references to bull fighting. The couple swims naked in the sea, encounter a whale. Panel discussion: being terrified of text after reading Black Beauty, writing to purge anxiety, the history of writing. Story: reckless passion in a race car. Panel: reading and the downfall of civilization, the danger of self examination. Joe: the universe as a succession of writers inventing worlds. Story: a scene in a hotel room above a festival, the bull fighter's childhood, a fisherman living far from water and fishing for scrap ("You cannot eat a coat"), reading doesn't compare to bullfighting, scar stories. Story: scene in a church, stained glass featuring the resurrection of a wealthy donor, animals communicate with god. Joe: hammering a nail into your heart with your own brocaded slipper. Panel: man wasn't meant to read, college course reading lists. Joe: Melville's physical struggle when writing. Story: a scene in a cafe, she begs him to stop fighting bulls, a model bull fight using steak knives tied to a chair. A man and woman fight - he wants to watch TV and she wants to read. A television program: the fastest piano player interview. Panel: the consciousness lowering group. Joe: finding a dead whale on the beach, the mess in one's bathroom. | We hear Joe alternately discussing his own writing process and typing at a keyboard. His story describes a romance between an American woman and a bullfighter. The narrative alternates with acted scenes and sound effects. Every scene degenerates into references to bull fighting. The couple swims naked in the sea, encounter a whale. Panel discussion: being terrified of text after reading Black Beauty, writing to purge anxiety, the history of writing. Story: reckless passion in a race car. Panel: reading and the downfall of civilization, the danger of self examination. Joe: the universe as a succession of writers inventing worlds. Story: a scene in a hotel room above a festival, the bull fighter's childhood, a fisherman living far from water and fishing for scrap ("You cannot eat a coat"), reading doesn't compare to bullfighting, scar stories. Story: scene in a church, stained glass featuring the resurrection of a wealthy donor, animals communicate with god. Joe: hammering a nail into your heart with your own brocaded slipper. Panel: man wasn't meant to read, college course reading lists. Joe: Melville's physical struggle when writing. Story: a scene in a cafe, she begs him to stop fighting bulls, a model bull fight using steak knives tied to a chair. A man and woman fight - he wants to watch TV and she wants to read. A television program: the fastest piano player interview. Panel: the consciousness lowering group. Joe: finding a dead whale on the beach, the mess in one's bathroom. | ||
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== Interesting Facts == | == Interesting Facts == | ||