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== Synopsis ==
== Synopsis ==
<li>Train sounds.
<li>Train sounds; a poetic celebration of the hobo.  
<li>A poetic celebration of the hobo.  
<li>A ski lodge, writing "regret not the momentary impulse" on a cast.  
<li>A ski lodge, writing "regret not the momentary impulse" on a cast.  
<li>Founding fathers, the Articles of Confabulation and the bill of human bondage.  
<li>Founding fathers, the Articles of Confabulation and the bill of human bondage.  
<li>General Deities Incorporated. Christmas in New York.  
<li>General Deities Incorporated. Christmas in New York.  
<li>Throwing a New Year's Eve party - a guest suffocated beneath coats.  
<li>Throwing a New Year's Eve party - a guest suffocated beneath coats.  
<li>Getting mugged weekly in the stairway of Joe's apartment, then meeting the same guy years later.  
<li>Revolutionary political group promulgates messages and performs actions.
<li>Rapid monologue amidst glass-style minimalist orchestral music: I am a statue in the park... walking into the river and filling a bowl on one's head, using a third eye to cheat at cards.
<li>Conventional life disrupted by sabotage - fire extinguishers filled with napalm; shaving cream replaced with hair growth substance; emetics, diuretics, and laxatives added to office coffee
<li>Individualism amidst mobs, perception of a radio program.
<li>List of everyday items: lite beer, lite cheese, lite meat, lite baked goods...
<li>Deepened monologue: immigrants mistaking an oil rig for America, getting menial jobs, raising middle class children.  
<li>List of security services: a bank of television monitors enabling you to observe who is approaching along the driveway...
<li>The balance of payments: taxation by weighing noblemen.  
<li>List of upper class amenities: the Alpine ski lodge in wintertime Palm Desert Club timeshares...
<li>A woman with a french accent talks about falling in love.  
<li>List of beverages: ... noca-cola, joka-cola, bloka-cola, smoka-cola, croka-cola, loca-cola, broka-cola.
<li>A malfunctioning garage door opener.  
<li>Joe hums and raps "it's the sweet life I'm leading" to music.
<li>Describing a fantasy woman.  
<li>The triumph of the suburban mall.
<li>Odes: Oh woman, high school cheerleader, businesswoman, nurse, homemaker, secretary, stewardess.  
<li>Deepened monologue: being tired of life, the legions of the dead. Dreams: discovering one is still married to an ex wife,  being a cartoon character spun off as a plastic doll.  
<li>A being oiled by women in a room full of video games with a glass floor while a man reads holy books, wanting to go away, watching an old man dance with a beautiful young girl.


== Music ==  
== Music ==