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== Synopsis == | == Synopsis == | ||
Train sounds. | |||
0:50: A paean to the hobo, the first few seconds of Country Joe | |||
McDonald's 'Hold On It's Coming' repeating in the background - 'Oh | |||
midnight special, I ride the rods a hobo...' | |||
7:30: 'I jump off the train in Wildermere.(sp?)' Joe describes the | |||
small town where he jumps off the train. | |||
10:00: Joe describes a scene in a ski lodge. He inscribes an | |||
attractive woman's cast, 'Regret not the momentary impulse.' | |||
11:50: He describes how he likes to sleep in a cold room. A woman | |||
comes in. He speculates about what she's wearing. He compares the | |||
shape of her body to the architecture of our nation's governance, | |||
including the 'Articles of Confabulation' and other parody documents. | |||
15:00: He recommends things to do, including replacing that broken | |||
pane of glass... and flossing. | |||
18:00: Christmas in New York, 'Carolers standing beneath the street | |||
lamp', the Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center, midnight mass at St | |||
Pat's... | |||
22:10: Joe describes a New Year's Eve party, which gets wild. | |||
Miracles happen. Someone smothers to death underneath the jackets | |||
thrown on the bed. | |||
28:50: A class, run by a fellow named Rottweiler. Joe gets so bored | |||
he carves his initials in the shoulder blades of the person sitting in | |||
front of him. The class turns out to be a meeting of people who | |||
perpetrate disruptive acts upon the public: subliminal messages in | |||
movies, on blimps, banners, 'radical wandering yodelers', | |||
hallucinogens in room fresheners, napalm in fire extinguishers, | |||
shaving creams that cause hair to grow uncontrollably, powerful | |||
emetics, diuretics, and laxatives in coffee-cart coffee, | |||
paranoia-inducing substances in public-toilet paper dispensers. Joe | |||
describes how people react to these, especially the hallucinogens. | |||
39:50: Joe unwinds a long list: 'lite beer, lite cheese, lite meat, | |||
lite baked goods... a bank of television monitors enabling you to see | |||
who is approaching along the driveway... the seaplane that takes you | |||
to Southampton... the ex-Vietnam veteran karate-expert chauffeur who | |||
lives in the apartment above the garage... cigar-smoking, | |||
brandy-quaffing men in the library discuss the humor of high finance | |||
around a great crackling blaze in the Southern California | |||
night... henless eggs, decaffeinated cocaine' | |||
47:30 Joe tells us how much he likes the life he's leading, | |||
repeatedly, for about a minute. | |||
49:40: Joe describes an enormous mall that sells everything. It has | |||
apartments beneath it, in which one can experience foreign | |||
environments, including contracting malaria and parasitic infestations | |||
from the Brazilian rainforest. | |||
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<div style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;">Legacy Synopsis</div> | |||
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<li>Train sounds; a poetic celebration of the hobo. | <li>Train sounds; 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. | ||
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<li>Joe hums and raps "it's the sweet life I'm leading" to music. | <li>Joe hums and raps "it's the sweet life I'm leading" to music. | ||
<li>The triumph of the suburban mall. | <li>The triumph of the suburban mall. | ||
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== Music == | == Music == | ||
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