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== Synopsis == | == Synopsis == | ||
Joe tells us about being a blues singer: how he sang, played the | |||
guitar, the images and feelings that informed him. | |||
3:10: Joe recalls the cheap hotels he stayed in, the dives he played | |||
in, the people in his audience. | |||
4:30: Joe remembers the time he was charged with murder. | |||
6:20: Joe tells of the time he was in grocery store. The clerk | |||
wouldn't take his groceries out to his truck, so Joe trashed the place | |||
and set the gas pumps on fire. | |||
9:10: Joe recalls a party in his hotel room. The manager asked him to | |||
quiet down. Joe drowned him in the toilet. | |||
11:50: Joe expatiates on what life is like. | |||
16:20: Joe tells about being a Baptist minister. His services were | |||
loud and wild. The mayor visits, asks him to make them quieter. When | |||
he won't the mayor offers him a new location in an old barn 3 miles | |||
out of town. When he refuses his church burns down. Joe kills the | |||
mayor with an axe, hops a train to Memphis. | |||
25:30: Joe's been trimming his beard with a hole punch. He dangles | |||
holy verses on strings run through the holes. He asks why there is no | |||
justice or peace. A voice is unsympathetic. | |||
30:50: 'I have seen wine turn to water, fishes turn to loaves. I have | |||
seen the auricle only to retreat to the ventricle. I have seen the | |||
great ashtray at the end of the world…'<ref>originally aired in | |||
[[Sleep]]</ref> | |||
31:50: 'Bent by life's cares and woes I envy the lot of | |||
Eskimos.'<ref name=hell> originally aired in [[Road To Hell]]</ref> | |||
32:00:<blockquote> | |||
<br>'No. Bent by life's cares and woes I wish that I had been born an Episcopalian. | |||
<br>'I wish I could dance and sing and not be shamed by the clumsiness of my feet. | |||
<br>'I remember how Maureen Best laughed when I asked her out for a date after class. | |||
<br>'My love is like the morning dew. Her smile is like a golden shower. | |||
<br>'If the tinkling music of your laugh were not so annoying I'd still be on West 88th Street. | |||
<br>'I woke up this morning feeling so grim but I put my pants where my shirt should have been.'<ref name=goodbye>Joe sings this in [[Goodbye]]</ref> | |||
</blockquote> | |||
34:50: Beachcombing in Bali | |||
35:40:<blockquote> | |||
'You got that wild lookin think that make me want a shout | |||
<br>'come on baby why don't you pull it on out? | |||
<br>'You make me feel like an alligator. | |||
<br>'Let's do it now - forget about later. | |||
<br>'We'll go to a movie or maybe a bar. | |||
<br>'Come on baby just hop in my car. | |||
<br>'There's a flick on Broadway with some movie star - | |||
<br>'what's his name anyway. | |||
<br>'I read about him in the Enquirer: he was doing something to somebody. | |||
<br>'I know a little place called OJD's: | |||
<br>'they got fine burritos and smokin' black cheese, | |||
<br>'crisp fried chicken and collard greens, | |||
<br>'mashed potatoes and lima beans, | |||
<br>'a meatball sandwich, a pizza pie, | |||
<br>'pickle, tomatoes, and a turkey thigh. | |||
<br>'Hey, honey, get in the closet and close the door: | |||
<br>'I don't want to see you anymore. | |||
<br>'Let my fingers do the walking and let my eyeballs rest. | |||
<br>'We'll snuggle by the golf clubs you know I'm best. | |||
<br>'Hey baby what's that hangin off the wall? | |||
<br>'It sure smells funny and it's eight feet tall. | |||
<br>'I got me a gun but don't be afraid - I just have it for protection'<ref name=goodbye /> | |||
</blockquote> | |||
38:20: Joe rides the rods like a hobo, tells us how great the hobo | |||
life is.<ref name=hell /> | |||
45:30: Joe tells us he sees a great man when he looks in the mirror, | |||
goes into detail. He blames a conspiracy that kept him from achieving | |||
greatness. | |||
47:50: Recalling his life as a blues singer Joe recalls all the | |||
substances he abused: whiskey, valium, amyl nitrate, Valium, rubbing | |||
alcohol, shoe polish, sterno, floor wax, kerosene… but he sang | |||
the blues beautifully. | |||
49:40: He tried rehab. | |||
51:30: Joe remembers when he had an apartment in Oregon.<ref name=dark>originally | |||
aired in [[In The Dark (Part 1)]]</ref> | |||
52:00: Joe wants to be 'to be a rumpled pipe-smoking bachelor'.<ref name=dark /> | |||
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="width:100%; overflow:auto;"> | |||
<div style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;">Legacy Synopsis</div> | |||
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* Joe is a blues singer. | * Joe is a blues singer. | ||
* The music of daily life and car accidents. | * The music of daily life and car accidents. | ||
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* "But I have grown a beard and am covered with weeds" | * "But I have grown a beard and am covered with weeds" | ||
* Looking in the mirror and seeing greatness. | * Looking in the mirror and seeing greatness. | ||
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== Music == | == Music == | ||
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The original broadcast credits state: "With vocalist [[Judith Owen]], guitarist [[James Harrah]]. Special thanks to [[David Rapkin]]. This program was recorded, edited, and mixed by Bob Carlson." | The original broadcast credits state: "With vocalist [[Judith Owen]], guitarist [[James Harrah]]. Special thanks to [[David Rapkin]]. This program was recorded, edited, and mixed by Bob Carlson." | ||
== Footnotes == | |||
[[Category:Absurd_Monologue]] | [[Category:Absurd_Monologue]] | ||
[[Category:Narrative_Monologue]] | [[Category:Narrative_Monologue]] | ||