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<i>Dreamland</i> isn't even mentioned. | <i>Dreamland</i> isn't even mentioned. | ||
' | 'Basically time is just a dimension of the universe...' A | ||
homeless guy explains how people use sound to harm others.<ref name=streetwise>originally aired in [[Streetwise]]</ref> | |||
[[Streetwise]]</ref> | |||
2:20: Guy talks about what happened to him when he came to | |||
California, became homeless. He explains that America is a big dog, | |||
s | Los Angeles a giant tick on it that's going to explode.<ref name=streetwise /> | ||
4:30: 'Geneticists and computer scientists are really working | |||
together towards a better future for everyone' making perfect clones | |||
to replace people.<ref name=streetwise /> | |||
5:50: Guy explains why he hates garbage.<ref name=streetwise /> | |||
7:00: Guy says that his mother (adopted) flirts with him.<ref name=streetwise /> | |||
8:10: Guy says that when he was in Hawaii he found out he was | |||
the king of the universe, talks about drummers, Buddha, and Jesus.<ref name=streetwise /> | |||
10: A crazy 'preacher', prankster David Franks, wants to come | |||
over for a séance with a resistant woman. (apparently a found tape).<ref name=prayer>originally aired in [[Prayer]]</ref> | |||
16:30: A guy tells about when he became psychotic in | |||
Manhattan. He worries that people think he's gay.<ref name=loner>originally aired in [[Loner]]</ref> | |||
18:10: Guy tells about when he was drinking in Paris. A | |||
fellow drugged him; he woke up drunk in a car on the street.<ref name=loner /> | |||
20:20: Guy tells of times he blacked out. Once, on a bus trip | |||
from California to Oregon, he woke up under a truck in Corning, | |||
California. He thinks he was drugged on the bus.<ref name=loner /> | |||
22:20: Guy wants to 'meet the right lady', get exercise, | |||
meditate, tarot cards, music.<ref name=loner /> | |||
23:10: Guy describes his nervous breakdowns.<ref name=loner /> | |||
24:10: Guy imagines he could be drug-free if he had friends like him.<ref name=loner /> | |||
25:20: Guy's baffled by his stupidity, takes too many pills.<ref name=loner /> | |||
26:40: Crazy preacher (David Franks) calls person (sounds like | |||
a woman to me; preacher addresses him/her as 'brother'), leads him/her | |||
in a crazy prayer ('Clytemnestra's daughter ... African Eurasian tiger | |||
pussycat'...).<ref>originally aired in [[A Natural Disaster]]</ref> | |||
35:00: Some dial-a-prayers.<ref name=prayer /> | |||
42:00: A woman (Grace Zabriskie) talks about bliss, which | |||
comes upon her unawares, for no discernible reason, how much she likes | |||
it, how it makes her life worth living.<ref name=prayer /> | |||
45:10: A guy calls the tarot reader, wondering if this other | |||
man loves him.<ref name=hotline>originally aired in [[Hot Line]]</ref> | |||
46:00: A woman calls him as a wrong number; he insists on reading | |||
her cards.<ref name=hotline /> | |||
49:40: A guy remembers his father, how much he misses him | |||
(he's dead), how he could always rely on him, talk to him about | |||
anything. The father commandeered a street-sweeper in Georgia, drove | |||
it into a cemetery. He misses his friends too, dead and alive. He | |||
talks about a picture in his room looking at him, over-hearing pay | |||
phone conversations.<ref name=hotline /> | |||
54:20: The guy from 'Loner' tells of being in a strange town, | |||
gambling all night, forgetting his motel, spending all night looking | |||
for it.<ref name=loner /> | |||
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* [[Hot Line]] | * [[Hot Line]] | ||
* [[Streetwise]] | * [[Streetwise]] | ||
* [[A Natural Disaster]] | |||
== Miscellanea == | == Miscellanea == | ||
The <i>NPR Playhouse</i> | The <i>NPR Playhouse</i> announcer says, <blockquote> | ||
You've been listening to Joe Frank, 'The Other Side'. This | |||
program was called 'Dreamland' [sic] with David Franks, William | |||
Stanley | Reinert, and Grace Zabriskie, special thanks to Stanley. Production: | ||
- could he have | J. C. Swiatek; production assistance: Esmé Gregson. | ||
</blockquote> | |||
Who's Stanley? The homeless guy in the beginning? Who's William | |||
Reinert? The loner? Or one of the guys from the tarot hotline? Reinert's only other credit is [[Streetwise]] - could he have been the 'homeless' person? | |||
* Joe uses the music "[[:Category:Rock_Hammer_(Thomas_Newman)|Rock Hammer]]" (a cut from the score of <i>Shawshank Redemption</i>) in [[Dreamland: A Compilation]]; his character uses a rock hammer in [[Escape From Paradise]]. | * Joe uses the music "[[:Category:Rock_Hammer_(Thomas_Newman)|Rock Hammer]]" (a cut from the score of <i>Shawshank Redemption</i>) in [[Dreamland: A Compilation]]; his character uses a rock hammer in [[Escape From Paradise]]. | ||