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== Synopsis == | == Synopsis == | ||
Joe's speech in this episode is distorted, I think by recording with | |||
Dolby compression and playing back without uncompressing it, with the | |||
exception of the segment beginning at 8:50. The 10 minutes beginning | |||
at 33 is surreal, not synopsizable; I quote some of it. The cast has | |||
a woman, Evelyn, who speaks with a French accent. | |||
Joe describes a fancy concert, 'Gentlemen in striped pants, cutaway | |||
morning coats, white-fronted vests and top hats, and ladies swathed in | |||
gowns and Russian furs, dripping in fresh water pearls and rough-cut | |||
emeralds…' of a pianist. He scopes out the beautiful women, | |||
prepares witty remarks to charm them. During intermission he follows | |||
one into the ladies' room, talks to her from an adjacent stall. After | |||
intermission he kisses another, she responds, he runs out with her to | |||
his horse-drawn carriage, where he prepares remarks for the | |||
convention. | |||
6:20: A woman with a French accent talks about how tired she is with | |||
everything, including the person she's talking to. | |||
8:50: Joe asks where she'd want to go, suggests an out-of-the-way | |||
beach. He's a director, motivating her in performing a scene, not an | |||
interlocutor. | |||
10:30: Joe delivers a speech telling of his fitness for office. | |||
12:10: Joe tells of a family arriving on an oil platform in a flotilla | |||
of paper bags. After years they move to the mainland, take menial | |||
jobs, their descendants eventually succeeding by becoming lawyers who | |||
snare innocents in Kafka-like lawsuits.<ref name=roadremix>re-used in | |||
[[Road To Hell (Remix)]]</ref> | |||
16:10: A man ([[Henry Dennis]]) recounts his time playing in the band | |||
Mascara. Beautiful women swarmed him, tore his clothes off, pursued | |||
him constantly. They kidnapped him. After he was freed he quit music | |||
and dedicated himself to public service.<ref name=loverman>re-used in | |||
[[Lover Man]]</ref> | |||
21:40: Joe tells the origin of 'balance of payments': the people had | |||
to pay the ruler his weight in precious metals. Thus rulers ate | |||
themselves fat. Eventually one burst, his digestive juices digested | |||
the entire population.<ref name=roadremix /> | |||
27:10: Evelyn recounts the first time she fell in love.<ref name=roadremix /> | |||
28:20: Joe describes the misbehavior of his electronic garage door | |||
opener, 'it activated my neighbor's jacuzzi, set off car alarms down | |||
the block, turned off the rotisserie and Randy's chicken and rib | |||
across the street, and detonated the entire field of intercontinental | |||
ballistic missiles behind my house, bringing us to the brink of | |||
fail-safe.'<ref name=roadremix /> | |||
29:10: Joe tells a woman what he wants her to wear, to do. | |||
30:00: Joe describes last night's dream. | |||
31:00: Joe gets stuck in a revolving door because he's on roller | |||
skates, listening to a Walkman. | |||
31:20: Joe defines eternity: a small bird sharpens its beak on a | |||
mountain… | |||
31:50: Joe lists ordinary things of which he's tired.<ref name=roadremix /> | |||
33:00: 'Yesterday I walked by the zoo and saw my entire family being | |||
fed. I need a new isle of Langerhans, a new endocrine system, a new | |||
set of polyps and eyelashes. Yesterday I passed the clown-broth house | |||
and was accosted by crustaceans, embraced by bivalves, pinned to the | |||
wall with a lobster pin. | |||
'I like to paint organs and my work has been published extensively in | |||
textbooks. Everyone in med school is familiar with my open thorax and | |||
extended colon series. Though lately, I've begun to paint only along | |||
the edge of the canvas. | |||
'In my dream last night, I was in a very dark and crowded place. I | |||
was not in the human shape that I am now, but I was rather a colorless | |||
and cylindrical object among many other colorless and cylindrical | |||
objects. In my darkened space, tucked between the walls of a soft and | |||
forgiving substance, feeling a bumpy, striding motion, I resided | |||
endlessly next to a huge dollar bill. Then, finally, pulled from the | |||
dark space which I'd occupied, the envelope around me torn open by | |||
what appeared to be gigantic fingers trembling with passion, and | |||
extracted from the oily bath in which I'd been immersed, I could hear | |||
the muffled grunts and groans of yet another creature, and I gazed | |||
down at a great spire. And then my shape began to unroll and lengthen | |||
until fully draped over the tower I was plunged into wet, seething | |||
darkness and then out into the light again, and then deep into the | |||
darkness again, and then out into the light again, and in and out and | |||
in and out, and I was strained to the breaking point. And then some | |||
dreadful viscous substance was pumped into my underside. And the | |||
great pillar slowly assembled. And the same large fingers would move | |||
me, holding me between their very tips, and drop me into a pool, and | |||
the pool began to whirl, and the great vortex carried me down out of | |||
the light. And when, once again, I regained the light. There were | |||
many others of my kind, each one with a similar, yet somewhat | |||
different story. And together we all washed up on a beach with dirty | |||
needles, syringes, and vials of blood, where children gamboled and | |||
frolicked in the surf.' (Sounds of children) | |||
37:20: Joe describes his adventures while wandering in Beirut; they're | |||
surreal. | |||
38:20: 'I'm going to Pebble, Fencer and Myre. In the mailroom, brown | |||
shoes, square, in the dead of night, I idle away the hours blowing | |||
seeds off dandelions and studying the crazy shapes of clouds, lying on | |||
my back in a summer field, among the hyacinths and forsythia. There | |||
are roadways paved with human skulls. Yes, the numbers are forever | |||
increasing in the legions of the dead.'<ref name=roadremix /> | |||
39:00: Joe recalls 2 surreal dreams.<ref name=roadremix /> | |||
43:30: Evelyn, her voice now distorted as Joe's, and Joe tell how sick | |||
they are of each other. Joe says he'll leave; she tells him to go | |||
ahead. They go at each other for 4 minutes.<ref name=loverman /> | |||
48:10: Joe says that he goes to museums to meet women, describes the | |||
conversations with which he tries to charm them. | |||
50:30: Joe speaks at the Rotary club, makes the same speech he | |||
delivered at the convention. | |||
51:40: The speech continues with Evelyn's lament of tiredness mixed | |||
in. The speech fades out, only Evelyn's lament is heard. | |||
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<div style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;">Legacy Synopsis</div> | |||
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Joe in a low, distorted voice describes a upper class concert hall, stalking women at the concert. A woman in a french accent talks about being tired and wanting to escape, Joe coaches her dialog. A presidential candidate makes a speech: promising a vague but great future, immigrants mistaking an oil rig for America, middle class success for third generation immigrants. A rock star talks about being hounded and kidnapped by women, becomes an anti-feminist. Setting taxes by weighing noblemen. French actress talks about falling in love. A faulty garage door opener almost leads to nuclear war. Describing a fantasy woman. Monologue describing dreams: a dream of an inflating mother, being trapped on roller skates in a revolving door, eternity is a mountain whittled away by a bird, being tired of life, being attacked by seafood, painting organs, the life of a condom, wondering through Beirut, buying insurance by the hour, being interviewed about ways to kill people, being a cartoon character spun off as a plastic doll, a list of things one needs, 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. Joe in a distorted low voice and french woman discuss being sick of each other. Monologue: meeting women in art museums. Candidate speech dissolved into woman saying she is tired. | Joe in a low, distorted voice describes a upper class concert hall, stalking women at the concert. A woman in a french accent talks about being tired and wanting to escape, Joe coaches her dialog. A presidential candidate makes a speech: promising a vague but great future, immigrants mistaking an oil rig for America, middle class success for third generation immigrants. A rock star talks about being hounded and kidnapped by women, becomes an anti-feminist. Setting taxes by weighing noblemen. French actress talks about falling in love. A faulty garage door opener almost leads to nuclear war. Describing a fantasy woman. Monologue describing dreams: a dream of an inflating mother, being trapped on roller skates in a revolving door, eternity is a mountain whittled away by a bird, being tired of life, being attacked by seafood, painting organs, the life of a condom, wondering through Beirut, buying insurance by the hour, being interviewed about ways to kill people, being a cartoon character spun off as a plastic doll, a list of things one needs, 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. Joe in a distorted low voice and french woman discuss being sick of each other. Monologue: meeting women in art museums. Candidate speech dissolved into woman saying she is tired. | ||
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== Music == | == Music == | ||
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The original broadcast credits state: "With Evelyn, [[Henry Dennis]], and Joe Frank. It was produced in the studios of KCRW Santa Monica, and mixed by Jeff Sykes." | The original broadcast credits state: "With Evelyn, [[Henry Dennis]], and Joe Frank. It was produced in the studios of KCRW Santa Monica, and mixed by Jeff Sykes." | ||
== Shared material == | |||
Joe re-used segments from this episode in [[Road To Hell (Remix)]] and [[Lover Man]] (which is identical to [[The Loved One (Remix)]] | |||
== Footnotes == | |||
[[Category:Absurd_Monologue]] | [[Category:Absurd_Monologue]] | ||
[[Category:Improv_Actors]] | [[Category:Improv_Actors]] |