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== Synopsis == | == Synopsis == | ||
2:00: Joe recounts 'meeting' a woman on Facebook, getting interested | |||
in each other, then meeting in person. She wasn't interested in him; | |||
he attributed this to his frailty. | |||
4:50: Joe reads 2 imagined singles' ads from old women, their | |||
unattractiveness. | |||
5:50: Joe tells of going to a dinner party. He couldn't keep up with | |||
the conversations, spilled food and wine on himself, fell off the | |||
sofa. | |||
8:00: People open doors for him, including a little girl, which Joe | |||
resents. | |||
9:00: On the way to an anger management class, 4 college students in a | |||
Carrera cut him off, angering him; they're dismissive of his anger, | |||
because he's old. He threatens them floridly.<ref>Joe threatens to | |||
disembowel one of them, feed him to his dog, Ollie. Ollie was the | |||
name of his neighbors' dog in [[Insomnia]], the name of the dog the guy | |||
happy with his 9-millimeter shot in [[Problems]]</ref> | |||
10:40: He's on a college campus on a beautiful autumn day. He knows | |||
the students ignore him. He remembers when he was young. When it | |||
rains, they dance, he takes shelter. Afterwards all the students are | |||
gone, except 1 dressed as a clown; Joe imagines pushing him into the | |||
duck pond. | |||
12:40: Joe observes that one doesn't experience one's own death, that | |||
it's just a problem for others. | |||
14:30: Joe imagines what a mortician's life must be like. | |||
15:00: Joe imagines living on the beach in Rio. | |||
16:00: Joe loses his train of thought in the middle of sentences, naps | |||
in the afternoon, hobbles between rooms. | |||
16:40: Joe talks about the different ways people die. | |||
18:30: Joe talks about people flirting with or courting death, the | |||
process of dying. | |||
19:40: Joe recalls when he dressed as a chicken, danced on a street | |||
corner to call attention to a furniture store. In a bar afterwards he | |||
met a prostitute; they talked about furthering their professional | |||
goals. Then he went to the bathroom, a turd broke in half, one half | |||
staying attached to his butt, the difficulty cleaning up. | |||
21:10: Joe tells of getting involved with an oak tree behind his | |||
house. When his friends found out about it, they encouraged him to | |||
try taxi dancing instead. He danced with the same woman for weeks, | |||
until she disappeared. By that time his tree had taken up with an | |||
investment banker, breaking his heart. | |||
24:20: Joe talks about the difficulty of a parting hug, not being the | |||
last to break the embrace. | |||
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<div style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;">Legacy Synopsis</div> | |||
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A comic take on the trials of being old and facing death. A light-hearted and whimsical show (as Joe has described it), Old Man looks into the harrowing and absurd future we all must face. | A comic take on the trials of being old and facing death. A light-hearted and whimsical show (as Joe has described it), Old Man looks into the harrowing and absurd future we all must face. | ||
Contains the bit where Joe is dressed like a chicken and advertising a furniture store. | Contains the bit where Joe is dressed like a chicken and advertising a furniture store. | ||
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== Music == | == Music == | ||
* Original music by [[David Ralicke]] and Joe Frank <!--let's assume the music @10:22 is also original--> | * Original music by [[David Ralicke]] and Joe Frank <!--let's assume the music @10:22 is also original--> | ||
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* [https://www.kcrw.com/news-culture/shows/unfictional/joe-frank-old-man "Old Man" streaming audio at KCRW] | * [https://www.kcrw.com/news-culture/shows/unfictional/joe-frank-old-man "Old Man" streaming audio at KCRW] | ||
== Footnotes == | |||
[[Category:2012]] | [[Category:2012]] | ||
[[Category:UnFictional]] | [[Category:UnFictional]] |