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== Synopsis == | == Synopsis == | ||
2:30: Joe tells of a fellow at a party with his wife. She converses | |||
with another man. He's jealous. She minds. | |||
3:50: Joe tells how much marriage means. | |||
4:20: Joe's living on an island. He describes a couple, 'a young | |||
woman in a pink bikini, an orchid behind her ear… Her partner | |||
is an older man of declined European elegance, wearing a white linen | |||
suit and blue beachcomber shoes, no socks, a gold replica of the | |||
Legion of Honor hanging from his neck.' | |||
5:20: A man ([[Ryan Cutrona]]), apparently the man Joe sees on the | |||
island, talks to the woman. | |||
8:30: Joe recalls when he was 10. They had a friendly nodding | |||
acquaintance with a neighbor couple. One day she pounded on his door, | |||
shrieking that her husband was trying to kill her. The husband came | |||
out, took her back to their apartment. He saw them again the next | |||
day, no sign of yesterday's conflict. | |||
10:30: <blockquote>'I like love, I loooooove being loved - I love it! I love giving love. I love giving more than I do receiving. But it takes a - you know - it takes a hell of an insight to get me to that point. Kisses are wonderful - it - it's wonderful.'<ref>First used in [[To The Bar Life]], | |||
also in [[Love Is]] and [[Where Will It End?]]</ref></blockquote> | |||
11:10: Joe recalls a relationship with a former girlfriend, | |||
how unhappy he is with how she treats him now. | |||
14:00: Joe recounts a conversation between an old man and his | |||
20-years-younger wife, watching a torrid sex scene on HBO. He says | |||
she should be with a younger man. She demurs. | |||
15;20: A man ([[Ryan Cutrona]]) quarrels with his wife about his | |||
drinking, going into an open house. Then he recounts meeting with the | |||
lawyer of someone he ran into while driving. Then he complains to his | |||
wife about her perfume, her jewelry, the classes she makes him go to, | |||
the men who pay attention to her. | |||
17:30: Another man ([[Ryan Cutrona]]): 'I'm a fairy. I'll never | |||
forget it. You're flirting with that little forward man with the | |||
freckles, remember, his tiny little mustache, his oily hair.' | |||
18:00: [Joe] 'Is there anyone here who respects failure who | |||
admires misguided effort and fragmentation?' | |||
18:20: Sitting on his terrace looking at the ocean Joe sees some | |||
people in a sailboat. He imagines meeting them at a surfside bar, | |||
partying, then fighting. | |||
20:00:<blockquote> | |||
'I'm surrounded by fossils, skeletons, and stuffed animals. I can't find the eye of my own hurricane. The heightening of my sense | |||
of smell has led me to the loss of my ability for abstract thought. | |||
Saw a dust mote floating in the sunlight by my window and imagined it | |||
was a world in which someone else was looking at a dust mote in which | |||
yet another world existed: boxes within boxes - everyone thinking the | |||
same thing, 'Oh, infinity: When will you stop?' | |||
'crib, stroller, teddy bear, doll's house, rollerskate, schoolbook, | |||
field hockey stick, soccer ball, vinyl boot, visored cap, megaphone, | |||
birth control pill, pregnancy stick, high school yearbook, graduation | |||
gown, love letter, airline ticket, Puerto Vallarta, wedding picture, | |||
golf club, ping pong table, swimming pool, striped umbrella, Visa | |||
bill, motel receipt, tear-soaked handkerchief, divorce papers, | |||
antidepressant, sleeping pill, hair dye, wrinkle cream, singles' | |||
dinner, self-help book, playing card, domino, laxative, cane, walker, | |||
wheelchair, oxygen tank, hospital bed, morphine drip, death | |||
certificate, coffin, tombstone: a life well lived' | |||
[Ryan Cutrona] 'I need to ask you and you must do it for me. | |||
I cannot live to give up yourself, to become another person | |||
voluntarily, willfully, and dutifully legally. Just transmute, | |||
transform, and become another. Take a new name, move to new country, | |||
get new citizenship. Change your fingerprints. Change everything, | |||
your facial recognition features. Change everything medically and | |||
change psychologically, to go to clinic. Change your mind. Take the | |||
plunge. Stop being who you are for god's sake.' | |||
[Joe] 'The search for the divine can lead you to unexpected | |||
places it might begin at a Bob's Big Boy while eating breakfast to | |||
celebrate the hiring of the new regional sales manager there are five | |||
people at the table: two brand managers, an account executive, a | |||
merchandising manager and the district sales coordinator and everyone | |||
is eating a huge hungry man's breakfast with eggs, pancakes, bacon, | |||
sausage, muffins, and grits, the waitress repeatedly returning to | |||
freshen the coffee cups, adding an element of unpredictability and | |||
threatening the psychic architecture of the situation and creating an | |||
emotional house of cards causing everyone to nervously and feverishly | |||
add sugar and cream to their coffees, the moment of crisis coming when | |||
the district sales coordinator covers his cup only to have the | |||
waitress pour the scalding coffee on the back of his hand because | |||
she's been distracted by handsome young man with shoulder length blond | |||
hair who's just entered the restaurant and glanced her way. | |||
A man ([[Ryan Cutrona]]) 'I think I'd really prefer to end our | |||
relationship and just say it's over it's been weird but good and it's | |||
been joyous although painful. It's been fun but very stressful. It's | |||
been a very mind-expanding and an ignoramus's dream. It's been | |||
sanctified and it's been sinful. And so I would just like to say, | |||
'Goodbye, good luck, sweet dreams, God bless, good life, safe travel, | |||
all the best, um… May the wind always be at your back; may the | |||
sun shine in your life. 'Til next time: it's been fun, good travels, | |||
good riddance. Adios! Vamoose! Basta! Vencermos! (unintelligible) | |||
Hasta manana! Hasta spumante! (unintelligible) (Laughter)' | |||
</blockquote> | |||
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<div style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;">Legacy Synopsis</div> | |||
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A program about personal fragmentation and the hardships of love. | A program about personal fragmentation and the hardships of love. | ||
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== Music == | == Music == | ||
{{Spinning (Zero 7)}} [Intro] | {{Spinning (Zero 7)}} [Intro] | ||
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* [http://www.kcrw.com/news-culture/shows/unfictional/joe-frank-a-life-well-lived "A Life Well Lived" streaming audio at KCRW] | * [http://www.kcrw.com/news-culture/shows/unfictional/joe-frank-a-life-well-lived "A Life Well Lived" streaming audio at KCRW] | ||
== Footnotes == | |||
[[Category:2013]] | [[Category:2013]] | ||
[[Category:Ryan Cutrona]] | [[Category:Ryan Cutrona]] |