786
edits
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
(17 intermediate revisions by 2 users not shown) | |||
Line 10: | Line 10: | ||
|label10 = Preceded by: | |label10 = Preceded by: | ||
|label11 = Followed by: | |label11 = Followed by: | ||
|data8 = [[:Category:Absurd Monologue|Absurd Monologue]], | |data8 = [[:Category:Absurd Monologue|Absurd Monologue]], 54 minutes | ||
|data4 = April 13, [[1996]] | |data4 = April 13, [[:Category:1996|1996]] | ||
|title = [https://www.joefrank.com/shop/white-moon White Moon][https://www.joefrank.com/streaming/shows/?jfsearch=White%20Moon] | |title = [https://www.joefrank.com/shop/white-moon White Moon][https://www.joefrank.com/streaming/shows/?jfsearch=White%20Moon] | ||
|data6 = Joe Frank | |data6 = Joe Frank | ||
Line 19: | Line 19: | ||
| | | | ||
}} | }} | ||
''There was a time when I looked in the mirror, and I could see nothing.'' | |||
'' | '''White Moon''' is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[Somewhere Out There]]. It was originally broadcast on April 13, [[:Category:1996|1996]]. | ||
== Synopsis == | |||
Joe, a bank teller, turns invisible, dresses in white gauze and | |||
gloves. The bank fires him. He stops speaking, becomes incapable of | |||
understanding speech. He ends up at a Buddhist monastery in Idaho. A | |||
monk thinks his koans should solve Joe's problem, but do nothing for | |||
him. | |||
9:50: Joe talks to god about their failing relationship. | |||
Joe | |||
13:20: Joe counts the tables, people, waitresses, and maître'd at | |||
a café, wants to count the flagstones, imagines the | |||
discomfiture of the other patrons. | |||
14:10: Joe's trembling, imagines how nice it would be to have a | |||
seizure. | |||
15:10: 'When they landed on the moon, I was in a firefight in a | |||
Buddhist cemetery north of Hue. Men were walking on the moon, a very | |||
white, bright moon shining down that night, while all hell was | |||
breaking loose around us. And I was lying there thinking. "We're | |||
doing what men have done since they first stood upright." The war | |||
didn't stop that night.' | |||
16:40: Joe recalls playing doctor as a child, operating on birds, | |||
small animals, road kill. He worked at a pharmacy, then as a sushi | |||
chef. With the help of an uncle who was a security guard at a | |||
hospital he became a surgeon without bothering with medical school. | |||
19:50: He gets hired by a hospital on the East Coast. He describes | |||
the hospital in detail, its facilities, the artwork in the hallways, | |||
the gift store, the coffins for sale. Because the hospital is so | |||
crowded they operate in the cafeteria; food gets into the patients. | |||
26:10: Joe was so talented that he excelled in operations of all | |||
kinds. His performances in the operating theatre got standing | |||
ovations. He performed plays while operating. He became a star. | |||
28:30: 'Teeth are chattering. God, it would be nice to have a | |||
seizure, to be buffeted by spasms and convulsions until, having | |||
discharged all this feeling, I crumpled peacefully to the floor, arms | |||
and legs twisted like a smashed doll. Very white bright moon shining | |||
down that night, while all hell was breaking loose around us. And I | |||
was lying there thinking, "We're doing what men have done since they | |||
first stood upright." War didn't stop that night.' | |||
29:20: Joe describes the cemetery surrounding the hospital. He lived | |||
in a mausoleum, luxuriously appointed. He rode around in a | |||
chauffeured hearse, lying in a coffin. He lost respect for his | |||
patients. | |||
33:20: He took up necrophilia with corpses of beautiful young women, | |||
began to revive them. Protesters protested that he didn't use his | |||
gift on other patients. | |||
38:40: He couldn't stand it. He drove to Idyllwild, then a Buddhist | |||
monastery, tried to get an audience with | |||
[http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/11/obituaries/leonard-cohen-dies.html Leonard Cohen]<ref>who often visited the Buddhist monastery on Mount | |||
Baldy.</ref> Then he went to Key West, then to Osaka's zen stone | |||
garden. | |||
40:30: He consulted a psychotherapist who specialized in his problem, | |||
conducted therapy in a railroad car. Joe found the motion of the car | |||
and the passing scenery therapeutic. The therapy worked. Then he | |||
found out that the car didn't move, that 2 assistants cranked a scroll | |||
with the images, a tape recorder provided the sound, motors moved the | |||
car up and down. The opposite side of the scroll was a Torah, being | |||
studied by rabbinical students. | |||
44:10: Joe counts things at the club (similar to 13:20). | |||
44:40: Joe's teeth are chattering; he imagines having a seizure | |||
(similar to 14:10) | |||
45:20: (same as at 15:10) | |||
47:40: Joe talks about diseases caused by bacteria, viruses, etc., how | |||
they destroy their host, thus themselves. He commends the lesson we | |||
can learn from this, concludes, 'we would be able to see the hidden | |||
meanings, and implications, and draw inferences, and make from the | |||
single notes given to us one at a time, harmonious chords that would | |||
make a symphony of meaning, and would permit us through the mediation | |||
of its harmonies, to understand more deeply and elementally, the | |||
forces at play, the underlying truths, the hidden, and I would say, | |||
coded messages. Because time is the most tragic thing we live with, | |||
and time is what carries us downstream, toward the river of | |||
forgetfulness.' | |||
== | <div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="width:100%; overflow:auto;"> | ||
<div style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;">Legacy Synopsis</div> | |||
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"> | |||
Joe is an invisible bank teller, discussing the end of a relationship with god, counting the cobblestones in a restaurant, looking at the moon from a cemetery in war, teeth chattering and seizure fantasy in the first person. Joe becomes a self-trained rock-star-like doctor, coffins in the hospital gift shop, operating in a kitchen, description of a cemetery, raising the dead with sex, a psychiatrist's office in a fake railroad car beside scenery painted on the back of a Torah, diseases destroying their hosts and meditation on time. | |||
</div></div> | |||
== Music == | |||
{{Infrarouge (The Mighty Bop)}} [Intro] | |||
{{Subtle Indoctrination (Rejuvination)}} [21:36] | |||
== | == Additional credits == | ||
The original broadcast credits state: "[C]reated in collaboration with [[David Rapkin]]. Recorded, edited, and mixed by Theo Mondle. Music looping by [[Bob Carlson]]. The music loops were from Rejuvination and La Funk Mob<ref>but The Mighty Bop has sole credit for 'Infrarouge'</ref> on the Quango label, with thanks to [https://www.brunoguez.com Bruno Guez], Jason Bentley, and <!--sp?-->Gaby Ory. Special thanks to Jennifer Ferro, Carly Eiseman, and Esmé Gregson." | |||
== External links == | |||
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euPWeIeHAEA White Moon on Joe's YouTube Channel] | |||
== Footnotes == | |||
[[Category:Absurd_Monologue]] | [[Category:Absurd_Monologue]] | ||
[[Category:David Rapkin]] | |||
[[Category:1996]] | [[Category:1996]] | ||
[[Category:Somewhere Out There]] | |||
[[Category:Show]] | |||
[[Category:Show_by_date|19960413]] {{Airdate|airdate=1996-04-13}} | |||
{{Series|series=Somewhere Out There}}{{Cast|cast=Joe Frank}} |