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== Synopsis ==
== Synopsis ==
<li>Train sounds.
<li>Train sounds; a poetic celebration of the hobo.  
<li>A poetic celebration of the hobo.  
<li>A ski lodge, writing "regret not the momentary impulse" on a cast.  
<li>A ski lodge, writing "regret not the momentary impulse" on a cast.  
<li>Founding fathers, the Articles of Confabulation and the bill of human bondage.  
<li>Founding fathers, the Articles of Confabulation and the bill of human bondage.  
<li>General Deities Incorporated. Christmas in New York.  
<li>General Deities Incorporated. Christmas in New York.  
<li>Throwing a New Year's Eve party - a guest suffocated beneath coats.  
<li>Throwing a New Year's Eve party - a guest suffocated beneath coats.  
<li>Getting mugged weekly in the stairway of Joe's apartment, then meeting the same guy years later.  
<li>Revolutionary political group promulgates messages and performs actions.
<li>Rapid monologue amidst glass-style minimalist orchestral music: I am a statue in the park... walking into the river and filling a bowl on one's head, using a third eye to cheat at cards.
<li>Conventional life disrupted by sabotage - fire extinguishers filled with napalm; shaving cream replaced with hair growth substance; emetics, diuretics, and laxatives added to office coffee
<li>Individualism amidst mobs, perception of a radio program.
<li>List of everyday items: lite beer, lite cheese, lite meat, lite baked goods...
<li>Deepened monologue: immigrants mistaking an oil rig for America, getting menial jobs, raising middle class children.  
<li>List of security services: a bank of television monitors enabling you to observe who is approaching along the driveway...
<li>The balance of payments: taxation by weighing noblemen.  
<li>List of upper class amenities: the Alpine ski lodge in wintertime Palm Desert Club timeshares...
<li>A woman with a french accent talks about falling in love.  
<li>List of beverages: ... noca-cola, joka-cola, bloka-cola, smoka-cola, croka-cola, loca-cola, broka-cola.
<li>A malfunctioning garage door opener.  
<li>Joe hums and raps "it's the sweet life I'm leading" to music.
<li>Describing a fantasy woman.  
<li>The triumph of the suburban mall.
<li>Odes: Oh woman, high school cheerleader, businesswoman, nurse, homemaker, secretary, stewardess.  
<li>Deepened monologue: being tired of life, the legions of the dead. Dreams: discovering one is still married to an ex wife,  being a cartoon character spun off as a plastic doll.  
<li>A 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.


== Music ==  
== Music ==  

Revision as of 20:20, 2 March 2021

Road To Hell[1]
Series
Work In Progress
Original Broadcast Date
1989
Cast
Joe Frank
Format
Absurd Monologue, 1 hour
Preceded by: The More I Know You
Followed by: Nausea

Oh Midnight Special, I ride the rods a hobo, not homeless...

Road To Hell is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series Work In Progress. It was originally broadcast in 1989.

Synopsis

  • Train sounds; a poetic celebration of the hobo.
  • A ski lodge, writing "regret not the momentary impulse" on a cast.
  • Founding fathers, the Articles of Confabulation and the bill of human bondage.
  • General Deities Incorporated. Christmas in New York.
  • Throwing a New Year's Eve party - a guest suffocated beneath coats.
  • Revolutionary political group promulgates messages and performs actions.
  • Conventional life disrupted by sabotage - fire extinguishers filled with napalm; shaving cream replaced with hair growth substance; emetics, diuretics, and laxatives added to office coffee
  • List of everyday items: lite beer, lite cheese, lite meat, lite baked goods...
  • List of security services: a bank of television monitors enabling you to observe who is approaching along the driveway...
  • List of upper class amenities: the Alpine ski lodge in wintertime Palm Desert Club timeshares...
  • List of beverages: ... noca-cola, joka-cola, bloka-cola, smoka-cola, croka-cola, loca-cola, broka-cola.
  • Joe hums and raps "it's the sweet life I'm leading" to music.
  • The triumph of the suburban mall.

    Music

    This is an incomplete record of the music in this program. If you can add more information, please do.

    Shared material

    Additional credits

    The original broadcast credits state: "Performed by Joe Frank, and created in collaboration with David Rapkin. Recorded and mixed by Jeff Sykes."

    Commentary

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