Love Prisoner
Series | |
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The Other Side | |
Original Broadcast Date | |
3/18/2001 | |
Cast | |
Joe Frank | |
Format | |
Karma Style, 59 minutes | |
Preceded by: | The Angina Dialogues |
Followed by: | Anthology Of Love (Remix) |
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I'm sitting on my front porch; a woman pulling a cello in a case on casters.
Love Prisoner is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series The Other Side. It was originally broadcast on March 18, 2001.
Synopsis
This episode is all re-used, from 'Prison songs', 'Love is', 'Windows', and 'The loved one, remix'/'Lover man'
Joe recounts falling in love with a woman walking by, pulling a cello. He imagines growing old together. After she passes he's relieved she got out while there was still time.[1]
2:40: 'Love is like being ground to death in a huge coffee mill...' - Joe analogizes love with a series of gruesome images.[1]
5:40: 'They say that love is more precious than the air we breathe...' - Joe lists things we say love is more precious than.[2]
9:00: Joe describes a meeting of 'Love anonymous'.[2]
15:40: Joe appeals to a woman he saw at the Laemmle Theatre in Santa Monica at a viewing of Breaking the waves to contact him.[3] He left his umbrella behind; when he went back to retrieve it she had it for him. Joe was barely able to speak, he's so taken with her. He imagines their life together. Joe wants her to call KCRW, leave her name and number.
Joe remembers looking at a Botero[4] painting next to a woman - but he can't find anything to say to her. Joe wants her to call him at KCRW - or one of the Japanese schoolgirls who were also there.
Joe's in Petco, falls in love with an outdoorsy woman, imagines their life together, wants her to call.[5]
24:20: 'Love is an old man fishing off a bridge...' - Joe describes this fellow, his memories of surviving a bombing in Baghdad. A rude couple stops, asks for directions; he doesn't answer; a giant catfish pulls the guy into the water. The woman has a geological survey map. The guy takes his sandwich. The woman does her business in the bushes, wipes herself with poison ivy.[2]
34:50: Joe recounts his breakup with Darlene, the awful things they did to each other. Joe imagines dismembering Darlene, making ornaments from her body parts.[6]
37:40: Joe lists all the people who need love.[6]
39:30: Joe lists more analogies for love, how necessary and irreplaceable it is. He addresses Darlene, how much he misses her.[6]
46:20: Joe recounts walking along the ocean, coming upon an orchestra, dressed-up people dancing, waiters, champagne. A helicopter lands, lets out a man in top hat and tails who come to the microphone, then explodes, killing everyone but Joe. Joe returns to his hotel, pours a shot, pours it out into the pool.[6]
48:20: Joe recalls Socrates's death.[7][6]
49:00: Joe thinks about finding eternity.[6]
49:40: Joe recalls his father being killed in a factory accident when he was 5, reduced to paste.[6]
50:30: Joe recalls his piano lesson when he was 10. He was a poor student; the teacher struck him when he made a mistake. He developed migraines as a result. Years later he started therapy with a psychiatrist. She and Joe fell in love, made a suicide pact, which she honored but Joe did not.[6]
52:20: Joe recounts when he was a cabbie in Manhattan, the couple he drove to Atlantic City and back.[6]
54:40: Joe recounts meeting Sol at Lutece.[6]
56:00: Joe recounts bursting into Bludstein's office, who was having an affair with Darlene. Bludstein pisses out the window.[6]
Music
- "School Boy Crush" - Average White Band (from Cut The Cake, 1975) | YouTube [Intro]
- "No More My Lord" - Jimpson (from Prison Songs • Historical Recordings From Parchman Farm 1947-48 • Volume One: Murderous Home, 1997) | YouTube [13:16]
- "Friends and Enemies" - DJ Cam (from Substances , 1996) | YouTube [15:35]
- "Dusk You and Me" - Groove Armada (from Vertigo, 1999) | YouTube [23:56]
- "Early In The Mornin'" - 22, Little Red, Tangle Eye, Hard Hair (from Prison Songs • Historical Recordings From Parchman Farm 1947-48 • Volume One: Murderous Home, 1997) | YouTube [31:30]
- "Angel Dust" - DJ Cam (from Substances, 1996) | YouTube [34:34]
Miscellanea
- This is a remix of monologues from earlier shows.
- The monologue about love is shared with Windows, The Loved One (Remix)/Lover Man.
- Includes loops of the Lomax Parchman Farm recordings.
- Joe reworked and used some material from this show at his live show at the Chicago Art Institute in 2003.
Additional credits
- Production by JC Swiatek
- Music coordinator Thomas Golubić
- Production assistance Esmé Gregson
Footnotes
- ↑ Jump up to: 1.0 1.1 originally aired in Love Is
- ↑ Jump up to: 2.0 2.1 2.2 originally aired in Windows
- ↑ Carl Laemmle was the founder of Universal Studios. A chain of movie theatres in southern California bear his name.
- ↑ Fernando Botero, Colombian artist
- ↑ originally aired in The Loved One (Remix)/Lover Man
- ↑ Jump up to: 6.00 6.01 6.02 6.03 6.04 6.05 6.06 6.07 6.08 6.09 6.10 originally aired in Prison Songs
- ↑ wrongly