[joe-frank-list] 'Black hole'

[russellbell at gmail.com]

	This episode is segments excerpted from 'A tour of the city,
Act 1', in different order, for the first 27:40, followed by all of 'A
tour of the city, Act 2'.  The only thing it has in common with
'Nightride' is a segment from 'Act 2' - except for the atmosphere and
characters.
	For years it was 'Black hole'; joefrank.com renamed it to
'Black hole (remix)'.

	'Images of the city at night...'  Joe (using second person)
tells about landing in a plane, looking down on the city.  Pilots land
the plane safely despite engine failure.  Joe compares how the city
looks on the ground with how it looked from the air.  (Originally in
'A tour of the city, Act 1')
	0:30: Joe describes the tree-folk, the people of the law (who
recite laws that sound like parody 'Leviticus').  (Originally in 'A
tour of the city, Act 1')
	1:40: Joe recounts 'wrestling' matches, the first between a
caveman with a tree and a baron who weighs 2,695 stone (about 20
tons), the second between a giant beetle and an Irish washerwoman.
(Originally in 'A tour of the city, Act 1')
	5:30: Joe describes a military convoy on its way to the
presidential palace.  A presidential address follows.  (Originally in
'A tour of the city, Act 1')
	7:20: Eva (Barbara Sohmers) tells Alex he talked in his sleep
last night.  She wants him to tell her how he feels, he's gone so
much.  (Originally in 'A tour of the city, Act 1')
	8:10: Voltgen, founder of Electricist (sp?) religion (Arthur
Miller?), one of the many sects that have sprung up in the city, talks
to Alex, a novice; he explains Electricism, ruminates on darkness and
light.  (Originally in 'A tour of the city, Act 1')
	10:40: Alex tells of walking through the city, wondering where
he's going.  Voltgen responds, tells him he has to give up on love.
(Originally in 'A tour of the city, Act 1')
	13:20: Voltgen leads a service, which features a large
filament, culminates with electrical arcs.  (Originally in 'A tour of
the city')
	16:00: Olga (Marilyn Casky), Alex's other wife, talks about
Alex spending time at Voltgen's temple, says he'll leave it as he's
left all the other sects he's joined.  (Originally in 'A tour of the
city')
	16:40: A fellow (Vorst?) leaves an ominous message on their
phone.  Olga's scared, Alex says it's nothing.  They argue.
(Originally in 'A tour of the city, Act 1')
	19:00: The president tells of driving a few days ago, saw 2
children making earthcakes near their hut, recalls a song from his
childhood, hums it for us.  We hear a horse, then thunder, then a dog,
then a helicopter, then a police siren.  (Originally in 'A tour of the
city, Act 1')
	20:20: 'Sometimes I sign out a chopper...' The president looks
at girls sunbathing on the roof.  (Originally in 'A tour of the city,
Act 1')
	21:10: Eva hears the helicopter, asks Alex what it's doing;
it's looking into their window.  (Originally in 'A tour of the city,
Act 1')
	23:20: The president calls on citizens to report strangers to
the authorities.  (Originally in 'A tour of the city, Act 1')
	24:10: Alex describes physicians treating some woman.  (Eva?)
(Originally in 'A tour of the city, Act 1')
	25:20: The president talks about burying oneself up to the
neck to stay warm during the winter.  (Originally in 'A tour of the
city, Act 1')
	26:20: 'Each of us has contemplated suicide...'  Guy with
German-ish accent (Brother Theodore) talks about suicide, describes
different methods.  (Originally in 'A tour of the city, Act 1')
	27:40: 'You're riding in a cab in the rain...' Joe tells the
damage the rain does.  The cabdriver (a parody East European accent)
says that a purification plant cleans the rainwater, takes Joe to the
bridge where people commit suicide by jumping into the unpurified
water, so acid bodies dissolve immediately.  People yell and jump.
The line is so long some give up waiting.  The crowd applauds good
dives.  (Originally in 'A tour of the city, Act 2')
	30:50: The president addresses the nation, recalls when we
knew our neighbors, talked to each other.  (Originally in 'A tour of
the city, Act 2')
	31:10: Vorst (I take the interrogators' names from
'Nightride'.) interrogates Alex about his job (an electrical engineer
at the main power plant).  (Originally in 'A tour of the city, Act 2')
	31:40: Joe describes the hydroelectric power plant.  We can
hear the sound of its operation in the background.  (Originally in 'A
tour of the city, Act 2')
	32:40: A warning light flashes; pipes and wires break; fires
start.  Workers frantically attempt repairs.  (Originally in 'A tour
of the city, Act 2')
	33:50: Vorst asks Alex if he knows how much breakdowns at the
plant harm the city.  (Originally in 'A tour of the city, Act 2')
	35:00: A distant woman's voice, barely audible, questions
Alex.  (Originally in 'A tour of the city, Act 1' and 'Act 2')
	35:50: Alex tells Voltgen that something is missing from his
life; Voltgen asks what he's missing as though it is palpable
('animal, vegetable, or mineral... what color?').  (Originally in 'A
tour of the city, Act 2')(re-used in 'Nightride')
	38:00: The president recalls how wonderful it was to talk to
the people you encountered.  (Originally in 'A tour of the city, Act
2')
	38:30: Vorst asks Alex if he has any siblings (no), then why
not.  Vorst asks Alex if he would have had more children had he been
his parents.  Vorst asks Alex why he has no children.  Vorst tells
Alex that Eva and Olga work for his organization.  (Originally in 'A
tour of the city, Act 2')
	39:40: Alex converses with the distant voice of Eva, has a
conversation about making love.  (Originally in 'A tour of the city,
Act 1')
	40:20: Vorst and Funk talk about what a great dancer Eva is,
that they were out with her last night.  Alex tells them she can't
walk; they disagree.  (Originally in 'A tour of the city, Act 2')
	41:00: Joe tells of a prisoner watching the rain from his
cell.  (Originally in 'A tour of the city, Act 2')
	41:30: Vorst tells of flying over the presidential palace.
(Originally in 'A tour of the city, Act 2')
	42:20: The president tells of being poor when he grew up, how
his mother made food from nothing: wood pulp omelettes, sparrow soup,
baked earthcakes.  The children would collect water by squeezing it
off ferns in the rain.  He calls upon citizens to take strength from
adversity, such as the blackout.  (Originally in 'A tour of the city,
Act 2')
	43:50: Vorst asks Alex what he enjoyed doing with his father.
Alex says fishing.  Vorst makes fun of this.  (Originally in 'A tour
of the city, Act 2')
	44:30: Alex has a flashback of fishing with his father.  Alex
wonders when his mother can join them fishing.  (Originally in 'A tour
of the city, Act 2')
	46:20: Alex describes the accident that hurt his mother; it
happened when he stuck his mother's hat pin into an electrical socket,
which caused an explosion.  Vorst and Funk laugh at this.  (Originally
in 'A tour of the city, Act 2')
	47:30: Sound from the Electricism service sounds faintly, then
the washerwoman's bout with the beetle, then the fellow describing
suicideurs.  (Originally in 'A tour of the city, Act 1')
	48:10: Joe says the streets have turned into canals; coffins
have floated out of the cemetery; a woman jumps from the bridge.
(Originally in 'A tour of the city, Act 2')
	49:20: Alex tells of the funeral parlor in his neighborhood;
he walks in.  A background voice (Vorst?) asks children's questions,
'Where does the rain come from?... Why do I have to go to my room?  If
I don't like it, why do I have to eat it?  Are we there yet?'.  Alex
describes the service in the parlor.  The minister sounds like he's
describing Alex; Alex notices the similarity.  Alex goes up to the
coffin, sees it's empty, so gets in, lies down; he notices his lips
are sewn shut, his face heavily rouged.  They close the coffin, carry
it out; he hears the sound of children playing in an adjoining lot.
(Originally in 'A tour of the city, Act 2')

	From the broadcast, 'You have been listening to Joe Frank,
"The other side".  This program was called "Black hole" - directed by
Arthur Miller, mixed by Jim Anderson, remixed by Ray Guarna.  The
performers were Alan Hunter, Marilyn Casky, Barbara Sohmers, Arthur
Miller, Brother Theodore, Mark Hammer, Joseph Palmieri, Clark Gordon,
Richard Bauer, Tim Jerome; written, produced, and narrated by Joe
Frank'

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russell bell