[joe-frank-list] 'Obsessions'

[russellbell at gmail.com]

	'Obsessions' may be Joe's most disjoint original show.  He's
obsessed with women in the first 13 minutes; after that, I don't find
him obsessive.  He mentions the voyage on the tramp steamer in the
middle shortly.  This may be the first listening in which I associated
the closing segment with it, the bulk of the show so disconnected.
The only stations I have noted that played it in the last 13 years
were KPFA and WNYC.
	Anyone know how to spell Bruno Gez's last name?  I think he
was a KCRW denizen in the '90s.

	(thunder and rain - there's a lot of thunder and rain backing
and in interludes)
	Joe, at a party, about to leave - 'the food was pedestrian,
the wine was annoyingly ironic' - falls in love with a beautiful woman
across the room.  The hostess Darlene tries to get him to spend the
night with her.  By the time Joe gets free the beautiful woman has
left.
	5:30: In the elevator on the way out Joe falls in love with
another woman; Joe doesn't have the courage to talk to her.
	8:00: Joe goes into a coffee shop.  The waitress is the woman
who's in his dreams every night.  Joe falls in love.  He orders dozens
of dishes, many of which one doesn't find in coffee shops.  Joe passes
out, wakes up in the emergency room.  After a few hours they release
him; he returns to the coffee shop, which has been razed, is now
inhabited by homeless.
	13:30: 'I have walked through a great ancient temple...'
	14:10: Joe used to be a rock star.  He basked in the
adulation, enjoyed the luxury.
	19:20: 'We're all wounded children...'
	20:40: Joe's in bush country, where no White man has ever
gone.  The boat (in bush country?) capsizes.  Only Joe survives.  He
fascinates the natives with all his gear: camcorder, satellite TV...
They agree to sell the mineral rights to their land; Joe makes the
deals on his satellite phone.  They waste all the stuff they get, end
up impoverished, long for their old lives.  (re-used in 'The loved one
(remix)' and 'Lover man')
	26:30: Joe books first-class passage to Mallorca, ends up
assistant cook on a tramp steamer.
	28:10: Joe goes to a strip joint with friends.  A woman in a
black dress chats him up, tells a dream about having sex with her
15-year-old daughter, invites Joe to meet her.
	31:10: 'Funky worm' (Ohio players)
	34:00: Joe remembers being in Tumescent, New Mexico (no such
place).  He notices his pickup rolling into Interstate 4 (which is in
Florida).
	35:20: Joe remembers when he stayed in a hotel in Kowloon
during monsoon season; it flooded.  The hotel's brothel provided
medical data (x-rays, scans, blood tests...) about its women.
	38:00: 'We need to ask questions that probe...'
	39:10: Joe remembers the time he spent in a prison in
Mindanao, all that he learned.  On work release, he's president of a
major financial services company in Italy.
	40:10: Joe sees a woman smear cake batter on her breasts, then
play the piano ecstatically.  He sees another woman working out on a
Nordic track.
	41:50: 'We need to rid ourselves of the weight of dead men's
thoughts.', discard the past in general.
	42:50: Joe debates whether people should live for today or
tomorrow: we're happy living for today, make progress because we live
for tomorrow.
	48:10: 'Some is enough; enough is, sometimes, too much...'
Joe talks about muchness.
	50:20: 'This is Joe Frank.  You have been listening to
"Somewhere out there", created in collaboration with Arthur Miller and
David Rapkin; music production by, and edited and mixed by, Bob
Carlson; special thanks to Jennifer Ferro, Bruno Gez (sp?), and Jason
Bentley (a long-time DJ at KCRW).
	52:30: 'During the entire voyage nothing interesting
happened.'  Joe tells about the voyage to Mallorca from 26:30.
Despite everyone finding it so dull, all the passengers stay in touch,
write a multi-volume account, try to stage a re-enactment.

	http://jfwiki.org/index.php?title=Obsessions

	Some stations omit the credits.

russell bell