[joe-frank-list] 'Evening sky'

[russellbell at gmail.com]

Jack Cheeseborough tells a 'joke' about a sailor and his dog stranded
on a desert island; the fellow hankers for one of the sheep.

2:10: Larry tells about auditioning for a role as the older brother of
a character being played by Lewis Stadlen.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_J._Stadlen) Larry identifies
Stadlen as an 'archenemy' who called him a 'putz and a moron'.  Larry
describes his poor performance in a previous play,
'Mizlansky/Zilinsky' (http://www.iobdb.com/Production/297), in which
Stadlen had a role, got into an argument with the cast about it.
Larry says that, perhaps, he should commit suicide, which kicks off a
discussion of suicide by Joe and Larry.

10:40: David Rapkin recommends to Joe that Joe and Larry drive
cross-country, have a head-on collision in the middle of the country.

11:40: Jack Kornfield talks about the sacred, transcending the
smallness of the personal world.

18:10: Larry describes a French film about a young man who decides he
can love 2 women.  This drives his wife insane: she kills herself.
(This sounds like Agnes Varda's 'Le bonheur'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Bonheur_(1965_film) )

19:40: Rapkin says we can have only so much love in life, that the
fellow in the film's mistake was telling others about his love.  He
says we all lie all the time.  Joe and Rapkin expatiate on lying.

23:40: Gregory Poe tells of interviewing famous costume designers.  He
interviewed one at his home in Montecito while his wife was dying.  He
designed Marilyn Monroe's famous dress in 'The seven year itch'
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Year_Itch ), claims he
dressed her corpse, that some of her body parts were missing - stolen,
Poe guessed, by the coroner.

27:10: Gregory Poe tells of interviewing Bette Davis late in her life,
claims that ears grow with age, Davis's were enormous; he designed
special earrings to hide them.

29:20: Larry answers the phone, yells at Zach for throwing used
tissues from the balcony.  Larry complains to Joe about Zach's
behavior: he hangs out with his friends, smokes up his dope, doesn't
work in school, spits on the floor.

33:10: A voice-mail message from Danny about his inflamed testicle.

35:10: Gregory Poe says he loves his dad but he never grew up.

35:50: Kornfield reads the poem 'Reverse living', talks about
recovering the innocence at birth.

37:50: Kornfield tells of Indian mystic Ramakrishna
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramakrishna) He wanted a vision of the
divine, got it.  Then Kornfield teaches that we should accept the
world as it is.

43:00: Henry Dennis (?) tells Joe about a vision he had of Jesus
carrying the cross in Jerusalem at the time - then he saw him on a
truck.  He thought he was crazy.

43:50: Rapkin tells Joe that he treats life as an acting job.  He says
he hates what he's doing, that he wanted to be an artist and a
musician all his life.  He ran up debts (buying an expensive house,
his daughter's tuition) that he had to pay.

47:50: Larry says that physical intimacy with a woman seems to have
become impossible - he can't even imagine it.

49:10: Rapkin tells Joe where he's seen Christ: an auto shop, a gym, a
folded paper hat...

52:20: Larry's lying on his couch on the balcony, watching the sun
set, complains about a construction crane blocking the view.

57:10: Rapkin says he will sail to Thailand, have sex with beautiful
Thai women, smoke opium, eat lotus flowers, walk to Chiang Mai
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiang_Mai) visit Doi Suthep
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wat_Phra_That_Doi_Suthep), its most
famous Buddhist temple.

'You've been listening to Joe Frank "The other side".  This program
was called "Evening sky" with Larry Block, David Rapkin, Gregory Poe,
Henry Dee (D. ? - Dennis?), Jack Cheeseborough, Buddhist teacher Jack
Kornfield, and Joe Frank; production: Ray Guarna; production
assistance: Esme Gregson; music consultant: Thomas Golubic'

joefrank.com today has 'Larry Block, Gregory Poe, David Rapkin,
Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield and Joe Frank', same as it did in 2009
and 2013.  However 2009's synopsis includes, 'Henry and David
experience visions of Christ.', which today's and 2013's don't.

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

russell bell