[joe-frank-list] 'Insomnia'

[russellbell at gmail.com]

	Joe wakes at dawn (as is his habit) and obsesses over his
peeves.  He begins with a 'former, slightly-built, KCRW recording
engineer from Pakistan' (sounds like Theo Mondle).  He borrowed $1,000
from Joe, disappeared without paying Joe back.
	3:50: Larry describes an article in 'Architectural digest'
about Robert Redford's NYC penthouse.  Larry says he could have had
that penthouse had he chosen as Redford did.
	7:00: Joe tries to get back to sleep by thinking good
thoughts, but gets angry at his mother's cat, Prince.  (Joe talked
about Prince in 'Bitter pill'.)
	8:10: Larry recurs to his appearance in 'The comedy of errors'
in 1975; he encountered the director, John Pasquin
(http://www.iobdb.com/CreditableEntity/5668), recently, feels that he
hasn't lived up to his promise in 1975.
	11:40: Joe tries to stop his angry thoughts, but gets angry
about the recent loss of the recordings of 25 of his shows over the
last 1.5 years.  Joe imagines attacking someone at the station, the
scandal that would follow.
	13:10: Larry tells Joe that Zach and his friend are waiting
for their dope.  Larry contrasts Jack Kornfield with David Sedaris.
	17:50: Still unable to sleep, Joe upbraids himself for his
anger again, 'You're like that guy in Massachusetts who killed all
those people at that dot-com company'
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakefield_massacre) Joe imagines going
to a shooting range and killing himself to stop his angry thoughts.
	19:00: Larry describes a golf tournament between teams of
fathers and sons, the affection the fathers and sons show each other,
including kissing, how much worse his relationship with Zachary is.
Larry reads his poem, 'Sunday afternoon'.
	22:00: Larry and Joe talk about Larry getting a gun and
shooting himself.
	23:50: Joe remembers he has to make an appointment for a
cystoscopy, which he dreads.
	24:20: Joe talks of Ira Glass, how successful he has become
with 'This American life' compared to him, wonders why he puts up with
the stress of making his show for so little money.
	25:30: Larry tells Joe he won't go to Pittsburgh for 'Romeo
and Juliet' because Zachary is in such distress, needs his father.
	27:50: Joe thinks of Kate, imagines the great things she's
doing with all her Hollywood friends, has jealous thoughts, tries to
stop them.
	28:50: Joe notices how old his skin looks, imagines how bad
his health must be, imagines killing himself on the radio.
	31:20: Zachary reads a poem about insomnia and more.
	34:50: Larry tells Joe that this poem is great for Zachary.
	37:20: Joe recounts the death of Ollie, the dog of his
neighbors, Skip and Carly.  They're going to have him cloned - no one
loves Joe that much.
	38:50: Joe dials Kate's number New Year's Eve to wish her a
good New Year, but can't leave a message on her machine.
	39:20: Joe tries to get to sleep by imagining sleeping under
an oak tree.
	40:00: Joe tells Larry he and Kate aren't in touch but he
thinks about her every day.
	41:00: Kristine and Joe go to a party Sunday afternoon.  Joe
doesn't want to be there so stuffs himself, suffers flatulence.
	43:20: Joe recalls trip to Palm Beach 2 weeks ago to visit his
mother.  At LAX he used an out-of-order toilet, flooded the floor.
	45:30: At the carwash (the Speedway on Little Santa Monica
Boulevard), waiting for his car, Joe talks to a woman.  She tips $5,
which makes Joe feel cheap for his $2 tip; he asks the woman if he
should trade his house for his maid's - she has a large family, after
all.
	48:50: Larry tells Joe about watching a TV show showing a
polar bear eating a walrus.
	50:50: Joe listens to a voice-mail message from Larry, a poem
about his son and his son's friend.  He sounds drunk.

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russell bell