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|title = [https://www.joefrank.com/shop/performer Performer][https://www.joefrank.com/streaming/shows/?jfsearch=Performer] | |title = [https://www.joefrank.com/shop/performer Performer][https://www.joefrank.com/streaming/shows/?jfsearch=Performer] | ||
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== Music == | == Music == | ||
− | {{Watermark (Enya)}} | + | {{Watermark (Enya)}} [3:32] |
− | {{River (Enya)}} | + | {{River (Enya)}} [8:06] |
− | {{Alternative 3 (Brian Eno)}} | + | {{Alternative 3 (Brian Eno)}} [19:46] |
− | {{Aragon (Brian Eno)}} | + | {{Aragon (Brian Eno)}} [24:14] |
− | {{All Blues (Miles Davis)}} | + | {{All Blues (Miles Davis)}} [27:32] |
− | {{The Dream (Ry Cooder)}} | + | {{The Plateaux Of Mirror (Harold Budd - Brian Eno)}} [30:59] |
− | * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theme_from_New_York%2C_New_York "New York, New York"] <!-- version TBD --> | + | {{The Dream (Ry Cooder)}} [36:15] |
+ | * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theme_from_New_York%2C_New_York "New York, New York"] <!-- version TBD --> [38:55] | ||
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+ | == Additional credits == | ||
+ | The original broadcast credits state: "With [[Lester Nafzger]], [[Julie Renick]], and Joe Frank. Recorded by [[Bob Carlson]] and Jeff Sykes, and mixed by Jeff Sykes. Special thanks to Ariana Morgenstern." | ||
== Miscellanea == | == Miscellanea == | ||
− | *In this program and in [[A Landing Strip In The Jungle]] Lester uses the name | + | *In this program and in [[A Landing Strip In The Jungle]] Lester uses the name "Lester Ainslie". |
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== External links == | == External links == |
Latest revision as of 04:03, 13 April 2021
Series | |
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Work In Progress | |
Original Broadcast Date | |
1989 | |
Cast | |
Lester Nafzger, Julie Renick, Joe Frank | |
Format | |
Scripted Actors, Telephone, Mock Interview, 55 minutes | |
Preceded by: | Sleep |
Followed by: | The More I Know You |
"A month ago I visited my mother in Columbus Ohio."
Performer is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series Work In Progress. It was originally broadcast in 1989.
Synopsis
- Lester Nafzger, on the phone, talking about his argumentative mother, 81. They have a tremendous dispute over hypnotism.
- Superstition: counting 12 babies in arms for 12 days of good luck. Then, the 13th day.
- Lester tells us his 26 (and counting) definitive Life Reference Points, or 'linchpins', of his existence. Events that didn't make the list.
- Lester seems to know the height of everyone he knows. He's a numbers guy.
- Performances: looking for Jerry Rickshaw. Joe and Lester discuss the performance. What Jerry Rickshaw means to Lester.
- Where's Charlotte.
- My Teeth Are So Much Uglier Than Yours.
- Discussion of the role of an artist.
- Performances: Missing Barbara. Cartoon. Big Band.
- Lester describes the boogie boys: musical saboteurs.
- A serene mother-and-baby scene.
- Lester tells of his struggle to close the nearly 100 holes in the poorly-built wall connecting his furnace room to a porno theater next door. Then we hear audio from a porn movie.
- Lester recites the weight of everyone he knows.
Music
- "Alternative 3" - Brian Eno (from Music For Films, 1976) | YouTube [19:46]
- "Aragon" - Brian Eno (from Music For Films, 1976) | YouTube [24:14]
- "All Blues" - Miles Davis (from Kind Of Blue, 1959) | YouTube [27:32]
- "The Plateaux Of Mirror" - Harold Budd - Brian Eno (from Ambient 2 (The Plateaux Of Mirror), 1980) | YouTube [30:59]
- "The Dream" - Ry Cooder (from Jazz, 1978) | YouTube [36:15]
- "New York, New York" [38:55]
Additional credits
The original broadcast credits state: "With Lester Nafzger, Julie Renick, and Joe Frank. Recorded by Bob Carlson and Jeff Sykes, and mixed by Jeff Sykes. Special thanks to Ariana Morgenstern."
Miscellanea
- In this program and in A Landing Strip In The Jungle Lester uses the name "Lester Ainslie".
External links
Categories:
- Watermark (Enya)
- Enya
- River (Enya)
- Alternative 3 (Brian Eno)
- Brian Eno
- Aragon (Brian Eno)
- All Blues (Miles Davis)
- Miles Davis
- The Plateaux Of Mirror (Harold Budd - Brian Eno)
- Harold Budd - Brian Eno
- The Dream (Ry Cooder)
- Ry Cooder
- Scripted Actors
- Telephone
- Mock Interview
- Lester Nafzger
- Julie Renick
- 1989
- Work In Progress