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An unfaithful and depressed man takes his wife to Big Sur on New Year’s. On their vacation, he hallucinates (or does he?) meeting a beautiful girl on the beach.

Series: The Other Side
Show Type: Monologue
Cast: Joe Frank
Air Date: 01/16/2000
Digital Audio Bit Rate: 128kbps

Category: The Other Side.

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4 out of 5

Ryan – June 29, 2016:

Hello, I was wondering if anybody knew the second bed music track? It really makes the meaning of the second monologue bunch with such heavenly sounding music behind it.

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An unfaithful and depressed man takes his wife to Big Sur on New Year’s. On their vacation, he hallucinates (or does he?) meeting a beautiful girl on the beach.

Series: The Other Side
Show Type: Monologue
Cast: Joe Frank
Air Date: 01/16/2000
Digital Audio Bit Rate: 128kbps

4.00 out of 5

1 review for Mercy

4 out of 5

Ryan – June 29, 2016:

Hello, I was wondering if anybody knew the second bed music track? It really makes the meaning of the second monologue bunch with such heavenly sounding music behind it.

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"Joe Frank is an invaluable warrior who stands in defense of our fears, our vanities and our forever-eroding sense of ourselves. He transforms the everyday banality of the human comedy into an inspired weirdness that feeds on pathos and irony, and feels a lot like revelation. Sartre would have called it nausea; Frank makes it art."

Spin Magazine

"Frank has created a series of dead-pan radio monologues so sharp and intelligent that during the quiet bits you can almost hear God taking notes."

The UK Guardian

"[Joe Frank] is one of the great, original radio performers. He's created a sound and style for himself - a complete aesthetic that's entirely his own. I first heard him when I was 19 and it changed everything for me. His work demonstrated the intensity and emotion that the medium is capable of; ingenious…fantastic."

Ira Glass, This American Life

"The world of Joe Frank is a wildly entertaining surrealistic universe...hilarious, unsettling, zany, powerful, moving and perhaps the most unique, inventive and effective use of radio since Orson Welles convinced much of America there was a War of the Worlds."

The L.A. Weekly

"I came upon Joe Frank's work by accident a number of years ago while driving to my home in the Napa Valley late at night. I couldn't believe the originality and sheer brilliance of what I was hearing. From that moment on I became a dedicated Joe Frank fan. Joe Frank's shows raise the most interesting and enduring questions in new and original ways and are consistently thought-provoking and very funny."

Francis Ford Coppola, filmmaker

"Mixing bizarre monologues, multi-sequenced dramatic vignettes and mock-solemn critiques, [Joe Frank's work] is both sophisticated and surreal. A sizable cult has been growing around Frank...a rare radio talent."

The Village Voice

"The perfect Joe Frank experience is driving down an unfamiliar highway alone at night. You turn on your radio and are greeted by a lush, resonant voice that lulls you into a seemingly simple tale of love: a man at an airport saying goodbye to his wife over the phone, which abruptly turns into a vision of betrayal, alienation and death - often from obscure disease - all brought about by some profound personal failing, which is redeemed at the last moment by a nearly transcendent moment of joy."

Salon

"You don't have to close your eyes to appreciate Joe Frank's dense audio universe cascading out of your radio. It helps, though, because there are so many layers - of sound, philosophy, of reality-coursing through his dramas... Come to think of it, after awhile, you won't want to close your eyes because in Frank's short stories for the radio, the tension and pathos are as enveloping as they are intriguing... "

The Washington Post

"In an arena in which formats are sacrosanct, Joe Frank has charted new territory with his literate, frequently bizarre, wildly funny essays and parodies... He can be funny, poignant, serious and off the wall - sometimes within the framework of the same piece. Unique is one word to describe it. Brilliant is another."

Los Angeles Times

"[Frank] travels in the emotional landscape of Bergman and Fellini; there's a tension and sense of mystery halfway between Kafka and Chandler... and a satiric edge worthy of Firesign Theatre and Woody Allen... No one else in radio is doing what Frank does."

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Series: The Other Side

Show Type: Monologue

Cast: Joe Frank

Air Date: 01/16/2000

Digital Audio Bit Rate: 128kbps

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Series: The Other Side

Show Type: Monologue

Cast: Joe Frank

Air Date: 01/16/2000

Digital Audio Bit Rate: 128kbps

1 review for Mercy

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Mercy

Series: The Other Side

Show Type: Monologue

Cast: Joe Frank

Air Date: 01/16/2000

Digital Audio Bit Rate: 128kbps

1 review for Mercy

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Series: The Other Side

Show Type: Monologue

Cast: Joe Frank

Air Date: 01/16/2000

Digital Audio Bit Rate: 128kbps

1 review for Mercy

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