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  • This Week In Joe’s Basement, episode 03: Self-Indulgence

    This Week In Joe’s Basement, episode 03: Self-Indulgence

    Four people address the camera and deliver improvised, personal monologues. No common thread links the content. The revelations are honest, sometimes interesting, and everyone seems to drunk several pots of coffee. AIR DATES: September 5, 12, 22, 26, 1989

  • This Week In Joe’s Basement, episode 02: People As They Really Are

    This Week In Joe’s Basement, episode 02: People As They Really Are

    AIR DATES: August 4,8,14, 1989

  • This Week In Joe’s Basement, episode 01: Structural Cinema

    This Week In Joe’s Basement, episode 01: Structural Cinema

    An homage to the infamous films like **** (24-hours of the exterior of the Empire State Building) and Sleep (eight hours of a man sleeping.). When this was taped, in June 1989, Andy Warhol had recently died, and the Art Institute of Chicago mounted a lavish commemorative exhibition of his art.

    Not only was “Structural Cinema” created without any intention of following it up with an Episode 2 or 3 (both Joe and Paul assumed they’d move on to other projects), but it was not meant to be watched or enjoyed by anyone.

    In fact, the show begins with the host urging viewers to stop watching, and “go outside, read a poem, do something constructive.” Soon the series would adopt as its slogan, “Don’t watch too much TV. It’s not good for you.”

 
 
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