July 27, 2009

clusterflock interviews clusterflock, #2 – Dogville edition

A few days ago Rick asked me:

Q: Andrew, I just finished watching Dogville, the second time. You spoke of “shaking for days,” after seeing it. If you can recall, what shook you?

(I ask because I’m shaking again, or at least, I’m haunted.)

My answer was: [http://www.clusterflock.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/1004.MP3] Download

He then asked me a follow up:

Q. What have you carried with you, since viewing the film. Were you changed in some elemental way?

And my answer: [http://www.clusterflock.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Dogville2.mp3] Download

Edited out were some reflections/impressions on how/why the film reflected America and its foreign relations, but it was, frankly, uncompelling. I also don’t feel like I answered the question really, but I am not sure that that is entirely the point.

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comments

  1. Deron Bauman on July 28th, 2009 at 9:58 am

    Andrew, I am really appreciating your thoughtfulness in answering these questions.

  2. Andrew Simone on July 28th, 2009 at 10:30 am

    Thanks, Deron. I am very much doing what I do here. I am so much more comfortable with talking than writing.

  3. Rick Neece on July 28th, 2009 at 12:40 pm

    I’m really enjoying hearing your answers. Thanks for playing. I’ll have to listen a couple more times to this one, then mebbe another follow-up? If it isn’t raining, mebbe I’ll have a smoke on the patio with you this evening.

  4. Andrew Simone on July 28th, 2009 at 12:49 pm

    I’d enjoy that, Rick (more questions and the smoke).

  5. Rick Neece on July 28th, 2009 at 5:23 pm

    In this recording Andrew, Just before the end, I love how you paused, swallowing something, with an audible aspiration after, before saying “…that was a hard pill to swallow.”

    To me it seems, our engagement, the way we’ve shaped it here, is a bit unwieldy. It might be more engagingly done with actual cocktails and smokes on the patio, real time, sometime. But, Hey! We’ve started, let’s see where it takes us.

    In the next day or two, perhaps a couple more questions in the format we’ve established. Just to see where we wind up, yes? (Or more likely, whether I can manage all the jiggery-pokery to pull this back up to the front page, previous references intact, without losing whomever may be looking in.)

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