Comments on: Spalding Gray, Swimming to Cambodia http://www.clusterflock.org/2009/08/spalding-gray-swimming-to-cambodia.html a site about everything Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:29:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Cindy Scroggins http://www.clusterflock.org/2009/08/spalding-gray-swimming-to-cambodia.html/comment-page-1#comment-583754 Cindy Scroggins Wed, 19 Aug 2009 18:06:47 +0000 http://www.clusterflock.org/?p=29780#comment-583754 Well, there's not all that much to tell. Rocky taught Philosophy at UT Dallas in the late 1970s. He was fairly young, probably not long out of graduate school at the University of Chicago. He was a delightful man with the most beautiful speaking voice I've ever heard. Daryl and I weren't acquainted with each other at the time we knew him--I took a couple of (very good) undergraduate courses from him, and Daryl was a graduate student at the time and both took courses from him and hung out with him a bit. We have some amusing stories about him, but I don't think it appropriate to make them public. If he ever spoke of Spalding, I didn't hear it--perhaps Daryl did. Spalding was not well known at the time we knew Rocky; I don't recall how I came to know they were brothers. I saw Spalding Gray in an off-broadway show in NYC in 1980. I don't even recall what it was. I remember thinking that it was interesting as an experimental form of theatre but ultimately a self-indulgent piece. At that time, I viewed Spalding's work more with an eye toward what I knew of Rocky than with an objective interest in what he was trying to create. I saw the Demme film in the late 80s and pretty much had the same reaction I had to the live performance. I should definitely take a second look. Well, there’s not all that much to tell. Rocky taught Philosophy at UT Dallas in the late 1970s. He was fairly young, probably not long out of graduate school at the University of Chicago. He was a delightful man with the most beautiful speaking voice I’ve ever heard. Daryl and I weren’t acquainted with each other at the time we knew him–I took a couple of (very good) undergraduate courses from him, and Daryl was a graduate student at the time and both took courses from him and hung out with him a bit. We have some amusing stories about him, but I don’t think it appropriate to make them public. If he ever spoke of Spalding, I didn’t hear it–perhaps Daryl did. Spalding was not well known at the time we knew Rocky; I don’t recall how I came to know they were brothers.

I saw Spalding Gray in an off-broadway show in NYC in 1980. I don’t even recall what it was. I remember thinking that it was interesting as an experimental form of theatre but ultimately a self-indulgent piece. At that time, I viewed Spalding’s work more with an eye toward what I knew of Rocky than with an objective interest in what he was trying to create. I saw the Demme film in the late 80s and pretty much had the same reaction I had to the live performance. I should definitely take a second look.

]]> By: Deron Bauman http://www.clusterflock.org/2009/08/spalding-gray-swimming-to-cambodia.html/comment-page-1#comment-583718 Deron Bauman Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:32:36 +0000 http://www.clusterflock.org/?p=29780#comment-583718 wow, Cindy. I see a clusterflock interviews clusterflock in your future. do you have time for it? wow, Cindy. I see a clusterflock interviews clusterflock in your future.

do you have time for it?

]]> By: Rick Neece http://www.clusterflock.org/2009/08/spalding-gray-swimming-to-cambodia.html/comment-page-1#comment-583715 Rick Neece Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:30:30 +0000 http://www.clusterflock.org/?p=29780#comment-583715 It's been quite a while since I've seen it. I had the VHS. I must have watched it a dozen times. Transfixed is a good, good word for my experience. I would probably have to see it again to be able to talk very deeply about it after all this time. It’s been quite a while since I’ve seen it. I had the VHS. I must have watched it a dozen times. Transfixed is a good, good word for my experience. I would probably have to see it again to be able to talk very deeply about it after all this time.

]]> By: Cindy Scroggins http://www.clusterflock.org/2009/08/spalding-gray-swimming-to-cambodia.html/comment-page-1#comment-583713 Cindy Scroggins Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:30:25 +0000 http://www.clusterflock.org/?p=29780#comment-583713 I have seen it, Deron, but I should watch it again. My original viewing was colored by the fact that Daryl and I were once taught by (and Daryl fairly well acquainted with) Spalding's brother, Rockwell. It was hard getting past the private knowledge to judge the film on its own merits. I have seen it, Deron, but I should watch it again. My original viewing was colored by the fact that Daryl and I were once taught by (and Daryl fairly well acquainted with) Spalding’s brother, Rockwell. It was hard getting past the private knowledge to judge the film on its own merits.

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