Luke asked:

How do you feel about this car?

How certain were you the world was going to end on May 21 — did you have any doubts?
I’m battle tested man. I’m tired, I’m so tired of pretending like my life isn’t perfect and bitching and just winning every second and I’m not perfect and bitching and just deliverying the goods at every friking turn, because, look what I’m dealing with man, I’m dealing with fools and trolls, dealing with soft targets and it’s just, you know, it’s just strafing runs in my underwear before my first cup of coffee because I don’t have time for these clowns.

Can you expand on that?
I don’t have time for their judgement and their stupidity and you know they lay down with their ugly wives in front of their ugly children and look at their loser lives and then they look at me and they say “I can’t process it!” Well, no, you never will, so stop trying . . . just sit back and enjoy the show. You know?

But you were wrong the first time you predicted that the end of the world would take place in September of 1994. So you must think, in the back of your mind, that maybe you can’t actually predict when the end of the world will be.
Boom, that’s the whole movie, that’s life. That’s life, there’s nobility in that, there’s focus, it’s genuine, it’s crystal and it’s pure and it’s available to everybody. So just shut your traps and put down your McDonald’s, your magazines, your TMZ and the rest of it and focus on something that matters.

But . . . But . . .
But you can’t focus on things that matter if all you’ve been is asleep for forty years. Funny how sleep rhymes with sheep. You know? Anyway. We’re getting off topic. We don’t care anymore, we don’t care.

Okay, so describe to me exactly what you expected to happen on May 21 . . . .
Yeah, why not because it’s just pure, pure and complete gnarlyisms. Um, yeah, I sat with two radical fire napalm-dropping pilots in my movie theater watching the attack sequence, the chopper attack sequence on the beachhead to go surfing because they wanted to and those people were in their way. Um, and I was getting a tattoo during the the the the death from above. And it’s the banner from the death card that Kilgore is throwing on his victims. But there’s also falling from it is the apple from The Giving Tree. There’s my life. Deal with it.

So, have you thought about what you’ll tell your followers now that the Rapture didn’t take place?
You know, it’s um, I just, I’m sorry man, I got, I got, I got magic and I got poetry in my fingertips and um, most of the time. And this include naps. I’m a, I’m an F-18, bro. And I will destroy you in the air and I will I will deploy my ordnance to the ground.

Okay. Any final thoughts?
Bye bye. Losers.

In the Washington Post, Charles Murray suggests that answering these questions might help determine if you’re a member of the “New Elite.” How do we do?

1. Can you talk about “Mad Men?”

2. Can you talk about the “The Sopranos?”

3. Do you know who replaced Bob Barker on “The Price Is Right?”

4. Have you watched an Oprah show from beginning to end?

5. Can you hold forth animatedly about yoga?

6. How about pilates?

7. How about skiing?

8. Mountain biking?

9. Do you know who Jimmie Johnson is?

10. Does the acronym MMA mean nothing to you?

11. Can you talk about books endlessly?

12. Have you ever read a “Left Behind” novel?

13. How about a Harlequin romance?

14. Do you take interesting vacations?

15. Do you know a great backpacking spot in the Sierra Nevada?

16. What about an exquisite B&B overlooking Boothbay Harbor?

17. Would you be caught dead in an RV?

18. Would you be caught dead on a cruise ship?

19. Have you ever heard of of Branson, Mo?

20. Have you ever attended a meeting of a Kiwanis Club?

21. How about the Rotary Club?

22. Have you lived for at least a year in a small town?

23. Have you lived for a year in an urban neighborhood in which most of y0ur neighbors did not have college degrees?

24. Have you spent at least a year with a family income less than twice the poverty line?

25. Do you have a close friend who is an evangelical Christian?

26. Have you ever visited a factory floor?

27. Have you worked on one?

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I shoot primarily with a battered LG VX11000 camera-phone, when I am not using the waterproof version of the Fisher-Price KidTough Digital Camera.

Barry, feel free to jump in. Do you think about shooting film anymore?

Anyone?

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.