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[CHRIS DANKLAND INTERVIEW VIDEO RESPONSE PART 1]

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I RECENTLY SENT CHRIS DANKLAND SOME INTERVIEW QUESTIONS

HE RUNS THIS BLOG: http://neatomosquitoaltlitfireworksshow.tumblr.com/

CHECK OUT HIS GREAT VIDEOS: http://www.youtube.com/user/cdankland?feature=results_main

HE MADE 3 PARTS FOR THE INTERVIEW - 3 VIDEO RESPONSES (BUT HE DOESN’T SHOW FACE)

HERE’S HIS FIRST PART, WHERE HE SPEAKS ABOUT ‘ON-LIT’ & HOUSTON, TEXAS & RIMBAUD & ‘THE INVENTION OF THE INTERNET’

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here are his disclaimers:

1) want to thank Matthew Sherling so much for giving me this opportunity, thank you

2) the video/recording doesn’t sync up perfectly, sorry

3) when I talk about my car, I say “my foot on the gas” when I really mean “my foot on the break”

4) this is a link to Dennis Cooper’s blog:http://denniscooper-theweaklings.blogspot.com/

5) this is a post that I made about Jean Henri Fabre:http://dankland.blogspot.com/2011/08/life-of-spider.html

6) (re: “net of life”) - ”That’s what art is, he said, the story of a life in all its particularity. It’s the only thing that really is particular and personal. It’s the expression and, at the same time, the fabric of the particular. And what do you mean by the fabric of the particular? I asked, supposing he would answer: Art. I was also thinking, indulgently, that we were pretty drunk already and that it was time to go home. But my friend said: What I mean is the secret story…. The secret story is the one we’ll never know, although we’re living it from day to day, thinking we’re alive, thinking we’ve got it all under control and the stuff we overlook doesn’t matter. But every damn thing matters! It’s just that we don’t realize. We tell ourselves that art runs on one track and life, our lives, on another, we don’t even realize that’s a lie.” - Roberto Bolano