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I see your point, Barry, & I certainly like this version (& am glad you kept that final couplet). Doug On 2011-02-22, at 10:38 AM, Barry Alpert wrote: > CHARLES BURNETT TALKED & ANSWERED QUESTIONS (modestly) (2) > > > Impose a story? > I didn’t have any answers. > I had a lot . . . I actually experienced. > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > > I had thought of scenes generated out of the music. > My mother used to play 78 rpm blues / jazz / r & b. > I broke one of her records & couldn’t use that song in “Killer of Sheep”. > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > > It wasn’t meant to be shown theatrically. > I wanted it to look “rough”. > For a documentary, you shoot what you can get. > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > > We used to stand at the doorway of clubs listening > for something that was very disturbing. Douglas Barbour [log in to unmask] http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/ http://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/ Latest books: Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy) http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664 Wednesdays' http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html Language has unmistakably made plain that memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theater. It is the medium of past experience, just as the earth is the medium in which dead cities lie buried. Walter Benjamin