Subj : Re: The Documentary...
To   : alt.bbs.synchronet
From : textfiles
Date : Thu Aug 04 2005 08:05 pm

From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet

For the record, and I don't mind making this crystal clear:

With little to no exception, what I got from the "current scene" during
the years of production was, essentially, ass. I got a lot of name
calling, a lot of accusations, a lot of refusal to be interviewed and a
metric ton of flak for doing what I was doing. Naturally, many thought
I was going to be 20/20 or some reality show, and totally paint
everyone as dangerous terrorist art nerds. Now that the bread is baked
and everyone sees what it ultimately became, they're angry they didn't
get in.

I have thousands of lines of logs of me on the edge of begging folks to
hop in and being spit on. The people in the ARTSCENE documentary are
people who were on their way out or completely out, who had the growth
to look back objectively and open up to the story. Or who Rad Man could
browbeat into getting on film.

I appreciate your compliments very much.

massd's comments at the end, which of course I stress are my own choice
of edit and which come out of 3 hours of interview session with him
that night, were used primarily to show that, even when one person says
looking back that it wasn't serious, slothy's immediate response ("I
got 40 to 50!") shows no, it was quite important to people there and
still is. I went for humor and insight, but I could see where that
might rub some the wrong way. It's tough to wrap it up, as they say.

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