Malcolm “Dr. John” Rebennack Jr.: There’s a lot of beautiful sides to life I was missing when I was out there ripping and running.
Barbara Kruger: I actually stopped teaching this year.
Rebennack Jr.: You got to do stuff like that or you get stale.
Kruger: You can either decline the address or accept it or feel somewhere in between.
Rebennack Jr.: And they let me do whatever, but I really didn’t know what I was doin’.
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Kruger: What I’m doing is looking at the way our lives have become to some degree a sort of crash site for narcissism and voyeurism.
Rebennack Jr.: It was a major thing, because it connected with my livelihood, you know?
Kruger: Such is the world. Can you imagine?
Rebennack Jr.: No. Maybe.
Kruger: Maybe this is what “proof of life” means now.
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Rebennack Jr.: I feel very, very grateful that somebody could consider it that way.
Kruger: But when people choose to do it to themselves, that’s another form.
Rebennack Jr.: A band is booked for twelve hours with no break.
Kruger: Everything is an overstatement. It wasn’t like sitting in a movie for three hours, you know?
Rebennack Jr.: I’m ready to score a whole movie, if somebody hires me.