Spalding Gray: born to be a European colonizer writing exoticizing travel books during the age of exploration, forced to be The Kooky Well-Traveled Guy who monologues to the artsy, youthful, theatergoing audience in Bushwick
What I mean to say is that he’s the classical, vaguely charming type of racist—embarrassed by his status in an ever-changing world but simultaneously both brutally honest and dead-set in his beliefs… neurotic, articulate, and self-aware enough to name the violence he sees and feels complicit within, but never intends to disown the perspective that lets him frame it as highly dramatic personal insight
He and Adam Curtis would’ve made a good collaboration
Spalding Gray: born to be a European colonizer writing exoticizing travel books during the age of exploration, forced to be The Kooky Well-Traveled Guy who monologues to the artsy, youthful, theatergoing audience in Bushwick
What I mean to say is that he’s the classical, vaguely charming type of racist—embarrassed by his status in an ever-changing world but simultaneously both brutally honest and dead-set in his beliefs… neurotic, articulate, and self-aware enough to name the violence he sees and feels complicit within, but never intends to disown the perspective that lets him frame it as highly dramatic personal insight
He and Adam Curtis would’ve made a good collaboration
