Just spent the last 4 1/2 hours with Crispin Glover. The video store I work at managed to drag him into Memphis to show his film "What Is It" and, uh, he's every bit as paranoid and eccentric as one would expect.
Before the movie started the lights dimmed and there was a single red circle lighting the screen. That's when Glover got onto stage and proceeded to tell us he was going to read 8 of his books to us tonight. He wasn't kidding. Everyone there expected him to just jump onstage and introduce the film. No, instead for the next 2 hours he read EIGHT WHOLE BOOKS, and maybe two of them were actually coherent stories.
The most awkward part of the evening was during the reading of the second book where he stopped and got onto someone about a blinking light that he saw. He continued on and everyone thought it was a joke. During the reading of the 7th book he stopped again and because he thought he saw a flashing light (keep in mind he was the only one who saw it). He then got really paranoid, had the theatre turn on the house lights, and started pulling people down row by row and had them searched and their cell phones checked. 20 minutes later he continued reading again.
Then the flick began and, uh, yeah, if you haven't seen it it makes Lynch's films seem as easy to follow as a children's book. Then he had a Q&A where he kept rambling and going off subject and then a signing where I picked the below book up and asked him about his dance in Friday the 13th Part 4:
This has nothing to do with Willard.
Note the publishing date. All his books are written as if they were done in the late 1800's. This is a book from the perspective of someone in the 1890's writing a book on the art of rat catching for the use in schools.
Here's a couple of passages:
All of his books look like this.
