The book was A Book of Ku, Jim's latest and greatest. As with FUP, I consumed it in one sitting. this time I didn't end up face down on the kitchen floor but instead head up at my computer assembling the framework for the first ku*kuroo** event.
Chip Phillips gave me FUP to read a few years ago. We had just finished the first draft of a feature film script we were collaborating on and he said it was a good read, so I did as suggested and read it. BOOM! I finished it after reading straight for a couple days and next thing I know I am laying face down on my kitchen floor crying like a baby. I still don't really know why:) What I do know is that the book had a powerful impact on my subconscious. As if awakened from a dream I felt vulnerable and small, void of pretense. An empty vessel to be filled with nothing. I called Chip up and said, "We've got to do a Festival honoring people like Jim Dodge." Stuff happened and didn't happen, time passed and then a few months ago Chip showed up at the ELF (Esper Lukat Films) production room (my garage) and put another book by Jim on the ping pong table. I looked at him with a 1000 yard stare and muttered, "uh, oh."
The book was A Book of Ku, Jim's latest and greatest. As with FUP, I consumed it in one sitting. this time I didn't end up face down on the kitchen floor but instead head up at my computer assembling the framework for the first ku*kuroo** event.
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