Withersin’s Damned Interview with:
Brett Rosenblatt
I left writing early, couldn’t
stomach journalism, disappeared into a radical environmental hole for half a
life, escaped, emerged, showered, got a suit and played my entrepreneurial
hand. Now I stand on the edge looking down and I really, really miss it, like I
pyromaniac in a raincoat, searching for dry matches, screaming at the wind.
I don’t believe in fate, but
it’s not exactly free will either.
List published works:
Spectrum
Magazine, Rose and Thorn, The Oracle, The Sunday Newsday Magazine, Animal’s
Agenda, Manhattan Perspectives, Opium Magazine. I am being random here.
List website: http://www.myspace.com/brettrosenblatt. Also on Facebook, somewhere
How can we contact you? luckybrett@gmail.com. Concentrate
very hard.
In your own words, define
Withersin.
I haven’t seen it yet, but the
covers look awesome.
If you were a sideshow act,
what would you be?
A reverse
mermaid. I won’t explore this any
further than I need to.
What is your greatest
non-literary influence?
My
grandfather.
Describe your most
irrational fear.
My eyelids
getting stuck open with sticks, my fingers getting closed in a door, any kind
of impersonal torture, falling more than two feet, insomnia. In no particular order.
How about your
most guilty pleasure?
Insomnia. Violent movies. Violent video games. 80’s romance movies.
Breaking traffic laws. There’s a definite pattern
here.
Name the most disturbing
nursery rhyme/fairy tale you can recall.
Hansel &
Gretel, the old (homeless) lady in the shoe beating her children, Sleeping
Beauty getting gang-raped. These tales
teach us to be bad so we can break rules and become accustomed to punishment . Softens us for the parents, the priests, the
professors, the police…For those younger readers: life
will get very, very interesting if you do enough things wrong.
Do you eat meat?
I can’t tell. It’s always dark.
What were the skies like
when you were young?
Big, dirty,
uncorrupted space. Same as they are
now.
Name your favorite garden
tool.
A shovel, of course; but a good
hoe can be comforting as well.
Name your least favorite
color, first job and worst job.
Red (I’m colorblind). Bus Boy (chased by a meat cleaver). Fiberglass Grinder
(still picking out the splinters)
Favorite: Author,
Movie, Music Group, Song, and Quote.
Chuck Palahniuk
Good Will Hunting
Stand
Glass Dominoes
Quote:
One day
“Which road do I take?” she asked.
His response was a question: “Where do you
want to go?”
“I don’t know,”
“Then,” said the cat, “it
doesn’t matter.”
If you were a loaf of bread
what kind would you be?
Something stale
enough to use as a weapon
Weirdest news you have read in
your local newspaper:
Finding out my ex-fiancé
and her daughter were killed by a music producer.
Why horror?
I had no idea.
I was trying for modern romance here.
Here's a photo. (seen on Interview main
page)
“INEDIBLE NOT INTENDED FOR HUMAN FOOD”
You
have 112 words. Go.
Wait…obviously
it’s a milk truck
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