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I've known for a very long time that David Sedaris is completely awesome. If you didn't know that already, too, here's proof:
Interview person: What books do you read?
David Sedaris: Right now I’m reading a gudebook on Rio because I’m going to Brasil for my South American book tour and I have two days off in Rio. Before that I read Our Story Ends by Tobias Wolff. And before that I read Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates and before that I read No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July and before that I read a book called The Bible Salesman by Clyde Edgerton. I don’t know how I didn’t read How to Be Alone by Jonathan Franzen but that’s what I’m reading next. I love that guy. Kinda hard to read sometimes when I’m working on things. When I have a lot of deadlines because, you know, I’m so influenced by what I read. But now I love books on tape. Do you ever listen to books on tape? I love iPods. You know, I’m a technophobe so I don’t know how to download music but I love to take a CD and put it in my computer and then put it in my iPod. Absolutely. I don’t think anyone but me understands how handsome Matt Damon is. Right? I mean some other people might think he’s cute but they don’t understand the way Matt Damon looks the way that I do. Just like no one can appreciate an iPod as much as I do. I’m convinced of that. Isn’t it interesting how that works? That without meaning to a person or a product can speak to you in that way. Like, why do I think no one understands how good looking Matt Damon is than me? Why do I think that? I’ve never met Matt Damon. But I’m convinced of that.
I went on Matt Damon’s website, I Met Matt, and it was people saying "Oh my God I met Matt Damon and he shook my hand" and "Oh my God I met Matt Damon and he is so cute" and I look at that and I think "You don’t know what cute is. You don’t know. If that’s the only word you can come up with for Matt Damon, that’s pathetic. Like, you don’t understand the essence of Matt Damon. That word doesn’t even begin to describe him. I mean if I have a vice it’s certainly not Matt Damon so why does he speak to me so clearly? Like Hugh’s father. He was talking about Matt Damon in a movie and he said, "oh he’s just you know a pretty boy and they needed a body for that role" and I said, "Matt Damon is what? He’s just a what?" And I think he’s a good actor. And I don’t want to hear anything bad about Matt Damon’s friends either. I thought Gone Baby Gone was a good movie.
Today I went to the Apple store and I saw those touch iPods but I think that’s too complicated for me.
The rest of the interview is here.
Interview person: What books do you read?
David Sedaris: Right now I’m reading a gudebook on Rio because I’m going to Brasil for my South American book tour and I have two days off in Rio. Before that I read Our Story Ends by Tobias Wolff. And before that I read Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates and before that I read No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July and before that I read a book called The Bible Salesman by Clyde Edgerton. I don’t know how I didn’t read How to Be Alone by Jonathan Franzen but that’s what I’m reading next. I love that guy. Kinda hard to read sometimes when I’m working on things. When I have a lot of deadlines because, you know, I’m so influenced by what I read. But now I love books on tape. Do you ever listen to books on tape? I love iPods. You know, I’m a technophobe so I don’t know how to download music but I love to take a CD and put it in my computer and then put it in my iPod. Absolutely. I don’t think anyone but me understands how handsome Matt Damon is. Right? I mean some other people might think he’s cute but they don’t understand the way Matt Damon looks the way that I do. Just like no one can appreciate an iPod as much as I do. I’m convinced of that. Isn’t it interesting how that works? That without meaning to a person or a product can speak to you in that way. Like, why do I think no one understands how good looking Matt Damon is than me? Why do I think that? I’ve never met Matt Damon. But I’m convinced of that.
I went on Matt Damon’s website, I Met Matt, and it was people saying "Oh my God I met Matt Damon and he shook my hand" and "Oh my God I met Matt Damon and he is so cute" and I look at that and I think "You don’t know what cute is. You don’t know. If that’s the only word you can come up with for Matt Damon, that’s pathetic. Like, you don’t understand the essence of Matt Damon. That word doesn’t even begin to describe him. I mean if I have a vice it’s certainly not Matt Damon so why does he speak to me so clearly? Like Hugh’s father. He was talking about Matt Damon in a movie and he said, "oh he’s just you know a pretty boy and they needed a body for that role" and I said, "Matt Damon is what? He’s just a what?" And I think he’s a good actor. And I don’t want to hear anything bad about Matt Damon’s friends either. I thought Gone Baby Gone was a good movie.
Today I went to the Apple store and I saw those touch iPods but I think that’s too complicated for me.
The rest of the interview is here.