I was born Moishe Ketzelbourd but the Indians call me Maurice Cougar.
BEN KATCHORI was born Moishe Ketzelbourd but the Indians call me Maurice Cougar.
BEN KATCHORGoat curry and a female librarian, that’s what I’m in the mood for.
BEN KATCHORReally interesting novels, they always are so demanding of you on some level that you don’t fall asleep.
BEN KATCHORI’ve wasted the last five years of my life dealing in religious articles. People today find spiritual solace in ballroom dancing.
BEN KATCHORTo sell papers, they put color comics in. It’s worked, up until now. Now these papers can’t afford it. They always had minuscule ad budgets, and now the things which people probably read these papers for are gone.
BEN KATCHORI always lived in old buildings, and I thought about who lived here before. You’d have to be oblivious not to.
BEN KATCHORThe click [of a light switch] is the modern triumphal clarion proceeding us through life, announcing our entry into every lightless room.
BEN KATCHORI never wore a watch. I always depend on public clocks, and stores have clocks, but that is strange.
BEN KATCHORI think Jewish history did away with a priesthood when the Temple was destroyed, and it became, supposedly, a religion of scholars. A rabbi is just a scholar.
BEN KATCHORCertain movies that are trying to evoke history are just like being in an antique store, and all you notice is that all the stuff has been gathered together, and it feels like a pile of antiques.
BEN KATCHORI live in an apartment building built in 1925, and it hasn’t been heavily renovated, so I feel very much connected to that time and what went on in that place.
BEN KATCHORA picture story just doesn’t run like a film. It doesn’t have 24 frames per second. It doesn’t deal with this illusion of movement. It’s more like if you did an illuminated novel.
BEN KATCHORYou can have your own watch and always doubt it. If I had a watch I’d probably always be doubting it or the batteries would be dying. I just know that people always have trouble with their watches, and that’s why I like public clocks.
BEN KATCHORI’m very interested in music and where these sounds of Western music come from.
BEN KATCHORI think architectural appreciation would be a minor occupation after a nuclear war. People would just be happy to have something to eat.
BEN KATCHORHow can you think that that will evoke the past? It doesn’t even have to evoke anything, but anyway, it’s how we’re living. It’s this moment where nobody has to immediately think too much about how things are being documented. It’s a great time.
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