\u201cDavid Rodgers is fearless, and as captivating and magnetic as a witch doctor. But instead of an accompanying power madness, he possesses your attention with a kind of alluring absurdity. He is a walking TV show that would never be allowed to broadcast. Not because of any kind of coarse or bawdy content, but rather because it would create more chaos than Orson Welles\u2019 \u201cWar of the Worlds\u201d. We all know that the Germans love Hasslehoff like the French appreciate Jerry Lewis, but Rodgers makes me re-think life; not life on other planets, but rather as life shaping itself in the ether, in the atmosphere. Spontaneous animation, but not. That doesn\u2019t make sense, but that is precisely the point. He does not make sense as a life form. Of course he\u2019s eccentric, of course you wish you could be him at times, of course he has a wall of stacked suitcases in his apartment, but the goddamn point is he\u2019s vastly more sane than most, without being sane at all. I know you\u2019re sane, but this guy reconciles sanity with being committed. Rodgers, simply put, is the walking, talking, nearly comprehensible truth. This is what I\u2019m getting at: Dave Rodgers could do anything he wanted, and yet he chooses to enlighten you by confounding you. And he does so because for the most part we really don\u2019t have the slightest idea of how to go about being crazy and thoroughly sane (or sane enough), at the same time. I strive for it, but of course I HAVE to give up; which is to say, I give up on sanity, but I don\u2019t embrace insanity\u2026. He\u2019s a performance artist. And for that I do thank god.\u201d
\n -J. Parker Cross, Writer and Filmmaker,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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