American Splendor
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:09:07
Look at that fool there.
:09:08
Probably listening to that loud rock stuff.
Junk, it's all junk.

:09:14
I don't know. I mean...
:09:16
rock music's got some good qualities.
:09:19
It isn't jazz or nothing, but you know...
:09:23
Say, when are you gonna bring me in
some of those good records?

:09:26
- Some Nat King Cole with strings.
- I don't got any of that, Mr. Boats.

:09:31
Yeah, you got that.
You're keeping them at home, though.

:09:34
You won't turn loose the good stuff.
You just sell the junk.

:09:43
I keep the stuff I wanna keep.
:09:46
I sold a lot of good material
by people that he didn't like.

:09:53
Mr. Boats didn't like any blues
or anything like that.

:09:58
He played classical violin.
:10:03
I started record collecting
when I was 15 or 16 years old.

:10:07
I started getting interested in jazz.
:10:10
Prior to that, I collected comic books.
:10:13
I was always a collector.
:10:18
I admit to having
an obsessive-compulsive quality in me.

:10:25
It's like The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
or something.

:10:27
You go to thrift shops
and you go to the garage sales...

:10:30
because you think you're gonna find
something that's real rare.

:10:34
And most of time, it's a total waste of time,
but once in a while...

:10:39
you'll come up with something
that'll whet your appetite.

:10:52
In the early '60s...
:10:53
I was with some buddies at a junk sale,
looking for some choice sides...

:10:56
when I met this shy, retiring cat
from Philadelphia named Bob Crumb.


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