I recently watched this documentary called Andy & Jim about how Jim Carey basically assumed, full-time, the spirit/zeitgeist of Andy Kaufman/Bob Clifton in the outstanding movie Man on the Moon.
But doing so required that I first re-watch Man on the Moon, which I hadn’t seen since it came out in 18 years ago.
Both movies, interestingly, are centered around creative struggle, expression, innovation, and the undeniable connection between sadness and humor.
I’ve always had this weird obsession with robots and artificial intelligence. I would scour the internet looking for new apps that could respond to what I’m saying with some shred of intelligence and I would try to write programs that would seem intelligent. The biggest thrill of my life came from a program I wrote (in Basic) that would ask you for your name, and then spit it back to you in the form of some salutation.