july 19, 2009 - interview with kathryn regina

do you feel more and more drawn towards writing?

i feel drawn more and more. by all four of my limbs and the top of my head.

you never considered moving to norway?

no i have.

what instruments do you play?

piano.

have you spent a good part of your writing life 'getting even'?

no i have spent a good part of my writing life trying to get my hands to work independently of my brain. i am interested in rogue limb syndrome. i think a rogue limb could do good work.

where do you live and why?

i live in chicago, IL because i moved here for graduate school in 2002. i am still here because the thought of moving to a smaller city makes me anxious and i don't want to live in new york. chicago is bad enough.

when do you type/think/visualize ‘absurd’?

anytime i really like something it is usually absurd so i type it and think it when describing the thing i like. i visualize the word as primarily red with purple, yellow, tan and dark blue highlights, but that is because my brain has synesthesia, not because of the meaning of the word absurd, which my archaic brain cannot comprehend.

what is a good metaphor for ‘fiction’?

metaphors are so '90s.

when do you type/think/visualize ‘hehe’?

oh goodness, never.

can you name some important books, films, records?

no.

p.s. i really like will oldham.

what is your website like and what is the best/worst thing about it?

my blog is white with pink letters. the best thing about it is that there's a lot of white space and the worst thing about it is that it's not very interesting.

what will happen with the music industry?

the 'big rip' will put an end to it.

do you have a job and what do you think about it and how did you get that job and for how long will you keep doing it and why?

i have a job as a managing editor for a marketing company and a job as a teacher for a college. the editor job is pretty good. the teaching job is killing me

when is the right time to say ‘just kidding’?

wouldn't it be weird if someone wrote that as a suicide note? that's just the first thing i thought of.

what do you usually type in the subject line?

i usually don't type subject lines unless i'm at work and i have to or my boss will complain.

what is the best ‘mood’ to be in?

there is a feeling i had once. it was like exhausted and sedated and calm and happy and not guilty about lying like a lump for hours because i was too calm and happy to feel anything energized like guilt. this feeling was brought to me by some kind of chemical in an IV tube, and has never come back. i am supposed to be learning to passively accept emotions and let them flow through me the way clouds blow through the sky.




kathryn regina wrote for issue two of GUSTAF, she is the author of i am in the air right now (2009), and has a blog






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