I think I first saw Gummo when i was 14 in a friends basement on a cathode ray tv hooked up to an xbox. Everything about it felt circular and uncomfortable, repetitive yet different, no cohesive narrative or shape to mark the passage of time. Like being forced to sit upon painted carousel horses of bad luck and human misery.
That was the same summer i found out the Taiwanese grocery store near my high school would sell you a…