As I’ve mentioned before, I find David Dark to be one of the more thought provoking authors I’m reading now. And I enjoy every chance I have to hear him speak or talk over coffee. When we met at a coffee shop near his house a couple weeks ago, our conversation ranged from discussion of one of my favorite films of last year, There Will Be Blood, to church to relationships and how our sharing our secrets helps those around us have courage to share some of their own.
A friend of David’s sat down with him recently and asked him questions with a camera rolling. There’s at least an hour of footage that will be edited and posted on David’s blog as it becomes available, and the first clip is up now. In it, David shares about his work in a movie theatre as a teenager, and how it was a “space of the talkaboutable.” And he talks about his definition of the word “apocalyptic,” a central idea behind his book Everyday Apocalypse. He says, “Apocalyptic, as I understand it, is not so much about buildings being destroyed or the end of civilization so much as cracking the pavement of the status quo. Apocalyptic names what we could call socially disruptive newness.”