The Devil and Daniel Johnston

<i> it was undeniable</i> <i> after maybe one or two weeks</i> 662 00:39:41,012 --> 00:39:45,165 <i> that something was</i> <i> dreadfully wrong with him.</i> 663 00:39:45,250 --> 00:39:48,484 <i> Something that wasn't angelic</i> <i> and pure and naive</i> 664 00:39:48,553 --> 00:39:50,553 <i> and innocent and beautiful.</i> 665 00:39:50,622 --> 00:39:54,740 <i> So I realized I can't let him</i> <i> keep on thinking that</i> <i> I'm his girlfriend</i> 666 00:39:54,809 --> 00:39:56,709 <i> because his parents came</i> <i> to visit him</i> 667 00:39:56,778 --> 00:39:59,545 <i> and he introduced me</i> <i> as his fiancee.</i> 668 00:39:59,614 --> 00:40:02,148 I realized that I was going to have to say, 669 00:40:02,217 --> 00:40:06,152 "Daniel, we're not going out anymore, you know. 670 00:40:06,221 --> 00:40:07,904 "We're just friends." 671 00:40:07,973 --> 00:40:12,609 <i> And I essentially spent,</i> <i> oh, the entire summer</i> <i> reminding him.</i> 672 00:40:13,478 --> 00:40:14,911 <i> We broke up.</i> 673 00:40:15,897 --> 00:40:17,563 <i> (DANIEL SPEAKING)</i> 674 00:40:33,948 --> 00:40:36,216 DANIEL: Now you're filming? RANDY: Dan, this is so wild. 675 00:40:36,284 --> 00:40:39,235 <i> JEFF: Daniel began</i> <i> hanging out with his manager,</i> <i> Randy Kemper.</i> 676 00:40:39,304 --> 00:40:41,020 <i> And was smoking</i> <i> a lot of marijuana.</i> 677 00:40:41,088 --> 00:40:43,122 <i> And he would not perform live.</i> 678 00:40:43,190 --> 00:40:46,059 <i> Everybody was bugging him</i> <i> to play live, but he just</i> <i> didn't want to.</i> 679 00:40:46,127 --> 00:40:47,827 <i> There were some changes</i> <i> in his behavior</i> 680 00:40:47,896 --> 00:40:50,163 <i> and we didn't really</i> <i> quite know what was</i> <i> going on with him.</i> 681 00:40:50,231 --> 00:40:53,666 <i> RANDY: You know, when you do</i> <i> stuff like that,</i> <i> you throw me off, Daniel.</i> 682 00:40:53,735 --> 00:40:56,902 <i> KATHY: I always kind of</i> <i> imagined Daniel performing</i> <i> like Elton John</i> 683 00:40:56,988 --> 00:40:59,121 with costume changes and Rockettes 684 00:40:59,190 --> 00:41:02,559 and a big grand piano. Just the kind of show that's just ridiculous. 685 00:41:02,627 --> 00:41:05,294 Almost like Andy Kaufman-esque kind of thing. 686 00:41:05,363 --> 00:41:07,730 But unfortunately, he had his mental breakdown. 687 00:41:07,799 --> 00:41:09,882 ♪(SWEET LOAF PLAYING) 688 00:41:17,492 --> 00:41:19,141 <i> LOUIS: So he goes to</i> <i> a Butthole Surfers show</i> 689 00:41:19,210 --> 00:41:20,943 <i> and somebody there</i> <i> gives him a hit of acid.</i> 690 00:41:21,012 --> 00:41:23,096 <i> And the trip really begins</i> <i> to change everything.</i> 691 00:41:23,164 --> 00:41:26,165 Again, one of the classic scenarios of Daniel's life 692 00:41:26,234 --> 00:41:28,767 is whenever anything starts getting really good, 693 00:41:28,836 --> 00:41:31,070 you know something really ugly is gonna happen. 694 00:41:31,139 --> 00:41:32,705 (MECHANICAL WHIRRING) 695 00:41:32,773 --> 00:41:34,006 (GROANS) 696 00:41:36,077 --> 00:41:40,779 GIBBY: The night in question is September 11, 1986 697 00:41:40,848 --> 00:41:42,915 on which Daniel 698 00:41:44,752 --> 00:41:47,786 had a bad experience, uh, 699 00:41:47,855 --> 00:41:50,957 and I guess, uh, he was under the influence 700 00:41:51,025 --> 00:41:53,759 of some sort of psychoactive substance. 701 00:42:01,068 --> 00:42:03,869 (WHIRRING) 702 00:42:03,938 --> 00:42:07,556 <i> You know, I remember</i> <i> a little bit about seeing</i> <i> Daniel that night.</i> 703 00:42:07,625 --> 00:42:11,194 I remember him being sort of difficult to deal with. 704 00:42:11,262 --> 00:42:16,048 And then we had our thing going on and 705 00:42:18,619 --> 00:42:20,954 <i> everybody started saying,</i> <i> "Daniel's freaked out.</i> 706 00:42:21,022 --> 00:42:23,406 <i> "Daniel's freaked out.</i> <i> Daniel's freaked out."</i> 707 00:42:23,475 --> 00:42:26,275 I'm coming back to tell you, man. 708 00:42:26,344 --> 00:42:29,912 I'm serious like Billy Graham. Nothing like Billy Graham. 709 00:42:29,981 --> 00:42:33,383 Or nothing like that. Or nothing like nobody you ever heard tell about nothing. 710 00:42:33,451 --> 00:42:36,886 But I'm coming back and I'm telling you there's a supernatural world. 711 00:42:36,954 --> 00:42:39,622 There's a supernatural world 712 00:42:39,691 --> 00:42:42,975 and Gibby, Gibby knows about it. 713 00:42:43,044 --> 00:42:45,244 (FEUERZEIG SPEAKING) 714 00:42:45,313 --> 00:42:49,264 (CHUCKLING) No. I didn't give him any LSD. 715 00:42:49,333 --> 00:42:53,002 <i> I think at that point it was</i> <i> pretty much known that, uh,</i> <i> he was not necessarily</i> 716 00:42:53,071 --> 00:42:58,190 <i> "an" unstable charac