Ahhhh...watching Gummo is the same as salivating over a slo-mo train wreck.  The movie was just a parade of freaks with no souls.  The pacing and plot (so to speak) are all present in fragments, but the high shock value is too obvious to ignore.  There are no characters, only bad actors who are under the mistaken impression that they are in an arthouse movie.  The only feeling that Gummo left me with was revulsion, which is not to say that I don't appreciate repugnance.  I just prefer that it has no pretensions of being anything greater than it is.  But kudos still for watching movies that are outside the mainstream!