p.s. Hey. Just about the time your eyes threaten to completely glaze over, and when you start to wonder what you saw in this blog in the first place, the artist and d.l. and guest host Toniok comes to your rescue with this pretty and most self-explanatory of possible posts. Thank you, TK, and thank you all for whatever it is you're going to do here today. I'll be off to rehearsals shortly, as per usual of late, but before I do ... ** JANEY SMITH, Well, "hello" to you too. I'm honored both to have you here and to have coupled with you in order to form an ape. Anytime. ** Misanthrope, Well, then my dreamless life is further proof that hell doesn't exist? Hm, no idea what will become of the 'Jerk' puppets. At the current rate, 'Jerk' may never die, but, technically, I don't know if Gisele has archives or something in mind. I'm intrigued enough to ask her about that today. News tomorrow. I'm beginning to think your granny is The Chosen One. ** David, Well, hello there, David. Nice to see you. ** Tosh, Thank you kindly, Tosh. Yes, there's a big, fat, rich looking catalog for the Sturtevant retrospective. I guess books like that always get distributed in some form or other, right? ** David Ehrenstein, Oh, cool, about the 'Luna' download. I hope it's the full, unexpurgated thing. See what you think, yeah. ** Tim Jones-Yelvington, Hey, Tim! Very happy to have provided you with that moment of escapism. How are you, your writing, and everything else? ** Joseph, That girl plus Starbucks chair plus bar thing was a nice, lucky break for you. How was Jonathan Richman? Man, I haven't thought about him in ages. Still love the Modern Lovers stuff. Is he still doing the goofball misty eyed overgrown kid thing? ** Bollo, The opening was fun, packed, pretty full of the fashionable and flecked with the famous (in France only). No wine that I could see, but there was probably a VIP room. The only drawback was that Sturtevant made a haunted/spooky house in the museum as part of the show, and it was what I was most heavily excited to see, but there was a two hour wait to get in, so I'll have to make another trip when the museum is its uncrowded, normal self. Oh, nice Sunn0))) haul there. I'm seeing them play tomorrow night. Wow, about Nayland dreaming about me. First, thanks for clueing me in, and, second, the mass dreaming about is beginning to spook me out a bit for real. ** Jose, Oh, well, I guess the tools in SL would make entering worth it, but I just couldn't get past the horrible interface and early 90s style graphics/fog. Definitely get that video camera. ** Thomas Moronic, Oh, man, your dad and the ambulance and all that ... it's giving me the shivers. I'm so, ugh, sorry, Thomas. Great about the new writing by you. I have to save it for my post-rehearsal downtime, but let me tell the others. Everyone, the really great writer and many other things Thomas Moronic (aka Moore) has some short new fiction up on his blog, and giving yourself its pleasure is a total no-brainer, and here's how you can. Really look forward to reading it, man. Much love right back to you. ** _Black_Acrylic, Glad you liked and were further intrigued by the Sturtevant post. Thanks! Oh, I do especially like those latest works you linked to, yes. Wonderful work! Especially like that floor star plus three panel/eye/wall combo. Nice! Yeah, I mean, I think the galleries need you when your time and everything else ends up allowing. Everyone, here's more art from the not so distant past by _Black_Acrylic aka Ben Robinson which he accurately describes as deriving from 'the pseudo-black-metal/LSD/Satanic-tip I was on back then'. It's sweet stuff. Go visit it, yeah? ** Chris Goode, Hey, Chris! Oh, you're a Sturtevant fan! Nice, me too. That's real good news about you being able to see the video documents of the Abdoh work. Very, very curious to hear your thoughts. As you'll see, the work is really a live thing, and the videos are very much just a preservation of the basics, but I know that imagination of yours will have no problem making the leap. That is a really interesting question about notation and theater. There is a 'Kindertotenlieder' script of some sort that was drawn up for the people in charge of handling the lighting and sound cues, but I don't know how detailed it is. Since a lot of the cues come from movement as well as the text, it must be somewhat accurate. I'm going to ask Gisele about that today. As I think you know, 'Ktl' is the only work of ours that had a full working script created by me to begin with, and it included roughed out descriptions of the movements and transitions and so on that I composed based on conversations with Gisele and that she followed for the most part. So there's that, but it lacks all the detailing and many changes that came about while building the thing. Anyway, yeah, I'll find out what script exists today, and I'll let you know. Yeah, it's a fascinating question indeed. Thanks, C! ** Steevee, Oh good, about the new writing gigs. That's a nerve wracking profession you're in if there ever was one. I'll give the new Magnetic Fields a shot, but it sounds like the less blurry and more traditionally song oriented work of theirs that isn't so interesting to me. ** Oscar B, Glad you were able to end your birthday on a high note, ha ha. Yeah, Yury can definitely talk a blue streak when he gets a topic he knows about, yep. Hopefully talk to you later, post-rehearsal. ** Creative Massacre, You do sound a lot better, and that's really good to hear, obviously. I hope the physical stuff is righting itself gradually, like you said. That sounds promising, and I'm glad you're at peace with the new emotional order, as it were. I hope that hangs on too. Cool, now I can hope that magical blown sugar graveyard is not too far down the road. All hail Buffy! ** Bill, Talked to Sonia. She said oh, yes, talk to Chrystel, who will be in today. A incremental progression, in other words. Yeah, I guess I'm going to have to get through the next two days of rehearsal swamp to get my mind around the West Coast trip, and then I will. ** Chris, Hey, man! Major snowstorm ... that's bad, right? I'm feeling romantic about snow these days. Grass is always greener and all that. Rehearsals are good, laborious but necessary and paying off, basically. Are you rehearsing? You must be. That Lomax box sounds amazing, obviously. Yeah, spread the word once you're immersed. ** Inthemostpeculiarway, Oh, okay, I'll retract the noble part of my mental image of Bendy and highlight the beauty of his eyes. Yeah, people head bang to certain inter-genre forms of Metal. I think Stephen likes his very droney, though. Head nodding rather than banging music, I guess. Your friends are endlessly entertaining when they are in the form of words, at least. Sarah Palin's not going to like that 'retarded' remark. If only she read my blog. My day: Pretty much immediately after posting the blog, I walked to Centquatre where we're doing the rehearsals. Based on a glance at my Paris map, it looked like a short walk, but it wasn't at all. It took me an hour to get there, and I'm going to take the metro partway from now on. When I got there, Gisele was meeting with the Japanese curator who's handling the Japanese tour of our new piece, so I sat in, and it was a good decision since she was nice and told me about all the fans I have in Japan and how cute and stylish they are, and she pretty much said I'm definitely going to be brought along for the tour and maybe do some readings while there, and that made my day. Then we rehearsed for about five hours, and I had to leave 'cos I was going to the art opening, so I came home, brushed my teeth, ate a candy bar, and went downstairs to meet up with my fellow attendee pals: Scott Treleaven, Paul P, Oscar, Kiddiepunk, the writer and former Guided by Voices member Jim Greer and his friend Constance, who's a big wig on some important France film commission thing. Jim caught me up on stuff -- he wrote the original version of the screenplay for that recent Jackie Chan movie, but some lackey rewrote it into the final version, although Jim got paid, which was fine with him, for instance -- since I haven't seen him in a while. We all metroed to the museum and saw the show, which was cool, but I wish there had been more work in it. It was mostly concentrated on Sturtevant's work of the past twenty years. We stood in line for a while to go through the 'Haunted House of Horrors' that Sturtevant made for the show, but the wait in line would have been two hours, so we bailed, hung out, smoked, schmoozed. Yury and his friend Lena showed up. My LA friend Bruce Hainley showed up with the NYC artist/performer Claude Wampler, and we all hung out and star gazed and stuff until we got tired and eventually went home. Then I ate and stuff, and Yury and I watched a documentary on french TV about the designer Sonia Rykiel that was only okay, and then my head hit the pillow. What has Friday been like on your end? ** Sypha, I'm glad it went well with the district manager. Do spill, but only if you feel like it. ** L@rstonovich, There was a whole room of Sturtevant's Duchamp remakes lighted all psychedelic and spooky, and that was kind of the show's highlight, I think. ** JW Veldhoen, That was quite a day. Magick Mike lives in NYC? I don't know why I think he lives elsewhere. Your feet must look like ballet dancers'. ** Postitbreakup, I don't know why, man. I don't know why you don't see yourself as a horn of plenty 'cos you kind of obviously are. Look, I do think you're awesome and love you and will be a mentor as best I can given that I live in France and communicate with 90 plus percent of everyone I know by reading, thinking, and then typing. That's what I am, and that's mostly what I can do. Honestly, I think you should get back on the idea of going to university and going to a university in a really inspiring and great place in the States or Europe or somewhere. I know that'll take a bit of time, but I think you need to try to break your patterns and find a new place to be where you can find and feel a new version of yourself. ** Chris (British), Oh, 'Serial Mom', one of my favorite films. Yeah, it's must be far more doable to sneak in and out of France like I do. Flights to the States aren't cheap, but I guess they're half as expensive as your best shot. I think the cheapest way to get out of the EU and back is to go to Croatia for a little vacation, but I've hesitated. Those new linked things/ people look amazing at a glance. I'll peruse happily later when I'm post-elsewhere and post-work. Thanks, Chris. ** Okay, wow, I'd better go. Enjoy Toniok's gift and talk to him, if you will. I'll be around here again in the morning. Bye.