p.s. RIP: Barry Hannah. I just saw that news a minute ago. Terrible, very sad, big loss. Ugh. Uh, I've pulled out a great post from my former, dead blog today that was put together by the mighty if long absent d.l. Vomitingghosts (later known around here as 'Matthew'). If you're out there, old pal, thanks a lot again. It would seem from the fairly good response to my query re: the proposed blog gang and friends get-together on the 14th, that we should go ahead and say it's a go. I'm guessing David E.'s non-answer means he didn't see the query and that I'll be able to use my my 'old friend' powers to get Heliotrope on board if he's feeling wavery. Blendin, if you're reading this, how would 7 or 7:30 pm work for you? Once we get the time squared away, I'll put the info and invite in the blog's upper right hand corner. Finally, it's Tuesday, the day the 2nd etage of the Recollets gets cleaned and its residents exiled, so, yeah, I'll be moving along quickly in hopes I'll beat the thuddy sound of a fist hitting my door. ** Put The Lotion In The Basket, Hey, Nick. Assuming that the dentist is going to insist on yanking out my two broken teeth, I fear I might need two tooth fairies soon. I wonder what you get for tooth crumbs. ** Graeme, Hey, there. Welcome and thanks a lot. Is there anywhere out there online where I could see your photos? ** Jose, After that bitch slap I gave Marky yesterday, perhaps today's offended lurker is thinking twice, ha ha? ** Kier, Thanks, pal. I eat a shitload of cheese which equals calcium, right? I think my teeth are probably mines full of giant cavities, and they're only still teeth on the surface. That's the fear. I won't know until Friday at the earliest. ** Oscar B, Heyster! The broken tooth is less painful than discomfiting and causing me to have a headache at this point, and I have to be careful what I put in my mouth and where. In any case, let's meet up today. I'm basically normal enough. ** Collarbones/ Marcus Whale, I like that screen name, mistake or not. Yeah, re: the black metal interest and off-shooting thought trail from the post. I'm there. Kier could maybe answer that Mayhem show/audience question. I'd guess ... not? My 'up' is novel work and theater stuff at the moment, basically. What's up with you, more importantly? ** Scunnard, Hey. Yeah, cheapish, decent Paris hotels. I can surely help. Any particular areas you'd especially like to be lodged in? That's the first question. I'll give it some thought and searching in the meantime, and I'll try to have some ideas for you tomorrow. ** Misanthrope, Mark said Alig was an intriguing, odd guy at the time, and he was organizing and doing some interesting club related curating and performing and so on, so I can believe that, actually. Yankee Candle Company ... is what it is as obvious as the name implies? My fingers are crossed for you. My teeth too. He was kind of vaguely VK-like if you'd squinted. ** Tender Prey, Sure, of course, feed any questions to me that you or they would like. I'd be happy to parse or discuss whatever is relevant. Yes, Blanchot's 'Aminadab' is really fascinating, a gorgeous thing that you would not be at all sorry you read. It's where his love of Kafka is most present and detectable. ** Bernard Welt, Howdy. ** Tigersare, Hey, Guy! Yeah, sure, meeting up later on the 14th -- although if my jetlag is as ugh as I imagine, I might not be staying around too late -- would be great, or, yeah, let's meet up on the 13th. That should work just fine for me. ** David Ehrenstein, Never argue with Gertude, I say. Canada understands you, David. I don't know why that makes sense, but it does somehow. Yeah, I want to try to see the evidence. ** David, I'm trying to evade anything stronger than aspirin and its kin because I have too much work to do right now to be able to free myself to that lovely degree. We don't see nearly enough of SB these days. I wonder why? ** Joseph, What I wouldn't give to be within a stone's throw of your girlfriend's father, let me tell you. He could basically rob my artistry blind at the moment in return for some non-moneyed dentistry, and, if my mouth is the wreck I'm guessing, it might take robbing me blind. ** Iamcuriousblue, Hey there, sir. Long time no see, and it's always a honor. Thank you. That Wiki shit you're being put through sounds totally ridiculous. ** Wolf, Your Tender Prey mask did set my pragmatism back a notch there for a good minute. But now that it has been cleared away from your smiling face, hi, Wolf! ** Empty Frame, Yeah, right, on the French avant-garde loving dentist. French doctors are very by the book and pay or lose types in my experience. I have been given a freebie or two, but only when the visit turned out to have been uncalled for. ** JW Veldhoen, Car wreck? Dude. Glad you're okay. In NYC, no less. Yikes. ** Sypha, Thanks for the commiseration, pal. Yeah, even more than the hassle and presumed pain, swelling, and so on, it's the money drain part that most scares me. ** Stephen, Oh, great that my trip is going to clip your plans to move. Would be stellar if you can make it on the 14th. I'll put the info up soon, and see how it goes. ** Kiddiepunk, Well, I just tried to eat a sandwich and the sandwich ate me. ** Tosh, Awesome that you can make it on the 14th. Teeth schmeeth. They're motherfuckers. They could go rot in hell if I wouldn't have to pay for it. ** Mark Gluth, Yeah, Joel can slide you the phone numbers and stuff easily. Well, yeah, I figure we can have a post reading hang out/dinner or something. Mm, well, if we're driving up the 5, which I assume we will be doing since it's the quick route, I'd say off the top of my head that we probably shouldn't leave any later than 10 am. We'll need to coordinate that whole car/leaving thing in the next week, I guess. ** Trees, Glad you liked it, obviously. I was aiming to please you most of all. Good old kari edwards, so sad and much missed. I can say almost for sure that I would have loved that atmosphere, yes. And, gosh, if you weren't a part of whatever gathering we're going to figure out post-reading, I'd be awfully disappointed. So, you being there is practically an order, ha ha. Born Against! I love Born Against. Very cool. ** Steevee, Hey. Well, you need a carte de sejour to use the health care here. It's not a matter of time but rather of one's officialdom. Unfortunately, I'm just a never ending tourist here, so I don't qualify. ** Ken Baumann, Thanks, man. Hopefully it'll all get sorted out later this week. My mouth, I mean. Can't wait to see you, pal. And, wow, coolness about Blake getting The Believer's best of the year nom, no? ** Alan, Hey! I had a fucked, no doubt tooth-created headache yesterday, so I saved your gift for today, and even though I still have a headache, nothing will stop me. Tourist sans any health care at all = pay out of pocket, yeah. Well, if you can't work on your novel just yet, those two essays/projects sound incredibly interesting. Will the analysis of black oppression will readable online? Yeah, as you gathered, I wasn't doing a 'burn baby burn' number behind the scenes yesterday. Not that that reading was lost on me or entirely stamped out. ** Bill, Sure, I would love a copy if you really don't mind. That would be most kind. The 'selections' are promising to say the least. ** Pisycaca, Hey. I'm trying to get to the dentist on Friday, if I can. After that, time starts running out since I go to LA next Wednesday, and I don't want to face my home visit with this fucked up mouth. Yeah, I think having the caretaker there at nights is a very good idea, obviously. And maybe that will allow him to stay home rather than hospitalized, as I'm sure he would greatly prefer. Hang in there, my dear friend. ** Stan_cz, Thanks for the good wishes, and I send you mine for your clogged ear. That's a drag. Nice that your profile was lauded by the boss, and your Conrad immersion sounds dreamy, really. ** Don w, Ha ha, oh man, I sure hope that wasn't von Trier-like since I can't stand that guy. No, that wasn't my intention at all. Complicated and challenging beauty, more like. Presented with the opposite of a smirk. Like the slave posts but with timbers instead of flesh and flames instead of pleading, masochistic texts. Or something. Do tell about the novel when there's anything to tell. I hear you about the postpartum. As ugh as that is, I can't wait until I have the opportunity to feel it. ** Chris Goode, Hey, pal. Thanks for the war stories. I'm going to try to see the dentist experience as material I might use for a future poem or novel. I'm aiming for Stoney Face. That should work, right? Need I even add a ha ha? Oh, but the kisses all that brushing has afforded me, Chris. Surely, it was worth it. Knock their socks and even non-loose things off tonight, man, and retell the tale. ** Alex Rose, I wish I had their teeth. ** Michael_Karo, Hey, M. Yeah, I've been monitoring your goings on with Antonio over on FB in my piecemeal FB-cruising fashion. Exciting shit. There'll be a post-reading dinner or something for sure, and you'd better be there, dude. Understood, and I figured, about the Joni Day. Whenever is just fine, of course, and any easy posts from you in the meantime just made my eyes sparkle, if you couldn't tell. ** Chilly Jay Chill, Thanks, man. I just want it to be over, or, assuming the worst, to begin the long, painful process of being eventually over. Oh, right, I forgot the anthology had poetry and non-fiction in it too. That does make the organizing trickier, but I guess the album idea could still be in play. Mm, if I've read David Peace, I'm forgetting. Maybe, hm. Not sure. Not much, if so. I would say re: my novel that I'm getting close to having its overall shape in place and to having a solid if still too homely draft finished so I can start the phase of heavy refining and rewriting. ** NB, I think it's a molar. It's one of those teeth that lie between the big, serious molars in the back and the more knife-like teeth in the front. 70s degrees. I think LA will probably have something like that temperature going on at the same time. I want to hear about SxSw and, you know, everything. Every single Texan thing. Every tiny, momentary, seemingly meaningless Texan thing. ** Chris, I expect a dentist lecture for sure, and I think that's when my not having learned French will finally pay off. Your job is evil, wow. Uh, why? I don't know that Genesis song, but I'm hoping it's from the Peter Gabriel era. ** Creative Massacre, Hey, pal. Oh, shit, so it's ulcers that are the vermin. Yeah, stress is a sneaky and destructive thing. It's weird, right? So, what will you need to do to fix that now? Like change your diet for a while and eat, ugh, Maalox, and presumably take some kind of stomach healing medication? I'm sorry about that. Don't worry about me. My teeth are more annoying than anything, and if I wasn't getting a headache from the bad tooth, I'd be chugging along. Let me know what's next, yeah? Love to you. ** Inthemostpeculiarway, Aw, gosh, one more thanks about 'Guide' and all that. You mean you've never listened to a vinyl record? That's interesting, if so. They have a particular sound quality. I like it at a lot. It's not the drilling and all that I'm so worried about, although I'm not a fan of dentist chair-related entertainment either. It's the drilling of the bill that scares me the most. But whatever. See, a look of sadness and disappointment ... I told you he cares in his own Bendy way. Think of how happy you're going to make him or something. I have to look up Cancer and remember what that means. I can barely remember what my own sign (Capricorn) means half the time. My Monday wasn't so fantastic, as I guess you can imagine. I had a headache all day. I did write nonetheless. But I didn't do too much else. Gisele called me to ask me a theater question, and I answered it, and I asked her a theater question, and she answered it. Her answer was the one I wanted to hear. Mine seemed to have been her hope as well. My meals were not so great 'cos I decided I should cut everything out that might break another tooth, and since even bread broke the tooth the other day, that left me with a squishy food intake. The Olympics are over. That was a blow to my routine. So I watched coverage of the French storm disaster aftermath instead. I'm just fishing now 'cos I really didn't do much of anything. Oh, well. I'll try harder today. You? ** Justin, Gay guys can be so uptight and conservative and superficial about gayness a bunch of the time. I'm simultaneously bored, disappointed, and rendered very glad that I'm such a weirdo whenever I encounter that. Infatuation can be the root of very interesting things, no? As long as you don't lose your sense of practicality, I guess. Thanks for the heads up about the McQueen text. I'll watch for it. ** Alec Niedenthal, Yeah, I was really shocked to see that Barry Hannah died. I didn't expect that to happen at all. Terrible. Excepting the tooth thing, I'm okay. Just mostly working hard and surprisingly well on my novel and feeling sort of jazzed that I might have sussed that fucker after all. Knock on wood. Awesome about the panel/reading. That should be great, and, yeah, I would love to come there if that ever becomes a good idea and possibility on your end. Thanks for saying that, Alec. ** _Black_Acylic, Hey, Ben. Got your sound piece cued up for today unless my headache gets much worse. Excited! ** Bollo, If I could rationalize just letting my tooth be a fragment of itself for all eternity, I would. Mine cracked off too deep. Nerves exposed and all that. Ugh, you know? But what can you or rather I do? Have a great book and day. ** Uli, Thanks, man. That Vital Weekly guy was in and founded Beequeen and Kapotte Muziek? Whoa. That's fucking impressive. ** Let me try to proof this thing and slip out of here before the ominous amount of noise in my hallway gets personal. Hope you like the classic UFO Day. See you tomorrow.