p.s. Hey, y'all. Yep, I'm down here in the deep South now. Having gotten here only last night, I haven't seen too much of the local environs yet, but my kindly host Mr. Jesse Hudson is going to start the tour a little later on. Anyway, far more presently and importantly than my current location, I'm honored to hand off my blog duties this weekend to the magnificent writer, artist, blog creator, d.l. and so much more aka Put The Lotion In The Basket. His post speaks quite eloquently for itself, so please have at it and then talk of/type your findings here until further notice. Thanks deliriously, PTLITB, and those of you who attend the post and report back to your guest-host get my extra special thanks in advance. Me, I'll just trundle onwards now. ** David, Oh, thank you a lot, David. I know the guys would show you their deep appreciation if they only could. ** Jax, Babelfish is definitely the fisherman's friend. Yeah, this ensconcement down South should be pretty interesting. The town I'm in is a mini-one with a rapidly decreasing population that was just over 1500 the last time anyone checked. Whatever's out there, you'll get an eyeful of it, pal. ** SYpHA_69, Your hi to Jesse is imbedded now, and your Eno mix nudge got a chuckle and an 'oops' followed by a related hard drive search, so watch for it. Maybe reworking 'Confusion' will tide you over and keep the writer in you limbered up, not that fannish me thinks the novel needs any renewal. ** David Ehrenstein, Yippee-yo-ti-yay, right? Grim news if Hopper is on his way out. Politically, he was kind of a pain in the ass, but onscreen he almost always got me grinning. ** Stan_cz, Here's hoping on that one, cheap-ish place you liked. The location's not too, too bad. I've looked at a few best of the 00s film polls. Interesting that 'Mulholland Drive' is topping a lot of them. Can't disagree off the top of my head although, as others here said, I think I'd go for 'Inland Empire'. ** Alan, That accept or not decision re: the Nobel Prize is going to be quite the dilemma once they announce my name. I'm glad I have a few months to think about it. Yeah, what you say about how 'Jerk' epitomizes an important aspect of my work is kind of really true. Interesting. I hardly ever thought about 'Jerk' until Gisele raised it from the graveyard of my so-called backlist. You're going to see it again? Oh, thanks, man. ** Jonny Liron, Oops, busted. But my reddened cheeks aside, hi, Jonny. Make Chris get off his ass and bring one the pieces you guys have made together to Paris. I've been begging and hinting and offering to help in his ear/eyeshot until I'm blue in the face. Maybe my newly reddened face will tip the balance? Or just come visit. ** Kier, Your group effort idea is hereby sanctioned. ** Adjoun, Destroyer is biting the bullet? That's been the rumor for a while. Yeah, I guess it's possible that it has fulfilled its earthly mission, but still, sad. Is what's-his-name, the boss, going to do something else and new and public instead? ** _Black_Acrylic, Yeah, I'm thinking 'IE' over 'MD' too.** Steevee, Hm, okay, let me see if I can put together a VDGG Day. It's kind of a really good idea. Another promised Day that never arrived in my mailbox was a Lothar and the Hand People Day. Another one I should probably just fuss together on my own. Congrats on the less noisy phone front. Strange occurrence, that. ** Jose, Oh, yeah, I was kind of really into the Norwegian Spiral for a while, and I guess its reveal as fallout from a Russian space thingy kind of eased the fascinating. But, yeah, that thing was a real looker, no? ** Creative Massacre, Hey, pal! Oh, I'm doing okay. I'm in this new (to me) place down in the South where ... hey, you're in the South, right? Anyway, being stuck on purpose in a little Southern town is kind of exciting so far. Oh, shit, about your bad health and the dust ups with friends. I guess being sick can be good for repairing frayed nerves if you let it drag you down far enough. Maybe that'll work? The International Cuisine course sounds pretty interesting. Are you really making foods from all over the globe? I hope you feel better fast, and it's of course great to see you, my friend. ** Bill, Georgia seems pretty curious so far I'll know more later. During the segment of the Masters of Horror marathon I caught, there weren't any masters I'd ever heard of anywhere. I think I caught the padding. Sorry about the absence of cute escorts at your gig. Hong Kong does have at least a handful of them if the escort sites are to be believed. ** NB, I think I should start giving you a private preview of the escort posts so I can stick your remixes in there alongside the reviews. Weirdly or not, at least when I lived in Amsterdam, there was a strangely large amount of acute knowledge about country music among the Dutch people I knew. Country and funk were biggish there. There were even a few Dutch country-funk hybrid bands. God awful shit. It's 79 degrees here, man. Dig it. ** Inthemostpeculiarway, I used to know and have a big crush on this incredibly cute, angelic looking guy (blond) named Gary back in the early 90s in LA. I used to curate and host these wild live performance art nights at the big LA alternative arts space LACE back then, and Gary did a performance where he faux-crucified himself naked and had red ants poured over him. The naked part was like whoa! He ended up having to be rushed to the ER immediately after stumbling offstage. Anyway, his brother died really young in a car accident one day, and he got this massive tattoo that covered his stomach and groin showing his brother's name and birth to death dates, and it made him seem even more wonderful as a person, but, technically, it was kind of a shame. I actually don't mind Taco Bell food at all. That's how serious my Mexican food love is. My last mysterious day was nice. Hanging out, eating, this and that, and then a nighttime car trip to the airport followed by a short flight to Tallahassee whereupon I was met by Jesse and a friend of his in a borrowed car and then driven here over the course of about two hours. The town here was dark and dead, so I didn't get much of an initial feel for it other than the obvious fact that it's small. By then I was pretty sleepy, but I ate some stuff that was in the fridge, and we watched 'The Midnight Meat Train', which I thought had okayish bits but was mostly pretty bad, and then I hit the sack. Thus ends the blurry phase of my day reports, and from now on, who knows? You? ** Alyssa Nolan, Yeah, I really liked them. I may have mentioned this before, but when I was young, like maybe 12, 13, I was temporarily very obsessed with TV and the TV Nielsen Ratings and stuff like that. I subscribed to Variety and the Hollywood Reporter and other industry magazines, I don't know why. I had this huge billboard in my bedroom, and every week I would devote the billboard's surface to pictures of and articles and sometimes poems written by me about a TV show that I especially liked, and I would completely redo the bulletin board every week, and it was a big deal to me even though hardly anyone else ever saw the bulletin board displays or cared. Anyway, blah blah, I know what it's like to care about what's on a bulletin board, let's say. Oh, I'm sorry to hear about Lilly. I think nature really fucked up when it gave dogs such short life spans. It doesn't make any sense. I'm good, thanks. I think it'll be fun and interesting here in Georgia, but I'll be able to say more surely on Monday. ** Justin, Do feel free, man. Oh, 'Deep End', that's an interesting film. I forgot all about it. Tilda Swinton. It had to have been much better than 'Midnight Meat Train'. ** Bollo, I was going say how cool that you're busy -- I'm into busyness as a rule -- but the nothing having gotten done part stopped me. Being busy sans much outcome is only kind of okay. ** Blendin, Yeah, maybe a LHotB spontaneous field trip to you. A secret one. I'll have to check with my writer buds' schedules. I can't see why not. More in a few. ** Misanthrope, No, you're not a bad person. Masters are supposed to be ultimately self-serving, and slaves are supposed to be the ultimate servers with nothing but their bodies to offer even though most of them come off in their ads like the most self-serving people ever, which is just my spacey way of saying, one, I hope all five of you will be happy together and, two, you are now officially atop what's left of my d.l.s I must visit list. It's not cold. It's 79 degrees, man. I may even go going swimming in the creek. 'Blood Merdien', right? Knock out. ** Alec Niedenthal, Hey, Alec. Your parents are now fans of mine? How did that happen? Was it 'God Jr.'? Anyway, that's cool. Mallarme is pretty killer, no? And cool about the interview, of course. Are you still in NYC or are you down South like me? ** Oscar B, Give the Wolf and the Prey one of my famous sincere with a slightly sardonic edge hugs for me, okay? Yep, I'm at Jesse's now. Today he'll start showing me the ropes. I miss you, pal, but I'll see you pretty soon now. ** Tender Prey, Exactly what I was wondering about that Aaron Carter review. I also kind of self-absorbedly wondered if that escort had read 'The Sluts' before he thought up his thing since Aaron Carter worship goes on prominently in the novel. I'm going to keep my eye on him. The escort, not the real AC. I don't think xxdarXXXnightxx has been in the escort posts before unless he used to use a different name. Yeah, you guys in Paris, ... deep sigh. God, I hope the Ensor show is going to be up for at least another week. The Palais de Tokyo show ('Chasing Napoleon') had some good work in it if it's still up. Have tons and tons of fun. ** All right, you are now in the magically capable hands and tastes of Put The Lotion in The Basket from here on out. Enjoy, and have good Saturdays and Sundays. Meanwhile, I'll go see what one little piece of the deep South is all about. See you Monday.