p.s. Hey. Good morning from a bone chilling, iced over Paris. If I could, I would hide from it, but I'm finally expected back in theater rehearsals as of late this morning, Gisele and the two Jonathans having now concocted something solid enough that my input is required. So I'll be heading forward somewhat speedily today with that goal in mind. ** Afk4life, No problem, man. I hope you dig it, and thank you. I like the 'wanted to go missing' idea too. I guess the romantic in me wants some Black Lodge action in there too, alas. I say, yeah, do something with that story. It's too good to get stuck in the newspapers. ** Heliotrope, Ah, my long -- well, long enough -- lost buddy. Your car finally did its swan song number? I'm sorry. Dead cars are beasts. But Kaya's return to form is a salve. Ha ha, you're in the Buffy cult now, excellent. Looking forward to parsing it with you in the flesh. Love you to, M. And J. too. ** Steven Trull, Head of Zeus. ** Tomkendall, Hey, Tom. Love your new Transductions add. Is life stabilizing, writing launched? ** Oscar B, 'Godland' accomplished, and what now? I've got some ideas, do you? Damn, it's cold. If I don't get back too late from rehearsals, I'll call you later. ** Frank Jaffe, Oh, oops, sorry about my misunderstanding and false lead. I hope those who were haphazardly mislead will forgive me. Great about the successes so far. I haven't seen a movie in the theater since 'Avatar'. But I've got my eye on a couple. May your festival continue its wowing ways! ** Scunnard, Awesomeness! ** Allesfliest, It's true that ongoing domestic happiness is a literary toughie, except I guess when the melancholy aspects of regularity and being settled are forefronted. I think poets have gotten pretty close at times, although I can't seem to dredge up an example. ** Tim Jones-Yelvington, Hey, Tim! Wow, no kidding. That's completely fascinating and seriously up not only up my alley in general but way up a particular, troublesome alleyway in my novel-in-progress, and that link/map could really help me out. So, man, a big, big thanks to you for thinking of me. Everyone, courtesy of Tim Jones-Yelvington and quite possibly of real interest, check out this 1934 map re: 'The Lost Lizard People of Los Angeles'. What I wouldn't give if those tunnels were real and still there. ** David Ehrenstein, I was curious when I saw the Lispector novel became a film. It's so intensely a literary novel that it's kind of hard to imagine what would happen to it in a film version, but I guess you never know, and surprises do happen, i.e. John Huston's 'The Dead', off the top of my head. ** Flit, Hey! I was so close to doing a shout out to see if you were around and doing okay. Great to see you, Saintly One. I know, such a nice name. It sounds and even kind of feels classy in the mouth when pronounced. You good? ** JW Veldhoen, When will you hear the up or down verdict? Things are crossed every which way and all over the place here for you until such time. ** Sypha, Ugh on the throat pain, man, although your consequent diet sounds kind of tasty. Very Kiddiepunk style. Keep doing what needs to be done to whomp that sucker. ** Joseph, I figure that if you're going to name your job site Monster, you have to expect shenanigans. Anyway, you're probably the 7 millionth person to pull that. No sweat, I say. Oh, you found the SPANK address, cool. I'll cross stuff in heavy hopes. ** Wolf, Hey. Yeah, you might really dig Lispector, so says my radar. Nice that Esther has started disseminating the video portion, and those pix make me more lonely for the occasion. Let me ... Everyone, we've been talking around here lately about the recent Winter Rites event that benefited the great London art space Five Years and starred lofty figures both local and far flung, so, well, the first visual and sound evidence has been made available in the form of some pix and a video of the performance by the band Dirty Snow that features in various capacities such d.l.s as Esther Planas, Wolf, Tender Prey, and Nick Hudson. A look-see is recommended. I've had a most rewarding glance, and will undertake much more once I'm back from helping Gisele figure out how you're going to disappear. Thanks for the alert to that Guardian thing on 'Jerk'. I'll show it to G. I doubt she's the famous fainter since the fainter in question was a guy and also staggered out of the theater long before any drool dripped from Jonathan's lip. Mm, I didn't think that little article was so bad, really. At least she was willing to consider shock as a legitimate effect even if she got stuck there and grew so busy thinking about her relationship to shock that she lost the whole point of 'Jerk' in the process. ** Kier, Definitely want to do a post on your book. Give me a heads up and the ways and means to help me do that whenever you're ready. I'm going to check the tarot reading pix today and see how bad the blurriness is. ** Creative Massacre, Oh, great, super great about the excellent test results. I hope that stuff is all but out of your hair now so you can get back to your usual awesomeness. I just peeked so far at the '1000 Ways to Die' show thing, and, yeah, it has a heavily addictive-feeling pull. What are the Darwin Awards? I feel like I should know that. ** Alex Rose, Oh, shit, hm, Todd. I'm blanking. Todd who? I know I'm going to feel like a total idiot when you tell me. ** Killer Luka, It was only a 15 minute dream of a blizzard follow by a few spits earthward of snow as the day progressed, all of which is now merely the ice on which I'm paranoid I'm going to slip and re-break my wrists. That 'porn' twins-filled grace of tiptoes clip was very nice. More a head thing for me than a crotch thing, but who's counting? ** _Black_Acrylic, Well, yeah, that porn film of Anger's is the worst of the lot. That's what I was saying about laziness. I mean, that's a porn scene lifted sans almost any alterations from a existent porn video over which he merely soundtracked 'Every Breath You Take' by the Police, yawn, period. And at the screening/talk at which I saw it, he said sans any irony that he considered it possibly his most important work. It's a long, long way from the exquisiteness of 'Kustom Kar Kommandos' to that dumb grab. But, blah blah, I mean Anger's a great filmmaker, and that's all that matters. ** Bollo, Hey, yeah, I was going to mention about the non-working link, but now I'll just go back and click the new one. The Tarot reading ... it's hard to say much about it. I mean, in the case of that reading at least, what Scott said/ interpreted via the cards got immediately absorbed into my attempts to connect it with real life stuff that it might relate to, so it's kind of a blur now really. The reading both made and didn't make sense, I guess. Maybe the pix, if they turn out, will color it in a little. ** Stan_cz, Mm, I went to Pasadena City College for, let's see, maybe two years or maybe two years and a bit more? Then I did proper university time for one year before quitting academia for good. Yep, 'DotIP' is a great one, that's for sure. Cervantes ... that should be interesting. I don't think I've looked at 'Don Quixote' since high school unless Kathy Acker's 'Don Quixote' counts, and I guess it doesn't. ** Steevee, Hopefully 'prying' out that DVD won't take but a minute. So you don't have an old school DVD player as back up? ** Justin, A friend's downloading that Valentino doc. for me. Sort of excited. High fashion is still a really, really new realm for me. I avoided it and everything to with it like the veritable plague for most of my life until Yury's interest started lowering my defenses. ** Chris, Yeah, I saw/got/read that flurry of emails. Sounds good. I haven't looked at the rough budget yet. With me, obviously, it's just a matter being given help so I can be able to be there. Seems like it'll get sorted. Excited, very. I've liked some of Beirut, yeah, here and there, not overall so far. ** Armando, All I really know about John Wray's 'Lowboy' is what I've heard, and everything I've heard has been pretty much positive from all quarters. I've been eyeing it for a while. Are you reading it? Maybe I'll take the plunge. It definitely sounds worth investigating, no? Hope that migraine is history. ** Bernard Welt, Man, that sounds pretty. We've got ice. Lots and lots of ice. I like Bruce Weber's movies and even his photographs sometimes, it's just that in the latter case, his idealizations of the male form and mine part ways, basically. ** Misanthropes, Drifts, yum. I'm sure they're a drag, but they like the human imagination, or they trigger mine anyway. Gosh, 10 to 15 bucks for all that back breaking is a steal. Yeah, I'm a total Logan Lerman newbie doing a whole faulty first impression read and not giving him the benefit of the doubt, for sure. Mm, being a struggling writer or visual artist is one thing, but if you're an artist like Gisele, to struggle would be to not do your work or to only be able to scratch your art's surface, you know? And I figure if a government can fund pointless wars and god knows what projects lobbyists can slip into congressional bills, the arts should certainly get a bunch of that dough. Me, I've never gotten a government grant. Tried and failed, but I don't need one to write. I want to see that Johnny Weir show. I need to check if it's available in my computer's arsenal. ** Inthemostpeculiarway, No, I think the documentary folks need to see my face talking or nothing. They might do it when I go to LA. Whatever, I don't really care all that much. What's your favorite color? I'm glad you wrote, and having gotten down some lines you like is plenty. Yeah, my forays into McInereny's stuff have always lead to a 'that was kind of okay' response at best. It's nice you have a song of the day. I should start doing that. I'll check out that article. I'm on a very mild side-mission to fully get why certain friends of mine are starting to swear by Lady GaGa. My day: That mid-morning meeting I was talking about didn't happen. It was supposed to happen just after Gisele and Stephen checked out the room at the Recollets that they were considering as their possible new home, but they zoomed off late to somewhere else instead, and then my plan to be at rehearsals went kaput when Gisele said I should wait and come tomorrow aka today. So, I took advantage of my freed-up time to hold up and work, write, etc. And so I did. I didn't even go out to buy food and had to eat mushed together left over pieces of this and that, which weren't all that bad. But now I have to cross the ice rink that is the Paris streets today to buy food, so it wasn't my brightest ever decision either. As it grew dark, Oscar and I gathered in the room of Kiddiepunk to watch his nearly complete film 'Godland', and it was really beautiful, of course, and then we had a lively discussion about the film like artist friends do, and I felt enriched. After that, I came back here and worked little. Gisele called to say that Stephen has nixed them moving into the Recollets for reasons that don't make much sense to me, so that was disappointing, but it's none of my business ultimately. Then the night drifted in its inevitable way towards my bed where I lay down and eventually lost contact with the world that we call real. And your Thursday proceeded in what fashion precisely? ** Bill, Thanks for the link to Pascal Contet's site. I'll use it wisely later on. I need to see if that Haneke is on DVD here yet. Doubt it. It was just in the theaters and may still be showing in some cranny of St. Michel. ** Slatted Light, That Lispector novel in particular is great. I'd start there if you decide to dig in. Yeah, the piece on the Powell/Trinidad was awe inspiring. I'll gonna send the link to David in case he hasn't seen it. I'm sure he'll be blown completely away. My only hampering on the Skype call front at this very moment are the rehearsals and my lack of foreknowledge on the schedule. They end on Saturday, worst come to worst. I'll try to wrest the schedule out of Gisele today, and, if they start late enough in the next couple of days, we can talk pronto if that works for you. Otherwise, as soon as Saturday's stint is over, I'll be basically yours on the timing front. ** Right. I have to go buy some food and cigarettes without breaking a bone and then rush off to rehearsals. The post: I love 60s psychedelia and its offshoots whether they be in music, film, fiction, or whatever, and there's the post's sole reasoning. Take care. See you in 24.