1. WATERPOWER
1977, directed by Shaun Costello.
One of the most famous, legendary "roughies" of the 70’s. Directed by Shaun Costello (who has made lots of other extreme porns) but credited to Gerard Damiano (director of Deep Throat, The Devil in Miss Jones, Alpha Blue ...).
Plot: Jamie Gillis plays a serial rapist ... who loves doing girls' enemas ... An “Enema Bandit” ...
Very trash porn.
There exists two “uncut” versions: the German tape (title: Schpritz), and the French tape (Waterpower, distributed by Videorama). French DVD (Alpha France, in double feature with Femme De Sade) isn’t uncut.
In 2005, Shaun Costello came onto internet and explained lots of very, very interesting things about the dark side of vintage porn.
The story behind Waterpower is here ...
(from the director Shaun Costello):
“In the fall of 1976 I was in the midst of moving to a farm in Krumville, New York when the phone rang. It was Sid Levine, the front man for the porno unit of the Gambino crime family. I was their largest supplier of feature product, and Sid said he had to see me right away. Urgent. Couldn't wait. So I jump in the car and make the ninety minute drive to lower Manhattan. Sid was looking grim when I got to his office. He didn't waste any time. "Look, I'm a grandfather and I'm ashamed to have to ask you this, but they need an enema movie." I don't want to break the mood so my inner chuckle never surfaces, but it's close. An enema movie????? Sid has been given an audio cassette recording of something called The Enema Bandit, which has a scene where an effete Doctor, assisted by an evil nurse, is giving an enema to a bound and gagged young girl. He's going to use a device called the Bardex Inflatable Nozzle. So I'm thinking that this just might be the funniest single thing I've ever heard, but of course I don't tell this to Sid. Evidently this idea came from a magazine article about a guy who went on a cleansing spree on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana and forcibly administered enemas to coeds. He was convicted on felony assault charges and was presently serving out his sentence at their state penitentiary. So cassette and magazine in hand, I head for the elevator. The door opens and out comes Dibi (The Boss), and the conversation went something like: "Hey Shaun, how's it shakin? You speak to Sid?' I nod. "Look, I don't want to know about this thing. You just do whatever Sid tells you. I don't want to see it. I don't want to know about it. I don't want to talk about it. OK? Understand?" So Sid is ashamed of it, Dibi doesn't want to know about it, and I begin pre-production on what, until this day, is still considered to be the most outrageous porno film ever made. "Waterpower" is finished and opens to empty houses wherever it plays. Theater owners are scared of it, and audiences don't know what to make of it, and I'm not surprised by either. I had seen Taxi Driver just before Sid asked me to make the picture, and thought that my friend Jamie Gillis would make a great Travis Bickle, only on foot, prowling Manhattan's jungles, looking for evil bitches to cleanse. I used Taxi Driver's diary narrative, and even some of Bernard Herrmann's music score. Stealing music was one of my specialties, and I never got caught. Dibi had said to me, "Just make the thing", and that's exactly what I did. Since I would be making this movie without parental supervision, I was free to turn it into a parody of itself. I wrote a ludicrous script, hired my favorite actors; Jamie, Marlene Willoughby, Rob Everett, and went about shooting what I still think is the funniest movie I ever made. Of course, there was always the chance the boys would catch on to what I was doing, and I would sleep with the fishes, but I didn't think so. Anyway, the Gambinos even tried putting Gerry Damiano's name on it, thinking it would boost box office, but no dice. A few years later the Gambino's sold the picture to their friend and associate Reuben Sturman in Cleveland. Sturman had partners in Europe and opened Waterpower in The Netherlands and Germany under the title, "Schpritz". Bingo.....Cult smash.......Makes a fortune. I guess Europeans are a bit kinkier than their American cousins."
2. LONG JEANNE SILVER
1977, directed by Alex De Renzy
I saw this film when I was 12-14. A friend said to me, “Watch it, you’ll be surprised ... sure!”
OK, I was very disappointed, very disturbed, and very surprised ...
Plot: no real plot, just the story of the girl “with the X-rated Leg”... and sex with girls and men (She fucks a boy ass in the picture) ...
Long Jeanne plays in Waterpower too ... in the first scene.
Pictures talk...
3. TAMING OF REBECCA
1982, directed by Phil Prince
Plot: A silver haired and weird looking George Payne plays the headmaster of a school where Rebecca winds up after running away from her sexually abusive father. When she gets there, Payne's assistant introduces her around the school and it doesn't take Rebecca long to find out that everyone is pretty much fucking everyone else. When George Payne and Nico find out what's going on, they punish the students in their own special way.
The mad scene for me is “the nipple pierced scene”. Fake or not? I don’t know. If anyone knows ...
One of the last scenes happens under the John Carpenter’s Halloween theme. Great soundtrack ...
4. FEMMES DE SADE
1976, directed by Alex De Renzy
Plot: Released from prison, Rocky De Sade (a 7 ft. tall Frankenstein look-a-like) wanders the streets of San Francisco looking for sex. He buys hookers, brutalizing them one after another. Rocky uses and brutalizes one prostitute, a lusty, shaven redhead, in her ass and cunt.
The hookers plan their revenge by inviting Rocky to a wild S/M party. The sadist gets a dose of his own foul medicine when he is shackled, flogged and peed on by one of the girls he has tortured.
A classic porn? Why not ... A perverse classic movie? Yes! If you like Waterpower, you’ll love it. Same ambience.
Seems to exist in a lot of cut versions ... I've never watched a full uncut version ... so hum.
Special scene: Rocky’s selfsucking sequence.
5. HOUSE OF DE SADE
1977, directed by Joe Davian
I don’t remember this one very well. Never been dubbed or subtitled in French, so I paste here some information from the internet.
Plot: The story follows a group of swingers who unwittingly unleash the spirit of the true Marquis De Sade (played by some nutjob in a black bondage mask) during a séance. This, of course, leads to all manner of degrading and violent sex. Despite the hardcore sex throughout the film, Davian was making a horror film (or at least a cheap porno film with horror movie elements) this time out and you know it from the time the eerie music hits the screen during the opening credits and it's solidified when the action moves from various inner city apartments to a creepy, creaky old house.
Vanessa gets lead around with a collar on, acting like a dog as she's slapped in the face by her partners cock and then later on she has a cucumber inserted into her pussy which is then peeled using a vegetable peeler while still inserted inside of her! Once it's peeled, it's sliced and fed to her. In a later scene she has her supple ass beaten with nunchucks as she screams 'oooo pain' while De Sade holds her down. She also finds herself getting nipple clamped again.
6. ORIENTAL TECHNIQUES OF PAIN AND PLEASURE
1983, directed by Phil Prince
Plot: This film finds David Christopher playing a thug who kidnaps Annie Sprinkle and Debbie Cole so that he can keep them in his basement. Once they arrive, George Payne is waiting, hard-on in hand, to abuse and rape them in that special, tender way that he so excelled at. Nico and Ambroisa Fox watch him do his thing and finger themselves while he humiliates them and then Mistress Candice shows up and hits the two horny hotties with some serious BDSM play. Once she's done with them she puts clothespins on Alan Adrian's dick and pisses on him.
To be sure, one of the best examples of 70’s madness SM film ... Hard to find, hard to watch...
7. CORPS DE CHASSE
1982, directed by Michel Ricaud
The best illustration of the sentence “porno français dégueulasse”... I hate this film (and all Michel Ricaud movies!)...Too hard, too disgusting, too trash ... I am near to vomiting when I watch it (so why I watched it??????? Curious? I don’t know.)
Plot: same story as an other French film called La traque (not a porn, and a well made mainstream movie) ...
3 guys are feasting like gluttons at a table. They get up, get their rifles and go out hunting in the woods. One of the guys is separated from the other two, and sees a woman driving down a road that runs through the forest. He gets ahold of her and rapes her brutally. When he goes to take a leak, his victim gets ahold of his rifle and blows his nuts off ! Later the two other guys are orgying with two other women, one is a she/he. The neutered man hunts down the woman who shot him, brings her back to the other two men and their sex mates, and they rape her, spit on her, barf on her, and then put the rifle to her head and ...
One word: filthy.
(Look at the stupid cover)
8. BREAKING POINT
1975, directed by Bo Arne Vibenius
Plot: Thriller about a bored office clerk experiencing lurid daydreams that eventually turn into paranoid delusions. In his attempt to have some good time he beats a woman to death with an ashtray in order to have sex with the corpse; he follows another woman to her country house during work to rape her; he masturbates into a cup of coffee served to his secretary … and a lot of other things you can do when your life is a total.
Directed by the same director of the horror film Thriller: A Cruel Picture (a rape and revenge film with some hardcore inserts called, in France, “Crime à froid”- edited by Atlantic video.)
Breaking Point was distributed in France in two editions.
First edition with the good cover of a simple “Horror-thriller movies”, under the good title.
Second edition with a naked woman, under the title “Elles lui ont tout appris”...This one is very weird because it’s look like a kind of a Californian basic porn...
A kind of “Swedish answer” to the American roughies.
(French video trailer with incredible dub ... Thanks to Stebreizh, a French guy who specializes in collecting video tapes, for this video)
9. HARDGORE
1974, directed by Michael Hugo
Plot: Maria checks into the Fox Hollows sanatorium for "uncontrollable nymphomania combined with masochistic tendencies." Treatments include dildo therapy and nurse-munching until one nurse is found with a blood-squirting neck wound (a nice effect) and another gets a toasted twat from a too-hot dildo.
"Why did I ever agree to be put into this sanatorium? This is really a shitty place to be." No kiddin.' The place is actually a cover for a Satanic coven and Maria is earmarked for "the supreme sacrifice." She's taken to a room strewn with naked bloody bodies. As Doctor George (John Seeman) does Maria, his assistant Ben does a corpse.
There's also a gal who is balled while bent over a guillotine until her head's chopped off; Maria blowing a guy whose schlong is sliced mid-slurp; and flying dildos (that look like rocket ships) with sparks shooting out one end and quarts of cum squirting from the other.
Nevertheless, naughty Maria fights back and hacks up two members of the cult with a gigantic axe before she's beaten to death with a skull. Last shot is dead Maria with a lit candle sticking out of her snatch.
The story behind Waterpower is here ...
(from the director Shaun Costello):
“In the fall of 1976 I was in the midst of moving to a farm in Krumville, New York when the phone rang. It was Sid Levine, the front man for the porno unit of the Gambino crime family. I was their largest supplier of feature product, and Sid said he had to see me right away. Urgent. Couldn't wait. So I jump in the car and make the ninety minute drive to lower Manhattan. Sid was looking grim when I got to his office. He didn't waste any time. "Look, I'm a grandfather and I'm ashamed to have to ask you this, but they need an enema movie." I don't want to break the mood so my inner chuckle never surfaces, but it's close. An enema movie????? Sid has been given an audio cassette recording of something called The Enema Bandit, which has a scene where an effete Doctor, assisted by an evil nurse, is giving an enema to a bound and gagged young girl. He's going to use a device called the Bardex Inflatable Nozzle. So I'm thinking that this just might be the funniest single thing I've ever heard, but of course I don't tell this to Sid. Evidently this idea came from a magazine article about a guy who went on a cleansing spree on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana and forcibly administered enemas to coeds. He was convicted on felony assault charges and was presently serving out his sentence at their state penitentiary. So cassette and magazine in hand, I head for the elevator. The door opens and out comes Dibi (The Boss), and the conversation went something like: "Hey Shaun, how's it shakin? You speak to Sid?' I nod. "Look, I don't want to know about this thing. You just do whatever Sid tells you. I don't want to see it. I don't want to know about it. I don't want to talk about it. OK? Understand?" So Sid is ashamed of it, Dibi doesn't want to know about it, and I begin pre-production on what, until this day, is still considered to be the most outrageous porno film ever made. "Waterpower" is finished and opens to empty houses wherever it plays. Theater owners are scared of it, and audiences don't know what to make of it, and I'm not surprised by either. I had seen Taxi Driver just before Sid asked me to make the picture, and thought that my friend Jamie Gillis would make a great Travis Bickle, only on foot, prowling Manhattan's jungles, looking for evil bitches to cleanse. I used Taxi Driver's diary narrative, and even some of Bernard Herrmann's music score. Stealing music was one of my specialties, and I never got caught. Dibi had said to me, "Just make the thing", and that's exactly what I did. Since I would be making this movie without parental supervision, I was free to turn it into a parody of itself. I wrote a ludicrous script, hired my favorite actors; Jamie, Marlene Willoughby, Rob Everett, and went about shooting what I still think is the funniest movie I ever made. Of course, there was always the chance the boys would catch on to what I was doing, and I would sleep with the fishes, but I didn't think so. Anyway, the Gambinos even tried putting Gerry Damiano's name on it, thinking it would boost box office, but no dice. A few years later the Gambino's sold the picture to their friend and associate Reuben Sturman in Cleveland. Sturman had partners in Europe and opened Waterpower in The Netherlands and Germany under the title, "Schpritz". Bingo.....Cult smash.......Makes a fortune. I guess Europeans are a bit kinkier than their American cousins."
2. LONG JEANNE SILVER
1977, directed by Alex De Renzy
I saw this film when I was 12-14. A friend said to me, “Watch it, you’ll be surprised ... sure!”
OK, I was very disappointed, very disturbed, and very surprised ...
Plot: no real plot, just the story of the girl “with the X-rated Leg”... and sex with girls and men (She fucks a boy ass in the picture) ...
Long Jeanne plays in Waterpower too ... in the first scene.
Pictures talk...
3. TAMING OF REBECCA
1982, directed by Phil Prince
Plot: A silver haired and weird looking George Payne plays the headmaster of a school where Rebecca winds up after running away from her sexually abusive father. When she gets there, Payne's assistant introduces her around the school and it doesn't take Rebecca long to find out that everyone is pretty much fucking everyone else. When George Payne and Nico find out what's going on, they punish the students in their own special way.
The mad scene for me is “the nipple pierced scene”. Fake or not? I don’t know. If anyone knows ...
One of the last scenes happens under the John Carpenter’s Halloween theme. Great soundtrack ...
4. FEMMES DE SADE
1976, directed by Alex De Renzy
Plot: Released from prison, Rocky De Sade (a 7 ft. tall Frankenstein look-a-like) wanders the streets of San Francisco looking for sex. He buys hookers, brutalizing them one after another. Rocky uses and brutalizes one prostitute, a lusty, shaven redhead, in her ass and cunt.
The hookers plan their revenge by inviting Rocky to a wild S/M party. The sadist gets a dose of his own foul medicine when he is shackled, flogged and peed on by one of the girls he has tortured.
A classic porn? Why not ... A perverse classic movie? Yes! If you like Waterpower, you’ll love it. Same ambience.
Seems to exist in a lot of cut versions ... I've never watched a full uncut version ... so hum.
Special scene: Rocky’s selfsucking sequence.
5. HOUSE OF DE SADE
1977, directed by Joe Davian
I don’t remember this one very well. Never been dubbed or subtitled in French, so I paste here some information from the internet.
Plot: The story follows a group of swingers who unwittingly unleash the spirit of the true Marquis De Sade (played by some nutjob in a black bondage mask) during a séance. This, of course, leads to all manner of degrading and violent sex. Despite the hardcore sex throughout the film, Davian was making a horror film (or at least a cheap porno film with horror movie elements) this time out and you know it from the time the eerie music hits the screen during the opening credits and it's solidified when the action moves from various inner city apartments to a creepy, creaky old house.
Vanessa gets lead around with a collar on, acting like a dog as she's slapped in the face by her partners cock and then later on she has a cucumber inserted into her pussy which is then peeled using a vegetable peeler while still inserted inside of her! Once it's peeled, it's sliced and fed to her. In a later scene she has her supple ass beaten with nunchucks as she screams 'oooo pain' while De Sade holds her down. She also finds herself getting nipple clamped again.
6. ORIENTAL TECHNIQUES OF PAIN AND PLEASURE
1983, directed by Phil Prince
Plot: This film finds David Christopher playing a thug who kidnaps Annie Sprinkle and Debbie Cole so that he can keep them in his basement. Once they arrive, George Payne is waiting, hard-on in hand, to abuse and rape them in that special, tender way that he so excelled at. Nico and Ambroisa Fox watch him do his thing and finger themselves while he humiliates them and then Mistress Candice shows up and hits the two horny hotties with some serious BDSM play. Once she's done with them she puts clothespins on Alan Adrian's dick and pisses on him.
To be sure, one of the best examples of 70’s madness SM film ... Hard to find, hard to watch...
7. CORPS DE CHASSE
1982, directed by Michel Ricaud
The best illustration of the sentence “porno français dégueulasse”... I hate this film (and all Michel Ricaud movies!)...Too hard, too disgusting, too trash ... I am near to vomiting when I watch it (so why I watched it??????? Curious? I don’t know.)
Plot: same story as an other French film called La traque (not a porn, and a well made mainstream movie) ...
3 guys are feasting like gluttons at a table. They get up, get their rifles and go out hunting in the woods. One of the guys is separated from the other two, and sees a woman driving down a road that runs through the forest. He gets ahold of her and rapes her brutally. When he goes to take a leak, his victim gets ahold of his rifle and blows his nuts off ! Later the two other guys are orgying with two other women, one is a she/he. The neutered man hunts down the woman who shot him, brings her back to the other two men and their sex mates, and they rape her, spit on her, barf on her, and then put the rifle to her head and ...
One word: filthy.
(Look at the stupid cover)
8. BREAKING POINT
1975, directed by Bo Arne Vibenius
Plot: Thriller about a bored office clerk experiencing lurid daydreams that eventually turn into paranoid delusions. In his attempt to have some good time he beats a woman to death with an ashtray in order to have sex with the corpse; he follows another woman to her country house during work to rape her; he masturbates into a cup of coffee served to his secretary … and a lot of other things you can do when your life is a total.
Directed by the same director of the horror film Thriller: A Cruel Picture (a rape and revenge film with some hardcore inserts called, in France, “Crime à froid”- edited by Atlantic video.)
Breaking Point was distributed in France in two editions.
First edition with the good cover of a simple “Horror-thriller movies”, under the good title.
Second edition with a naked woman, under the title “Elles lui ont tout appris”...This one is very weird because it’s look like a kind of a Californian basic porn...
A kind of “Swedish answer” to the American roughies.
(French video trailer with incredible dub ... Thanks to Stebreizh, a French guy who specializes in collecting video tapes, for this video)
9. HARDGORE
1974, directed by Michael Hugo
Plot: Maria checks into the Fox Hollows sanatorium for "uncontrollable nymphomania combined with masochistic tendencies." Treatments include dildo therapy and nurse-munching until one nurse is found with a blood-squirting neck wound (a nice effect) and another gets a toasted twat from a too-hot dildo.
"Why did I ever agree to be put into this sanatorium? This is really a shitty place to be." No kiddin.' The place is actually a cover for a Satanic coven and Maria is earmarked for "the supreme sacrifice." She's taken to a room strewn with naked bloody bodies. As Doctor George (John Seeman) does Maria, his assistant Ben does a corpse.
There's also a gal who is balled while bent over a guillotine until her head's chopped off; Maria blowing a guy whose schlong is sliced mid-slurp; and flying dildos (that look like rocket ships) with sparks shooting out one end and quarts of cum squirting from the other.
Nevertheless, naughty Maria fights back and hacks up two members of the cult with a gigantic axe before she's beaten to death with a skull. Last shot is dead Maria with a lit candle sticking out of her snatch.
More famous for the title than for the quality of the production. Hum, easy to understand some porn “hardcore”, some “gore effect” = Hardgore.
10. Dr BIZZARO
1983, directed by Phil Prince
Plot: Clad in a barber's coat and frayed bell bottom jeans, he plays a psychiatrist who dispenses sexual healing to those who need his help. Phil presents four case studies of sexual obsessions. George Payne plays a silver haired man with familial problems, which he solves by giving elfin submissives Ambrosia Fox and Velvet Summers sassy spankings. The female dominance angle is harnessed by Cheri Champagne, who gives the long suffering Alan "Spike" Adrian a wicked session.
X. BONUS TRACKS:
10. Dr BIZZARO
1983, directed by Phil Prince
Plot: Clad in a barber's coat and frayed bell bottom jeans, he plays a psychiatrist who dispenses sexual healing to those who need his help. Phil presents four case studies of sexual obsessions. George Payne plays a silver haired man with familial problems, which he solves by giving elfin submissives Ambrosia Fox and Velvet Summers sassy spankings. The female dominance angle is harnessed by Cheri Champagne, who gives the long suffering Alan "Spike" Adrian a wicked session.
X. BONUS TRACKS:
Some movies not mentioned here...
DAUGHTERS OF DISCIPLINE (1976)
VENTURE INTO THE BIZARRE (1975)
Anal Birth of Bert
The Punishment of Gary Wilde (Dennis knows very well this film)
Do Me Evil (Toby Ross)
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DAUGHTERS OF DISCIPLINE (1976)
VENTURE INTO THE BIZARRE (1975)
Anal Birth of Bert
The Punishment of Gary Wilde (Dennis knows very well this film)
Do Me Evil (Toby Ross)
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p.s. Hey. Tomás Švec is a young Parisian friend of mine also known around these parts as d.l. Tomás. In addition to his many other talents and qualities, he's something of an acolyte/ expert re: vintage porn, and today he shares some of his finds and favorites with us. Please check out the wares, and have a word with him today if you don't mind. Thanks a lot to him and to you. Now, here's your second to the last nudge to get your SPD entries to me by the deadline tomorrow night. The turn out has been so-so thus far, but I'm hoping for the usual late in the game surge to bring this SPD up to speed, so please do participate, okay? Thanks. I'm here in LA, obviously, and kind of a little addled due to the time change and related sleep issues, but I'll do my best to stay off the whining track, at least for today. Okay, I'll do my best to catch up with the last two days' worth of comments now, and I'll likely be a little sketchier than I normally am, sorry. ** Wednesday: Tomkendall, Hey. Awesomeness on the home and potential job front, man. Let us/me know how it goes on the latter, yeah? ** Misanthrope, Here's your 'scream', which really is a scream even if it looks like a yawn. ** Empty Frame, I usually don't take books with me when I travel, just stuff I literally need, say, to read from at an event or something, plus one or maybe two books for pleasure. Definitely not when I come home because I've got my library here. In the early stages of working on fiction, I try not to read fiction at all, and I did that with my novel-in-progress, but once I get the voice and everything down and secured, the pollution issue isn't worrisome anymore, and I dive back into reading. I've been reading books like crazy lately. Okay, about bowing out of the SPD, although with that lying option available, well ... But you get a pass if you want one, sure. ** Bernard Welt, Oh, you're in Barcelona now. What's the scoop? You online? ** Oscar B, Hey, bud. ** Chris Goode, I read the latest Mojo on the plane, and it has a biggish Judy Collins feature. Coincidence? Is that when your revisit started? Like Steve Vai ... good one. I just yawned and laughed at the same time. Ever done that? It feels kind of good. I can imagine Self making for a decent kind of left of center William F. Buckley figure. ** Wolf, Yeah, beautiful stuff. ** David Ehrenstein, I'm in your and sort of my fair city! It's all sunny and pleasant and shit. No doubt Bill rocked and nailed it the other night. ** Tosh, Hey, T. Thanks for the welcoming IM last night. ** Alan, Luckily, I checked the comments before I finished packing, and only then remembered them, and so now I do have them if I need them, doubly thanks to you. How are you? ** Put The Lotion In The Basket, Hey, Nick. Yeah, that's kind of the ideal response to reading something great, that slide from 'why should I even bother' to 'I'm going to raise my game now'. That's like the best. Flight was okay, the usual. The movies? Let's see ... the Coens' 'A Serious Man', which I liked quite a lot. Then, just to see what the fuss is about, 'New Moon'. You know, I must have been in a very receptive mood, because I thought it was shit, of course, but I also kind of liked the heavy, watered down, dumb ass romantic vampire and adolescent kiss-as-sexual ecstacy or whatever thing. And ... uh ... 'Up in the Air', which seemed well made and okay or whatever. Love, etc. ** Statictick, Hey. I think they're saying Haim's death wasn't drug-related now, aren't they? ** Jose, Hi, Jose. ** Bill, Hi, Bill. ** Blake, Hey, Blake! You're in LA? You're always in some new and surprising place. Uh, cool, I'll see you at BS, and hopefully otherwise. ** Joseph, Hey, J. Oh, let me pass along your thing: Everyone, the marvelous writer and d.l. Joseph has an alert for you. Here it is: 'Hey Dennis + errbody else, I'm reviewing FULL LENGTH collections of poetry for the Rumpus. If Anybody has a FULL LENGTH collection they want reviewed and or has a suggestion for something TO review. I'm down. Thanks.' You guys should take him up on that if it's relevant 'cos The Rumpus is a great site and place to be reviewed, and Joseph's mind is something you want your poetry to filter through, for sure. Yeah, I would definitely take that response from No Record as a plus and encouragement to submit it elsewhere. For sure. Bittersweet congrats. ** _Black_Acrylic, Good morning from LA. Oh, I think I saw an email from you with SPD in the subject line, so thanks a lot, man. ** Bollo, Hey. I don't remember the Nouvelle Vague's version well enough. I'll go stream it today, though. ** Stan_cz, Hey, man. From the looks of the sky outside my window this morning, it seems like whatever that strange weather was, it's gone now? Looks ultra-LA in the best way. ** Rigby, Rigster! Uh, I'll go follow that Lynch link, thanks. I wonder if it was for the Galeries Lafayette show I saw? Excuse my very space-filled head and comment today, man. That's goes for all of you. ** JW Veldhoen, Butt munching is the Guided by Voices of sex. Nice lyrics bit. ** Sypha, Putting a stop to a habit that comes too naturally is almost always a good idea, even when books are involved. Interesting idea that everyone is competitive in some way. Makes sense, I guess. That might be a good SPD theme or something. Hm. ** Justin, Thanks again so much for the McQueen post, my friend. I did recognize that Dustin Michaels guy from my porn hunting. I think I recognized him from this kind of lame, too designery S&M site called, mm, Bound Gods, I think. ** Tomas, Hey! You sent what? Hold on. Oh shit, I'm just about the launch the original post, T. I can't redo/update it now. It's too late. I'm sorry. I was on a plane all day yesterday and then I crashed, so I didn't see your email until right this second. Apologies, man, and thanks a lot for doing the post in general. ** Yesterday: Renaud Cerqueux, Hi, Renaud. Thanks a lot. Funnily or coincidentally or something, I finally found and bought your latest comic the night before I left for Los Angeles. It's awaiting me in Paris. At a first glance, it looks amazing! ** Empty Frame, I am enjoying the sky, in fact. LA has this big ass blue warm one. Gary did write an essay kind of thing on Acker. I think he read it at a conference on Acker at NYU. I think it might be posted somewhere in the depths of his blog, but I'm not sure. ** Kier, Thanks for the demonic forces. I'll know in a day or two of they favored me. It's always hard to tell how bad the lag is going to be the first day. The first day is always mostly daydream-like. Oh, glad you really like Malkmus. He's a god, yes he is. How's your Friday so far? Wow, your Friday waning already, isn't it? This time change thing is freaky. ** David Ehrenstein, Hi, David. ** Maximum Etc., Hi, Justin! Wonderful to see you. Yes, I saw your HTMLG post about Lonely Christopher and the Corresponding Society. Very cool. Wait'll you read the book of LC's that I'm doing for LHotB. It's pretty great. Oh, I should ... Everyone, the great Justin Taylor aka Maximum Etc. did a post on HTMLGIANT re: this group of writers called the Corresponding Society, one of whom is Lonely Christopher who's the author of the almost next Little House on the Bowery book (simultaneous with the reprint of Matthew Stokoe's 'Cows'), and I recommend having a look at what LC and his crew are up to by reading Justin's post. It's here. Thanks a lot, man! ** Tonyoneill, Hi, Tony! Great, I'll go read your piece on Corey Haim as soon as I push 'Publish'. Yeah, totally, on the coverage of his death. Nauseating, kneejerk exploitative, agenda pushing garbage. Everyone, the honorable Tony O'Neill has written something re: the death of Corey Haim and the creepy and banal media response and particularly Dr. Dru's user reaction over at NY Press. As I don't need to tell you, Tony knows his stuff, so do go have a read. Thanks for that, Tony. I really look forward to reading it. ** Bill, Hey. Ha ha, definitely true on airport security in yesterday's case. The flight did its job, and I'm grateful for that if not quite ready to thank the Lord or anything. ** Sypha, Me too. ** Alex Rose, Weird about the mysterious LA show. I'm going to amble in there, flash my credentials, see what what I can see and find out, and I'll pass whatever along. April in NYC? Okay, good, I'm not going to miss the chance to promote that baby. ** JW Veldhoen, The end times are just the launch times in a bad mood. ** Steevee, Yury put all or some of that Gorillaz on my iPhone yesterday, so I'll check it out. He likes it. Hope the Tribeca pass comes through without much hassle. Word on the Gainsbourg biopic in France was that it was pretty good, solid, maybe not a whole lot more. But it should be really interesting just to see his story portrayed. ** Paul Joseph, Thanks a lot, man. Once my brain is firing again, I'll write to you. Excellent day to you. ** Creative Massacre, Hey, pal. I'm here. Here is good. I hope to be good like it is in a day or two. How's the project coming along? ** Misanthrope, Because you're ... hm, I don't know why. ** Justin, Hey. Oh, well, I don't know what to say today either. My head is a vacuum this morning. So a warm hi back to you, pal. ** Bollo, Films were okay, all in all. I got the 'vegetarian lacto-ovo' meal option. It was 'Spanish' rice, a soggy noodle w/tofu salad thing, a dry chocolate cake, and apple sauce. Sound delicious? It was not. 11 hours! Your yesterday sounds like my yesterday except yours was probably sweatier and gave you a worse backache. ** Oscar B, Hey! Oh, I wrote to you this morning. Tomorrow, Saturday night. Sorry about that. You have some new thing of yours on view, awesome! I'll see whatever it is in a bit. Everyone, Oscar B, mightiest of the mighties, invites you to see 'That's Where You'll Find me' (2010), or, as she tantalizingly describes it, 'my latest weirdfest', over on her blog, and I add my invitation and a gentle push. Go here. ** Kiddiepunk, Thanks for being the power behind the throne that was yesterday's post, bud. LA is warmer, that's one thing. Otherwise, I'll know the current state of LA better by tomorrow. Miss you, neighbor. ** Right. Again, sorry for my spaciness and not so great responses today. You know how the flight/ lag/ first day after flying thing goes. Give it all you've got re: Tomas' excellent and salacious post today, please. Please send me SPD entries too. I'll go stumble around now. See you tomorrow.
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