Thursday, April 29, 2010

ton presents ... from russia with love






























































*

p.s. Hey. Okay, there's a thought provoking post. So, is it actually a gift from the legendary Russian porn superstar Ton? If so, is Ton the world's biggest fan of the last guest-post by Subterranean Kid? Has the mysterious SK just outed him- or herself as none other than the legendary porn star Ton? Or is 'Ton' just his or her new hiding place? If it is Ton, what is he trying to tell us? If it's Subterranean Kid in yet another disguise, why is he or she fucking with us? I could go on, but I'll stop there and leave the goings on to you. Tomorrow I will announce the nature of the blog's fifth birthday celebration and what it will require ... I mean request of you. Pencils at the ready. ** Misanthrope, One the one hand, I don't like that you can't afford and thus aren't using your blood pressure meds. On the other hand, I applaud you for going off everything. I'm so confused. Still, I feel no emotional ambiguity about those fuckers not having paid you yet. Screw or force them somehow. Damn, man. Oh, I've heard of the Viper. Don't think I've laid eyes on him yet. But anyone who's following in the overly stylized footsteps of the great Undertaker is a friend indeed. ** Pisycaca, Hey, Montse! Well, I'm glad to hear the dilemma and work of finding your aunt new lodgings that are better for her is over and accomplished. I hope that once her belongings are taken care of and her flat relinquished your responsibilities to her will become more low key and a matter of second nature at worst. What a hard time you've had, my dear friend. The exact dates of the Avignon performances are July 8, 9, 10, 12, 14, and 15. I sure hope you can come. It'd be amazing and fun to see you, and, like I've said, being in Avignon during the festival is really cool in general. Let me know your plans so I can see if I can get you guys free or discount tickets to the show. ** Bill, Hey. Yeah, I finally got my Brest dates yesterday. I'll go there on the 16th and I return to Paris on the 25th. Is that fatal as far as us hanging out here? I can't remember if May Day is a day of craziness in Paris or not. I think maybe more of eccentricity. Where are you heading after Berlin again? ** David Ehrenstein, I'll see 'Glee' somehow somewhere. I'm surprised it hasn't been picked up by French TV yet. I bet it will be. It's very 'here'. ** Empty Frame, Hey! There you are! No, I didn't get your text. And it sounds like you didn't get mine, which I think I sent on Thursday as well. Sometimes texting between phones based in different countries doesn't work for me. I never know when, and I've never figured out why. Well, that sucks. Greece next, nice. Where are you right now? TIHYWD is in the process of getting ironed out and will be like that probably until late June, but it's starting to edge into a proper form. The epiphany is probably the most fucked up, messy, disastrous part of the piece at the moment. We'll see. One of the birds (owl) started cooperating. The other one (hawk) hasn't yet and is getting iffy. Dude, good to see you! ** 'Stoopid Slapped Puppies', Wow, that's really your new moniker? Nice. Dig the quotation marks. Did you get that technical problem with Pank worked out? I submitted stuff yesterday, and it seemed to work. Hold on. Tim Jones-Yelvington, if you're there, 'SSP' aka Nick Brook is having a problem with the register/ submit thing on Pank. He registered, but then it said his email address wasn't in their system. Any suggestions? Is there an alternative way to submit? Thanks. Awesome that you're submitting work, man. ** Alan, Five fives ... you mean twenty-five novels? I'd be 160 years old before I could manage that. Right now, given how laboriously the rewriting and editing on my current one is going, 10 novels feels like a bridge too far. But thanks, pal. ** Tosh, Hey. I don't know for sure, but I don't have the impression that the Gainsbourg film did all that well here, or certainly not up to expectations. I don't know a single person who saw it. The only thing anyone ever seems to say about it in print or on TV is how eerily the actor physically resembles the young Serge. It definitely did not have the kind of success that either the Piaf or the Coco Chanel movies did. ** Bernard Welt, Well, No matter how I work my fingers to the bone, there's just no pleasing you, is there? I'm still waiting for that top international bear escorts of whatever month guest post, by the way. Since my Butt interview got delayed until today, I will mention that award winning paper. Sounds like a good ice breaker. ** Sypha, Yeah, I figured my book covers have been neglecting my bear fan base for long enough. Ha ha, man, you are not bringing me any closer to wanting to read C.S. Lewis, that's for sure. I think I'll use my 'Harry Potter' thinking cap and stick to watching the movies. ** Stan_cz, Hope you can sort out a LACC person easily. Paris is in full Spring mode, gorgeous, perfect temperature, perfecto. Yeah, I'm in heavy working mode on the novel and on the new theater piece too. A bit overwhelmed, but I also dig it. You getting any of your own writing done amidst the school stuff? ** Oscar B, I'm cool. Sure, you can borrow that book. It's only 84 pages long too, so it's a snap of a read. Glad the tutorial went so well. I want to hear more when you get back here. Saturday, right? You want to see the Todd Solondz movie? I'll ask Chrystel when the gallery will be finished. When you get back, we should meet with Scott and Paul (and Michael if he gets back) to nail down what the show is going to be before S&P take off. See you so soon! ** Magick mike, Hey. You just read Quignard's 'Sarx'? That's trippy. It's not like you run into someone who's even heard of Quignard every day. 'Sarx' is wonderful, probably my favorite of the books of his that I've read. Yeah, man, I'd be thrilled, honored, and you-name-it if you wanted to do an 'architecture' day. That would be just fantastic! Thank you a ton for the offer. ** Heliotrope, You were in Portland with your nephew at the same time that my nephew was in Portland with my sister checking out his forthcoming university Lewis & Clark. Trippy, kind of. Welcome back to hearth (here) and home (Eagle Rock) with love. ** Bollo, The first 'Iron Man' was kind of clever-ish for the first, oh, 45 minutes, and then it just became the usual. Oh, 'Wide Eyed' and 'Mythym', great. Trinie Dalton is a dream of a writer. Sometimes it feels like I'm doing the same interview over and over, but not as often as you might think, and I try to twist them a bit when they are samey, not that the twists make it into print a lot of the time. Butt interviews are always spicey, aren't they? That's my impression. That will/would be, err, refreshing. I've been listening to the new Fenn O'Berg, and, what else ... The Skates, Emeralds, Gary Wolf, James Ferraro ... spacey indie noisy stuff. Blast those kids today, man, and describe their cowering. ** Kier, Hey. The b'day thing will hopefully be fun and easy to do. That's the idea. Yeah, I hope Thomas is doing okay too. That is one complicated death he's dealing with. ** Steevee, I'm glad I didn't make a big effort to see the Gainsbourg film. No, the only Valtat I've read so far is '03', but I think 'Aurorarama' was published by Melville House, and that's almost a guarantee of something interesting right there. ** Justin, Good news about that graphic novel. 'Fashion Beast' has been such a legendary no-go. I'm going to start the foreign movie poster hunt this weekend, so we'll see. How's the sewing machine treating you? ** JW Veldhoen, Hm, I agree with you that transubstantiation of hotness is a or the mark of literary success, but the 'why' part of your question is a head scratcher for me too. When it comes to literature, I'm just my crotch's receptionist. ** Jeff, Hey. That Tetragrammaton album sounds like it will fit beautifully into my particular music hunger of the moment, so thanks. I'll grab it. I'm sold. I'm sure you know this, but you can talk about your not feeling hot here any time you want, okay? And the music talk is a nice bonus in any case. Amazing story about your friend. I liked the Kevin Sampsell book, yeah. I did a book post here in which it co-starred a while back. He's a seriously good guy as well. I've liked everything I've read by Vanessa Place so far. I haven't read 'Dies: A Sentence'. Let me know how those books sit with you, yeah? ** Inthemostpeculiarway, Oh, thank you, thank you. That list is precisely what I was looking for. Perfect. I'm just going to do a little thing about each author or something. I'm not sure, But, really, thank you, man. Big help, very kind of you. I'm sure I've mentioned before that when I was younger, this friend of our family who was living in our pool house killed himself, and his briefcase was in our possession for a while, and it was leaning against a wall, and I looked at it, and it flew across the room. One of the weirdest things ever. I don't believe in ghosts, but that was seriously weird. So, yeah, I hear you re: those restless books. That taco giveaway thing you and your friend did was very nice and perky and odd to imagine. My day: Another weak one. The Butt magazine interview that was destined to be its highlight got delayed until today at the last minute because the interviewer's tape recorder stopped working. So that put a crimp in my day's entertainment value. Otherwise, I did the novel work thing for most of the day. Christophe Honore, the director whose film I recently 'acted' in as you may recall, sent me a message saying he'd just edited my scene and that I'm his Robert Mitchum. That was trippy, funny, and very nice. I realized that a bunch of bands I'm listening to and liking right now (see: list in my Bollo comment) have been lumped together under the moniker 'hypnagogic pop', so I put together a blog post on 'hp'. I ate exactly what I almost always eat, which was fine. I decided that I'm close to needing a haircut. I read a few pages of the new issue of The Wire before deciding I should save it for my train trip to Brest on the 16th. Yury got some Italian shoes he ordered in the mail, and he walked around the room wearing them for a while before deciding they're too big and that he's going to have to return them. Other stuff, too minor to talk about. That's it. Your turn, of course. ** Trees, Hey. You work for XLR8R? Did I know that? I didn't know XLR8R was still around. Gosh, that's a sturdy publication, isn't it? What do you do for them? Oh, gosh, yeah, mega-complicated on the Se4n front. Still, as complicatedly romantic-cum-friendship things go, it sounds kind of okay. It won't feel as fragile and worrying and heated in a month or two, trust me. You guys are saying all the things you need to in order for your relationship to be lengthy and warm, it seems to me. But, yeah. If you can somehow both enjoy and milk the current fraughtness creatively, do. ** David, My dad always uses the word wrasslin'. So it kind of glows. The sex scene is really nice. Not a wasted word, and some very clever, pretty phrases to boot. I'm liking this 'Deadhead' thing. Keep on keeping on, I say. Everyone, do you want to read a short sex scene aka a continuance of the fine writer and d.l. David's fiction work-in-progress 'The Deadhead'? Of course you do, and here's how. ** Blendin, Apart from an Amazon review or two, 'God Jr.' didn't get the 'sell-out' accusation, to its or my face anyway. Maybe if 'The Sluts' hadn't come out at roughly the same time, I might have. No, the bad reviews were mostly on the order of 'this isn't the commercial breakthrough novel we think he should have written'. Whatev'. It's certainly the oldest, laziest, most common trick in the book for critics to compare a new artist or writer to an established, better known one rather than attempting to figure out and describe what's new and different about the work. It makes me feel poopy just thinking about it. ** Now, face the dilemma or whatever that is ton's or 'ton's' gift to us today and then react as you see fit. Bye until tomorrow.

No comments:

Post a Comment