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p.s. Hey. Um, I don't think I have anything out of the ordinary going on that's worth forefronting today. So, ... ** JoeM, Hey, Joe. ** Jax, Once again, totally fascinating day yesterday, pal. Thanks galore to put it mildly. Great response/ discussion too. Thanks re: the curator. Yeah, I think or I felt like she didn't like the disruption, the having to deal with such messy emotion in such a dream-like piece, which is, yeah, the point. I also got that distinct whiff from her that I've gotten so many times re: my fiction, namely that she doesn't think the emotional confusion of young people is a serious subject. Real typical ageist shit going on in her head, I think. I hope I'm right. Ultimately, it only matters if Gisele thinks I'm right, It's her call, and I know she agrees with me in principal, but she may or may not agree that the disruption is worth potentially confusing or alienating people. We'll see. ** Nerstes, Hey, man. Speaking from my experience at least, I suspect your stress about your writing is enemy #1 right now, quite possibly your only enemy. The only true enemy of writing is the blockade caused by one's own insecurity and the kind of overanalyzing and excessive comparing it brings. Being a loyal friend to your talent is the most important part of writing. It's your family, man. It's your kid. The most important thing is to let it live, let it fuck up, let it figure things out and try shit out, give it a place and the room it needs. I find that when I'm the most judgmental and dictatorial about my writing, the worse it is. The more I can be in a state where I feel like I'm letting it out, less trying to control it than watch and pay attention to it, the better I write. The worst thing is to punish it for your lack of confidence. It's maybe better to see your writing as something that knows more than you do. Let it try running the show with you in an assistant role, you know? Those are tricks use and that mostly work for me. ** David, Oh, that link worked. Hm, yeah, pretty interesting. I kind of like Schorr's work, but I can't say I'm 100% persuaded. Thanks for the Flit clarification. I should have been able to make that leap. Anyway, yeah, there are definitely a lot worse gigs than that one. ** Casey McKinney. Very interesting stuff, man. Thanks. Seems like fucking ages ago when you were at Berkeley, but it really isn't. So much has gone down or rather forward. I haven't read 'Witz' yet. Definitely am going to. The buzz and its placement are something else. On the Bacha-Bazi thing, I feel like I'd need to know a huge amount more about the context to think about making some kind of hard judgement call. That said, coming from far away and having the beliefs I do, I think children who are rendered powerless both by their societal status as subservient, silly, incomplete creatures and by their inability to own the kind of money and moneyed things that grant people their only real power in this world being bought, sold, and enslaved by adults who have the means to acquire what they want constitutes a fundamental, serious abuse of power and, thereby, the rights of the children at best. Perhaps that problem would magically dissolve if I understood the situation and could somehow grasp what the kids themselves feel and want. What I've seen has been all about how adults feel about it. ** Changeling, Hey. Great stuff. And, yeah, the Victorian boys work you're doing is very intriguing. For yourself, as an assignment, with a particular result/ project in mind? If you're going to be in central France, yeah, definitely come through Paris so we can have a classic French brainy tete a tete about writing over wee cups of caffeine or something. That would be optimal. Great, if you can manage it. I was the world's worst young shoplifter. Shoplifted four times, got caught four times. Toy crash car, 45s, 'The Carpetbaggers', softcore gay porn magazines, a hammer. Five times, I guess. Charles Guslain has the 'honor' of being the first human meal that my cannibal protagonist ever eats. And a scrawny, antidepressant flavored, disappointing meal it is. ** Killer Luka, I remember that scene in 'Sebastiane', and I didn't they were hot, I guess. You know me. You've done a poll re: the sort of people who read my blog, have you? Haha. ** David Ehrenstein, Hi, David. 'Our Lady of the Assassins' is terrific, yeah. ** Sypha, Been liking the unfurling of you early effort, btw. It's a page turner, or, well, status turner. ** Heliotrope, Being inspired to dance around is no small thing for sure. Is Horace Andy still touring with them? Mefeedia, okay, cool. I'll hunt and peck 'Rash' into view. Why is Julie thinking of leaving the job? The slow payment problem or something else? Love to you also, sir. ** Statictick, Where does the Acker hate come from? I can guess where the love does. Happy idiocy sounds so nice. I don't know if that's as possible over here. The French don't do idiocy in life so well, which is weird since about 70% of French movies -- ones that you should thank your lucky stars are never released in the US -- are really quite, quite idiotic comedies. I'm talking sub-Annette Funicello vehicles. ** Bollo, Oh, yeah, the Peterlicker tape. That'll be my next Peter schmooze target. I'm pretty report-less over here too. Brain only semi-worky. ** The Dreadful Flying Glove, Hey. Thanks for the welcome back. I'm decent. So true about Chris Goode's lecture, no? I made Gisele listen to it. Well, I told her to, and she did, I think, and I'm waiting to hear her thoughts. PJ Proby! I haven't thought about that guy in, I don't know, many decades. In the States, he was only known as the pants ripping guy. Thanks a lot for the Stephen King report. Most helpful, very appreciated. I think I'll spring for 'Skeleton Crew'. That seems safe. Or maybe a Bachman title too. Really, Bookwise, I've only read 'Cujo' and, hm, 'Christine', I think? Dude, you're the best. Thank you! ** Christopher/ Mark, Hey, Mark. ** Kier, Being drenched in irony definitely gave that Lauper song the only ticket to eternity it deserves. Well, that and its status as a withering reference in a Pavement lyric. Wild worming image. I mean, like, really wild. The stuff of nightmares or acid flashbacks at least. Yeah, I think worms are free to try their best to move around. ** Joseph, You got fired! And you're happy about it! In the middle of a recession! You're my hero. Move sooner? Like, when? Have fun bumming around today. ** Math, Wow, really, you might move to SF? Are you sure you're not just being pulled unknowingly into the hell mouth that rests beneath that city? (Just sort of kidding, Trees, Steven Trull, Kevin Killian, et. al.) That pic of C. Guslain is trippy 'cos he doesn't seem to be wearing his usual make-up. He photographs very well. In person, he looks a lot weirder, very anorexic. When his baby fat finally burns off of his face, it's gonna get kind of Halloweeny. ** Ken Baumann, Hey, Ken! No, weirdly, I too have never watched 'The Wire'. I think it might be a post-me being in Paris show, and they don't show it here unless it's been so retitled that I don't even know. 'CSI' is called 'Les Experts'. That Simon quote is very intriguing, yes. Once you try it out, pass word along, if you don't mind. Loved your conversation with Luca Dipiero over on HTMLG. How's writing going? ** Justin, Have you read Samuel Delaney's 'Hogg'? You want to know poop-centric literature, that's the place to go. Adam and the Ants are great. No need to feel shy about propping them in my opinion. ** Bernard Welt, Hey, B. I'm going to try to seek out that Herdt book, if I can. I think I need to know a lot more. ** Chris, Oh, really nice to see visual of the gig at least. Did Nayland take that photo? It's really good. Awesome, man, but do record the next one, if you remember. Think 'live album', if it helps. ** Alan, The curators are basically top level employees of theater venues. Sometimes they're also the directors of the places; sometimes they work under the directors. Producer is a term you hear sometimes, but generally only when the curators also formally run the venues. The curators decide what shows the venues will book. They travel around looking at performances, and, if you're lucky, they make you an offer. In the case of the curators who came to see our run-through, they have already booked 'TIHYWD' sight unseen, and, in those cases, they expect and sometimes get the opportunity to see the work-in-progress if they want. It can be tricky, though, because their stake the piece can cause them to feel they can shape it to their liking. Gisele rarely lets the curators see the work early, but I guess because the ones who came the other day co-produced the piece, meaning they put in some development money, she felt she couldn't say no. ** Frank Jaffe, Hey. I have a bit of phobia about really big, long books, and 'It' and 'The Stand' look intimidating. Like I said above, I think I'll dip back into King's stuff via some stories and see how it goes. Thanks a lot, though. I have those two novels at my list's near-top now. Thanks too about the interview. Someone would have to give me a lobotomy before I'd see the new Sex in the City movie. Hope you wriggle free, ha ha. ** JW Veldhoen, I see. Okay, when I open Facebook today, I'll look for your conversation and try to add a squib. I'm generally more of a 'like' type. ** Steevee, Hi, Steve. ** Alec Niedenthal, Hey, Alec! I was kind of figuring school was eating you up. No problem, man. Just glad you're done. I've been good. Just too busy, busy. We're having to nail the new theater piece now for the early July premiere, and it's a toughie to get right, let me tell you. Really excited for your Everyday Genius tenure. Baltimore, interesting. I've only been there three times, I think, and always in-and-out on book tours. Unless I'm spacing, my only good friend there is John Waters, and he's not there all that often these days. It seemed like kind of a really good city. JW loves it, warts and all. Sure, I would love to be caught up on your past few weeks, if you don't mind. Great to see you, Alec! ** Misanthrope, I'll believe it when I see it on your never again re: 'AI'. (At first, I thought you meant the Spielberg film). Oh, I thought Jax's post was fantastic, and I kind of said what I think about B-B to Casey up above. I'm intrigued, very curious to understand it better, and quite suspicious, I guess. I think you know me well enough to know that when adults view kids as things they can coopt, manipulate, and use as living illustrations of their romantic and sexual fantasies, that's a giant red flag for me. But, like I said, I don't feel like I understand the exact context well enough to accept or condemn the practice. I'm wary and trying to stay on the fence, I guess you could say. ** Okay. The post: I was into the way different kinds of restless crowds look and behave and move the other day, basically, and it's as simple as that. Your call now. See you tomorrow.
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