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p.s. RIP: Kazuo Ohno. Hey. Mm, oh, I want to alert those of you lucky enough to be in LA to an exhibition titled 'Cimitero Drawings' by the amazing artist and my dear friend/fellow Recollets resident Scott Treleaven. The image in upper right hand corner of this p.s. shows one of the pieces in the show. It's happening at Marc Selwyn Gallery, and it runs from this coming Saturday until July 10th. The opening is from 6-8 pm Saturday evening. All the info can be found at the other end of that link, and I highly recommend that you catch the show if you can. ** Memoirs of a Heroinhead, Hey, Shane. Oh shit, about that court summons. Worst comes to worst, does France allow people to pay things like that off in tiny increments like they do in the States? Should we organize a benefit, a manifestation? ** Kier, On the photos, I think I just got stuck with a photographer who used the photo session to make a detailed geographical map of my wear and tear rather than represent me. Anyway, whatever, ugh. You saw 'Le Diable Probablement!' It makes me wordless for days, so I totally understand. The path to stability may be intricate, but you'll get there, man. ** David Ehrenstein, I don't know that Lindsay Anderson short. I've never seen anything pre-'If ...' I'd like to. I suppose there must a DVD comp of his non-obvious films by now. ** David, Snicker? I wish I could. Ah, ... Everyone, that shining example of figurative finery David (Kelso) has finally slid a new piece of short fiction into public view courtesy of his blog, and get yourselves the heck over there, why don't you? Me, I'll dip in/read once this p.s. is history. ** Statictick, I like that term 'unasleep-tweekyness'. ** Alan, Hey. Oh, thank you a lot for both the link and the email. They're my earliest afternoon plans. ** Marcus Whale, SL is obviously a great person to talk about your writing, so, cool. Any outcome concrete enough to share? I very highly recommend 'Eat When You Feel Sad'. I'm crazy about it. It's easily one of my very favorite books of the year. ** Joseph, My pleasure, sir. Is that hoped for apartment settling into your hands? ** JoeM, Yeah, I kind of figured about the hack. The tips seemed very unlike you. I got a spam from 'you' yesterday, early on I think, but nothing since. The $90+ fee is shocking and inexcusable, you bet. ** Wolf, From over here, it's definitely a strength, point blank. Choice? Hm, don't know. What's that quote ... I don't remember precisely. 'Feel globally, work locally'. That's not it. Know one's limitations well enough to know how to best exceed them? Big questions, Wolf. All I know or believe is that it's more psycho not to care than to care too much. ** Heliotrope, Happy Birthday, Mark! My favorite birthday song is the Pizzicato Five one, but I can't find a link to regale you with it. Nice haul. Yeah, I'm not a big Garcia guy, but I do like me some Nicky Hopkins under almost any circumstance, even late period Quicksilver. So, has your lung flare up ruined your birthday? No bowling? Joel and I usually bowl on our birthdays when I'm in LA. Eat an entire chocolate cake at least. ** Tristram's Mum, Hello there. My mother lived in fear of my books getting press in the local newspaper, so, yes, she knew. I'm sure she would pass on her condolences to you regarding Tristram's damage. I'm sorely tempted to make it to your creative writing workshop. I could use both some English speaking writer friends and a less self-defeating, damaging literary course. I have a week to check my schedule then, do I? I'll certainly do just that. (Out of character: I understood totally, and you don't you worry about a thing.) ** Kiddiepunk, Maestro. So, you're off to wedding-ville aka Italy today, no? How were the relatives? Yury said he spied you on the street with some people who seemed like tourists. Must have been them. Safe trip. Ring my room upon your return. ** Jake, Hey, Jake! Awesome to see you. I'm following you as best I can through the dribs and drabs of Facebook's magical news function. Yeah, that one slave text was really heartbreaking and intense to me too. I found him where I found all the others: on those m&s sites, Recon being the site I probably borrow from the most. Me and my world are doing all right at the moment. That novel you want (thank you) is being forged. What about you and yours? Take care, man. ** Steevee, Hm, maybe I should do the p.s. in all caps. What do you think? I haven't been to the shops in the last week or two, but I'm due for a visit. I'll check if it's there and let you know. No problem to get it for you, but I still think there must be some direct way for you to order it. ** JW Veldhoen, Intuition and diligence and a love/hate relationship with language and a busybody nature and a love of tinkering? ** Killer Luka, Hey! I'm okay, thanks. I have a slight and growing headache that's going to fuck up my day, I'm sure, but it could be worse so far. Oh, wow, fuck, beautiful new drawing. For Alex and me? Jesus, thank you, wow. Everyone, the great artist Killer Luka aka CL Martin has finished a new drawing called, I think, 'Mit Vogel' (graphite on arches hot press paper), and you really need to see it. Gorgeous, pal. No, you be good and stay evil. ** Paul Curran, Hey, Paul. No, it's not hard to separate the theater piece and novel. The texts for the piece, which are minimal, only five of them and all quite short, are finished, so I'm just basically supervising and suggesting and stuff like that these days. All writing goes into the novel and, well, the p.s. and a couple of extra assignments that I'm behind on. What's the latest on your novel? ** Steven Trull, Glad I was right about your hand. Whew, that could have been awkward. ** The Dreadful Flying Glove, Olafur Eliasson, right, exactly. I think some artist should build a really complicated, very time consuming maze that you would need to traverse in order to enter the Tate's galleries. That's what I'd do. ** Justin, Even when birds are in cages? Interesting. I'm not privy to the discussions between the producers/ director who are trying to make the 'God Jr'. film and Pixar or the other companies they're lobbying, but, yeah, I've wondered how they handle the not so little problem of trying to make a family-ish film based on a book by an author as 'edgy', ugh, and as easily google-able as me. ** Chris (British), At least NZ is in the Pacific Ocean, the world's best ocean by about a million zillion miles. The Atlantic Ocean is just a big, murky pool of liquid run-off from the great Pacific Ocean. It's a fact! ** Jesse Hudson, Mr. Jesse! The writing went okay yesterday, I guess. I'm revising and rewriting it section by section, and I've been stuck diddling and carving and refining the weirdly difficult third section for over a month, and I'm going to throw myself under a metro car if I don't polish that sucker off in the next few days. I literally will. Perhaps I should say my goodbyes to everyone now, or, at the latest tomorrow. Happy Birthday one day late to the unimpeachable, irreversible Marquis de Sade! ** Inthemostpeculiarway, The Oxy sounds most pleasant except for the headache aftermath if it had anything to do with that. It's nice you like peacefulness. I don't know if I could deal with peacefulness. My brain's too fidgety or something. Watching movies in movie theaters is kind of peaceful, isn't it? Smoking a cigarette is pretty peaceful. That might be me at my most peaceful. Kind of sad. My day was really nothing much at all. Apart from the hour or so I spent in cleaning crew exile, during which I bought a couple of magazines and some food and sat in the sun and read part of one of the magazines (Mojo, the new issue 'guest-edited' -- they claim but only wish -- by Tom Waits) until I was allowed to go home, I stayed inside virtually all day and worked on the usual, put two blog days together, thought about things I want to do, got a little depressed, got over the depressed thing mostly, and ... nothing really. Given that I have a headache and it's getting worse, today might really suck, but I'll take some aspirin and see what happens. Regale me. ** Sypha, Thanks about the photos. Normally, I just dislike 99% of the photos of me and go whatever, but these are really bad. Oh, well. ** Patrick deWitt, Hey, Patrick! LA, yum, sigh. I'll totally hit that new Alias store in Atwater as soon as I get back there. Why were you in LA? For kicks? What's a Neti pot? I guess I can google that? Any writing or book or anything news on your end? Lovely to see you. ** Creative Massacre, Excellent. So, I guess you must be getting hyped up and happier without interference about the Texas trip? ** Misanthrope, When/if you see the pix, you'll see exactly why I'm uncool with them, even if you say/lie, Oh, they're not so bad. Good luck at the Holocaust Museum. The one in LA is as creepy as a Scientology Center. ** Oscar B, You're safely Italian again! It's like when Rimbaud would spend those r&r periods in Charleville. It must be nice to speak 24/7 in your native language. When do you go in for the you-know-what again? Tell me what happens, okay? I'll be your finger-crossing buddy until then. ** Bollo, That Kaga guy's stuff looks pretty cool. The other show sounds theoretically interesting. Paris is in sunny and beautiful mode today. I need to get out of this god damned Recollets and absorb it. ** Paradigm, Hey, man. Thank you so much once again for yesterday. It was/is an honor. ** Tender Prey, Oh, I'm totally up for and excited about doing the show, so just let me know whenever the schedule stuff is sorted out, and I'll be all over it. Probably for the best that you skip 'TIHYWD's' opening night. It's going to be heavy stress city, and the piece will probably get better day by day. I should have plenty of time to hang out there, so awesome. When exactly are you in Avignon? ** Slatted Light, Hey. Uh, my novel ... is going okay. I'm devoting every remotely spare second to it, and it's on course. The tinkering is taking a lot more time and a lot more out of me than I anticipated, but I guess it's usually like that. As I mentioned to Itmpw, I've been working on one section for so long that I'm getting kind of stir crazy. I have ending that is ... vaguely set, I'd say. The novel's entire course is already roughed out. Nothing so far has made me question the ending I've devised, and I'm trying to build towards it in this draft's subterranean areas, but there are a lot of complicated things that will have to work properly for that ending to stay in place, so we'll see. Thanks for asking, man. Feel even better. ** Good, my headache waited to grow into a monster until just about a minute or two ago. I'll go try to take care of that. The post is the post is the post today. Later, guys, meaning of course until tomorrow.