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p.s. RIP: Rammellzee. Hey. First, holy shit, it's boiling hot in Paris. If I hadn't bought a fan yesterday, I would have shorted out my computer by now. Second, a slightly early heads up about how the blog might work once I travel to Avignon on Sunday. At this point, I don't really know, to be honest. My internet access looks like it will be very limited while I'm there. Barring the completely unforeseen, there shouldn't any problem posting every day as usual, but when the posts will appear each day is a question mark until I find out what my likelihoods there really are. The p.s. will likely be quite hit and miss until I return to Paris on the 16th. My goal or hope is to run the blog/p.s. like I ran them in Brest, but the situation is going to be more trying in Avignon, so there may be days when I can do a decent p.s., days when I'll only be able to do a very brief, hurried version, and days when I won't be able to do the p.s at all. When I launch my first post from Avignon on Monday, I should have a fairly decent idea about how everything will work on that end of things, and I'll let you know what I know then. ** Wolf, I sure hope the gods restock that camera between now and whenever you guys are scooting over here. You'll probably have to park outside the walls of the old city where the festival's taking place, hopefully only a short walk away. But maybe you'll get luckier, I hope. I'm not staying in a hotel. I'll be staying in some barren little room/ apartment near the venue, I'm told. I'll either be mooching around or in the room writing or at the theater or in some internet friendly spot doing what I'm doing right now or manning one of the events that I'm apparently expected to do -- I've been assigned q&a's with a couple of groups of young students who are attending the show, for instance. In any case, it'll be easy for us to meet up, and I'll be expecting you guys. Just call or text me when you're there or before you get there or whatever makes the most sense on your end. Weird there are still tickets. That makes no sense at all from what I know, but, if it's true, yeah, people should buy them really quickly. ** David Ehrenstein, Glad you liked it. Wow, if I didn't understand the degree to which you hate Hitchens before, I sure do now. ** David, Yeah, dig, the posts here would be a bore if it weren't for the literal stumbling across move I've semi-mastered. ** Pilgarlic, When I get enough coke, maybe. You have a good connection, ha ha? I think I'd be better suited to maybe being one of the minor voices in a 'Please Kill Me' style oral biography of Glam. Yeah, there are all those Glam or Memorex bands: Slade, The Sweet, Alex Harvey, Mud, Silverhead, ... I say Suzi Quatro qualifies as Glam. I can't really say I knew Darby Crash, but I had a few memorable encounters, and he was everywhere I was for a while. I 'knew' him pre-Punk too when he dressed and made himself up to look like a Bowie clone. He threatened to beat me up once, and almost did. He took me aside once and slurred for a long time about how he liked my poems. Etc. But any stories I could tell about him would be a lot like everybody else's stories about him. ** 'Stoopid Slapped Puppies', Hi, Nick. Well, now that I know Thirwell has a piece in an art show here, of course I'll see it as soon as I get back from Avignon, and I'll give you my report and a photo or two if the gallery lets me. Interesting news, that. Thanks! Oh yeah, the audience gets engulfed in fog twice, especially towards the end of the 'tempest' sequence. Fujiko works with a very clean, water based fog that dissipates quickly so the engulfing is really pleasant and a bit magical, I think. Hopefully you'll get engulfed one day. You should come for the shows in Paris in early April maybe. I'm pretty sure the piece will play in Spain too. They like G.'s work there. ** Renaud Cerqueux, Great! And if we do any fooling around with the piece in Paris before then, I'll let you know. ** Alan, (1) No, never been to Disneyworld. Spending a week or something in that Floridian convergence of theme parks is a major dream of mine. (2.) Can't answer that, but I can virtually guarantee that since I consider the original Disneyland to be Walt Disney's greatest art work, and given that Disneyworld and the later parks are copies/ 'improvements' that were finalized after his death, they can't possibly turn out to be better than the original to my mind. (3.) You are correct. I did construct a smallish but quite effective roller coaster in my backyard, and I charged neighborhoods a pittance to ride it. Thanks for the link to the review. That's the first one I've seen. That was nice. Thanks, Alan. ** Killer Luka, Your comment makes the shortlist of best ever comments at the very least. ** Sypha, Glad you braved it and saw the Gaga show. Jonathan Capdevielle, who is the biggest Gaga fanatic I know, would be so jealous. She's playing in Paris while we're in Avignon, the poor thing. Now, get that lab work done, man. Like yesterday, okay? ** Stan_cz, Ah, dry LA heat. What I wouldn't trade. I spent the extremely hot, moist day yesterday packed into various scalding metro cars and non-air conditioned stores trying to buy one of the last few unsold fans in the city of Paris. Nothing good about that. Well, I'll pass along your compliments to the ladies, ha ha. I think being called ladies will be their favorite part. ** _Black_Acrylic, Philip Best book, cool, trippy. I have to get that, obviously. Everyone, courtesy of _Black_Acrylic, the splendid Philip Best of Whitehouse has a book due out in October from Creation, and it includes a text by his former bandmate and ongoing collaborator the great Peter Sotos, and you can get the basic idea and preorder it now and here. Very cool. Oh, I'll be writing to you finally today with the post's launch date. Take care, Ben. ** Chilly Jay Chill, Hey, Jeff. Oh, excellent, excellent about the progress on the theater piece. I'm so very curious to know more as it develops. Amazing that you got to see those greats while you were in NYC, and, Jesus, yeah, about the recent death toll. Lovely to see you, man. ** Tigersare, Thanks again so much, Guy. It went well, I think. Dude, it's hotter than hot here. Wtf! Very unParis-like. Enjoy your winter's day. ** Steevee, Very glad to hear you're feeling better. Really hoping that sticks. I didn't see that recent Rivette. The reports and rumors I've heard mirror yours. ** Colin, Yeah, isn't it cool, interesting, refreshing, etc. to read to an art audience? Whenever I've read in those kinds of situations, it's always been a favorite experience. Not quite the same, but having my writing performed for an avant-garde theater audience is pretty interesting too. Oh, send me the post here: dcooperweb @gmail.com. Thanks a lot for doing that, Colin. I really appreciate it, and I can't wait to read Perlongher's work, like I said. The best to you today, man. ** Dooflow, It is kind of a Pynchon-ish name, isn't it? Funny. Your top five films are a really impressive bunch, if you don't mind me saying so. Can't argue with a syllable. Canby's review was very odd for precisely the reason you mention, yeah, totally. I liked Gober's sinks (and drains and human limbs extending out of walls and ... etc.) when there were two or three of them in existence at most. After that, they did seem to turn into playthings and illustrative bits in a much less interesting way, I agree. Oh, sure, I really like David Robbins' work. The visual work and his writings. He's long been in the stable of artists in my pal Hudson's NYC gallery Feature, the greatest art gallery in the world, in my opinion. You had him as a teacher? That's very cool. I can imagine he's great at that. I met him or once twice, and he was just a fascinating, very good guy too. Yeah, it's very cool that you're connected with his work and him. He's a very, very underrated artist. ** Chris, Yikes! Oh, man, sucks. I mean, yeah, I'm sure you'll land in a new, interesting situation, but, yeah, I'm sorry. I hope you get to really work on your music during the new downtime. So, I'm beginning to assume that I'm not going to come to NYC in August. I haven't heard anything, and I'm guessing the budget is too tight or something, and it's getting pretty late in the day now. If things change, cool, but I'm beginning to think I should just make other plans. I don't know. Have you heard anything? ** Bill, Hey. I'll mail you my number today. Oh, I'm supposed to tell you that the ticket will be at the box office under your name, and it'll cost you 21 euros, and you have to pay for it in cash because they don't take credit cards. Good luck with your preparations. That's my story too. ** Syreearmwellion, Ha ha, I love your record store scene. It simply must come to fruition somehow. It seems like plenty for a great short film at least. Murder spree during an Of Montreal in-store is a great, delicate touch. Very nice. Only 2000 tickets? Yikes. Fuck, I'd better get on figuring out the sale date. Especially now that Pollard confirmed it really is going to almost exactly the greatest GbV line-up. Maybe if a handful of us end up going to Vegas, we can split the cost of a suite or something. Vegas rooms and suites can weirdly affordable if you aim correctly. ** Misanthrope, Hey. No, 'TIHYWD' is for fairly big venues only. The stage/set are gigantic, and, to earn back, there's got be a reasonably big audience. I think in Avignon there are 500 seats per night, but it's scheduled to play at much larger places than that. No, no thought ever of having the audience sit in the woods. That would be too, I don't know, children's playground or something. 'TIHYWD' is a pretty austere piece. Part of it is performed behind a semi-transparent screen even. The idea is sort of that, for the audience, it'll be like watching a performance that's taking place in some massive natural history museum diorama. You only just got my joke? Good memory, man. Yury is doing just fine, working hard, partying very lightly and occasionally, thank you. You mean, when was the last time I wormed a slave? Yesterday. Or do you mean when the last time I did it with a worm? Four years ago today. ** JW Veldhoen, Weird, I was just thinking about Doug Henning the other day. 'Ith ... an illuthion!' MoMa sounds like it gave you a good visit. Even the Abstraction Expressionist stuff if you were me. Calling L. von Trier a cock gives him too much credit. Say what you want about cocks, but they aren't smug assholes in and of themselves. ** Math, Hey! You're in! In your new hot spot! Hopefully not hot in the Paris sense. Nice relative neighbors you've got there. Give them all my hugs. Dude, I hear you about not wanting to talk family stuff here. I do that, but what I do talk isn't a fraction of the real thing. LSD, yum. Maybe you can rig up a trip wire on the dangerous edge of your loft or something? ** Michael_karo, Well, hello there, Mr. Michael. Pleased as punch to see you. That's some good busy you've got going on there. Your hall pass is valid for the time being. Oh, nice photo blog, especially on a violently hot day like today. Everyone, the venerable d.l. and, most importantly, artist whose talents intersect with every medium worth its salt, Michael Karo, has a photoblog called nothing but flowers that'll soothe and delight your optical portion, I guarantee. Try it. The link's back there. Yeah, I get myself in and out of Facebook every day as quickly as humanly possible. ** 文辰文辰, 'Poverty is stranger to industry' ... hm, okay, you just won back my affections right there. ** Brendan, Hey. Okay, I'll work up a proper announcement of some sort about the book club and make it as soon as I can. I think it'll work. It just has to be, I don't know, framed. 'Jerk' in LA: Our ideal location is in an art space, gallery, a gallery in a museum, etc. That's where it was made to be performed ideally. So, a museum or gallery is the ideal. But, in that context, you get the money issue/ problem since there's no big dough to be made from a 'Jerk' performance, and setting up the lights and sound and stuff isn't free. The place that's been flirting with us in a creepily hot and cold way for the last couple of years is Redcat, and that would be fine, but the curator there seems to be a total flake. Nice add-on to KL's joke fest. ** Bollo, You've got this awful heat over there too? Man, no fun. Over here, they say it's going to break tomorrow, which is great for Paris, although I'll be heading down to Avignon on Sunday where the temperature is estimated to be between 37 and 40 degrees every fucking day. Holy God! Dublin Contemporary does look pretty cool. And I see it has the ubiquitous Ulrich Obrist on board, which is, hm, probably good, I guess. Yeah, that sounds pretty sweet, actually. Here's hoping Obrist or someone from there does a studio visit with you. Survive today. I'll try to as well. ** Okay, I think that's it. Today's post needs no intro, surely. Feast. See you guys in the morning.
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