The theater
Setting up the forest
People waiting in hopes of ticket cancelations
The audience files in
Short (1:28) videoclip of 'TIHYWD'
http://videos.arte.tv/fr/videos/_this_is_how_you_will_disappear_de_gisele_vienne-3328406.html
Videoclip: Gisele Vienne talking about 'TIHYWD' (7:48)
http://www.theatre-contemporain.tv/mediaplayer/mediaplayer.swf?config=http://www.theatre-contemporain.tv/player/view/media/n9p6AxVN
10 crappy snapshots of the show
The audience files out
Various post-show receptions
(l. to r.) Marc Hulson (Tender Prey) & Emma Wolf
Avignon
Farewell dinner
(l. to r.) Stephen's sister, Stephen
(l. to r.) Catherine Robbe-Grillet, her friend Beverly, Gisele
(l. to r.) Gisele's mother, Jonathan S., Gisele's father
(l. to r.) Guillaume (performer, 'Kindertotenlieder'), Peter's wife, Peter
(l. to r.) Jonathan C, Margret, unknown, Margret's sister
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p.s. Hey. Add 98 to 104 degrees Farenheit (38 to 40 C) and very high humidity to the outdoors pictures. That should help explain why we look so unsmiley at the farewell dinner. Also, the vidclip from 'TIHYWD' will probably only be there for another day or so if you want to watch it. There should be a photo of d.l. Bill (Hsu) up there, but it was so hot that I spaced out re: getting a shot. I'm still feeling strangely burnt out from the Avignon experience, so I guess keep that lack in mind. ** Memoirs of a Heroinhead, Hey. This particular form of hatred doesn't feel that dangerous. It's not violent or frothing, and, like I said, I negotiate with it. I guess I consider it useful more than anything else. Anyway, yeah, thank you a lot for your wisdom and generosity here, as always really. Love and respect right back to you. ** David Ehrenstein, Hey. Well, I'm certainly curious to have at least a peek at Brooks' novel. I wonder what style he chose. ** David, I did some gun jumping there. Everyone, if you tried the link I posted in my comment to David yesterday and couldn't find the post that I/he mentioned, go back down to yesterday's p.s., find the link, and try again please. ** Sypha, Oh, boy, James, I'm so sorry. Do what the doctor advises on both fronts, okay? I'm hoping that you've felt at least a little better in the couple of days since you commented. ** Changeling, Oh, your mouth. Your teeth, right? They were troubling you, no? And I'm guessing the lymph node thing is a related infection fighting flare up? Did my curse help at all? Now that it's Monday and the dawn of a work week, are you seeing a doctor about the problems? Let me know, okay? I'll double down on the curse in the meantime. Thanks for your advice to Sypha too. DC's good physical and emotional health forum, it seems. ** Stan_cz, The cop-heavy thing is an LA specialty. It's like second nature to me now. German beers are pretty top. I like Mexican beer when I have a choice, which means not very often over here. ** Tomkendall, That was just totally heartbreaking to read, Tom. I'm so incredibly sorry. Man, you talk about it here as much as you want and in any way you want. Know that. How are you doing today? Tell me, T. Much love and affection to you. ** Tigersare, Hi, Guy. I'll go check out Fabulous Diamonds post-haste. What a name. Everyone, check out Fabulous Diamonds, a new band on the great music artist and d.l. Tigersare's (aka Guy Blackman) musical label Chapter. You can do that here. Yeah, I saw your Xiu Xiu comment, and I even responded to it unless I'm totally spacing out. I said something like wow, awesome, and do you know/have you had contact with Jamie Stewart at all? ** JW Veldhoen, I'll get there, man. I'm so weirdly out of it right now. ** Ken Baumann, Hi, K! Email back to you as soon as my brain decides to enable me again. Yeah, I don't think I've seen a movie ad on TV here. But I only have the main 6 channels on my TV. It's very odd. I think the TV ad thing here is either very controlled or there are unspoken rules of etiquette or something. Like, during elections, every candidate gets the exact same amount of TV advertising time whether they're Sarkozy or the figurehead of some very tiny party. Does that not sound so very refreshing and civilized? It's weird: even though the title they've given the Cruise/Diaz movie over here is in English, it's not 'Knight and Day' but 'Night and Day'. I hope your bad mood broke before you got anywhere near Mulholland, buddy. ** Frank Jaffe, Straight to DVD, okay. I'll probably have wait for my next US trip 'cos I have a stinking suspicion it won't get a DVD release over here. I love the food post idea, and I'm all glowey with excitement. So, what were your favorite Outfest films in the end? Bruce la Bruce's long delayed 'LA Zombie' is world premiering over here at the Locarno Film Festival next month alongside the world premiere of that Christophe Honore film that I do my little acting turn in. 'Inception' opens here on Wednesday, and I'm pretty sure I'll catch it right away. ** Trees, Hi, T. Aw, thanks about my Cobain obit. David Foster Wallace told me he thought it was the best thing I've ever written, which is actually kind of insulting now that I think about it, ha ha. I know of Matt Kobensmith via the great Outpunk, and I probably met him back in the day at a Spew Festival or something, but I don't know him, no. His zine store seems to be fantastic based on its online representation. Everyone, if you live in SF, and courtesy of Trees, there's a zine store Goteblud that looks like a total must. Here's its blog and info. Hope your weekend thrilled, chilled, etc. you. ** Statictick, So, did you come back later? I'll find out when once I crawl downwards and into the future. If so, a sentence or two will likely follow this one. Well, you came back, but you didn't ask me anything. Whenever, man. Glad the music fest was mostly good and had a memorably weird incident. ' ... and the band played on', in Detroit, no less! ** Waiting for John, Well, I'm happy to hear about the baby step at least. If he was repulsed, surely he wouldn't take your thing in his mouth, or he would urp audibly once he had. I suspect that inexplicable erection is a spiral of other information. ** Paul Curran, Oh, man, that post and that audio bit of you singing or 'singing' at 16 is, well, priceless. Hold on. Everyone, I must insist that you trust my judgement long enough to click this link, let your eyes wander down Paul Curran's post aka 'LABORATORY ANIMALS', and then let your fingertip trigger the little audio clip imbedded at its base. You'll understand why I insisted. Jesus, Paul, that was nice! ** Tristam's Mum, I probably would be pleased, but I suppose I'll never really know. ** L@rstonovich, Dude, so utterly enjoy your 10 days off, like, so wildly and utterly! ** Killer Luka, He's got a kind of young Debbie Harry facial thing going on. On boys, a young DH head/face is a very good thing. What would he do if I stole that jewel, because I'm sorely tempted. Everyone, there's a new Killer Luka beauty in 'graphite on arches hotpress paper 15x22" up, and it's called 'Exorcism'. Oh, Gisele might direct an opera in Salzburg in 2012, and, if so, she's going to ask The Knife if they would create some of the music. ** 潘凱花潘凱花 , What happened to your name? It's so long today. ** Wolf, It seems that you were a hit, yes. No much question there. So very cool of you to translate Jonathan's text. He's been wanting me to read his writing for so long, and I've wanted to read it for just as long. Yes, it has occurred to me that I am one excessively lucky motherfucker to have earned such awesome human surroundings. I don't know why. It's excellently bizarre. ** Math, Oh, fuck, Math. Okay, yeah. That's really harsh. Like others said, I don't think it's that much about you except in a contextual way. You said before that he wants to make this big life and lifestyle change, and I would guess that in trying to stay close to you right now, he's feeling a pull in the other direction, and, via you, he's probably finding himself questioning his decision to change, and I guess that probably scares him so much that he feels like he needs to do something drastic to protect this new image and identity that he's trying to create for himself. That's not much help emotionally, but I'm very big on going as pragmatic as possible in terrible situations as a way to cope. But that doesn't get rid of the loss. In terms of coping and trying to maintain some semblance of the comfort and kinship you need right now, I'd think the only choice is to sort of subdivide your need to share what's going and use your other friends as a scatter of targets, try opening up to them and becoming closer to them, or to one of them if a particular friends proves to be very receptive and comforting. I mean, many if not all of your relationships are going to change to some degree now too. That kind of goes with the loss, and it's ultimately a really healthy if painful change on a grand scale. Maybe, as Alan suggested, restarting your online journal would help a bit. Talking about everything to your good friends here is an obvious option. Now that you don't have him, you might be surprised by what your other friendships can bring to you. There's no easy way forward, but, basically, I think you have choice but to see what and who you still have with you, test them, explore them anew, and also seek out new comradres, and so on. If you can do that, I think time will take care of the rest. Yeah, just keep talking and telling here, Math, and the greatest love to you. ** Alan, Hey, and thanks, Alan. ** Jaws, Thanks for talking to our buddy, and greetings. ** No more teenagekicks, Hosting was a deep honor, and thank you, man! Everyone, one of John Darnielle's answers got accidentally left out of the post this weekend, and if you want to read it -- and it's great, so you should -- you can find it about 3/4 way down the weekend's comments section under the classic screen name 'no more teenage kicks. Lots of love to you, Mark! ** Steevee, I can't remember how long the version I saw was. I don't think it was an 'X' either, but it was a pretty hard 'R'. Hope the cable repairman ends this long debacle of yours on Wednesday. ** _Black_Acrylic, Congrats on the happy conclusion to the Nine Trades project. It looks very good in the photos. Nice haircut, btw. Everyone, here's _Black_Acrylic: 'the Nine Trades project was put to bed this weekend with a big show at the DCA yesterday and a big evaluation and meal today. I gave a talk that was well received, and you were namechecked for the very kind feedback that you gave. It was all a bit strange as my project was so long ago that it all felt like revisiting a previous life or something. Anyway, a few photos are here and here. Thanks to you and the DC's blog anyway, the response was really welcome and inspiring x'. ** Misanthrope, Hey, G. Mm, my non-fiction hasn't been taught in schools as far as I know. I suppose something I wrote might have ended up on some reading list, but I have no idea. I didn't really hate 'Total Eclipse'. If I used that word, it was probably just to spar with you in fun. I think it's a very flawed film, but I think everyone involved tried their best, even LdC, even if I think he didn't understand Rimbaud in a very deep way at all -- an opinion bolstered by his 'bad ass' comment -- and I think if Holland hadn't needed a name like Leo to get her film made and could have cast any nobody she wanted, it might have been a different movie. Anyway, I did think the film was interesting, and, yeah, of course I emphasized the positive in the interview since my goal was to get him to talk about the experience. I was the interviewer, and my opinion wasn't of interest or importance to anyone in that context. ** Postitbreakup, Hey! Good to see you! Well, getting rational thoughts to control one's emotions isn't an easy thing for anyone. I have better luck at it because my emotions don't tend to shift around in a dramatic way for the most part. I don't know if, in your case, getting the right therapist would help a lot. I saw mine when my emotions were out of control, and she actually did manage to get me to figure what the meaning of that drama was, and I guess she just figured out how best to coax me into analyzing myself somehow. I had to solve the problem myself, though. She just nudged me. ** Inthemostpeculiarway, Your dinner doesn't sound so bad except for the stale part. Pics, pix, hm. I think it's optional. I wish I had more and better photos to show, but it was just so damned hot that I mostly couldn't be bothered. Yeah, we're all super happy about the response. Now, we'll start to see what comes out of that in terms of the important stuff like gigs and future funding and all that. The weather here is so incredibly nice right now, it's almost eerie. What a odyssey it took to get you guys to the aquarium. Knowing your heat situation, that was really kind of very painful sounding. That rain forest sounds really nice, though. There was a leopard in there with the penguins and birds and stuff? Do leopards not eat fowl? When we were putting together 'TIHYWD', we thought at one point we could shorten the last scene if the hawk and owl were onstage simultaneously, but the falconer said the hawk would kill the owl in about two seconds if it had the chance. So, they had separate dressings rooms and everything. Maybe your headaches are from the heat, no? I get bad heat headaches. I hope either your ear and head or both showed marked improvement today. I mean, it's gotta happen soon. My weekend: Saturday was basically a total wash. I was exhausted and out of it. I tried to work on my novel, couldn't. Thought about doing something or other, didn't. Bought food and cigarettes. That didn't take long, but since I didn't do anything else, it seems like that took all day. Let's pretend it did. In the evening, I called my best friend Joel, and we started figuring out his upcoming trip to Paris to visit me, so that was very nice. On Sunday, I tried to do the novel thing, and again it didn't get very far. I had a coffee with Oscar at the usual cafe in the Gare de l'Est, and we caught up and stuff. Very nice. We decided we should make our long desired trip to Parc Asterix, the big French theme park, now while the weather is so nice, so I think we're going to do that in the next couple of days. I called my pal and collaborator Ishmael Houston-Jones about his and d.l. Chris Cochrane's and my upcoming plans to rebuild/ remount our old theater/dance piece 'Them' (1983) in NYC, and it looks like it might just happen, even though our money situation isn't what we'd hoped. After that, Yury and Oscar and I went to see 'Toy Story 3' in 3D and VO (version original) at the UGC theater in Les Halles. I thought the movie was just totally fantastic, as great as everyone has been saying it is. Oscar seemed to agree. Yury doesn't like American animated films very much -- he's an anime guy -- but he said the 3D was great, and he liked some of the cleverer parts. We walked walked home 'cos of the sublime temperature. Then I guess I ate something for dinner, futzed around on the internet a bit, tried to kill this mosquito who's been living somewhere in the big mess on my desk, didn't, and went to bed. Here's hoping it's a wonderful Monday for you, you, you. ** Chilly Jay Chill, Hi, Jeff! Sorry about your internet woes. How's the theater piece, the novel? I'm definitely catching 'Inception' when it opens here this week. The only movie I've seen lately was 'Toy Story 3', which was awesome, as I said. I just haven't had any time at all lately due to the 'TIHYWD' stuff. I'm going to catch up as quickly as I can, though. ** Alec Niedenthal, Alec, old buddy! How terrific it truly is to see you! So, Baltimore sucks? I've only been there twice. I hardly remember it anymore. I remember its portrayal in John Waters' movies better than I remember it. Sorry the PG internship was a wash out. Hm, yeah, that sucks. Not enough to do, I'm guessing? You heading back to Florida again? I'm fine. I just finished doing the thing the post today depicts, and it was a big hit, so I'm happy. Trying to get back into the finishing novel in a regular, obsessive way. This and that, otherwise. Hope your last two weeks there either fly by or fill up with the unexpectedly affection worthy. ** Nb, What did you do on your birthday? If you said, and if I forgot, blame heat damage. Oh, your hotel is right behind the Vista? Awesome. My neighborhood! A maybe twenty minute walk away from my pad! When you live in LA, Hollywood's tourist hell is kind of charming 'cos it's kind of a trashy tourism. Sorry about the driving and parking. I wish I was there to show you the secret back routes. If you have a particularly stuffed route you always take, you can tell me what it is, and I can try to tell you the alternate(s). I hope it cooled down today so you can start hiking and beaching. Even with the hotness, I miss LA more with every ... fuck, I was just going to type 'breath you take'. Can hot weather give one brain damage? I think it can. ** 'Stoopid Slapped Puppies', Hi, Nick. No, I haven't read the email yet. I'm sorry. It's taking me a weirdly long time to wake up and get back into my groove. I will today. I just tied a string around my finger. I mean literally. I did. Actually, it's the cord I use to charge my iPhone. If that doesn't work, nothing will. ** Armando, Hey, man! Good to see you! Thanks a lot for all the kind words. Oh, actually, I said that I'd heard Mexico City was hellish. I've never been there. I have never been to Mexico apart from Baja. Pretty weird and inexplicable, really. I'd love to go to MC and have you show me around. 'Jerk' is coming there next year. Maybe I'll get to go along, who knows? How's your summer, work, and everything going, man? Lots of love to you. ** Okay, I'm going to spend the day trying yet again to regain my normal mental clarity and energies. I will see you tomorrow as expected and planned.
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