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p.s. Hey. Today, the photographer, musical daredevil, and long term d.l. Michael Karo uses his guest-hosting duties to spread charisma far and wide, and I thank him very warmly for the upgrade, and I hope you will too in the form of your respective comments. ** Allesfliest, When I was a kid, my mom's example of a dirty book that I should never ever read was 'Ulysses', of all weird things. That's why I read it originally, and I don't think I ever found the so-called dirty part, but then I started looking at hardcore porn really young, so every book's dirty part seemed no more than dusty until I found Sade. Of course, I'm totally game about your using Pilgarlic's dream. Totally. ** David Ehrenstein, Hey. Yeah, 'TRL' was huge for me re: 'MLT'. That's why I thanked Malick in the acknowledgements. There was an earlier 'TRL'? I didn't know that. Don't know Vecchiali's films, I don't think. I'll hunt him down pronto. Tonight's the official public premiere event for 'Homme au Bain', and I'll ask Christophe about Vecchiali if I get the chance. Thanks for the tip. And thanks for including Yury's and my dilemma in your fine FaBlog post. Everyone, over on his FaBlog, David E. talks about the immigration hell for gays with foreign partners, something I have obviously been dealing with for years, and I recommend you visit. ** David, Hey. Any progress on the scheduling front? ** Alan, Oh, right, I see. I imagine you're having to print out the mss. in order to do the intercutting. With mine, I'm trying to stick to my rule of working entirely with a keyboard and in a Word doc, and intercutting without a hard copy is proving to be pure hell. How are you going to lay it out visually? Is that too hard to explain? ** Pilgarlic, Your salon sounds quite fun. All those Southerners in one spot, yikes. If you're going talk freaks, you should have Katherine Dunn there. Not sure if she's originally from the South, but she know freakdom inside and out and can talk amazingly about that world. Ha ha, the weird thing about your dream, or rather one weird thing, is how well you got Peter and me down as folks without having done the real world thing with us. I mean, I shouldn't speak for Peter, but your dream made 'him' seem very him. Nice, man. Gosh, embarrassing, hardly. Did you see Allesfliest wants to use your dream in something? I'm game, if you are. ** Pisycaca, Ah, that's too bad. Sigh. Well, spring is just around the corner sort of, and now you can save your energy for Argentina. If Xet is near Versailles, that's quite a ways out there, but, yeah, obviously, I'd love to see him if he gets into Paris. You take care too, M-ster. ** Steevee, Awesome if your cold backs off during its preliminaries. Mine just won't leave me alone, and I'm pretty vexed. Obviously, hope the meds transition is as silky as possible. And that's fantastic news about your two gigs at the Tribeca Film Festival site! Word up when something appears, okay? There's a new Claire Denis film? ** Plexus, Hi, Gabrutatious. That Florida idiot is fading onto a Trivial Pursuit card if he's lucky even now. I'm still feeling kind of shitty. I'm kind of really over this feeling. No, I don't make outlines. I feel like if I wrote an outline, I wouldn't write the story. It would take the mystery out of writing it or something. I make lots of notes, but they're not really about the story. Oh, here's a post I did here a long time ago where I posted some notes I made when I was thinking about a novel I wanted to write. So, I do stuff like that, and I do make notes about what I want the characters to be like and act like and so on. But then when I'm writing something, I trust my instincts mostly. I just sort of draw a vague map for myself, and then I follow the trail when I want, and I go off course when I want, and I guess knowing where the predetermined trail is located helps me not go too far off course or something. I don't know. Do you make outlines? I think in general that 'making an outline' is one of those things you're told you're supposed to do, but you don't need to. The main thing for me is to just keep myself excited and obsessed with writing whatever that takes, I guess. Oh, I'm sorry you're feeling paranoid, my pal. Anything I can do at all to help? Love to you, G-man. ** Ken Baumann, Ken! Dude, missed you big time, and so happy to see you! I figured you were off doing some birthday and post-birthday stuff. Lake Powell! Oh, how I love Lake Powell too. I think I've mentioned how riding jet skis on Lake Powell is up there with my favorite things I've ever done. Glorious place. That whole area of the US is a knock out. Southern Utah and the northern edge of Arizona is just heaven. My perfect road trip. Anyway, awesome sounding trip and time away, and now you're 20/20 in the eyes department to boot? Superb. Oh, sure, I'm very happy to italicize that. Everyone, the extraordinary writer, actor, publisher, HTMLG dude, d.l., more d.l. Ken Baumann alerts us to two opportunities that I bless with all my might. First, Ken has published this amazing novel -- Christopher Higgs' 'The Complete Works of Marvin K. Mooney' -- which I've propped here in the past and which is one hundred percent guaranteed to be on my best novels of 2010 list. Anyway, you can sign up at Goodreads to win a free copy right here and, even more interestingly, over on the Marvin K. Mooney Society website, you can, for a limited time, order the book and receive 'an additional (and potentially personalized) book hand selected by Marvin K Mooney from his personal library' as a free bonus. Higgs' book really is one of the very best recent novels, imho, and thus I urge you to either try to win it or buy it via that twofer opportunity. Thank you! Sterling, Ken. Lots of love to you and to Aviva too. ** Chris Cochrane, Hey. I got the dates resolved last night finally, and I'll send them plus news, etc. to you guys today. Very excited too, man. ** Bill, Hey. Thanks for attending to the post. I really appreciate it. He was good in 'Apt Pupil', right? It's such a fucking shame that he was such an emotional mess. Like I'm sure I've said a bunch of times, Brad Renfro was the most glaringly troubled person I've ever interviewed. ** JW Veldhoen, Hey, John. Writing's moody. Let it find its way home. That Akashic book looks good, yeah. Everyone, JW Veldhoen just read and really liked this. ** Creative Massacre, Ah, the old 'give them a shitty opening band and we'll come off like gods trick', eh? Ha ha. ** Inthemostpeculiarway, Oh, hey. 'The Mangler?' No, I don't think so. Englund is usually work a peek if nothing else. No, Yury didn't cut my hair, so now I have to go the Premiere tonight all shaggy, grr. I've only been in one Cracker Barrel when I was in Georgia the last time. I didn't think it'd be all themed-out and faux-Disney like that. I mean, I thought it would be just like a Denny's Coffee Shop or something. I think I remember liking it. I haven't watched the VMAs yet if I ever will. I saw a bit of the Taylor Swift and Kanye numbers. Oh, whatever, snore. And the Lady Gaga meat dress just seemed like too desperately outrageous or something. But she always seems like she's trying way too hard to me. Oh, I'm sure your new reviews are terrific. Shut your inner demon's foul mouth right now. My last few days were really not much. I just worked on my novel all day when I wasn't doing the p.s. or smoking or something. I can't remember anything. Was there anything? Uh, I'm just in work mode. Some new internet hogging person seems to have moved into the Recollets because the internet is a barely negotiable sludge these last few days. I think that boy at the Monop really did quit his job this time, which is vaguely sad. I talked to a few friends. Really boring. Last night I decided to make myself pasta, and I made way too much, and I ate it all, and then I fell on the couch and watched things I can't remember on TV and groaned all evening. And then I slept really badly. Terrible days report, I know. I'll try to do something controversial today or something. How was Tuesday? ** Bollo, Hey, man. Hope Galway was fun. Why were you there? Hope 'Jerk' held up on second viewing. Be well. ** Misanthrope, Maybe Justin Bieber is secretly really super intelligent and a total experimental fiction bookworm or whatever. He could be. It's not the media would report that if he was. Cool about your niece's writerly progress. You never know. I wrote like shit until I was in my thirties or something. I noticed on FB that Little Show 'likes' Lil' Wayne. That's some kind of good sign of something, right? ** Okay, bye. Be with Michael Karo and his cam friends now. It's tomorrow for us.
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