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p.s. Hey. Uh, yeah. I can't think of anything. I think I'll let you guys wake me up. ** 'Stoopid Slapped Puppies', Hey, Nick! '4 Cats': I've heard of that. There's some amusing anecdotal story about the name that I can't remember. Beyond 'the owner had four cats'. Anyway, I'll eat there if I go. One of these days, you need to come visit Paris. It's full lustrously haunted cafes and dives and stuff. 'Kissing in the Dark' is off to a really gorgeous start, if you ask me. Now that you're in Spain, do you find yourself building yourself a different soundtrack? ** Killer Luka, You just talked to Jaco Pastorius? Cool. Wow, so, how did you get such a super-intelligent aesthete mom? I'm mega-impressed and, you know, proud. ** David, They're pretty much great cinema whichever way you look. ** Bernard Welt, I'm with you on 'Hair'. I saw it when it was new and when I was the perfect age to swallow it. I saw the film. I saw some supposedly genius revival some years ago. I found it nonstop unbearable. Oh, well. ** Edward Cole, Hi, Edward! Good to see you! As David E. said, Van Sant acknowledges the influence of Clarke's film, and I think the DVD of his 'Elephant' includes the Clarke short film among its extras, although I might be wrong about that. How are you doing? ** Tonyoneill, Tony, sir. So, are you anti-text messaging or are you just fond of your old phone? If it's the former, do you also dislike chatting? Man, I hate chatting. Whenever I log onto Facebook, the windows start popping up at the bottom of the page, and it's like a minefield. I definitely want to read the Keith Richards bio, yeah. It's on my Shakespeare & Co. list. Charlie Watts was always my favorite Stone just for his laconic grin alone. ** David Ehrenstein, Thanks about the Clarke post, pal. 'A ripe bastard': I love that. ** Pilgarlic, Really? You too? I mean, going for the second Monkees album first? That's odd and cool. Valerie Perrine, wow. When's the last time that name was seen in print? A childhood friend and I turned his parents' gardener's toolshed into a quasi-Playboy mansion sans Bunnies and papered the walls with Playboy pages. The pages I taped up were always shots of women from the rear. Gee, I wonder if my imagination was trying to tell me something, ha ha. "The Moon', okay, I will. ** Alan, Hey, Big thanks for the link to the Noe/ Korine interview. Everyone, courtesy of Alan, here's a link to a 'Sight and Sound' interview with two of the greatest greats of contemporary film aka Harmony Korine and Gaspar Noe. Dig in, if you like. Seeing as how I can't stand honey, weirdly, I'm sure I said they go down like some word that sounded like honey. Uh, like an army of Huns? No. Like money! That must have been it! ** L@rstonovich, Holy shit, I'm finally going to get to see Trumans Water? And at L'international, which is a nice venue. I'm there. Gracias, bud. I will tell John Waters that, and he'll get a whole comedy routine out of it, you just watch. ** Patrick deWitt, Oh, right, you're still busy with the late stage stuff re: your book. That makes sense. I was going to ask you again when the book comes out, but I can and will check Amazon. Can not wait! My novel is inching to its conclusion. Maybe even within the next couple of weeks if I can stay a hermit and the caffeine keeps cooperating. Take care, Patrick. ** Dandysweets, Hey. Oh, I thought The Monkees were totally awesome live. They played their own instruments and everything. Even though I had nothing to compare their show to back then, I still think I was right. And it was at the scenic, stately Hollywood Bowl. And it would have been quite the concert if Jimi Hendrix, who was touring with The Monkees as their opening act, hadn't bailed on the tour before it reached LA. Instead, the opening act was Helen Reddy. How curious that you mention Knud Odde. Years ago, he sent me the 'Sort Sol' box set. It's in my LA apartment. I remember really liking it. Anyway, yeah, for sure, if you want to do a day on Mr. Odde, I'd be thrilled. I'd love to know more about what he does. Interesting about the show of Bob Dylan's paintings. I'll see what there is to see on the websites. Thanks! Everyone, courtesy of Dandysweets, if anyone out there is or will be in Copenhagen between now and January 30th, there's an exhibition of Bob Dylan's paintings there that she highly recommends. Info and/or images are here and here. ** Steevee, Nice news about Mary Ann's. When I walked by it, it was packed, so closing did seem strange. Oh, I heard 'Fuck You'. Pretty incredibly catchy, yeah. Fantastic and thanks re: the link. I'll devour that later. Everyone, the eminent critic, filmmaker, and d.l. Steevee recently interviewed the great French film director Claire Denis and the ultra-great French actress Isabelle Huppert, and you can read said interview very easily by clicking this. ** Chilly Jay Chill, Hey. When I was putting the post together, I didn't see any clips from 'Christine'. Hence, its absence. No, I haven't seen it. But a kind person yesterday offered links to full versions on youtube of some of Clarke's films, 'Christine' among them. So, check the links down below. Btw, I made an initial search for stuff for a possible Anna Kavan Day yesterday, and there really isn't much I can use out there. Strange. I'm going to give it another shot, though. Sounds really interesting about the play's particular use of the 'Blue Movie' text. I used to own a Grove Press/Back Cat paperback book that housed the movie's 'script' and some pictures. Maybe you have that and are working from it? ** _Black_Acrylic, Glad you thought the Clarke do was okay. You're finally off to Leeds. Enjoy fully, and check in when you can. ** Zeebeezee, Hey, welcome to here, and thank you very much for the links. That's very kind of you, and it's greatly appreciated. Please feel free to hang out here any time, of course. Everyone, courtesy of a very generous newbie named zeebeezee, here are links to full length versions of four of Alan Clarke's films, including two that weren't referenced yesterday, if you're interested: Penda's Fen, Contact, Christine, and Road. ** Allesfliesst, Yeah, I knew there was something missing from Alan Clarke's films, and nailed it: assplay. 4000 books! You're one literate trooper, man. Wow, you really don't like carrying, do you? So how do you keep your girlish figure, if you have one? I've only ever seen you postage stamp-sized from the neck up. Speaking of which, are you ever going to visit Paris? ** JoeM, Hey. I'm a Mike Leigh fan too. I'd put 'Topsy Turvy' in the genius camp. And 'Naked' and 'Secrets and Lies' too, actually. Here's my favorite Monkees song. ** Ken Baumann, Hey, Ken! It was my honest to god greatest pleasure, my friend. ** Kier, Hey, K. Oh, wait, why did I have it my head that you'd moved to Oslo? Sorry. Some kind of memory crisscrossing going on there. You did move somewhere, right? Yury has a slow metabolism too. In winter or really whenever there's a chilly or rainy day whatever the time of year, he nods off. What's going on in art therapy these days? Is it interesting? I like autumn a lot too, but it's been raining here almost nonstop for days, and it's supposed to keep raining nonstop until Tuesday, which is good for my novel writing dedication, I guess. Me, I'm okay. I'm a novel finishing machine. Really, like, that's all I am right now. There's nothing else. It's okay. But I can not wait to finish it and be free again to do and think whatever I wish. ** Andrew, Hey. It definitely wasn't the same Rick Owens. The soldiers-on-horses were very, I don't know, mall-worthy, and I don't think he'd show his work in a tiny, off the beaten track storefront. Uh, I don't know the answer to your question. Everyone, Andrew has a question: 'Is Alan Clarke's version of SCUM the one with the Dad from Shameless? -a UK'er will probably have to answer that one. His name is David Therall or something, appearently his US equivalent is William H. Macy.' Thoughts? Well, your post is still a mystery to me unless I'm being dense, which I kind of am right now. ** Statictick, That all sounds splendid about the new or newish beau. Hats off, fingers crossed, ear to the ground, and all that. I got an email from Ian maybe a year ago. He seemed to be doing okay. I, of course, being allergic to email, never wrote him back. Maybe it's not too late. Yeah, just track him down, man. That's what I say. ** Sypha, I wouldn't know the first thing about tying up a suspenseful story. Not liking plot and not knowing how to make plots has its up side. Sure, it's a big honor to mentioned alongside Genet and Bataille and et. al., but it also gets kind of tiresome 'cos it's basically just the sound of someone taking a mental shortcut. A guy carrying around 'A Separate Peace' wouldn't dissuade me in the slightest. You've got to start somewhere. Anyway, odds are that he was assigned it. ** Steven Trull, Gosh, I would think that would give them a lot to think about after they're dead. Sure, people kill one person and stop all the time. Dead people are like drugs. Mm, I think I've seen two dead bodies. An old dead guy on a bus in Peru who got accidentally dumped in my lap and a dead jogger 'sleeping' on a bench in NYC. You? ** Inthemostpeculiarway, I just read about that thing where they're going to put skeletons and black lungs and other scary stuff on American cigarette packs. Seems like that will only encourage young people to smoke. I don't get the angle. Do they think people will be embarrassed to pull out cigarette packs that look like that? That doesn't make any sense. If hair is nice and soft and smells good, it deserves to live. That's my policy. Is that true that you lose 600 calories while on your period? I mean, their periods? Hm, okay. Your Mexican restaurant story made me so hungry. Even the crazy weirdo guy didn't put me off. Giger ... sure. I like him. I mostly just know his obvious stuff though. Should I investigate him more carefully? My day: I'm going to consolidate the best of my last two days into one because my life's kind of boring right now. Novel work, of course. I'm into the fifth chapter now. It's going okay. I got my narrator through his brother's murder, his father's death, the discovery of previously unknown secret passages in his childhood home, a meeting with his father's lawyer about the Dad's estate, the discovery of a previously unknown and seemingly bizarre chateau among his father's holdings, and now he's staring into space and thinking/talking in his irritating but hopefully engaging manner. I was called into a meeting about theater stuff, but it wasn't very important, and I don't know I was called in. I looked at some art with Oscar. We saw a show of new Robert Irwin light sculptures (kind of nice), a show of new Jenny Holzer work (seriously awful paintings, very typical led light display things), a show of work by d.l. Tosh's dad Wallace Berman (really beautiful, perfectly installed), and, uh, I forget what else. It rained a whole lot, especially yesterday. Mostly novel work, really. And eating nothing unusual and smoking the normal amount. The End. I'll let you know how Friday goes, and how was yours? ** Misanthrope, Tennis, that's good. But build up to it 'cos it's mega-strenuous. Too strenuous for me, at least. Dude, when I was your age, and if you'd known me then, you wouldn't have thought I had much to show for my dropping out. Your blog gives off the best search terms. Mine are probably all, like, 'nice guy' and 'JoeM is at it again' and 'thinks he's French'. ** Postitbreakup, You need a hippie therapist. Some therapist who thinks 'Hair' is a great musical. No, I don't know. I guess therapists prefer the minds they work with to be as clear as possible, right? It makes sense, I guess. For me, if the pot smoking works, the pot smoking works. Which is why I run a blog and not a doctor's office. I think he should have said to you, 'I can't work with you until you stop reading Jonathan Franzen's 'Freedom',' ha ha. ** Oliver, Hi, Oliver! Good to see you! I don't know Nick Lowe's remake of 'The Firm', and, thanks to you, I won't. It's tempting though. Hey, I'm trying to get a read from people I respect who love video games about this Kinect thing? Do you know anything? Heard anything reliable? Thanks, man! ** Slatted Light, I actually found a copy of that book for sale online yesterday for $1. Whoo-hoo! Plus shipping. Still, I snagged it. Alyson Books is supposedly going to turn into an eBook only venture. Personally, I think it's dead. The question is whether Don Weise, who headed up its latest incarnation, will be publishing the books he acquired there through his new imprint Magnus. I don't know. If he can, and if he is the bright guy I think, I would hope Kevin's and Laurie's novels have followed him to the new press. I haven't anything at all from him about 'The Weaklings', so I assume it's homeless. If so, I'll get my agent to try to find it a new home once I finish my novel. Thanks, bud, and enjoy the Marx fest. ** Okay. I find contemporary Russia so bleakly fascinating. Hence, this post. See what you think. See you tomorrow too.
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