'Them', pre-show
'Them' in performance by Ian Douglas
* Very short live vidclip
* Promo video for the PS122 Fall 2010 Season feat. short excerpts from the 1986 production of 'Them'
'Them' portraits by Michael Hart
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The performers
Joey
Arturo
Jacob
Enrico
Niall
Jeremy
Felix
Chris (w/ Kato Hideki)
Ishmael
Where I stayed
Some d.l.s
Blood Manor
No more teenagekicks, Alan, Nb @ Blood Manor
Rafael, Misanthrope, No more teenagekicks @ Blood Manor
Nb, Misanthrope @ Blood Manor
Ian, Laurabeth, Frank Jaffe, NB post 'Them'
The Evil Ghost of JW Veldhoen post 'Them'
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p.s. Hey. For whatever reason, I rarely pulled out my camera while I was in NYC, so that's kind of a skimpy slideshow, but I thought I'd show you what I did capture just to temporarily close the chapter on my visit and on that run of 'Them' shows. Speaking of which, I have an alert for those of you who are in or around NYC: Tomorrow night, November 5th, the musician, composer, d.l., and the man responsible for 'Them's' music, Mr. Chris Cochrane, will be performing two sets at Roulette. The first set will consist of excerpts from the 'Them' score and solo works, and the second set will consist of Chris performing with an ensemble. Anyone who saw 'Them' knows how incredible Chris's music is, and, if you didn't catch the performance, accept my guarantee. Info on the gig can be found here. I urge you to try and make it. ** Magick Mike, Hey, Mike! Good to see you, man. Yes, I knew full well that the 'Gabe' thing had nothing to do with the person you're describing. Tony Duvert is a great writer and thinker, for sure, but what people were up in arms about didn't have to do with Duvert's notions and ideas of childrens' rights and sexuality and so on, or not specifically at least. The comment that set people off was kind of the veritable straw that broke the camel's back, and I think it's probably difficult to understand the incident without knowing or following the back story. What's up with me? Finishing my novel is about 90% of me right now, a bit of jetlag, and this and that. What about you and yours? Thanks for coming in, man. It's really good to have you here. ** Empty Frame, Hey. A post, a blizzard of webpages? Sounds great to me. Very much appreciated. Good God, man, that was a true horror story. I was only sipping Green Tea at the time, so I'm okay, or as okay as a recipient of that story -- and a, uh, beautifully rendered one, might I say -- could be. Well, yes, thank you, sir. And I will now go smoke a cigarette before I continue. ** David Ehrenstein, Yesterday was wonderful, and I thank you from the bottom of my heart. That brouhaha about Godard getting an Oscar and his supposed anti-Semitism is insane. I hadn't heard about that. That's just ... ugh. Everyone, very interesting FaBlog by Mr. E on a trumped up controversy re: Jean-Luc Godard's being awarded an Oscar is here and well worth reading. ** Sypha, Gosh, I learned so much about the asses of people here yesterday. The silver lining? Maybe not, ha ha. ** Kiddiepunk, No, you rock! It's been proven. Let's coffee up together or something later, what do you say? ** FreeFox, Hi. If it helps, apart from your reading books on creative writing by the writerly and famous, you could have been voicing the tormented thoughts I have all the time. Last week, even. Maybe you should lay off those writer advice books. Maybe that's what makes the difference. I've always found that reading fiction that excites me and thereby getting excited about prose itself is much more instructive. But, yeah, the suffering, the questions, ... they're ongoing, although they do get more occasional and maybe easier to reject the longer you've been at it and the more your writing goes public such that you have the props of strangers to give your self-incriminations a run for their money. You'll get that chapter sorted out. I've got a chapter that's driving me insane too, and I'll get it sorted out. Yeah, last night I was pretty sure I was coming down with flu. Today, I'm less convinced of that. But Parisians are dropping all around me. ** Wolf, Hey. Oh, I probably did misunderstand what you said. Yesterday was a weird day. But now I understand. Yep. Well, sure, different experiences with 'EtV', natural and A-okay and all that other good stuff. Thanks for your great thoughts on the WD thing and the issue at hand, pal. ** Dandysweets, Hey, Ida. Thanks? For what? Whatever warranted your thanks, I'm happy to have done. You good? Oh, I saw an email from you, and I'm behind, but I'll get to it today. ** Sweettomb, Hey, Trinie! Yeah, sucks we missed each other in NYC. I always think I'm going to have much more free time there than I end up having, but I hope I'll get to see you soon in LA or there. Odds are, it seems. Awesome news about you completing the new collection of short fiction. Where are you sending it, or do you still have that agent? Anyway, that's very exciting, T! I can't wait to get the chance to devour it. You be well too. ** A.r. Alex! Oh, man, gosh, thank you. I think everyone here gets a huge amount of credit for the value of this place. But, you know, thank you, man. Great news about Killer Luka's NYC show. No doubt your support there had a big impact on that. In other words, it's you who fucking rock and rule. Things good? You ever going to get back over here to Paris? Love, me. ** _Black_Acylic, Hi, Ben. A Day on Alan Clarke is a terrific idea. In fact, I'll get on putting that together today. Thanks a lot, man. ** Handmade. seaweed. soap, Hey. Well, hm, I looked in here yesterday, and there was a long comment from you, and now it has vanished, and, knowing how Blogger sometimes just eats posts for no apparent reason at all, I'll take the chance and greet you and thank you for coming in. The comment being absent, I can't speak to the specifics of what you wrote, but I do remember you saying you might join in here, which would be great. Take care. ** Steevee, Oh, man, yeah, that's an irksome nail biter. I hope he gets back to you in the nick of time. ** MANCY, Hey. I'll be writing to you today. ** Heliotrope, Hi, Mark. Yeah, I was relieved by the California portion of the election, although the defeat of the marijuana initiative was pretty disappointing, I must say. Trippy about the Nilsson dream. I could really picture that, knowing your pool. It and the bathrobed N. are a custom made fit. Thanks for filling Steevee in about the Verlaines. I'd told him in NYC that he should query you with all his Verlaines related questions, and voila. Thanks for the kind words re: the thing yesterday. I'm just trying to figure it out as I go, you know. Love to you and the J-bird, big time. ** Paul Curran, Sounds really good, Paul. Those paragraphs of yours are making my mouth water. My editor would like my finished novel in about five weeks from now, and so my goal is to get it finished by then. Jetlag has slowed me down a bit, but I'm hoping to forge along at a decent pace starting today. I'm polishing the thing into a next-to-final draft that I hope will become finalized with a quick follow-up read-through and fiddle. Although the last chapter is still rough, and that's the novel's problem child, and we'll just have to see how out of shape it is once I get there. Thanks for asking, man. ** Polter, Hey. Man, I'm really liking the new writings on your blog a lot. In general, and that line 'My skeleton is at its birth. Can almost hear it sing, it has been waiting for ages' really knocked me out too. Everyone, Polter has a blog where he posts his writings, and, if you haven't checked it out yet, please do, because the writing is just totally terrific. It's here. Your day sounds a lot like my yesterday, without the school stuff, obviously, but I'm jetlagged. Maybe you have, I don't know, jetlag of the soul, not that there's a soul or anything necessarily. What are the courses you're taking? Is that interesting to talk about? I'm okay, apart from jetlag and this nagging lower back pain I think I got from extended plane traveling or something. I'm trying to rouse myself to work on my novel mostly. Maybe that's working. Anyway, hey. ** The Evil Ghost of JW Veldhoen, Of course you can mention this place in your apps, In any way, shape, or form you like, and I'll back you up if they need to come to me. Great if L. Weeks has something lined up for her book. I'm not surprised by that. There are a small ton of us who've been waiting and dying to read her novel for forever. I don't know if O/R books are distributed in Canada. It might say on the press' website, but you've probably checked there already. Certainly their books can be shipped to Canada. You could buy them via Powells or any other great indie book/site, I'm sure. I think there already was a band called Fags, but I think they broke up. I don't really want to go into how the Plexus thing was unveiled to me, and there isn't much to tell in any case. I'm just ready to let it go and move on.** Blake Wood, Hey. Oh, totally guilty as charged. There always seems to be a big disconnect between what I want/ plan to do and what I seem to be able to do. It's my tendency to get distracted or my flakiness or bouts of reclusiveness or I don't know what. I apologize. It's nothing personal whatsoever, but that doesn't excuse it. You cut off your hair? Really? Wow. ** Andrew, Great that you're writing. Fiction, essays, whatever else. The form it takes isn't that important. ** Nb, Hey, N. Thank you. Oh, I'll write back to you today. I've been zonked. ** Will Decker, Hey. Thanks for coming back and for your kind words about the Plexus thing. I know nothing about Evolutionary Psychology, and I will look into it so I can understand or try to. I don't believe we're all hardwired with pedophilia in us, though. Not all. I'm not, and that negates the 'we are all' at least a little. Let me pass along your tip on the Larry Clark show, and I look forward to checking it out a little later. Everyone, courtesy of Will Decker, here's a heavily illustrated think-piece on Larry Clark's current retrospective at the Musee de Ville de Paris by Bernard Alapetite, and it looks pretty interesting at first glance, so check it out, if you like. Take care of yourself. ** Catachrestic, Hey, J. I've heard of that Throbbing Gristle gig, but I've never seen that video. I guess it's probably not on youtube or vimeo or wherever, but I'll check to make sure. It's still getting up to 95 degrees there? That's a little odd, spooky, ... something, Usually, the heat goes into hiding after Halloween. A coincidence, I'm sure. The defogging Paris is what you'd expect circa early November: gray, chilly-ish but not cold, ... I can't complain. Are you writing at all? I'm not reading anything at the moment. Novel completion is the totality of my life with as few interruptions as possible. I'm partway through a whole bunch of books: Guyotat's 'Coma', the new Duvert, the forthcoming Blake Butler and Justin Taylor novels, ... and a few other things. Yeah, 'La Medusa' is pretty stylistically and structurally impressive. Okay, off I go. ** Misanthrope, Really? You might head back here sooner than not? I'll hope for earlyish 2011. 'TIHYWD' is here in early April, if you need a target and would consider that to be one. PS122 is way into 'Them' coming back. It's up to other forces. It would happen at this place called Dance Theater Workshop, if it does. ** Jeff, Hi, Jeff. It's great to see you. Nice dream indeed, it sounds like. I'd love to have one of those. I don't know 'White Ring', but I'll go overhear it. Thanks, Jeff. How is everything else with you? ** Slatted Light, Hi, David! Sure, we can talk re: the Plexus thing over Skype. Say the word. I'm pretty much around all the time right now. Well, I agree in very great part with what you said about the Will thing and pedophilia and the rest. I can't add anything that would improve on your comment, so, yeah. Thank you, D. Everyone, Slatted Light had what I think are some brilliant thoughts about the recent eruption here re: pedophilia and Will Decker, and they take the form of two or maybe three comments near the bottom of yesterday's comments section, if you're interested. ** Postitbreakup, Hey. Thanks for giving your honest and heartfelt response. For my part, I don't have a problem with someone who self-identifies as a pedophile being here. Well, obviously not, since Will has been in and out of the community with my blessing for a couple of years. The fact that Will, for instance, has grandchildren and cares about them and visits them is only a positive thing to me. Generalizing about pedophiles and reducing them to stereotypes is the negative thing to me. It negates understanding. Granted, one would need to have been here a while, but Will spoke of his arrest and all of that here a couple of years ago. There are a lot of different kinds of people here whose philosophies and politics and beliefs are all over the place. I really like that such a diverse group of people seem to be able to find common ground here, agree on things or not, get to know each other, discuss whatever the blog and comments occasion, etc. My only issue with Will is his inability to just be here without being continually promotive and coercive about his agenda regarding his pedophilia. And I greatly dislike it when he projects his thing onto people here, i.e. that 'everyone is hardwired with pedophilia' statement, which I personally think is absurd and, in any case, is very disrespectful of the autonomy of the people here. Things like that show a lack of understanding of the spirit and nature of this place, and it results in the feeling that he uses this place to try to recruit people into sharing his particular beliefs rather than looking to the blog as a place to learn things or trade ideas or share interests or meet people and learn from them. That is/was the big problem to me. ** Little foal, Hey. Your description of those red things was so pretty that I don't even care that they're not lights. You sound like you're getting a crush on the backpack, no? It's only right. I saw your email, but I haven't open it yet. New email address, gotcha. New blog, ooh, exciting. Nice name. Everyone, the great little foal has a new blog, and there's already some lustrous writing and pix there, so check it out and, even more importantly, bookmark it. Keep filling that thing post-haste or, well, when you find the time. Thanks, Darren, and catch you right away. ** Okay, give my little slideshow whatever amount of attention you think it deserves, and I will see you again, yes, tomorrow.
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