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p.s. Hey. Some lovely strangeness and enigmatic motions and very fine lines for you today from the superb photographer and d.l. Toniok. I'm virtually certain you'll enjoy it, but don't forget to pass on your thoughts and regards to your guest-host, if you don't mind. Thank you a lot, Tk. It's Wednesday aka cleaning/exile day here at the Recollets, and, as I've gotten a delayed start, the p.s. is doomed to show up late and with a big hole in the middle on my end. Sorry. Thus, let's go ... ** David Ehrenstein, Deneuvre stars in the brand new Ozon film, and from the promos I've seen, it looks to be a pretty sparkling and giddy movie. Oh, I was only going to set the 'MiB' unit to erase the previous, oh, day. I wouldn't stanch those great memories of yours, trust me. ** Bernard Welt, I think I already mentioned this, and it isn't all that interesting, but one of the main stars of that Busch play is my pal John Walker, who was in the original production of 'Them', and was also the star of one of the all-time shortest lived broadcast TV sitcoms, 'Scorch', among other things. Serious envy on your getting to see the Pee-wee show. And Veselka, yum. Really glad the trip was so well packed. I know the answer to your $300 question, but my lips are ... sealed. ** Alan, Well, it was a compliment, man. Just because I don't have a great personal feel for Kafka thus far doesn't mean I don't respect his work. Besides, as I mentioned, a whole lot of my very favorite writers are deeply indebted to Kafka -- incl. Blanchot, for goodness sake -- and when I said that 'made sense', I was no doubt thinking of the work of writers whom I love and who have been heavily influenced by Kafka and drawing a comparison via them. ** Pilgarlic, One of the earliest concerts I ever saw was the Cowsills. I had a crush on one of them. Name escapes me. The Shirley I kind of vaguely knew pretty well would have answered your burning question over drinks at least. Glad you liked the Zurn, man. ** Matt Cassidy, Your band sounds like a very interesting amalgamation. I'll go listen to some tracks when I'm post-exile. Everyone, want to hear two songs by the band (The Blackout Orchestra) co-run the splendid writer, musician, and d.l. Matt Cassidy? I would certainly imagine that you do. They're here. Go for it. Thanks, Matt. ** Sypha, Ha ha, your fallow period would be anyone else's productive burst. Never read Whitley Streiber. Weird. 'Communion' would be the place to start, I imagine. ** Toniok, Hey. Thanks so much in relative person for the glories of today's post. Deep bow. And thanks for liking the Zurn work or rather for saying so, I guess. ** Bill, Yeah, I'm still regretting having missed that Zurn show at the Drawing Center. I'd hoped it would wind up here somewhere, but not so far. The Pompidou has a bunch of her drawings that they display with some frequency at least. ** Killer Luka, First, I say definitely go for the three week show in June. Summer shows have this kind of stigma around them, and a lot of the powers that be tend to miss them, so I say one less week in June is greatly preferable to the slot in July. If you have to tell your mom that Kevin is going to be okay to keep her reading, you have my permission. If that's what your beloved website was all about, there are videos just like those all over the internet that are as free as a bird. ** Tender prey, Hi, Marc. Thanks about the Zurn work/ post, and, yeah, completely about the fascination around the Surrealists' psycho-sexual preoccupations and trysts, and Zurn might be the most interesting, telling artist in the sense of being an example. Oh, you read 'Aminadab', excellent. I agree with your assessment completely. So, once you settle in Brighton, will you shuttle to London and back for Five Years stuff, etc.? Are you keeping your London studio? I do remember Brighton being a pretty easy, shortish distance from London. Re: Esther, I just saw an email from her, and I'll check it. I hope it can work out. That would be amazing. I'm not certain if it can work out yet, but I'll confer with her further. ** Oscar B, Sounds good about the shows. Let me just try to get enough work done early in the day to feel like I can split. In any case, let's confer and make a plan shortly. Cool about the curator's visit. I want to hear more about that. ** Steven Trull, Well, that was a Trullian comment if there ever was one. Uh, if your question was serious, in terms of live-together boyfriends, no. Shorter term, sure. ** Roithamer, Hey, welcome, and it's a pleasure to have you here. Your question is going to take some brain time to answer in any kind of comprehensive way. I'll have a think. Of the top of my head, Kathy Acker is an obvious one as she was both influenced by Robbe-Grillet and Duras and used cut-ups of their work. Tom McCarthy, but the influence there is more in terms of form than content. Paul Auster is very influenced by the N-R, but I don't like his work at all, so I can't recommend him. I'm sure I can come up with a lot more suggestions. Let me sleep on it. Anyway, good to have to have here, and I hope you'll stick around whenever and if you like. ** _Black_Acrylic, You were one of the people who suggested a Unica Zurn post, I think. Glad it was okay. Awesome about the DVDs and possible post. Safe trip to Leeds if you're on your way or there. ** Heliotrope, Hi, Mark. Her second PhD. Good Lord. And yet, why the hell not? You're a good bro. I love editing people's stuff myself, although dissertations must have all kinds of crazy or rather non-crazy rules. Yeah, grant writing, why not? Too late? Why? Anyway, here's some love for Jules, and here's some love for you. ** Exile happened here. ** Steevee, Yeah, patience would seem to be in order where the actor's response is concerned. Good luck, man. ** Paul Curran, No, nothing to worry about re: the time thing. You'll know when it's ready for the final push. ** Shannon, Hey, Shannon! I'm so glad the post made you happy. Hope you're doing great. ** JoeM, Hey, Joe. Oh, 'Manhattan', sure, of course. A bunch of Woody Allen films, I guess. 'Zelig'. ** Chilly Jay Chill, Hi, Jeff! Oh, that's not a strange recommendation at all. Not to me. Never have heard a word about the place before, not even from John Waters. My novel is in its final plunge. It's now or never. I'm the final sprint, I guess. ** Andrew, Well, you know I'm all 'buy a Mac, spend the extra dough, it's so worth it'. I'm eyeing that new MacAir, but it might be a little too out of my price range. ** Nb, Hoping, assuming that headache is twinkling in your memory banks. ** Slatted Light, Oh, right, I forgot that Jared wrote his thesis on Zurn. Silly me. Really, the horror book isn't as far along as you'd hoped? Are you sure? In any case, I say keep at it. Don't let its grip slip away. For our sake. ** Inthemostpeculiarway, Haven't found 'The Walking Dead' yet, but there are crannies still left to scan. Wait, an actual real honest-to-god horror film by Coppola? I hope he doesn't tart it up. That's Sarah Brightman? I only know her as the 'Phantom of the Opera' damsel. Hm. Well, I'll say honestly that I don't like the visual stuff and her Shakira's mom look. It kind of scared me. Soundwise, it reminds me a little of that old Malcom McLaren album 'Fans' where he mixed opera and beats. I guess this was my song of yesterday since it was in my head all day, and it's maybe my favorite Tricky track. Okay, my day was nothing much at all, sorry. I worked on the novel a long time. It went well, but it was nothing fancy. There's a bunch of stuff going on with my dad's estate right now, and I dealt with some of that. Dazed & Confused Magazine wants to do this big article/piece that would be a conversation between Bradford Cox of Deerhunter and me, and they wrote me to ask if I'd be into doing that, and said sure, and so that might happen in a week or two. I think Gisele and crew got back from the Japanese 'TIHYWD' tour, but I haven't heard from her yet. It rained non-stop all day. I went out and bought cigarettes, which just went up in price 6%, urgh. I ate what I always eat. I think that's kind of the whole story, I'm afraid. I might go out and do something fun later today, so maybe I'll be more interesting tomorrow. And your Wednesday was ... ? ** Ken Baumann, I liked '28 Days Later' a lot until they went to that military camp/ mansion place. Oh, I kind of liked 'Sunshine', I think. All so very excellent on the 'Solip' front. Yum, I might say. And you sound jazzed, which is just awesome. ** Catachrestic, Yeah, I forgot about your close ties to Zurn's work. Very cool. Oh, I would totally love to have those early post-schizoid works, and, yeah, that's exactly what I would do: set up a blog for them like I did with the Duvert translations, and do a post of excerpts with a link. That would be great, if you don't mind. Thanks a lot, Jared. ** Paradigm, Hey, Scott. Well, I very often think if not know that my conceptual ideas are bigger than my skills, and I kind of like it that way. It's a way to always keep evolving and hopefully improving, plus sorting out ideas via sorting out a way to represent them is a really interesting way to learn things in and of itself. So, in other words, don't let a perceived lack of skills stop you. Who was it that said artists' originality derives from the stress put upon their work by their limitations? Somebody said that. Southeast Asia trip: that does sound great. As does this sci-fi type book. A novel? Anything else you can say about it? ** The Dreadful Flying Glove, Cool, very glad she got to you. A mean bastard way with a C#m7? You're hired. Or, ahem, let's work together. Thanks for keeping my little tomes close. Gosh, thanks. ** Misanthrope, PhD thesis, meh. I mean, unless someone gets pleasure out of such things, of course. That Little Show is a card. Dude, this bad sleep stuff: (1) see a doctor, (2) get some exercise, man. Wtf?! Daily air guitar sessions. Or I'm sure Richard Simmons would be happy to help. Jane Fonda, ... all sorts of people. ** Little foal, I couldn't get that picture to load. It's probably my ultra-shitty internet connection. I'll keep refreshing as I continue to type. Wait, there it is. What an amazing picture. Everyone, courtesy of the masterful little foal, click this, which leads you to a picture of, and here I quote l.f., a boy who 'got labelled in his yearbook 'most likely to be seen in space'. he was this really weird, quiet kid, and he carried around with him a little radio and played classical music, and he had a kind of cult status in his school. i remember reading about it and seeing the picture and it really moved me and i saved it.' You'll be glad you clicked. It's an amazing thing. Okay, like you, I need to get out here for the time being, so I hope your work day was an upper and not a downer, and lots of love to you. ** I hand you over to Toniok and Blu now. Proceed apace. I'll go do some work. Meet you back here tomorrow.
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