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p.s. Hey. ** Math, T'would, no? ** Jax, Hey. The work visa was the main option we were looking into for the first few years we were here. There was a period where Toni & Guy was going to open some US outlets including an LA branch, and transferring there was the goal, but the tanking US economy killed that expansion plan. There's no job transfer possibility available to Yury now. Back then, the 'anything it takes' approach to the visa was ours, but now Yury is set up here with a good job, residency status, friends, and so on, and expecting him to give that up to take whatever job he could get long distance in a city/country he's never even seen before is unfair, even though I know he would do that if I asked. It's only fair to him that he have the chance to visit and see what he thinks of the place and look into the job possibilities himself. The denial is very heavy for me emotionally, but, technically, we aren't in the same immediate crisis we were in before, or not as regards his situation. and I can't expect him to give up what he has just so I can go home. Excellent about your play being picked! Fantastic! Alaska, wow. Never been there. I hear it's completely spectacular looking. Politically, on the other hand, well, I imagine you know. Everyone, anyone in or from or who has visited Alaska and can pass on your thoughts on and impressions of the place to our pal Jax, please do. ** David Ehrenstein, Hi, D. Oh, I'll finally be writing to you later today, sorry. ** Empty Frame, I want to write a Superplexus-like novel. Your email was incredibly sweet, man. So nice of you. Yury's kind of way into going to Italy for the vacation, so I'm trying to figure out a way that we can afford that somehow at the moment. But, yeah, I'll let you know if that plan is doomed, and, yeah, thank you a lot! ** Chris Cochrane, Hey, Chris! I'll be talking to you later, I think. No the decision can't be appealed, and we have no right to even know the reason for the denial. That Palestinian Queer activist talk does sound amazing. Big kudos to Sarah for getting that together. Yeah, speak to you some hours from now. ** Oliver, Hey. I see what you mean about the basic correlation, but your work is really different, so need to stress about that at all. ** Alan, Thanks so much, Alan. I too was very taken and impressed and inspired by the intersecting, and the modulations of the voices, the intricate way the commonalities aligned and didn't, and how the narrative build seemed to progress kind of magically. Yeah, beautiful. Oh, would you mind sending me the novel as a file? I think the way my life is right now, and considering the traveling I have ahead of me, having it on my computer would be very helpful in allowing me to read it through. The hard copy is proving tough for me to wade into for some reason. Thanks a lot, if you don't mind. ** James, Thanks, James. Oh, the sponsorship thing isn't to do with Yury. I probably didn't make that very clear. No, that was to do with Patrick deWitt possibly getting a residency here at the Recollets where I'm living and where one needs to have a sponsor to be able to stay. Anyway, thanks again and so much for all very good, kind thoughts. ** Bacteriaburger, Great news! So, it'll be set to go as far your work is concerned this week at long last? Fantastic! Congratulations, man. Really can't wait for it. ** Pilgarlic, Yeah, I can't imagine newspaper accounts can compete with your golden one, so stay the course. I just read another review of the new Driveby Truckers, on Pitchfork, I guess. Yeah, I'll go listen to it, you bet. ** David, Oh, 'The Hospital'. I forgot completely about that movie. Yeah, my memory has it as pretty wild. Hunh. I think I'll go find some clips. ** Sypha, You finally 'dropped off' the holiday card. That sounds really nice, yeah. Goodness gracious, the age difference thing, give me a break, ha ha, and, after you have, go for it, man, whatever form of 'going' seems right. ** Steevee, Hey. I wanted to see 'Bas-Fond' when it played here last December. The release was so quick that it was gone before I knew it was here. IlB is interesting. I've met her a couple of times, I think via Gisele. 'Demi-Tarif' is definitely worth seeing. I'm not sure it's all it intends to be, but it's very, very interesting. She has a very fine, odd sensibility. Nice you got to see that. ** Andrew, Thanks about 'Guide'. It might be my favorite of my novels. Or sometimes it is. A Japanese 'Guide' film featuring their array of dolls and robots and stuff as the cast is kind of a perfect idea. ** Tomkendall, Excellent news that your putting your nose back to grindstone. 20,000 words, you can do it, rah rah, etc.! Actually, 'TMS' is coming pretty fast by the usual major publisher schedule. Normally, I don't think it would have come out until spring 2012 at least, but I've got a very cool publisher. ** Paul Curran, Hi, Paul. I'm fucked up, but I'm okay. Thanks. ** Bill, Hi, Bill. My weekend was okay. There's just a pall over everything. Or rather inside everything. I think the visa thing opened the flood gates of my dad's death too. Weird how that works. What a nice Gunter Brus product. Looks good on the packaging level too. I'll look more into that publishing house. Fantastic that the 'Touching of Hands' event is going to happen there. Envy on that. Is Locrian going to play at the event or in SF while Hannum is there? ** Statictick, Hi, N. Ian, wow, cool! I miss that guy. I'm glad he sounds like he's doing okay and is continuing to work his magic. Very nice. ** Creative Massacre, Hey. Oh, things have been better, but I'm okay. I'm glad to hear you've got good and crazy shit all matched up. That combo can be cool. You're axing FB, et. al.? Hey, why not? ** Omar, Hi, Omar, welcome, and thank you a lot for sharing your thoughts on Alan's piece. Come back anytime please. What's going on with you? ** Misanthrope, Hi, George. Thanks for being so sweet about you know what. I'll pass your kind regards onto Yury. Yeah, there aren't enough roller coasters at the Holocaust Museum, ha ha. Actually, the HM could do a really scary, great dark ride if they wanted to. ** Inthemostpeculiarway, Hey. You sound like you're definitely on the upswing, what with your getting out and doing stuff. I'm really glad to hear that. Give your healing abilities my regards. I do like the Britney video, yeah. The fight thing is almost worthy of analysis. Yeah, I think it does it's job very well. You like it? I played a little 'Epic Mickey', but I'm having trouble beating this robot pirate enemy, so I put it aside after a while in order to regroup. If we can afford it, we'll be going to Italy on the vacation, I think. Rome and Florence, if possible. We'll see. That whole 'into the woods to grandma's house' story w/ drunkenness and flirting and vomiting was actually very riveting, don't worry. You know just how much to say and describe. Please take my latest compliment on your wonderful writing abilities, and thank you for that. I thought there was a Natalie Wood bio pic. A TV movie or something. I have this memory of watching it, but maybe it was Robert Wagner biopic? My weekend: I was pretty depressed, but I'm just going to say that now and not mention it again, and you can imagine depression infusing the following anecdotes if you want. Kiddiepunk, Oscar, and I went to the new show at the photography museum. It was three shows, actually: (1) Jacques Prevert's collage-photo pieces that he made with Brassai and other photographers. They were charming, and a few were very good. (2) Herve Guibert retrospective. I love his fiction, and his photos are not that amazing, in my opinion, but they were melancholy and sometimes beautiful. (3) Marc Trivier, who's best known for his portraits of writers and artists. They were good. Really sad photo of the very old Jean Genet and other good ones too. Gisele called. Jean-Luc Verna, who's in 'I Apologize', is ill and can't do the performances in Oslo this weekend, so we're going to have to recast his part or alter the piece a little really fast, and I guess that when I get there we'll try some options. The 'Them' shows in Utrecht in April were confirmed, and we got an offer to do 'Them' in Berlin in August, and I really hope we can both because it would cool and because I would finally get to go to Berlin for the first time. D.l. Thomas Moronic and a friend of his arrived in Paris for a weeklong visit. That was really nice. He, she, Kiddiepunk, Oscar, and I had a coffee together. I was going to have dinner with them, but I didn't because it was the only time Yury could cut my hair, but then Yury said he was too tired, so he promised to cut my hair on Wednesday because it needs to be done before I go to Oslo since I'll be onstage there and stuff. I saw this really good film on TV, 'Johnny Mad Dog', by Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire, about child soldiers in Africa, and it was really powerful and good. When I was dipping into Facebook, I got hit with a flurry of chat messages, which pretty much always happens, and which, given that I kind of hate chatting, is not my favorite thing, and one of them was from some guy telling me he's coming to Paris soon and asking me to tell him how and where he could get laid while he's here. That was kind of novel, I guess. I didn't answer him, of course. I only answer about one out of every 50 chat prompts I get, I think. What I ate this weekend was totally the usual, as was my cigarette intake and showering habits. I guess that's the deal. Tell me about your Monday, please? ** Bollo, Hey, Jonathan. Dude, glad the paycheck thing got sorted. Oh, Ielasi, very nice! I love the Wire album. See what you think. Awesome you read 'Ghost Machine' too. It's a beaut. How's your art making going? Tell me, and may Monday treat you royally. ** Tender Prey, Hi, Marc. Jeez, very much a not optimal set up vis a vis your work, yikes, but it sounds like an interesting show at least, and you got to be there, if nothing else. On the vacation, like I said above, Yury wants to go to Italy. He's never been there, so that's the goal: Rome and Florence, I think. It's just about the money, which I'm going to try hard to swing because he really needs and deserves a really good vacation. Thanks, Marc! Love to you! ** That's it, I guess. I had this crowd pictures idea thing, obviously, and I hereby foist it on you today. Hope it does something of note. And I'll see you tomorrow.
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