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p.s. Hey. We have the honor of being in Bernard Welt's way back machine again today, and, well, enjoy, and thanks, B. ** Polter, Hi, Polter. It's getting brighter here too, I think. You never know in February. Actually, now that I look out a window, it's not so bright. You really don't sound so strange to me. But then again, I don't sound so strange either, but I am. I'm okay, a few stressful things going on right now, but okay overall. Hey, I might get to meet you soon, right? ** David Ehrenstein, I'm so glad you liked the WS Day, thank you. I couldn't find any clips from 'Palermod oder Wolfsburg', or it would have been there, of course. I met Rosa von Praunheim a few times when he was living in NYC in the '80s and tight with David Wojnarowicz. He was going to film me for some movie he was going to make, but it never happened or else I wasn't in it. There's a DVD with three or four, I think, of Schroeter's films on it. I think maybe I posted a link to it, I can't recall. ** Oliver, Exactly on the 'playing again' = rose colored glasses thing. 'Epic Mickey' is pretty nice, though. It gets better as the levels progress. Nothing innovative at all, but a lot of charm. ** Alan, You can be the blog's fashion editor, if you like. The position is open. ** Tomkendall, Loved the reading. Loved your piece. Loved the whole thing. Heavy kudos! ** Sypha, Good god, man, I'm sorry. What a winter you've had, Jesus. ** Pilgarlic, Dude, those sound scrumptious, and no fucking bacon even. It's hard to find great green bean plates that aren't baconized. ** Zack, I know, meeting Jackie Chan was very cool. I pretty much worship pre-Hollywood Jackie Chan. He's one of my living gods. Great that you're getting so much writing done! That's really heartening, and of course I look forward to reading whatever of yours when the time gets right. ** Dusty rose, Two Texan parents not to mention the grandparents and all that. Dad from Hereford, mom from Corpus Christie. I suspect the only way I'll ever read there would be in conjunction with one of the theater pieces, but I don't really see them getting booked in your parts either. Hope work wasn't too much work. ** Steevee, I'm really looking forward to 'Little Big Soldier' naturally. ** Allesfliesst, Congrats, man! What did you do on your day off? ** Christopher/ Mark, You made it! Hi, Mark! What's going on now that you've crossed the threshold? ** _Black_Acrylic, Thanks, Ben! Everyone, if you did or didn't read _B_A's review of 'Jerk' when I linked to it the other day, and if you have any interest whatsoever in reading it 'in context', i.e. in the periodical for which it was intended, go here. I'm sorry to hear about your reentry into physiotherapy, of course. Do stretch as needed, though. ** Chilly Jay Chill, Aw, thanks a lot, Jeff! Yeah, my obsessive side comes in handy sometimes on the blog post making front. 'TMS' is really different from 'Period'. As complicated, but played out in a totally different way. My strategies re: 'TMS'? The basics are really similar to the strategies I used in 'Period'. It's just the front that's different, very dense instead of skeletal and very overtly located in the premise of a single mind working instead of that aspect being hidden. It's very languagey and pretty much only about language when it comes right down to it. Not that that is foreign to my work at all, but in my earlier books, the reader usually has to figure that out via clues provided within the content, and this one tells you it's all about language and the reader needs to find the content or the true content based on clues within the language. Which doesn't make much sense when you haven't read the novel. In this case, the 'pushing things too far' had to do with the narrative and story rather than with the novel's mechanisms, and I had to reign in a lot of events and storylines so they wouldn't create gaps or disruptions in the language play. I ended up cutting more than half of the first draft of the novel out, and pretty much all the things I cut were narratives and people pleasing things. Mm, it's a really hard book to talk about in the abstract because it ends up sounding like some purely formal exercise when it's not at all. I can tell you more once the novel is out and if you have any question then. Thanks a lot for asking, man. ** Colin, Hi, Colin! Thanks much! And thank you a lot for the link! I can't wait to read your piece, and, as usual, I will once I'm through with the snowballing p.s. Everyone, the word-magician and d.l. Colin Herd has a review up at Aesthetica Magazine of a recent show by the really interesting contemporary artist Rosemarie Trockel. Don't feel you need to already be familiar with her work to find the piece interesting as Colin will be your guide. There are also some earlier reviews and pieces by him if you're interested, and all of the above is yours with a click of the this. Your book must be coming out soon now, yes? ** 'Matt', Hi, man. 'Tron' opened here yesterday, and I figure I'll it within the next week. Oh, you know, after you mentioned that book on video game space, I bought it and am reading it. In fact, I put a post together about it that's coming up. Very interesting. Useful too vis a vis my maze project in progress. Thank you a lot for that great tip! I mentioned you to Gisele, and she said basically, oh, yes, I need to look at that more closely and think about it, and I will check in with her about that when she gets back from her current spate of traveling early next week. That class you're taking sounds very tasty. Okay, more soon, and thanks for being here and for reminding me too. ** Creative Massacre, It's true: the only people I know other than you who don't like peanut butter are people who are allergic to peanuts, ha ha. I seem to be the only person in the world who can't stand cherries, if that helps. ** Nb, Oh, I haven't forgotten, my young friend, and don't you. ** Statictick, Hope you make it home today, and that the spare seat is in business class. I want to see 'The Cove'. Being a vegetarian. I can be all smug about it, ha ha. Yeah, safe trip, and check in from wherever you are next. ** Inthemostpeculiarway, Hey. Yeah, the way porns are made today, I don't even think the people who make them expect you to watch them all the way through. Back then, when they were only viewable in theaters, you had no choice unless you were one of those types who used porn theaters as places to fool around like, say, a certain d.l. with the initials B.W. Sometimes squirrels can be really scary when they show you how smart they are in that evil squirrelish way of theirs. The last two times I was in New York, I was asking everyone what the hell was up with the cupcake thing. There were cupcakes everywhere. No one seemed to know. Cupcakes are great, but the American fad is mysterious. I didn't know the 'Falling Angels' movie existed either. I'm so out of it on some things. Even here you can not turn your head even slightly without seeing the face of Justin Bieber or a French boy with a Bieber do. And yet you never actually hear him here. I still have never heard a single note from his mouth. I think the French just like his face/hair combo. But now that he cut his hair, things may change. My days? I'll tell you what I remember. I think yesterday was the more eventful one. A lot of it was about the fixing of the internet here, or the lack thereof, rather. They tried to put in a new system. Well, they did, and they came to my room to test it on my computer, but the technician guy couldn't deal with my Mac and even made derogatory remarks about how stupid Macs are, and they left. Apparently, the new system only worked in 15 rooms of the building and shut off the internet in the other 50 or whatever rooms. I wasn't in one of the 15. So they put the old system back in, and tweaked it a little, and it's very marginally better, but it still sucks. In order to get a new internet system here, the Recollets boss is asking us who live here to write an email saying we are being tortured and prevented from doing our important work by the shitty internet, and I guess they will be sent to the extremely stingy owners of this place in hopes they will bite the bullet and fix the fucking internet rather than face a rebellion or strike or something. So, that happened. I started playing 'Epic Mickey', and, like video games will do, it used a lot of the hours of my day. The game is very fun. I'm on the fourth or fifth level, which I think is called 'Mean Street', and the first task ahead of me today is to find, enter, and do something in the town's detective agency. I had coffee with Oscar and Kiddiepunk. Nice, of course. We're going to an art opening tonight. The biggest thing that happened is Yury applied for a US tourist visa, and he has his yes or no appointment at the embassy next Thursday, and given the disastrous history of trying to get a US visa, the situation is very, very stressful. So he (and I) are getting prepared for that, gathering documents and getting advice and stuff. I think otherwise things were pretty normal and not really worth recounting. So, there you go. Gimme Thursday please. ** Bill, Schroeter is well worth investigating, obviously. Ah, Lepage, nice. He really gets around, that guy, no? ** Killer Luka, Hi, Luke. Oh, wow, treasure trove. I'll be all over that stuff later. For now, I'll help you fill in everyone else's blanks. Everyone, Killer Luka, artist extraordinaire (as you all should know by now), has some of her amazing work up in a show at the moment, and, even though few if any of us are in the city where this show is transpiring, we can live its experience vicariously by looking at some photos of her work/ the show right here, and reading a review of said show and her work right here. I'm not going to pass along that CB thing for the obvious reasons, but people can find it. Sure, you can do a CB Day if the Oscar lands on him. Will you do a Geoffrey Rush Day if he wins instead, as the seers are now beginning to see as real possibility? ** Schilix, Hi, Uli! Yeah, I'll bet you're exhausted. Obviously, I'm so sorry about all of that. I hope you can manage it without too much pain. I really feel for you. I've had my own if different version of that, and a couple of d.l.s here have recently gone through very difficult and not dissimilar life situations as well. Lots of love, man. At least you've got those Destroyer and Chatham records, both, of which, yeah, are wonderful, I agree. ** Misanthrope, PiL should be tried in the Hague for what they did to you, man. I'll get on that. ** Shannon, Hey. Let me join the chorus: I loved your piece a lot. Wonderful! More more more! Well, as someone who spends a lot of time in trenches digging out those slaves and making those posts, I know a dirty dirty creature when I see one, ha ha. ** Paul Curran, Yay! ** Jax, Hi, Tom Jax Tom Jax. Sure, send that clip in. I haven't seen in my mail box yet. Gracias! Work and all going okay, pal? ** Armando, Well, over here, his dying of an overdose in a Parisian club -- now a restaurant where I've eaten many times -- is pretty much accepted as the real story. Whatever the proof of this is, it's considered enough to be accepted as fact, at least in France. I didn't know that about Agnes Varda. Hm, interesting. Thanks, A! ** I already did my redundant introduction to the post today up north, so I'll just hope you have a lovely time around here today, and I will of course see you tomorrow.
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