I Apologize (2004) / Gisèle Vienne / Dennis Cooper / Peter Rehberg
Created by: Gisèle Vienne
Texts by: Dennis Cooper
Music by: Peter Rehberg
Lighting by: Patrick Riou
Make up by: Rebecca Flores
Choreographed and directed by: Jonathan Capdevielle, Anja Röttgerkamp, Anne Mousselet, Jean-Luc Verna
Dolls created by: Raphaël Rubbens, Dorothéa Vienne-Pollak, Gisèle Vienne.
Excerpts from the beginning of an earlier version of 'I Apologize' *
* in Oslo, Jean-Luc Verna's part was played by Anne Mousselet
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p.s. Hey. Such a great, rich, bedazzling weekend that you guys gave. Thank you, everyone. Days like that make me feel like this is the luckiest little blog in the world. Well, not just feel. Know it is. ** J., Hey. Nice to see you, and thanks a lot for the adds. Everyone, new d.l. J added links to Deborah Curtis's book 'Touching from a Distance' and to a clip of the long version of New Order's 'True Faith' to the JDD yesterday, if you missed the hook up, and enjoy. ** David Ehrenstein, Hi, D. I still haven't seen 'Control'. I should and will, but I'm kind of wary of Corbijn, although I did like 'The American', so ... ** Pilgarlic, Hi, man. I'm afraid I'm one of those REM fans who think it was all downhill after 'Life Rich Pageant'. I was into the power of the mumble and not so into the surfaced wordage. The Sammy Hagar era Van Halen just seems like a very long nap to me. ** Sypha, Hey. 'Neuromancer' is really fantastic. I'd like to read that again. ** MANCY, Thanks, man. That was one sturdy shirt. ** Michael Karo, I seem to be a real cutthroat REM fan compared to you, so don't sweat it. Thank you for the entry. It was gorgeously gorgeous. Yum, marzipan. ** Paul Joseph, Hey. Yeah, we sorted all of that out via email, and no problem, and I hope there were no problems caused, and, again, fingers heavily crossed on the gig. Nice to see you! ** Wolf, Dude, I'm very game for group effort post ideas, so don't tie your thoughts off. That one panned out utterly stellar, no? Thanks again in every language. ** Math, Holy crap, Math. That's kind of a shock. Count on you to see and pursue the silver lining aspect first thing. I'm thinking your resume will be pretty tasty to those who judge people based on resumes however, and they say -- or I read that -- jobs in California are coming back. And I admit I'm very happy on behalf of your art. I don't know what the blog or I could do to help, but, really, say the word, okay? Say the word's first syllable even. Yeah, Kevin and Dodie are the fucking best. Talking about them is like getting caught in a multi-multi-superlative pile up. Love to you, Mathster. ** Chris (British), 'Classie', 'The Even Smaller Hobo' ... that's great, ha ha. I laughed so hard reading that I had to go walk down the hall to the 'smoking stairwell' and smoke a cigarette. Kudos. Well, seeing the ENT is good, right? I mean, it's a possible fix, right? I'm seeing that as a plus. ** JoeM, Hi, Joe! A great pleasure! I haven't read that Paul Morley book. I really need to. I really like Morley, and I haven't really read weighty Morley. Thanks very much for that and for sharing things from what. And you? How are you? How is writing and everything? ** Jax, Hi, pal. You make Florence sounds so good. I'm more excited now, and, yeah, the Uffizi is for sure. We have four days there, so I figure we'll get to see a fair amount of stuff, especially since Yury is not one to laze around and take it easy wherever we are. Never done a Buchner Day, no. Good idea. I'll write that idea down and do my best to illustrate it. Thanks! Yeah, I hate the in between novels phase, but it's necessary in order not to crank things out, I guess. Congrats on the Masterclass placement! That's great, Jack! I love how things are really happening for you right now. It's really a joy. And the eBook first thing sounds just fine, yeah. Excellence upon excellence! The 'TMS' copyedit thing was easy. I think the copyeditor was given instructions not to screw with my weird sentences, and he was pretty discreet. I'm excited because the novel is now completely finished at last, and I must say I'm really proud of this novel. I haven't been this excited about a novel I've written in quite a while, which, of course, is also scary because if it doesn't get a good response, it's going to hurt a lot more. Still ... Blog day would be awesome. Oh, shit, remind me what the 'Bucket List' thing was again. I'm spacing. ** Esther Planas, Hello, Esther! I just got the email promo for the show you're curating at Five Years, and, damn, I wish I could see that! Dirty Snow is a total legend to me, and I don't think I've heard that track, so very, very cool. Everyone, the mighty artist and d.l. Esther Planas was at one time in this legendary and sadly lost to time band Dirty Snow, and you can hear something of what the lucky early birds got to hear by listening to -- and seeing a video for -- one of their rare recorded songs by clicking this. I would say you should. Rock on, great buddy. ** Pisycaca, Hi, Montse. I get the feeling that dealing with parents' deaths is a complicated, time-release thing. I'm still trying to understand my mom's death, and that's been a strange few years ago now. Well, you guys are about Italy like I am about Spain. I'm so close to Spain, and it's been about six years of proximity now, and I still haven't creased your country. Strange, no? Big hug to you too, M. ** Thomas Moronic, Hi, T. Really beautiful piece of writing here over the weekend, as so many have already confirmed. ** Mark, Hey there, Mark. Oh, wow, 'Missing Men', that is a rarity. When I used that link, I got page where I had to log-in, which I couldn't do, of course. I'm interested to check that site out if it has rare books on sale. Can I just join it for free, or ... ? ** Allesfliesst, Hi. Oh, Wayne's 'Jimmy Page' is indeed Jimmy Page from Led Zeppelin. That seems odd? Ah, so it does sound like the mail system is the culprit. Yeah, I'll try to get a new DVD and send it to you. The problem is I go to Brest for a week early on Wednesday morning, but we're recording the 'Last Spring' texts today, so I'll try to catch Gisele beforehand and see if she has a spare copy she can give me. Sorry for all the trouble. I'll do my utmost. ** Bill/whsu, I like whsu. It has a radio station thing going on. Nice about Terrence's set. He's so good. Thanks, B. ** The Dreadful Flying Glove, Every time you mention the temperature there, I get the willies. I like the willies though. I love the Sparks song 'The Willies'. I think it made me like the willies. Beat the heat. ** Andrew, Uh, I think there should be buttholes in there. Are you against finding a butthole online and printing it out on 'magazine' paper? There should be buttholes in those mags though. Buttholes were considered hot back then too. Very strong 'in the know' rumors over here that Haider Ackermann is the chosen Galliano replacement. But these same people said Pugh was definitely the new Menswear guy. ** Steevee, Hey. I'm not that impressed with the James Blake album. I too don't get the related big deal. We're on tenterhooks over here waiting to see if 'Tree of Life' will premiere at Cannes or not. Last I heard, 'ToF' will open in France before anywhere else in the world on May 25th, and that's such rare thing that everyone is assuming it will be at Cannes, as the tradition is for films at Cannes to open in France about a week after their screenings. Feel better! ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi, Ben. Well, I'm glad the medicine thing is sorted out and that you can just do it on schedule now. Fingers severely crossed on that front, my friend. What a night you had. Nice ending though. It's hard to appreciate fraughtness when you're fraught, but that fraught period when you and someone else are circling one another is so intense and amazing. ** Tender Prey, Hi, Marc! Great to see you! Okay, you've eased me back into the idea of seeing 'Control'. You doing great, I hope, I hope? ** Statictick, Hi, N. If we're talking JD songs, I guess 'Dead Souls' is my favorite. But my all-time favorite track by them is the version of 'Isolation' on the live portion of the 'Still' album, so I guess that's my favorite Joy Division thing. ** Jesse Hudson, Hi, J. Well, I'm very happy that you've pulled up the chair, natch. I'll try to keep it as comfortable as possible. Talk to you soon! ** Schlix, Hi, ULi. Oh, phew, about the birds. They almost never do their jobs, so that's a rare performance they saw right there. I'm really glad they liked it, of course. I hope your cold has started easing away this morning. So many people have colds right now. It's weird how changes of seasonmake so many people sick. We're so fragile. ** Chris Cochrane, 33 minutes is really getting there. Excellent news. I finally listened to that live Jefferson Airplane album you so graciously gave me. Christ, it's so great! They were so the Miles Davis of psychedelic rock. I didn't even want to edit out all the Martin Balin solo vocals like I almost always do. Thanks! ** Postitbreakup, Oh, I love dogs too. I just don't want to own or be responsible for one. I like how they generate so much emotion in people. I like them better than cats, but that's just me. Cats and dogs are both awesome and all that. I just always see cats mostly as like moving sculptures for some weird reason. Yeah, I think the kid substitute/ projection thing is true and makes total sense. ** Little foal, Such great JDD comments. Thank you so much! Free association writing is kind of the only way I can write poetry. I've never been able to plan out poems first. With novels, I need to have a million pre-set rules and stuff, but I figured out a way to forget they're there and let them kind of determine things subconsciously when I actually start writing. I don't know how. I don't know if that's hard to do. I wish you so much luck with the test. Obviously, please let me know how it goes. Love, me. ** Misanthrope, Well, I knew you were writing the p.s., but, no, I didn't know you were writing Joe's comments, which is rather strange since you are writing these very words. I loved the first Strokes album, and the second one was pretty good, and after that, I lost interest, but I am curious to hear the new one, and they credit GbV as a huge influence, so I'll always love them for that. Oh, your poor, cool nephew. Kids! ** Inthemostpeculiarway, Hi, man. I'm glad the novel advice made sense. I'm the same way with compliments. I fidget and try to change the subject when I get compliments, but that's because they mean so much that it freaks me out. I have a hard time remembering things too. In my day reports. After every sentence, I have to sit back and stare out the window and concentrate to recall anything. Your weekend report was very observational. It was cool. Mine aren't so observational. I wish they were. Nonetheless, I hope you're feeling better today. My weekend: Don't expect much. Let's see ... Oscar's parents were visiting, so I didn't see her or Kiddiepunk very much. I was supposed to rehearse with Gisele and Jonathan for the long recording session of the 'Last Spring, a Prequel' texts that I have before me today, but I think they were tired after getting back from Hamburg, so I never heard from them. I think it'll hopefully be okay today, though, 'cos Jonathan's kind of a genius and a trooper. Stephen (O'Malley) sent me the mock-up of the first 'Last Spring' fanzine that he designed. I couldn't download it until last night because the internet was so bad that it would haven't taken 48 hours to download, or so my computer told me. Anyway, it looked awesome when I finally saw it, I think. I wrote a bit, just notes and ideas for things. There was a big discussion/ fight on HTMLG about Tao Lin inspired by this cool post by Jordan Castro about Tao's press Muumuu House and the gang of writers associated with it, and I got caught up reading that and following its offshoots for hours because all of the hatred of Tao Lin on HTMLG and elsewhere, and Tao's power to create controversy, and the idea that the gang of writers who are friends with Tao are some kind of odious, power-mongering, sheep-like clique always interests and bewilders and kind of depresses me because it's so fueled by bitterness and envy and stuff. I sometimes envy how HTMLG's posts generate a really interesting intellectual discourse on the topic at hand, but the level of snarkiness and mean-spiritedness that goes on over there in the comments section makes me not envy the other part so much. I started preparing for the week in Brest, not that there's that much to do. I saw that famous, much talked about, very androgynous male model Anrej Pejic sitting in a cafe when I was out walking around, and he really is amazing looking. I watched some TV, but nothing wildly interesting. A documentary on Diane von Furstenberg was kind of good. And, uh, I'm blanking out on the rest. Onwards into today for us both, yes? How was yours? ** Zack, Hi, Zack! It's great to see you! You've been missed, man. Thank you a lot for the beautiful JDD piece. I hope your funk passes, like, yesterday if not by today. Can I help defunk you? I'm totally game to try. ** FreeFox, Are there that many cover versions of 'Ain't No Sunshine'? Interesting. I'm glad you liked the post, duh. Yeah, the group days here are always amazing. You feeling better, I hope? ** Okey-doke. Any normal person would have posted the photos you see above on their Facebook page, I guess, but I only seem normal. I guess you can pretend the blog is Facebook today? Sorry about the lack of a 'Like' button. I'm off to record voices now. See you tomorrow.
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