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p.s. Hey. So, yeah, any contestants out there? ** David Ehrenstein, Like Tosh, I raise my hand shyly but passionately as per your offer of the Donald Cammell post, and I bow figuratively before you and your eternal generosity, Mr. E. ** Bernard Welt, Hi, B. Oh, re: your email, I'm going to query the powers that be where I am today. I'll let you know. Thanks much for speaking to Math's piece. Stephen Colbert? Hm, that makes a weird sense, now that I think about it. ** Frank Jaffe, Hi, Frank! Actually, you commenting mid-class was very colorful to think about. And thank you. Cool, cool, cool about all your recent goings on. Oh, how was everything with John Waters, btw? Splendid, no doubt, but I'd love to hear. On the book's cover art and stuff, I don't know, I guess I'll wait until it seems like the right dramatic moment or something to reveal them, ha ha? Gosh, thanks a lot for adding my books to the LGBTQ Resource Center library. I'll tell them to behave. Tell my books, I mean. Yeah, what is the deal with Lucas? I can't figure him out. All that money and all those resources at his disposal but no guts or inspiration anymore. There oughta be a law or something. Hm, curious about that director using Goblin's stuff for the 'Suspiria' remake. That's, yeah, hopeful, but the remake still seems like a bad idea. You never know, though, right? That level of devotion seems like a plus. We will see. It's wonderful to see you, my pal. ** Tosh, Hi, T. The POL issue of RoCF is really interesting, and I don't say that just because they publish me. They're such a great publisher. The best in France, everyone always says, and I can't disagree. Cool, I'll watch for the code word. ** Sypha, Oh, I guess the rarity explains the big ticket price. I'm going to see if I can weasel my way onto the guest list or something somehow. ** Patrick deWitt, Hey, man! That new M. Simmons is such a treat. I'm sure you'll dig it. You good? Is everything in place re: your Parisian-ness or getting there? ** Wolf, Being an American lets you get away with murder. Oh, wait, literally. But we're also such industrious types and innovators or something, blah blah, so I'll just tell everyone that getting dressed up for a wedding is very old school, very Old World, so quaintly European. Or I'll say I'm Nick's roadie. Roadies can get away with murder. They'd better have some veggie nibbles at the wedding. K&O are such militant carnivores that maybe you and I should pack a lunch to be safe. ** The Man Who Couldn't Blog, Listen, when I made that post I was merely in the grip of your higher power, sir. It and you have honored here. Thank you, Matthew, and congratulations, and I can't wait for the big book. ** Killer Luka, 'On the Beach' ... why did you read that? I have to admit that I didn't know the movie was based on anything. You sent me some email stuff? My email account is today's next destination, so I'll open your stuff, and cool, and thanks, uh, Satan. Are you really Satan? Wow, nice to meet you, if so. Can I have my soul back? ** David, You were a Deadhead? That I didn't know. That is something of a surprise, I don't know why. Deadheads hate me because I think the Dead mostly went to shit after the 'Live/Dead' album. Do you hate me? Yeah, there's this scumbag who cheated away the film rights to 'My Loose Thread', but there is a scheme in motion that I can't talk about to reverse that dastardly deed. It's true that I've never seen nor heard woodpeckers in France. We have noisy crows, but they look and act so cool, it's worth it. You've got the impending government shutdown over there, and over here we've got a President who thinks he's George Bush. ** Paul Curran, It was a beaut! Your collab with Bill. How are you feeling, Paul? ** Bollo, Gunther von Hagen, right. No, those bodies in the photos were antique models made out of wax and stuff that were used for medical and research purposes in earlier centuries. The Simmons book will delight you, I am sure. ** Steevee, That Poopbird stuff is curious and charming. I like the guro-ish ones the best, no surprise. Everyone, Steevee recommends you take a look at the site/ post-Hentai and sometimes erotica tinged artwork by an artist named Poopbird, and, if his recommendation sways you, the place in question is here. ** Dusty Rose, Hey, Dusty. Really good to see you! Interesting synchronicity. No joke: I was just last night investigating the phenomenon of synchronicity re: a possible blog post, so the coincidences continue. You wrote? Great! What are writing, working on? ** Alan, Hey. I really like Philippe Sollers' early novels, especially 'Event' and 'The Park'. Roland Barthes' book about his work, 'Writer Sollers', is very good. I remember having some issues with his most famous and 'controversial' novel 'Women', but I don't remember why. I haven't read much of his more recent work, little of which is translated into English. He's an odd figure. People I respect here tend to think he kind of went off the rails at a certain point, and he doesn't seem to be taken all that seriously by the intellectual types these days. That might partly be because he's become a very common guest and talking head on TV shows here representing 'the intellectual' on relatively popular/ populist shows. So, long story short, I really like his early fiction, and his '60s magazine 'Tel Quel' was seminal, and I find his activities in the '60s and '70s really interesting in general, and the fact that he's married to Julia Kristeva intrigues me, but I'm not sure what to say and think about him du jour because I don't know very much firsthand and the suspicion with which he's regarded is at once confusing and is possibly influential on my regard of him. ** Misanthrope, My mother had a Lexus. I guess it served her pretty well. She liked to brag about it. I'm a Toyota guy. Corollas, specifically. I know Toyota have had all those problems, but my Toyotas have always been very good to me. Obviously, I don't get the Civil War and Confederacy romanticism either. But then I don't get about 85% of what's happening in the US these days. Every time I think things are starting to get a little more sane, something like Donald Trump going Birther and becoming thereby a viable Presidential contender happens, and I restart counting my lucky stars that I'm living over here. ** L@rstonovich, Dude! Jared's back, like, for good? That thing about Skullcrushing Hummingbird being on Network Awesome is really, really cool, even if I don't know the context at all. I will, though, post-haste. And congrats! And I'll spread the word right now. Everyone, please lend your eyes and minds to the great writer, guy, musician, wizard of the 'airwaves', and d.l. L@stonovich. Are the aforementioned eyes/minds ready to be leant? Okay, then here he is: 'The Skullcrushing Hummingbird was honored to program today's "Live Music" show on Network Awesome. It's about 45 minutes of live performances that truly "bring it" in every way possible. You should really grab a cold one and check it out. Network Awesome lives up to its name, hand-picking awesome music videos, old TV shows and movies, and great documentaries. Saves hours of mindless internet trolling. Dig! Here!' I will dig in a few shortish minutes from now. 'The Pale King' is out and about already? Wow, let me know what you think. ** Inthemostpeculiarway, Howdy. Oh, okay, I'll go see if Cinemaggedon will let me inside. It sounds kind of amazingly rich. Thanks! Yeah, I like 'The Marbled Swarm's' cover. I think it pops the way covers should pop, and it doesn't insult the novel, and, yeah, I think it's good. I like that you're always riding around in cars. It reminds me of life in LA, and that makes me sad and homesick in a good, productive way. 'Angry ponytail' was really nice. I imagine it whipping around. If memory serves, the best thing about the original 'Valley of the Dolls' movie is the Patty Duke being drugged out and crazy parts. I don't remember much else about it other than the 60s colors. My day wasn't too exciting. Uh, there's a lot of finishing up of 'Marbled Swarm' business at the moment. My editor sent me the pdf of the novel that will form the galleys version to check over for mistakes, and I did that, and I am still doing that. It's the first time I've seen the book laid out in pages and with the typeface and design and stuff, and that's exciting. But, kind of typically, at least for me, while reading through it, I mostly think, oh, shit, people aren't going to get or like this book, which may be true, but it's also probably part of the 'no turning back now' fear. Having a book you're really proud of come out is really stressful and confusing. You'll see when you publish your first one. Anyway, so I did that. I worked on that new fiction thing I'm fooling around with. I bought the food I didn't buy the day before. Typical stuff, although I bought a different kind of smoothie than I usually do. The mango one. It's good, actually. There's this guy who works at the health food store where I shop who looks like he's in his late 30s and wears his hair like a 70s teen idol, which is always kind of disconcerting, and yesterday he was totally in drag with lipstick and makeup and wearing a sort of dress-like outfit, and so I think the store's owners might have finally told him he could be himself while he's at work, and now everything makes more sense, and, since this is France and because it's a health food store, nobody shopping there seemed to blink or care about his transformation, so that was kind of nice. The weather was amazing yesterday, like early summer, and Kiddiepunk and Oscar and I went to an outdoors cafe and shot the shit about stuff we've done, haven't done, and want to do, and we absorbed some rays. After that, I came back here and worked on stuff. I tried to make a blog post, but it didn't pan out, which sucks because, like I said, I'm behind on my blog post making and I really need to make some posts pronto or else. I watched some TV: a documentary about Odilon Redon and a show about literature and a show where a bunch of people sat around talking about how horrible Sarkozy is. I ate stuff during that viewing and then I went to bed. Tonight I'm doing some actual out-in-the-world stuff, so maybe tomorrow's report will be better. How is, or, rather, was Friday for you? ** Colin, Hi, Colin! Lovely to see you! The Elaine Equi book is great. She's so great. You probably know that I published one of her very first books through Little Caesar. I'm so proud. Totally, about the Duvert, right? You nailed its appeal. How are you? What are you working on? ** Schlix, Hi, Uli! How are you doing, man? Ollier's 'Disconnection' is great, I agree. Wow, cool that you read that. Ah, it would have been awesome to see you if you could have made it here for 'TIHYWD', but, yeah, it's a real trek from there to here. Is the last weekend of your job a happy occasion? ** Armando, Hi, man. Obviously, I so hope that committee has the total wisdom to approve your project. Fingers severely crossed for you on that front. Other inspirations re: 'My Loose Thread'? Hm, well, Terrence Malick was a massive influence. Like really huge and really key. I don't think it shows so much in the book, but his work was the biggest influence, I think. I'd just seen 'The Thin Red Line' right before I started writing it, and it blew me away and totally gave me the idea of how to write the novel, and, while I was writing it, I was kind of imagining it as a Malick film to help me get it right. So, that was the big influence, I'd say. Very cool of you to ask, my friend. ** Okay, I hope you enjoy the stack of sets and/or try the contest. If people do try, I'll announce the winner when I see you tomorrow. Good days, everyone.
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