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p.s. Hey. Just as a kind of forewarning, I ended up getting or at least feeling really sick and wiped out yesterday, which I think or hope was just a weirdly severe allergies flare up, and I'm still feeling kind of crappy this morning, so this will not be my liveliest p.s. ** Thomas Moronic, Hey, T. If you're talking about the sculptor about whom you did a post on your blog a while back, yes, he was the first artist I thought of and included in my proposal. Really happy you're going to be able to make it to the Five Years opening! It should be big fun, and I can't wait to see you. ** Bill, Good, good that everything got sorted. I'm wiped too, but hopefully due to external (weirdly hot, windy, pollen-y weather) forces. ** Brendan, Hey. Yeah, like I said, I guess, I like the meandering second season of Twin Peaks. The drifting and searching and tonal looseness really interests me for some reason. Hope you don't get sick, man. I got kind of murdered yesterday by whatever is fucking with me. Gonna try to shake it off today. Well, 11 days, to be precise. Not bad by blog scheduling standards. I'll write to you once whatever this is stops weirding out my body. ** Joel Sagiv, Hey. Oh, thanks for the info. That's super interesting. I'm going to google him and his stuff. Might make for a great blog post. Oh, so there's the post up top that I was talking coincidentally about. Great if you get your work up on Bandcamp. Do link us up. I was in three bands, all years ago. A kind of Velvets meet Syd Barrett-era Floyd-style psychedelic band in high school. A trippy folk band just after high school. And a punk band that never got further than the rehearsal stage in the mid-70s. I was their lead singer and sometimes rhythm guitarist. They all, needless to say, were not so hot. ** David Ehrenstein, Yeah, I liked the Gruber guy's hair and his kind of stunned/befuddled thing. And he's not unattractive. The show itself just seems like the absolutely usual American whatever kind of show. ** Lux, Hey, Luxter! I'll be there for the installation and for the opening event of the Five Years show. You gonna try to make it? ** MANCY, Hey, man. Yeah, something's fucking with my body, that's for sure. Great that you and Mark G. made the real world connect! ** Pilgarlic, Hi, man! Nice to see you! Well, Deerhunter has played festivals here in Europe, but maybe they weren't those 'massive stage/crowd' post-Woodstock types of festivals? Yeah, maybe money made the difference? Or a you never know until you try attitude? ** _Black_Acrylic, I feel like I should have known about that French subculture Zazou thing. Thanks to you, I'll catch up. Really sorry to hear about the accident, scary, but I'm sure glad to hear you're okay in the head department. Shame about the glasses. Yeah, man, take it really easy today if you need to. ** Heliotrope, Hi, Mark! Wait, it's your birthday! Happy Birthday, oldest (lengthiest?) buddy of mine! So sweet you got that Martin. Wow, so nice, so thoughtful, that. Wish I could be there to drive over with Joel on Saturday for the you-focused shebang, damn. People are going to try to throw you in the pool, guaranteed, so keep your eyes open. Well, even though tomorrow is the the fete, do something awesome for yourself today, okay? Yeah, late July or early August for LA. But at least that's absolutely set in stone. Love to you and Jules, mister! ** Chilly Jay Chill, Hi, Jeff! That's fantastic about the NPR Sun Ra playlist! Congrats to you and to them and to all of us. I'll be all over that as soon I start feeling better. Everyone, this is a total treat. Here's Chilly Jay Chill with a really awesome gift: 'Speaking of playlists, thought you might be interested in this article that I did for NPR, picking five favorite Sun Ra tracks from the '70s. Surprisingly fertile and overlooked decade for him and the best of these stand with anything he ever did. Here's the link. Definitely click that. 'Meek's Cutoff' sounds amazing. I'll watch for it and watch carefully since the French will definitely change the title on that one. Thanks! Have big fun at the wedding, man! ** Sypha, Maybe because I'm feeling sick and my head is weird, I kind of really dig the idea of that 'Antics' novel to the point where I can almost see the Pixar adaption and the millions in your bank account. ** Steevee, Glad your editor gave you the specifications on that article. It sounds super interesting. I'd love a link, if you don't mind when the time comes. Oh, thanks about the fill-in on 'The Hunger Trilogy'. Interesting. I read that Donald Sutherland is going to play the big whatever character, and it's always nice when something brings him back to work if nothing else. ** Postitbreakup, Ha ha, no, I think I'll donate that title to anyone out there who wants to use it. With my blessing. Man, you turned my p.s. into something to be proud of. Thanks! My favorite line of 'mine' is: 'I something beautiful on my yeah'. Kind of predictable, I guess. Coolness, Josh! ** Ken Baumann, Ken! Yeah, I know, late July, the delay, the summer heat, not my ideal, but at least I know I can do it for sure then. Well, sometimes I give myself dummy content to work with, yeah. Sometimes I just let myself go with some clever or half-assed idea that I know won't be enough for a novel. A lot of the time I write out sexual fantasies or pornography because writing that kind of thing is compulsive and has a lot of fuel in it, and I can bulk up on the page that way, and then I'll fool around with the raw material, experiment with the form and language in lots of different ways, move it away from the erotic, draw out the subtexts or emotion or whatever, etc. When I'm trying specifically to evolve my voice and formal intentions, that method usually works the best for me. But, yes, I always do that or something like that between novels. I read about your Unabomber score over on FB. Congrats! Sucks you couldn't get that handwritten autobiography, though. I'm kind of surprised it didn't sell for even more. Anxious to read your HTMLG offshoots. I'm trying to remember how I acted when I was in therapy. I think I probably said, 'Hunh' a lot. And my eyes got all soul searching. I can't remember. It's a weird process. I think as long as you didn't wail hysterically, you probably aced it. ** Nicolás. No, thank you! ** The Dreadful Flying Glove, I managed to sneak your gig in before the illness or whatever made me feel disinterested in everything. Loved it. The flow, the jumps, the mush. Thank you again. Five months, wow, that is trippy. Next month, I will have been 'living' here in France for six years, which is just mindboggling. ** Misanthrope, Great NYC trip you've got impending there. It's always easier/better to see art shows without the opening night crowds anyway. Yeah, I'll be in NYC in November for a reading or two and whatever else. Mid-month, I think. Nothing is nailed down re: that yet, I don't think. Time for the novel, great, man! ** All right, I made it, but I wrote that in a state of haziness and slight nausea, so I hope I didn't miss or slight something or someone. Lots of ghosts, and 100% real ones even, ha ha, for you today. Boo! Etc. See you tomorrow.
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