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p.s. Hey. ** Tosh, Hi, Tosh. Thanks a lot! ** Graham Russell, Hey. Oh, it's you, bitter69uk. Apologies for my mix-up. If I'd actually explored your Google+ stuff, I would have known. I will now. Yeah, really nice to see you! Thanks about Gisele's stuff. You good? What's up in your world that I won't find out when I take the Google+ plunge? ** Scunnard, Crushes turn people really complicated, so maybe she was using the movie to fish inside you and to watch her back simultaneously. I don't know. Thanks about Gisele's stuff. Oh, I'll ask her if she would be interested when I see her today, but I strongly suspect that she'll say, 'Thanks but I'm too crazily busy right now', because she kind of crazily busy. But I'll ask. Lee Breuer is a very good idea, naturally. ** Wolf, Hi, big W. I'll give her that massive wolf hug today. It'll freak her out a little 'cos she's not that physically demonstrative, but that'll be good for her, trust me. No, I don't think 'Dark Blood' has played here, but I want to see it/him. Charisma: I simultaneously have all kinds of theories about how that works and don't have the slightest clue about how that works, which is a winning combination maybe. I don't get that Joaquin Phoenix is a good actor, but I haven't seen 'The Master'. You'll have to explain that to me sometime. I've always thought he was kind of a bad, stagey actor, but I'm pretty sure that I must be just not getting it. ** David Ehrenstein, Hi, D. No, I haven't seen 'Dic'. Never heard of it until now. Sounds most curious. France doesn't have Netflix, but I'll put it in my surreptitious download queue. ** S., And that I do. Like them. Right, you saw our 'Teenage Hallucination' festival. I think you said that you and I shared a wall without me knowing it. Hope your weekend was very bon. ** James, Hi, James. 1991? Wow, yeah, you have a lot to catch up on. Experimental theater has the occasional very awesome thing in it. Mm, no publishers in particular spring to mind. But I'm not very savvy about that kind of stuff. Where are you currently planning to submit it? ** Misanthrope, You think? Uh, oh, you are coming over here! I wasn't sure. Yeah, mm, first try to book tickets yourself, and, if you can't get them, let me know. I think our regimen of comps are all used up, but, if you can't get tickets, I can surely pull something out of the hat somehow. Let me know. I probably won't be uber-busy, just moderately uber-busy, so hanging out and stuff shouldn't be a problem. Cool re: your sleep. I had sleeping problems this weekend. Pretty rare for me. I guess I'm stressed. ** _Black_Acrylic, Opening night, cool. Scary. Opening night are always scary. I'll be a wreck. Don't mind my wreckedness, if I seem wrecked. Very cool news about your TV show! Congrats, man, and your idea for it sounds really interesting, of course. Yeah, that's great and more great, Ben. ** Ken Baumann, Ken! I owe you an email. Forgive me. I'll do that today. So excited about your progress on 'A TASK'. So, so excited! Oh, dude, ha ha, get this: I was out searching re: putting together the next escorts post the other day, and there was an escort in Prague whose profile photos were pictures of you. I would direct link you to his ad, but it was on a membership site that has no direct linking. He seemed like a pleasant, easy going kind of escort. Too easy going, text-wise, to be useful for my gathering purposes. Otherwise, you would been 'an escort' for a month. Love, me. ** White tiger, Hi, Math! Mm, no, I don't know her birthday, actually. I'm seeing her today, so I'll ask. ** Grant maierhofer, Hi, G., thanks. Great about your novel being available for preorder. Everyone, the first novel by Grant Maierhofer, fantastic writer and d.l., is now available for preorder, and I can assure you, if you need assuring, that it's going to be pretty fucking great, so you might want to score a copy asap. It's called 'The Persistence of Crows', and you can preorder it right here. I quite liked the Trocchi I've read. A couple of books. Yeah, they were pretty tops. I'm not particularly invested in his mythology either. Mythical junkies are not my thing whatsoever. Hm, I might lift up a copy of something by him from a table or shelf next time I'm at Shakespeare & Co., and see how the prose feels. Thanks, man. ** Steevee, Hi. I can't remember why I wasn't into the Wardruna I heard. I'll take a listen to the album. ** MANCY, Thank you, man! ** Derek McCormack, Derek! My dear and incredible genius friend! Thank you ever so much for gracing my humble URL. And thank you for the sweet words re: Gisele's work. She's a fan of yours, and I'm seeing her today, and she'll be very happy to have your approval. Derek! So much love to you! ** Bill, Thanks, Bill. You are going to Korea! I think that seems like the right decision. Or I think that's the decision I would have made, were I you. That's a serious trip you've got coming up there. And we'll kind of practically be sort of neighbors since I'll be in Japan then. ** Chris Dankland, Hi, Chris! I'm really glad you liked the Gisele post. Yeah, thinking of work as a trap is something I think I share with Gisele, and it's interesting how different the 'traps' of literature/reading and theater/watching are. From the inside, at least. Listening of late? Hm, kind of random stuff, The new Nails album, still loving the new Wire album, Tom Verlaine/Television, the new Haxan Cloak album, the new Thee Oh Sees album, ... I need to hear the new Marnie Stern and Wavves. You know, I've never listened to Drake. Not a note. No reason for that, but I should rectify that missing part pronto, and I will. Sebadoh! 'III' and 'Weed Forestin' are fantastic. No, I don't think I have done a Sebadoh post, come to think of it. Weird. I think I tried at one point, but I think I remember that the video of 'As the World Dies, the Eyes of God Grow Bigger', which is one of my favorite songs ever, couldn't be imbedded, and I think that shut down my plans. But I just checked and saw that it is now embeddable, so no impediments remain. I'll do one of my 'gig' posts about them. Good idea. Oh, the new Deerhunter! I've been listening to that. How could I forget. It's wonderful. I'm not sure if Spotify is in France, and, if so, I don't belong to the site for no good reason whatsoever. Weird. I'll go find out and sign up if I can. The new R. Zombie is out/watchable and good? Awesome. Yeah, I loved 'House of ... ' so that's extremely good news. Thanks a lot, buddy. ** Pisy caca, Montse! Yay! You're back. I'm so happy! Yes, I got your email, and I wrote you back last night, so hopefully you got the missive and the news re: -- and my huge gratitude for -- your post! I love the new Deerhunter, of course! It's sinking in and sinking in magnificently. Lucky you to see them at Primavera. As is always the case with me and Deerhunter, I will be out of town when they play here, ugh. Tons of love to you! ** Nemo, Yeah, we can reschedule, or, yeah, maybe easiest is to get my cell # from Joel 'cos the landline sucks, as you know, and I'm not home all that much right now. ** Thomas Moronic, Hi, T! Thanks, man. 'Kindertotenlieder' is my very, very favorite of the works that G. and I have made together. For me, it's our pinnacle so far. Thanks again, and I hope all is massively great with you. ** Chris Goode, Chris! Yes! Thank you re: the Gisele post. That you thought it worked means a gigantic ton. That's interesting that the stills are good representations of the work. To me, they always seem kind of too dramatic and beautiful or something. But, obviously, I'm inside hugging the work's stressy skeleton or something. I do think it works better in stills than it does in video documentation. I'm not sure why. Anyway, your thoughts on why the stills work and why, and about the problematic nature of stills working well, is extremely interesting. And makes a ton of sense. It's true about Gisele and formalism, and about my stuff as well. It's always been curious to me that she can and does often speak about the emotion/confrontation in her work in the press whereas she never really talks about that to me when we're working. It's alway about shape, form, structure. And I'm the same way, yeah, except that I tend to talk formalism above all else when I'm interviewed. Strange. How do you handle that issue in interviews, I've forgotten? You know the Postcards from the Gods guy? That's cool. That's a terrific site, and he's very sharp. I look at that site all the time. Super huge luck and magic and stuff re: your upcoming week if you need vibe-shaped interference at all. Sounds amazing. You take incredibly good care, Chris, and bunches of love to you. ** Sypha, Hi, James. Well, the person I would have to tell is whoever runs theater venues in RI 'cos it's up to them. G. would jump at the chance of performing there if anyone there wanted her stuff. I don't know about a DVD. I don't think her/our work is very well represented by video documentation. Something important gets very lost. But maybe a DVD will happen, I don't know. You're reading 'THIALH'! What do you think? ** Chilly Jay Chill, Hi, Jeff. I wrote to you this morning, so just give me an email shout back when you like. Hard to talk about the new piece yet. Um, I think it's interesting because it's, in some ways, quite different from the other works. It's very minimal, very much a dance piece, just two performers, and 80% of the time just one performer, Anya, with a short section at the end with a 12 year old boy performer. Also, as I think I explained, the text is not onstage but in a book that serves as Part 1 of the piece. The piece is in three parts, and they're presented in reverse order: part 3 then part 2 then part 1. The audience receives the book and is asked to it read after the live performance part is over. That's a risky idea that may or may not work, I'm not sure, but I don't think that has ever been done in theater before, as far as I know. And of course the stage set -- a kind of tunnel of led lights -- with its constant lighting effects is different, and ... I don't know. I think it's a good piece, and I'm not at all sure what people will think. I really can't tell. Oh, mm, let me think about your 'T the Wonder' question. It's an excellent question, but I had bad sleep last night, and my brain is not being very subtle or cooperative this morning. ** Rewritedept, Hi. Glad you like 'Godlike', cool. My weekend was okay. Quiet. Writing and pre-trip organizing and stuff. Cool about the imminent collaging. Maybe late this week for Skyping. Let me see how it goes the next couple of days. I'm a bit crazed with theater/Scandinavian trip stuff, but hopefully there'll be some down time. You have a wonderful Monday too. ** Armando, Hi, man! Thanks a lot about 'LS:AP'. Really, about the new Stooges album? The reviews I've read have been pretty down on it. Huh, I'll try it. How you are doing, my friend? ** Okay. I made another stack. Not a lot of people's favorite kind of post, but making them interests me a lot, and I guess you just have to bear with me, ha ha. See you tomorrow.