Carla Bozulich has the sort of voice that makes me on edge. It’s almost paranormal. When she sings/whispers/shouts/screams/soothes it feels like the voice is in the room. She’s amazing, essentially. She is also prolific, with an artistic drive that thankfully never seems to stop. She has collaborated with Nels Cline, Willy Nelson, Xiu Xiu, Lydia Lunch and so on. There’s a versatility and a singularity to her work. I adore her. I guess if you haven’t heard her stuff before, then if you like it you can go Google-ing after you’ve listened to this stuff. Onwards …
http://www.carlabozulich.com/
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p.s. Hey. Today the maestro of prose and poetry and d.l.-dom Thomas Moronic puts the very special Carla Bozulich in the blog's catbird seat. You're so in for the veritable treat, so please take advantage, and say whatever stuff you want to our guest-host, thank you. And thank you, Thomas, truly! Just so you know, if you didn't already: tomorrow's p.s. will be my last before I head off into Japan for a few weeks. I'll explain how the blog will behave in my general absence in the morning. ** Thomas Moronic, Host! Thank you personally or in person or 'in person' for the multi-senses-aimed feast today! I think such a chapbook of slave responses would be something very special, yes. I did get the card situation negotiated, thank goodness, so that's one less thing to stress about. Japan, I know, whoa, right? ** Grant Scicluna, Hi, Grant. Oh, older Tadzio, that could be quite interesting. Unless my memory is failing me, I don't think Tadzio grows up in the novella. I think he is left permanently perfect, so to speak. The George novel is dead. It died some months back. I couldn't make it work. Not a happy decision and outcome at all, but I had to give up on it. There are parts that did work and might be salvageable, but now I'm in the early stages of working on a different novel, related in a certain or deep way to the George one, but not centered on him. Too early to explain it well yet. ** Bill, Hi, Bill. I'm expecting heat and humidity in Japan too. We're going now because it theoretically is not supposed to be too hot/humid there in June, but the weather forecasts there are saying otherwise. We have a long list of things to do in Tokyo. Too many things to be able to actually do, I think. We have no schedule there at all at the moment, other than one project-related meeting, but I think we'll start organizing our time and activities in advance on the plane trip there probably. Oh, Kabuki theater. That's a good idea. I hadn't even thought of that. Yeah, that would be really good. I'll see if my traveling buddy is up for that. ** Chris Cochrane, Whoa, hi, Chris! Majorly awesome to see you, my dear friend. Me? I'm real good, going to Japan tomorrow, so real good and yet a bit stressed pre-trip. That's so exciting about your record! Holy shit! At long last! I'll be, well, already am dying to hear that! Yeah, it's been too long since we've gotten to see and perform with each other. I guess November is the next one. I think that gig is a done deal now, right? Me, I'm working on a different novel than I was. I'm also working on some collaborations: a multi-media book centered around the fruits of a recent Scandinavia theme park-oriented trip a friend and I took, a possible film/documentary about the fog artist Fujiko Nakaya, and the long dormant porn film I wrote and wanted to make a few years ago might be back on the front-ish burner and would be co-made with my friend/the amazing artist Zac. So, I'm good, I'm busy and productive. I haven't talked to Ish re: reviving anything lately. I'm figuring he needs some time to get back to perfect health, and I'm thrilled to hear that he is. Anyway, that's me and mine right now. Mega-love to you, Chris. ** Scunnard, Banks, fuck, whoa. I guess I have to finally get off my ass and set up a second bank account in France. It would make things so much easier, even though it sounds like French banks are as awful as their American counterparts. I can't stand Pearl Jam. Never could stand them and surely never will. Every time I hear Guns n Roses playing somewhere, as I did in some store just yesterday, all I can think about is how bad and stupid their lyrics are. I think that's the wrong approach to reach an appreciation of them. ** S., Hi. 'Nothing Else Matters', maybe. I can't remember what that is at the moment. Thanks for infiltrating and being infiltrated by the slaves' ways with words, man. New Chains record ... oh, right, I read about that? Without Staley, I don't know. Maybe I'll try a bit of it. New blog stuff! I'll be over there lickety-split. Everyone, new blog stuff of an Emo bent by the mighty S. has had its doors opened thusly. Oh, wait, never mind 'cos our serial deleting friend has done it again. ** Gary gray, I don't know if you said it to me before. Even if so, I'm a nudge needer at the best of times. You're doing xtube stuff? Okay, I'll go search for your username and see what's going on in just a bit. Sounds, you know, fascinating. Like I said, I'm trying to revive a porn film project I started and failed at a few years ago right now. Not sure if I should forefront that username information or not due to the complicated tonality of your 'between us' entreaty, so I won't until/if you tell me to. If you catch 'The Pyre' in Amsterdam, it's probably pretty cool to see when you're high. Not to encourage drug use or anything, but I'm saying, if you see it there and just happen to be altered, you might not miss a thing. Church on acid, spooky, or, okay, nice, I can imagine that. But spooky was my kneejerk initial response. ** Tosh Berman, Hi, Tosh. Thanks for the seconding of the Kabuki recommendation. I'll move it way up the list. I don't have a credit card, no. Just a debit/Visa card. That's all I use. I assume that'll work just fine in Japan like it does elsewhere, or, god, I hope so. Oh, we're getting a JR Rail Pass today. I don't know about the pasmo card, but I'll investigate that this morning before I head over to the Rail Pass office. Will do re: Kiichiro, and thank so much again! ** David Ehrenstein, Hi, D. I never met or even saw Hollis Frampton, so it's all just about his films for me, and I like them. I guess, re: Greenaway, I don't care about his actors giving good performances. His actors seem like game pieces to me, and sometimes I like what he does with them and how they fulfill his plans, and sometimes I don't. ** Nemo, Hi, man. Okay, I'll try to figure what's going on with me and where I'll be in December asap. Love to you! ** Steevee, Hi. Oh, sweet about the Almodovar interview. Mm, I can't think of any questions offhand, but ... Everyone, Steevee is going to interview Pedro Almodovar. Any burning questions that you wish he would ask the maestro? If so, say so. Your friend's script suggestion sounds real good, yeah. I don't know, I mean, I write about things I've never done all the time, and my imagination seems to make them effectively real in some way or something. ** Rigby, So nice to have you around here again, man. I'm really happy about that. Missy's gone? Like, ... right, so he should be back home now, right. K is cool. I liked her a lot. Spellcheck is cool except that it doesn't recognize the word 'trippy', which I use a lot, and it always changes it to triply. See, I typed trippy and it came out as triply. That's kind of annoying. ** Statictick, Hi, N. Oh, cool that you made it to see Mike's piece/ project. I hope I can someday. No, I never ended up getting to the Biennial, sadly, so unless those films were in his retrospective, I haven't seen them. Good luck with the camera sneaking. ** Chris Dankland, Hi, Chris. Awesome that the project is underway. So, 2 Fast 2 Furious won, did it? I'm excited to read the interview with you! Everyone, read the following sentence and click where indicated for reasons that must be obvious: ' A few days ago Chris Dankland left the below post in the Facebook group ‘AltLit Gossip (spread)’. Now what was seemingly a shot in the dark appears to be gaining momentum as a giant collaborative project featuring some very talented writers. I interviewed Chris to find out more about his idea.' I think the Evenson novelization thing was a gun for hire thing he probably did mostly for the dough. I would read one of his real books under his own name to see what he does and if it's of interest. You have a good to even great Monday! ** Rewritedept, Hi. The debit card thing sucked royally, but it's resolved, and I'm trying not to think about the expense and shit involved in resolving it anymore. 'Trainspotting' is real good. I'm heading to the land of sushi, although, not eating fish, I don't think I'll get much advantage out of my proximity. My weekend involved a bunch of debit card stress, a last seemingly really good performance of 'The Pyre', and trip preparations, and I think that was about it. High five about the amp. Oops and maybe grr about the interesting home life developments. Later on, Funkster. ** Jeff, Hi, Jeff! Thanks for the debit card commiserations. Oh, uh, I'll figure out what I can try to do about you getting the Bladh book. It's kind of crazy right now, though, 'cos I go to Japan tomorrow. I would ask Bladh directly, yeah, if I were you. He's a really nice guy. I think he would respond to your request warmly at the very least. But I'll see if I can do something else on my end once I get all my errands run today. Take care, man. ** Okay. Attend TM's CB gig now if you haven't already. You'll be glad, if you aren't already. I will see you tomorrow.