Hi, DC's. My name is Katherine. I write poetry and I live in Omaha. That's me in the gif. I love DC's and I've wanted to make a post for you for a long time. I wanted to do something more intellectual for you but honestly this post is where I'm at. I'm dead serious. Please don't write anything snarky about Johan or make fun of me. I know you wouldn't but I thought I should ask. I love DC and this blog and everyone here. Thank you.
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p.s. Hey. Today a silent reader of the blog has a share and a confession and an illustrated plea for understanding and a present for us, and I hope you will receive this lovely gift with your usual grace and words of supportive whatever you like. Thanks, and thank you so much for making this place look so nice today, Katherine. ** Armando, Yeah, me too, about living there. You bet. I have finding out everything I can about that Kristof film adaptation on my agenda for today. Thanks, and all the best to you, pal. ** Scunnard, Cool, man. Hands across the water. ** Kingdom slide, Hi, D! Yeah, the Manierisme stuff is very odd and dense and nice. And controversial in the Black Metal scene 'cos it doesn't toe the lines, which, of course, is why it's seductive. Oh, I didn't think of the mining I wanted to do in a poetic sense or as having a poetic outcome, which was a fatal problem, I think. I wanted the mining to be in the form of a kind of confessional rant-like thing wherein emotion would strip the prose to something technically unforthcoming, plain, and spontaneous but porous because the mess it was would have a reverberating quality maybe. I wasn't thinking of the Kip Kinkel confession specifically, but I think that was kind of the idea. Accidental art or an art-like effect at most, I guess. I could easily have been referring to the novel as nonfiction early on as it took me a while to war my way into what I wanted it to be, or rather to war my way into what turned out to be the wrong way I wanted it to be. There are sections, scenes that might be powerful if removed and isolated, I'm not sure. I'm going to give what I wrote a rest for a while. Yeah, I'm hesitant to talk about my issues with HTMLG du jour here, I guess because I don't want what I say to be quoted and copied and pasted and mutated and infected with other people's opinions and agendas about that place and become some kind of groundwork for a mass attack on or defense of the site. Maybe we can talk privately, if you like, do a Skype or something. If memory serves, and it might not, I don't think my issues with the site are the same issues you mentioned having with it, but, like I said, I'm not sure if my memories are whole. Yeah, I'm excited for Halloween in LA, and I should/will get in touch with Jared pre-trip. How's he doing? Have a great one today, man. ** Lee, I'm okay with the sun here too. It's, like, just on the cusp of being a little unpleasant in a kind of generous way or something. Oh, that's okay about the delay re: you coming over here. I'm totally okay with it and flexible and happy whenever and just glad things go well where and how you are. I would say read the Tao Lin, but I'm not a big Kraus fan, so take my pick accordingly. ** S., Lycra would do that, wouldn't it? Huh, interesting. Everyone, please consider pulling your eyes away from Mr. Lantz long enough to give the other side of the coin your consideration, i.e. S.'s latest stack among stacks Lycra Emo, which, in fact, is slightly less Emo than you might expect. It's possible to sit in a room and write while having fun, or at least while pausing for fun on occasion. Maybe. I get a little queasy at the top of the Eiffel Tower too. So, I don't go there every day, that's for sure. Unfortunately, I am something like 431 friends over my friend limit on FB, so I can't request your friendship. I hate that place sometimes. Much love back for all kinds of reasons. ** Un Cœur Blanc, Hi! Sugimoto is so wonderful, right? I'm so glad you liked 'Bell'. Thanks for the link. I'll use it and find out what's there in a little bit. Thank you for your words about the George novel. What your mentor said is very beautiful. A post of any kind from you would be a tremendous honor, thank you so much. ** David Ehrenstein, Ha ha, weird is a funny accusation coming from a man who subsequently linked to a Peter Allen video. ** Tosh Berman, Hi, Tosh, Yes, yes, very wise thoughts about that difference between West and East. I thought the same thing, albeit much less cogently and brilliantly put. ** Jeff, Hi, Jeff! Bondage Fruit came within a hair's breadth of being in the gig, and only didn't end up there because the gig got too long before they sprang to mind. I don't think I know Demi Semi Quaver. Thank you. I'll check them out beginning with your link really shortly. Very best to you. ** Chris Goode, Hi, Chris. Wow, you've seen Nakamura and Sugimoto and Tone live? Wow. That must have been incredible. Well, your amazing description makes very clear that it was. Man, I'm going to check my local gig listings much more obsessively than I've been doing. I'm sure I've done a bunch of other Japanese music posts here, yeah. A Merzbow one, for sure. Maybe a Boredoms and offshoots one. And probably even a previous 'gig'. I listen to a lot of music from there. I do know some Tetuzi Akiyama, and I really like what I've heard. I have a couple of his albums, and some collab stuff he did with Ambarchi/Licht and Sugimoto. Yeah, I think he's great, and I'm going to get me some more of his stuff maybe even today. Thanks. 'A managed descent', yeah, I know, and the fatal crash has a weirdly comforting prescience when imagined, the horrible beauty of the total break, but, friend-wise, being me and where I am, there's comfort in the soft descent and the fact that descents don't always end up being descents, it's strange. Hugs, my friend and hero. Tokyo via work, yes, very well worth fighting for. I hope you will. Love right back. Feel it? ** Hyrule Dungeon, Hey! It's so great to see you! Awesome! Oh, well, sorry about Brown, but it could easily not have been the context for you and your work, like you kind of said. Interesting, huh, yeah, about you angling toward the Sci-Fi genre. Yeah, there's definitely some sense in that. And, I don't know, of course, given that Sci-Fi is a thing I have never investigated with anything close to thoroughness, but I sense a openness or something there. Great about the novel! You know I loved the piece you kindly shared here a lot. All that stuff you're working on just excites me no end, man. You sound great. That's so nice! I'll go read the snip from your Thesis text when I get done here. I'm good. Been traveling a bunch, which has a lot to do with why I'm good. I'm working on a early stage novel and a few collabs and other stuff. Stuff is good. So good to see you. Please stick around if it suits and pleases you, J. ** Kier, Not so bad, excellent, pal! I figure good and not so bad are pretty similar. My sleep seems to have kicked back into its normal gear as of two nights ago, I think. No, I haven't heard from or of Nick Brook in a very long time. I think about him a lot. I wonder how he is and what he's doing. Such a brilliant guy. I hope he's okay. I hope he'll stop by one or day or start letting the world at large in on what he's working on. Love from me! ** _Black_Acrylic, Thanks, Ben. Oh, Perfume, cool. Posters and images of Perfume were kind of ubiquitous when I was in Tokyo. Everywhere I looked, almost. They must be at one of their peaks or something. Thanks a lot for the clip link. I'll use it in a minute. ** Esther Planas, All hail our happiness wavelength! You were almost asleep, and I'm almost awake at the moment. More wavelength madness. Lots of love. ** Misanthrope, I came 'this close' to subtitling that gig 'Sounds from George's Alley'. I'm sure Justin will come around. Exactly, about the obit. Yeah, I knew his name was Dickerson somehow. I think I once asked him if he was related to an old boyfriend of mine named Rob Dickerson. He never answered me. I can't snap my fingers, or not with the impressive pop that finger snapping is supposed to create, so you're safe. ** The Man Who Couldn't Blog, Hi, Matthew! Always so cool to see you here! I don't think I know Gerogerigegege. I just clicked over and tried it, and the first some-odd seconds were sufficient to keep the window with their video in it open and slid over to the left side of my desktop, where said video is now loading and will accompany whatever I do next. Iow, thank you, sir. You good? ** Steevee, As a recent victim of feet pain whilst at the tail end of my Japan trip, I wish you nothing but peace from the ankles down. ** Rewritedept, That's your favorite Boris song? It's a fave of mine too. Cool. No, you never told me about your AMT experience. Weird and interesting. You gonna practice sans guitarist? Maybe that would be an interesting experiment? Yeah, I got some work done on the novel yesterday, thanks. Tentative congrats on your maybe entering your second chapter. ** Right. Do what Katherine has asked you to do today, please. And react kindly and accordingly. Thank you. See you tomorrow.