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p.s. Hey. ** Thomas Moronic, Hi, T. Thanks for talking to the dudes. Pettibon's videos are pretty terrific, if you can manage to see them. There are only those two short clips online, which surprises me. Mm, I think Pettibon's work is amazingly not samey and predictable given the tight focus of his form. I feel like if you actually spend time with them individually, they're almost always incredibly rich and deep and fresh and singular in only the best way. Much more so, to my mind, than is the case with the great majority of artists who only make paintings or drawings or photographs or other things whose mode of public presentation is very familiar. ** Gary gray, Hi. I don't know of those two workshop programs, which doesn't really mean anything. It always depends on who else is in the workshop, and who knows. I hope they're helpful. I was going to recommend that you take the private workshop conducted by Benjamin Weissman, a great writer, but I checked, and it's already in progress and almost over, and I think he only does them in the summer. Let me know how the one-day one goes. Yeah, I'm lining up some amazing upcoming trips that will require a passport. Like Antarctica for sure in February, of all crazy places to go. And Japan again in January, I'm pretty sure. Etc. Bon day! ** MyNeighbourJohnTurtorro, Hello again to you, neighbor. It's weird and sad when that happens with old friends. It's so strange when people get dogged about the past and set in founded opinions and feelings and wary of the present. I'll never understand it. Yeah, 'Jerk' played in a few UK places, including Edinburgh, I'm pretty sure. Video documentation, I'm not sure. I'll ask Gisele. She has all that stuff. You should pop over to Paris sometime when we're doing something if that's not too daunting. The 'Jerk' farewell performances are happening here in November, but I think they're all in French, I'm not sure. You too on the weird sleep thing. We're not alone either. Strange. I wonder what's going on. Take care 'til very soon, I hope. ** HyeMin Kim, Hi. Pettibon likes Celan a lot, so that could even have been a Celan quote. 'Strange Landscape' is fantastic, yeah. I wish someone would reprint it. Of course I'll like your chain. For sure. I'm excited. Thank you again. Very lovely lullabye too! ** Jack, Jack! Mr, Kimball! What a total pleasure to have you here, sir. Thank you! There is not a day that I don't visit and savor Pantaloons. I hope you are having the time of your life, maestro. ** Rewritedept, Hi. I saw what you said about 'HotH' and the Stones song, yeah. I don't own 'HotH', but I'll go do a youtube hunt for the tune, obviously. Phaidon should definitely do a Henson book. Yeah, his two great books are way o.o.p. and way expensive now. It's crazy. Oh, yeah? I kind of really like what's going on musically right now, but it's true that the wing I spend most of my time in is what you called experimental. In that realm, things are really hopping these days. Mm, I don't think I agree with you about the decay of song craft off the top of my head. I think the craft has just gotten necessarily more complex and referential and reactive and etc. due to there being so much history of examples out there maybe. If you want to hear newness and at least attempts at vacuum creation and originality, you always need to gravitate towards the 'experimental', I think. If you only want to hear trad-derived rock/pop songs, you're mostly going hear a lot of familiarity. Nature of the beast or something. I don't know. As I understand it, I think Raymond lives full-time in NYC now. I don't think he's in LA much at all anymore. ** David Ehrenstein, Hi, D. ** Tosh Berman, Hi, Tosh. I've never been able to take naps except when severely jet lagged or ill. My body/brain just won't turn off unless I'm so sleepy that I'm a zombie. What I really need to do is to fly to some other country with a vastly different time zone right now and confuse my body clock so much that it breaks its rigid pattern. But I can't, and I managed to sleep until almost 6 am last night, which is huge, so I'm going to try to do whatever it takes to use that momentum tonight. Thanks for the commiseration. T. Hope you got a nice nap. ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi, Ben. Cool that you're a Pettibon fan. Yeah, there are a zillion books of/on Pettibon's work, but that Phaidon book is really one of the very best introductions, I think. ** Chris Dankland, Hi, Chris! So glad you liked it. I always think of Pettibon as a kind of ultimate writers' artist. I've been kind of surprised, actually, that he isn't mentioned and name-checked by alt writers hardly ever since I think there's some kind of deep, inherent connection between what he does and what a lot of those writers are doing. It's like he's the father of the literary meme in a weird way, for instance. That Phaidon book you found out about is very good and not expensive. I interview Raymond in it. Big internet hugs back to you, my friend. I hope all is great on your end, and that your writing is going really, really well. ** Steevee, Makes sense about the skipping thing. Well, it is summer, and even though I don't think editors take summer vacations the way they maybe used to, it does seem like they often the excuse of it being summer to take their non-sweet time doing their jobs. ** Jeff, Hi, Jeff. It's definitely possible that Branca's 6th was on my list, yeah. I can't remember precisely, but, yeah. How's that Antosca book? I'm curious about it. David Fremann: you know, that name looks so familiar. Hm. I'm kind of brain fried from sleep problems, so I'll have to go google his name to see if I've read him. If he's a pal and comrade of Peter's, it seems like I must have read him. Oh, you linked me to that forum, cool, thank you a lot! I'll start by looking there as soon as I get out of here. All the best to you too, buddy! ** Misanthrope, In front of the Sorbonne, you say. I think that's a little too Abramovician for me. Oh, you're the originator of the sleep problems! Curse on your first born! It is possible that I'm psychic, right? Anything is possible, right? And the messiness going on down there already makes it seem like the situation for LS is anything but set in stone. What are Bauer and The Mutineers? Jack Bauer? No, I haven't heard the MGMT. I'll try it. I'm not in love with their stuff, but I'll give it a go. Heck, I even tried out the new Gaga single yesterday, so, obviously, I'm an adventurous tester. ** Chilly Jay Chill, Hi, Jeff. Thanks, man. No sweat on the low res thing. It was easy-peasy. Oh, man, another guest-post thing? Thank you, thank you! 'Leviathan' ... no, I don't think it was here, but I've been away a lot and could have missed it. 'The Grandmasters' opens here in ... September, I think? Did you see it? ** Robert-nyc, Howdy, Robert! Blogger, jeez, it's so fucked up, and it never gets its problems fixed. Really glad that post let you know about Pettibon's non record cover work. Me too, on the sleep thing going away. Weirdest thing ever, for me at least. Yay! About the book preorder availability! I like the cover. It's cool. Everyone, mighty poet and long term d.l. Robert-nyc aka Robert Siek has a new book of poems coming out pronto, and you can preorder it and feast your eyes on the cover by clicking this word, or, rather, these words. Do it! Oh, David White, sure. That's cool if not cool about the truncated party aspect, obviously. Take care. ** Flit, Hi, Flit. You got it! Polyrhythmic! Couldn't have put it better myself, unless I'd said dibble flash, but then you already said that too! If you yourself typing words here isn't a magic portion, I don't know what is. Awww, ha ha. ** Okay. There's a stack today. Do with it what you will. See you tomorrow.