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p.s. RIP: Jan Hoet. Hey. As always with these sorts of posts, apologies for the gradual if ever page load. ** Marcus Whale, Marcus! Hey, man, so great to see you! I'm actually seeing Gisele today, and I'll ask her if there has been any progress on getting the theater stuff down there. I would say that Zac's and my film would be an Australian shoo-in, but, ha ha, our producers said to us, You know, this film will probably never get shown in Australia. I guess your laws about the sexually explicit are a bit tough, but we'll try. I think you can get all of the later Bresson films on DVD legitimately except for 'Four Nights of a Dreamer' and 'Un Femme Douce', which are held back due to rights issues or something. There's a low quality bootleg of 'FNoaD' for sale out there if you do a search. I own that, and it's better than nothing, but it looks pretty crappy. There's a link to some google spot where it says you watch it, probably that same bad boot version, but I couldn't get the player to work. You can try. That's here. I've never seen even a boot of 'Un Femme Douce'. Otherwise, the late Bresson films are officially out there. So, how are you? What's going on? I would love to know. ** David Ehrenstein, Morning, maestro. ** Paul Curran, Hi, Paul. I think I read on FB just moments ago that Tosh is en route back to LA. ** Steevee, Thanks much for your read on the second part of 'Nymphomaniac'. Yeah, that sounds like par for Von Trier's course and kind of what I expected. It was definitely tiring to audition guys for eight hours. Brain-drain tired. Especially because a few of them only speak French, in which case Zac did all the talking/asking, and I had to concentrate hard to translate /understand them as best I could. But, tiredness aside, it was fantastically interesting and very pleasant. Everyone was so cool. For that first round, we didn't have them read from the script. I gave them an old text I wrote that was basically a kind of wandering, casual, but complicated monologue, and we were basically just paying attention to the sound of their voices and whether/how they would act it out, hoping they wouldn't act it out since we're planning to take a kind of Bressonian approach with the dialogue and performing in general. ** Ken Baumann, Ken! Wowzer, it's you, right here where you partly belong, not to be possessive or anything, ha ha. Man oh man. This is nice! I'm still trying to finish a post about the Antarctica trip, but it's really difficult to get it into a worthy place. Anyway, long story in a word: it was unbelievable, mind-boggling, amazing. Oh, at first it made me sad that LA seems to have lost its magnetism for you, but then I felt sad and weird that I felt that way. Strange.Wow, St. Johns sounds really remarkable. I mean what it's requiring of and doing for you. So, kind of what you'd hoped, no? No, I don't have 'Earthbound', the book yet, only due to all the traveling and access disorganization, but I'm dying for it, and I'm going to punch 'Buy' as soon as I sign off here today. I did read that excerpt that got posted, and it was crazy great. Dude, I've missed you a bunch, and so hugs galore for letting me see you through the magical inadequacy of language. Huge love to you and A! ** Rewritedept, Howdy, C. Thanks again so much. The weekend ruled inordinately. 'Propeller' is a goodie. So's the other just-pre-'Bee Thousand' wonderwork 'Vampires on Titus'. Yep, I got 'Teenage Satanists 2' handed to me in person. One of the perks of sharing a city with KP. I traded him a 'Weaklings (XL)'. 'TS' rocks to say the least. Second day of auditions also went really well. We're meeting later today to decide which guys we want to have come back for the second round of auditions in a week and a half. Yes, I meant CB. My weekend was very productive and tiring and exhilarating. Not bad. ** les mots dans le nom, Hi. What is the chapter about, if you can say? My grandmother was a taxidermist, and I grew up in a house full of stuffed animals and birds and reptiles and stuff. No peacocks, though, but wild peacocks wandered the streets of our neighborhood. ** Sypha, It was indeed Halloween-themed, as I recall. And super sharp and sweet, yep. What's the new story going to be about, or what is your hopeful projected storyline, I guess I mean? ** Pilgarlic, Hi, pal. Well, it still has explicit, porn-like sex in it, at least in theory and in planning, so hopefully it'll be a sort of 'cake (art) and eat it too (porn)' situation. There's a ton of dialogue in it, often during the sex itself. Big experiment there. Let's see ... I think, yes, there'll be some articulate verbal output at money shot time, although I'm not sure they'll be money shots. I don't know. We're still developing the visual style and stuff. It'll be easier to say this summer when we hopefully shoot it. ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi, Ben. Cool, I definitely want to see 'UtS' then. I saw posters for it, so it must be around here or almost. Great that the rough cut is looking so good! Awesome! ** Bill, Hi, B. Cool re: the photos organization, if it interests you and if you don't mind. Gotcha on the photo inadequacy. That's the big problem with the Antarctica post I've been trying and failing to make. It just doesn't translate. Holy shit, you were at that temple in the photo? Of course I've seen it in photos and have been given fairytales in return. Wow! ** Kyler, Hi, man. Oh, no, no, no offense at all. I realize that I haven't really talked about the film here since it became more (or less?) than a porn film. There has been lots of development that's too blah blah-requiring to explain at the moment. So, yeah, totally understood. ** MANCY, Hey! Thanks, man, nice to be back. Thanks about the last stack. Here's another one, but simple(r) for better or worse. Lucky you to get to see Thou. This weekend is the PRESENCES électronique festival here, and I'm going to catch as much as I can: Matmos, Mark Fell, Fennesz, Mimetic, etc. New yours on Vimeo! Sweetness! I'll click and luxuriate in those two in just a few minutes from now. Thanks! Everyone, masterful visual/motion artist Steven Purtill aka d.l. MANCY has a couple of new video works up and ready to be watched on Vimeo, and, if you're a Purtill fan, you know that doing link travel to said treasures is crucial, and, if you aren't an acolyte yet, hopefully you can feel the magnetic pull. Go here. It's great that you seem to be getting a lot of work finished and out lately. Exciting/excited! And I'm glad that you got to see 'Stemple Pass' and liked it. Always and definitely much better to see Benning's work on a screen. Cool, man. Great to see you! ** L@rstonovich, Larsty, my bud! How the heck and even hell are you? Lucky you re: 'Breadcrumb Trail'. I so want to see that. I just read Drew Daniels' excellent piece on Slint in The Wire, and I'm especially anxious (to see it). Yeah, you good? ** Right. If my stack loads and works, I hope it suits. See you guys tomorrow.