Yukari Ehara
Slinkachu
Ben Sack
Takahiro Iwasaki
Donald Eigler, Crommie, and Christopher Lutz
Vincent Bousserez
Vik Muniz
Cerkahegyzo
Malcolm Douglas Chaplin
Anatoly Konenko
Lisa Swerling
Osaka engineers
Yury Deulin
Frederik De Wilde
Wendy Originals
Jonah Samson
IBM
Hasan Kale
dOvetastic
Eldon Garnet
Mykola Syadristy
Maurizio Cattelan
Anatoliy Konenko
Anastassia Elias
Matthew Albanese
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p.s. Hey. ** Dom Lyne, Hi, Dom. Aw, thanks for ordering the thing. Awesome, and thanks a lot for sending me the novel and the printed eBook! Sweet! I'll start eyeing my mailbox like a stop watch. Bon Monday, and love right back. ** Torn porter, Hi, T. Leve's stuff in English in Paris? Very limited options ever since the fairly great English language-oriented Village Voice bookshop closed down a while back. I fear Shakespeare & Co. is your only hope. Their stock of French books translated into English is better than their purely English language book stock, so you never know. If you mean in French, it should be pretty easy. The best French bookshop in Paris I know of is Le Cahiers de Colette, 23 rue Rambuteau, near the Pompidou. I'm really good, super busy with the film prep, but really good. Yeah, I'll try to find some schedule space this week, and it would be great to meet up. Good morning or afternoon or ... good whenever you look at this. ** Lee, Howdy, Lee! Really good to see you, man! Writing what? I mean, what are you writing? I don't know that Joshua Ramey book on Deleuze, no. My pal Zac is a big Deleuze fan, so I'll ask him about it. Interesting. I don't think I even know who Giordano Bruno and Pico della Mirandola are, but I think I get Deleuze, but, yeah, I could be seeing him from outer space or something. Best wishes laser-targeted back into your invisibility, my friend. ** Bill, I ended up finding a streaming version of Eurovision, so I watched it from my computer. The French band were awful, no surprise, and only got 2 votes, which seems to happen to the French entry every year. You still in Copenhagen? ** David Ehrenstein, We all need movie scoring or writing or something gigs, clearly. I mean big movies. Ha ha, 'windmills of my mind', good one, ha ha. ** les mots dans le nom, Hi. I would guess my big eyes were a combination of deciding to widen them to their full extent for some reason, enhanced, yes, by cocaine, if I'm remembering my recreational life at that time correctly. I actually did imbibe a good amount of coffee and bread this past weekend, how did you know? Yeah, I think the price of 'Gone' basically just covers the press's costs. Yeah, scissors and the worst kind of glue I could have possibly used -- rubber cement -- as far as longevity goes. The scrapbooks are gradually yellowing into oblivion. Your comments are great. No worries about that. Everyone has their own levels of energy and interest and time and so on here, I think. It works fine. ** Will C., Hi, Will! Glad you came back. Office assistant doesn't sound bad at all. Well, I guess it would depend on the office, obviously. But you're okay with it, and if it's an opened door, cool. Hope your weekend was swell. Was it? ** Tosh Berman, Hi, Tosh. No, I don't think the Burroughs scrapbooks have been published, and I don't know why. I think they're easily among his very best works, and, in the case of a couple of them, almost assuredly his best work. Very strange. Maybe the current owners are holding out for big money and/or some giant publisher or something? ** _Black_Acrylic, Oh, very interesting about the Annotated 'Lolita'. I will definitely have a look at that. Very cool to see that stack of Art101 imagery. Very intriguing. Most curious. Wow. ** Kiddiepunk, Mikey! Thanks, buddy. Let's hang and shoot the shit pronto! ** Steevee, Auditions are such a crapshoot. I'm sorry your first day didn't go better. Keep at it, though. If Zac's and my experience is anything to go by, find the right performers is a long process. ** Sypha, Thanks, pal. Are Bret's archives somewhere? Probably. I imagine you could at least see the outlines if they are and if you want to make a pilgrimage/field trip to said location. Your book has a Roger Dean cover mock-up, wow, ha ha. That's ... trippy. ** Keaton, Morning, K. Thanks a bunch about the scrapbook, man. Strange craft, it is. Have you managed to do some crafting? ** Randomwater, Hey! Traveling is so great. I never used to travel much at all, but my friend Zac's and my wanderlusts have rubbed two sticks together or something and lit the fire of that happening or something less ridiculously metaphoric. Japan! Go to Japan! It's so fantastic! Oh, I really, really want to see and get 'Celadon'! How can I do that? You'll tell me, right? ** Kier, Hi, K. Yeah, I'll put a feeler out re: my SPD idea very soon and see if there are enough people into the idea to give it a shot. Don't scratch your wound too much. Or, I don't know ... man, I just channeled my mother or something when I said that. Weird. Never mind, scratch away. Is it getting better because or despite your fingerwork? Ha ha, I love that dream. Whoa! ** Schoolboyerrors, Hi. Thanks, man. I think the Burroughs scrapbooks are owned by some big collector in Switzerland, last I heard. I'm not sure if I'm up to date, though. It's truly bizarre that his scrapbooks haven't been published. They really are amazing. Better than a bunch of his novels. Oh, wow, I don't think I can be much help on the romance/sex thing. I'm a really romantic, head over heels in love type when it has happened, and, in between that happening, which is always out of the blue and rarely and very unexpectedly, I've never looked for a relationship. When I've been solo, I've been totally content. So the whole dating and see what happens thing is really foreign to me. Which is just my weird way of approaching that stuff. I was really impacted when I was a teen by Rimbaud's famous 'love must be reinvented' thing, and I always feel like looking for it via conventional routes sets up too much pre-determined stuff around love or something. I trust fate and stumbling and all that. But then I've hardly become a maestro of love or anything as a result. Anyway, see, I told you I'm not big help about that stuff, ha ha. You're awesome and you'll find whatever it is you want, I'm positive. ** Jonathan, Hi, J! You should scan your scrapbooks sometime. I, for one, feel a little slobbery imagining them. Slobbery in the good way. Yeah, a new Leve book is due. 'Works'. Due any minute in fact aka this coming June. I did enjoy Eurovision in the way that one can. I kind of was disappointed that it wasn't a jaw-droppingly tacky at times this year. Nothing really stood out to me. I'm glad Austria won, all things considered. My hood is good, yeah, thanks. Yours sounds pretty good. ** Paul Curran, Hi, Paul! Aw, thanks a lot, man! Martin just wrote to me and asked if he could publish the scrapbook. I guess he saw it at Fales. And I said, Sure. So, it was easy. And, on a really awful but important (to me) note, if Martin hadn't scanned the scrapbook, I might never have found out that Fales had defaced and censored and kind of destroyed the scrapbook behind my back without my knowledge or permission. That has made things kind of ugly between Fales and me, but at least I know, and having the scrapbook published, even in its permanently wounded version, is really cool, obviously. ** Misanthrope, Ha ha, the scary Williams Twins. I can see that. I met one of them, David, once, but later when he was in his 20s. My boyfriend at the time that I made the scrapbook on show yesterday, Chris, had previously been boyfriends with a guy who had dumped him to become boyfriends with the very same David Williams, and I met David at a very tense dinner between the four of us. He seemed quite nice. Wow, cool about the no roaming charges thing. I wish my French company would do that. That would be a fucking godsend. Very cool, yes. ** Chilly Jay Chill, Hi, Jeff! I figured that, what with 'DotRC' in motion, you'd understandably be AWOL, no prob. Great that it's going so well so far. I'm in a state of constant jonesing to see it. You guys should try to do it in Paris. Parisians would really eat it up, I assure you. Everyone, if you're in or near NYC, there's still time to see 'Dream of the Red Chamber', the completely amazing sounding theater piece co-authored by our own Chilly Jay Chill aka Jeff Jackson. All the details are here. If I was in NYC, I would be there in a fucking heartbeat. Oh, yeah, ugh, about the diminishment of your text component. Well, yeah, I do understand. I mean, for instance, with 'This Is How You Will Disappear', we started with a lot of texts by me, and, as the rehearsals progressed, more and more text was cut until the final version has very little text in it. It was confusing and tough at the time, but, I don't know, with Gisele's work, it's really her work, and I'm just the language provider ultimately, so I just have to trust her instincts, and I always do, but, in the moment, it can be and has been a source of disagreement. I think that, in every case, I've wound up thinking she was right. So, I don't know. And I don't know what your stake as a collaborator is in the project. With Gisele, I always think of her as being the boss, ultimately, because it's her ass that's on the line, just like it's my ass that's on the line with my novels, I guess. I think the other scrapbooks by me are probably too dependent on the novels for which they were made to be of much general interest, I'm not sure. ** Rewritedept, Hi, C. Jane's Addiction are still playing live? That's weird. I saw Fishbone once. They were very energetic. PF Chang's, jeez, I haven't eaten there in ages. Jeez. My weekend was good. Yeah, film stuff mostly, all very productive. We have two meetings with performers today that we hope will nail down their participation and also a meeting with our casting guy 'cos we need to do more auditions. Busy day. May yours be busy in the 'big up' way. ** Kyler, Hi, K. You're so lucky to get to see Jeff's theater piece. Kudos and grr, ha ha. Gosh, I wish this was a better response. I hope its blah didn't spoil your morning. I'm in a rush due to a meeting with one of the performers in our film, and my brain is hallway out the door. ** Armando, Big *hug* back to you, man. I don't know that film you mentioned and that you saw at all. Huh. I'll totally, totally try to track it down. Thanks a lot for clueing me in. I'm really good, thanks. You have a very sweet day today, okay? ** Okay. I've got tiny artworks for you today. Some just tiny, some managing to be both tiny and interesting. Kind of all over the place. See what you think. See you tomorrow.