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p.s. Hey. Sorry for the slow page load. ** Friday ** David Ehrenstein, I thought so too, cool. ** Empty Frame, Hi, man! Thanks on behalf of Julie re: the galerie post. The filming went great, I think. Zac and Michael and the two performers Nicholas and Roman did genius level work, and although we could have used a little more available time, we got enough to work with and, yeah, we're all very happy. ** Kier, Hi, K. Spacing and sleeping sounds nice, actually. I hope they were. I've heard of that 'Terminator' series, but I haven't seen a lick. Wow, a lot of narrative advancing there. Crazy. I'll look for clips or something. Happy Monday! ** Bill, Hi, Bill. Cool, really glad you liked the galerie thing. Yeah, Julie did a ace set of picks. Like I told EF, the filming went extremely well. Better than we'd even hoped. We'll see once we start looking at the footage and editing and stuff, but Zac and I feel really confident that everything is there. The producers have us on a 'no filming images in public' rule at the moment, but hopefully we'll clear that barrier, and I can show you some stuff. Now we're on to the next scene, which we shoot in about two weeks, and we start rehearsing with the performers in that scene this afternoon. ** Grant maierhofer, Hi, Grant. The goodness of the galerie post was all Julie's doing, and I know she's grateful for the props. Next few months, great, soon enough. Gatefold 7" with booklet: yum. I'll go find 'HOE #999'. I didn't know he collaborated with Stewart. Super interesting combo there. 'Irritant' is great. That book needs to be a lot more read and discussed than I feel like it has been. Way looking forward to you sharing the experience, my friend. Thanks! ** _Black_Acrylic , Hi, Ben. Thanks much re: the galerie kindness. Hope the Maclean show ruled. I guess maybe I'll find out when I get to Saturday's comments? Speaking of ... ** Saturday ** Thomas Moronic, Hi, Thomas! Gorgeous haikus! Wow. Kiddiepunk says he's putting out a book of your haikus? Any slavey ones in there? Anyway, yeah, thank you. Such a pleasure! Oh, and your great new 'EIF' post will go up here on Friday. Thank you so much for that! ** David Ehrenstein, I would hope so, ha ha. I saw that Bernard got married. How about dem apples? ** Steevee, Hi, Steve. Really interesting Moodysson interview! The CAPS-loving slave was a curious one. 'Toby Damnit' is great. ** Bill, Hi, B. How was your weekend? ** Kier, Oh, man, I'm so sorry about your bad weekend. What were you anxious about? Is it something you can locate, or is that awful 'I don't know why' kind. I get that a lot. It is totally the worst. Are you feeling better today, I so hope? Love from me, lots of it. ** Keaton, Words! Nothing but words! Can't wait, man, and I have my first semi-free early part of the day today, so I'll indulge. Everyone, over on the awesome, notorious Keaton's Blog, there's a no doubt luscious and unique short text called 'Naked and Famous' waiting for you, so ... go. ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi. The filming did go amazingly well, amazingly enough, thank you. 'Predictably brilliant': right. That's always such an interesting point when an artist reaches the stage where they've aced what they're doing. That's when the artist and her/his fans find out how big and differently he/she wants to go. It's an interesting choice. And the weird thing is, it can work either way: staying in the comfort zone and playing/refining forever or making a possibly dangerous break or shift. Most artists do the former. Anyway, yes, the next work/show will be really telling, no doubt. Cool, looking forward to your mixtape! Everyone, here's _Black_Acrylic aka Ben Robinson. Please listen up and do: 'I have a new playlist uploaded to Mixcloud: A Woman Under The Influence. I compiled this for a friend a few years ago and they reminded me of it this weekend, and requested that I put it online. Mostly 50s and 60s stuff, girl groups and doo wop, plus a few film soundtracks too. Maybe you'll dig it.' ** Rewritedept, Hi, buddy. Oh, your guest-post, thank you, and I'll go rename it, and it will appear in almost a flash on this coming Wednesday. I told some if not all about the filming up above. It was pretty smooth. No problems other than wishing we'd had another five hours or so before the location was taken away from us. Anyway, yeah, very happy! Your mom got the job! Congrats, man! That's great news! ** Kyler, Hi, K. Nice about the blurbs, don't you know? Well, of course you do. Given my blah feelings about Christopher Bram, I say your book will do just fine without his endorsement. Screw him. Definitely not literally, ha ha. I remember July 8th. Just send me stuff for it when you're ready, and we're on. ** With that, we are caught up, and you get one of my laboriously materializing stacks today, lucky you perhaps. See you tomorrow.