A meme is "an idea, behavior, or style that spreads from person to person within a culture." A meme acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas, symbols, or practices that can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals, or other imitable phenomena with a mimicked theme. Supporters of the concept regard memes as cultural analogues to genes in that they self-replicate, mutate, and respond to selective pressures.
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p.s. Hey. Today the blog seems to have managed to sweet-talk the masterful meme auteur and writer and d.l. Keaton to practice his art here in our very faces, and I'm very happy and proud of that fact, and I can only imagine you'll be the recipient version of me to some degree or other, aren't you? How about finding out and then saying stuff to Keaton. What do you say? Thanks, all, and most thanks to the K. the creator. ** Kier, Hi, Kier! Totally, it was wack. I'm trying to track down its current status and location almost as I type. Really awesome about the cool, helpful psych! Oslo, nice. Both times I've been in Oslo, I quite liked it. It seemed really livable, although the winter was intense, but then I guess your winter radar is a tougher thing than mine. Art school! I mean, that seems like a cool idea. Not that you need schooling for god's sake, but just to be able to live/work in that environment amidst hopefully interesting peers, etc. works wonderfully, at least in the fantasy realm. Good news! Love, me. ** David Ehrenstein, Howdy. ** Keaton, Man, thank you so much for heeding my plaintive call. I'm proud as punch, as my mom used to say. What a weird phrase. I can't parse it. And I did actually just try parsing it. I'm glad the post made you riff like that. You can't lose with French New Wave, or at least maybe 70% of the time. ** HyeMin Kim, Hi. Sad post indeed, yeah. Fucked up. I love making the film, and it's also nice to now have a short while to catch up on other stuff and hang out and so on. Lovely, enriching thoughts and words on RB and on your reading and work in his regard. Yes, helping your immigration status is a great motivator. I went through that kind of worrying and working towards a decent status for years re: Yury's problematic status, which is still stuck and imperfect and being worked on by him. I truly do wish you luck to manage far, far more than just an ok health! ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi, Ben. I'll have guest post news/date tomorrow. ** Steevee, Really glad to hear you're feeling better. ** Statictick, Hi, N! I saw on FB that your mom passed, and I'm so incredibly sorry, my friend. She really seemed so amazing to me always. And having lost my mom a few years ago, it's ... well, an indescribable experience, so personal, so complex. I send you a lot of love. And it's great about your and Brandon's planned experimental film. I'm making one of those collaboratively myself. I await the report with anticipation. Happy news too about 'Minus' being finished, yes! Okay, send me questions man. Really, really good to see you! ** Chilly Jay Chill, Hi, Jeff! That's a lot of warring, differing things to be consumed by. Good news that you've reached the point in the external reaction phase that allows you to get in there and work on the detailing. Very happy to talk to you about it when/if ever the time feels right on your end, yes, of course. That Perec/Duvall film is completely splendid, yes. I still think that combo of his words and her voice is one of the most inspired ever. My novel has necessarily been a glimmer for the past couple of weeks, but now I have a short stretch to concentrate mostly on it starting today, and I'm looking forward to that a lot. Hopefully, like I said, I can start sharing more about the film itself soon. A guest post, wonderful, thank you so much! I'm very gradually starting to get back in gear with post making, which I hope will return the blog to normal starting next week, and guest posts are a huge help right now, not to mention one by you, which is really exciting, thank you, Jeff! Good luck with that mix of preoccupying stuff, and I hope your novel rises to the surface of it. ** Rewritedept, Semi-sobriety is weird too. Good weird, I think. Ha ha, you as that 'Temple of Doom' guy is a cool waking dream of a thought. I didn't have a ton of free time, it turned out, but it was mostly really good. Zac and I went to this great special effects store here, Pyro Folies, to check out and price fake snow options and fake snow producing machine options for an upcoming film scene, and that was fun. We met with a guy we've cast in the film. He's a young artist who also models, and his modeling agency told him he can't do the sexual aspect of his role, so we met with him to talk about either changing the role or shifting him to a non-sexual role. It was good, he's great. The evening kind of sucked because I got an emergency phone call that the IRS put a lean/block on my bank account because I'm so bad and confused about tax paying, so had to spend hours trying to sort that out. But mostly yesterday was good. Today I should actually get the free time to work on my novel, which is my current jones and goal. Man, sleep-ruining stress is like the worst thing in the world. Ugh. I can't remember the Vapors album, just the singles, although I owned the full-length back in the day. Neu! is really great, for sure. That bowling thing sounds like a lot fun. I hope it was. Mostly my plans are novel work and seeing pals and a lot of who-knows-style this and that for the next fews days. We'll see. Oh, shit, about your sister. Whoa, man, that's crazy, and I'm glad she's okay, and I hope she escaped with some new sort of caution mechanism in place. ** Damien Ark, Hi, Damien! Wow, nice to meet you! I've been reading your writing and liking it a lot! And, yeah, some of your writing will be occupying the blog space this weekend. I'm excited and really happy to get to background-host it thanks to Postitbreakup's first-hand hosting. Lurking's cool, yeah. I'd do it here if I could, ha ha. You would think there'd be a power electronics thing knocked off the Jesse Dirkhising thing. Maybe there is. It isn't on youtube or bandcamp, or not in a form that google can figure out. Yeah, Martin's work is great, for sure. I have heard 'Dirge', yeah, it's beautiful. No, Josh didn't send the cover art. It's gorgeous, and I'll go insert it at the post's top as soon as I sign off here today. It's a real pleasure to get to talk to you, man. Feel very more than free to delurk and hang out whenever you like. It would be a real pleasure. Take care! ** Right. Please go be what Keaton's memes ask you to be for the rest of the day, if you have the time and inclination. I will see you tomorrow.