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p.s. Hey. The spectacular writer, Alt Lit Gossip editor, artist, d.l. and more Chris Dankland shares a whole bunch of super interesting art he found via tumblr with us this weekend, and you're going to have a lot of fun and learn stuff, so do that, won't you, and maybe talk to Chris about your findings? Cool. Thank you, and thank you vastly, Chris! ** Thomas Moronic, Hi, T. Oh, I got your post thing. It'll become a public thing on the magic, agreed-upon date, thank you, buddy. It's looks amazing. The film is getting sorted in his own weird, wending way, yes, thank you! Linkage! Everyone, the exacting Thomas Moronic shares a couple of sweet links. First, he interviewed contemporary maestro Michael 'Kiddiepunk' Salerno about Michael's great first feature film, 'Silence', over at Fanzine. A must. And, must #2, the saintly and super wise writer and Alt Lit arbiter Beach Sloth reviewed Thomas's novel 'A Certain Kind of Light' over on BS's crucial blog, and you want to read that. Swell weekend to you, Thomas! ** David Ehrenstein, He is tops: Mr. Lonsdale. I see him walking around in Paris all the time. Yeah, there were no clips from 'Gebbo and the Shadow'. Otherwise, it would have been in the list. Thank you. ** MyNeighbourJohnTurtorro, Hey! Oh, then can I call you Huseyiny? Thanks about the gig. Yeah, The Austerity Program, I know. I only found them myself recently. No, but I'll go hear the clipping. album today for sure. Your tips are always massive pay-off founts. My week has been stupidly busy, yes, that's a good way to put it. I didn't know about the Commonwealth Games's descent, but I have heard of them. I think it might have cooled down just a bit here today maybe. I hope. Fucking summer. Summer is a grisly invention. I quite like the new Iceage track, more ever time I hear it. I'd heard from someone who saw them recently in Chicago that they'd gone 'rockabilly', but, if that's their take on rockabilly, that seems okay. Very, very curious to hear the new album. Here's to a great Saturday! And Sunday! ** Kier, Hi! Lonsdale is in so many really good films, it's hard choose. I mean, you can't go wrong with 'Successive Slidings of Pleasure', but, yeah, hard to choose. I like the word gnarly a lot except when it describes your arms. At least the pain is down. When do you think you'll be ship-shape enough from the waist up to go back to work, and are you looking forward to that or not? My day wasn't so bad. Maybe made some progress on the casting for one of the film scenes. Wrote just a little bit, but that was better than nothing. It's very quiet. Every single one of my friends is away on vacation. It's strange. Yeah, that Bug track is so good, and I'm excited by the Iceage track too, and I think maybe by Elias's new hairstyle even. Love from me! Rock the weekend! ** Bill, Hi, B. Favorite chocolatier, you mean? Hm. I think my favorite is Saduharu Aoki, the French/Japanese patisserie. Jean Paul Hevin's chocolates are hard to beat. There's a bunch, but maybe those two spring most to mind. Hungary, whoa! What's that like? ** Aaron Mirkin, Hi, Aaron. I would be extremely interested in you putting together a Julian Richings Day! Yes, for massively sure! That would be really great! Thank you a ton for offering! Wow, your situation with your 'ex' sounds incredibly familiar. That gave me major sympathy anxiety and emotional stuff. That is a dilemma that is so difficult to resolve. I think the only way is incredible patience and waiting and calling up as much selflessness as you've got, in my experience. Man, I feel like I so get that one. I really appreciate your sharing that, and there is no quick answer to it, and I wish there was, but I wish you all the luck/strength there is. And please talk about it more and anytime, if you feel like it. ** Etc etc etc, Hi! It's really true about Dazed. It's very interesting, and, I think, a very good and very wise decision on their part. I actually talked to the guy who interviewed me about that, about the smartness of their support for the new writing, and about how weird it is that that's not happening elsewhere, except at Vice in their strange way, and how weird it is that the big media supporter of the new writing is based in the UK. But none of that made the interview's cut. I saw the 'Pink Trance Notebook' pieces. Yeah, they're fantastic! When is Wayne not fantastic. I haven't seen 'Boyhood' yet but I'm really in the mood to see a film, and it's playing here, so maybe I'll get to this weekend. Oh, interesting about that disagreement. I try to really resist the idea that outré and sexual is necessary for realness, partly because it doesn't make any sense, I guess, to me I mean, and also to keep a check on my stuff and my writing 'cos, obviously, I work in those realms. The literary landmarks here, yeah, but they're not too, too ruined in some cases. Depending on what you want to see. You can go find, like, where Rimbaud and Georges Perec and etc. lived, and they're just apartments, which is interesting and not, I guess. What are you wanting to see particularly? ** _Black_Acrylic, 12 hours, holy shit! The pix you posted make it look quite lovely and good, and I see there was still a real crowd when you did you thing, and that's cool. ** Steevee, The Bug album is real good. Yeah, I saw the Kim's Video news on FB, and I was interested that every post/response I saw just heavily criticized the place. No mourning or expressions of loss at all. Weird. Andrew Holleran ... I don't know. His stuff isn't very interesting to me except as a 'of its time' thing, I mean in the 'DftD' case. He definitely has his fans, and they're not dumb people. Well, Edmund and Larry are very close, longtime friends of Holleran's, so those blurbs should be taken in that light. I don't know. Try him. I mean, he can write, and he has his own kind of particular fey/lush literary with a capital 'L' style, but it's not my kind of thing, I guess. ** Rewritedept, Hi. Heads? Oh, the first comment was written for the gif day, gotcha. My week was what is was, basically, because I've had so much film stuff to work on on my own, and it's been tiring, and I haven't been sleeping very well, but it has worked out okay. No big. Sure, writing a blurb for next weekend is only a good idea. I mean, if you want to ask the folks for particular help with anything in particular or advice on some aspect of the piece that you feel like you could particularly use, that's only a very good thing, and it helps people know how to comment, and when writers in the workshop have done that, they've tended to get more feedback and response. So I encourage you. My Friday wasn't too bad. Real fireworks? Where would I see those? The closest to a big burrito that can find in Paris is at the city's one Chipotle, and I've been jonesing to get back there, actually, so maybe I'll do that, thanks. I'm sending happy thoughts to you too! What a coincidence! ** Sypha, I'm pretty sure that the blog's readers would love a 'Game of Thrones' post. I would bet you that, like, 70% at least of the blog's readers watch it. I just wouldn't know what you were talking about, which is often a good state for me to be in. I need to read more China Mieville. I kind of liked what I read. ** Kyler, I got you pre-dreamland rather than just post-. Exciting. Oh, okay, that makes more sense: the 10/50 split. I'll let you know when my copy arrives. France can take a while sometimes, but then it can surprise one. Have a sweet weekend! ** Right. Indulge heavily in Chris Dankland's feast this weekend. I have some stuff to do, and I'll go do it now. See you on Monday.