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p.s. Hey. Herewith my usual page loading time apologies. ** David Ehrenstein, Hi. Thanks for speaking to Rewritedept. ** Cobaltfram, Hi. I think 4 pm and slightly onwards would work for me, if that's best. Email me a time asap, and it should be fine on my end. I did the post deletion, noting that it was due to a request/threat by the person/company who made the request/threat, and then I got a follow-up email complaining that I referred to his/their threat as a threat. People need to chill. ** Thomas Moronic, Thanks a lot for putting your big brain power to work on Rwdpt's piece, man. It was wonderful and instructive to read from the sidelines too. ** Sypha. Hi, James. Thanks for reading/sharing. ** Rewritedept, Hey, man. Seemed like it went quite well, no? I hope everybody's input made the kind of difference you hoped. I really appreciate you putting the work on our line. Ah, I see, about your intention to cut some of the background eventually. Putting it in there as signposts for yourself while you're writing makes total sense. I'm glad you're planning do more with the Peter stuff because, as I said, I really like that character, that stuff, him, the relationship. Okay, if that's your intention/plan with the 'photos/video' part, I would flesh out the fact that Sam is inexperienced with hustlers more because, for me, that isn't there yet, and I would flesh out the narrator's jadedness more because, like I said, at the moment his reaction seems more blank and a bit undeveloped than jaded, to me. The hermetically sealed quality is very good, yeah, and I totally encourage your sticking to that and bringing that quality even more to the fore. Thank you again! ** _Black_Acrylic, Thanks, Ben. ** Hyemin Kim, Much appreciation for your good and thoughtful thoughts on Rwdpt's excerpt. The panic attacks make sense. Or I can imagine feeling like I was being attacked by a swarm of abstract word bees, even if they're well meaning and just doing their outreaching thing. I'm with you on the reading and writing thing. That's one of the reasons I quit university. I preferred books talking to me. ** Steevee, Hi, Steve. Popular? Mm, in my experience during the early heyday of that era's African music's discovery and 'coolness' among critics and forward thinking music makers and listeners in the US, Fela was never popular, per say. His tracks were too long to get on the radio, even on the more progressive radio stations except in rare instances, and it was too complex to be played in dance clubs. In my memory, his comrade King Sunny Adé was the more popular, and at least a couple of Adé's records got domestic releases whereas, I think, Fela's were mostly if not entirely available only on import. ** Kier, Hi, K. Thanks for talking to R/C! Well, it's okay about my brother because we're very estranged, so I never have to deal with him except in cross-family cc'ed emails. Swap meets. I miss them a bunch. There's a gigantic one on the fringes of central Paris every weekend or every other weekend, and I haven't metroed out there in years. I think I will. I don't think a guy selling Nazi memorabilia would last very long at a swap meet here. In fact, I think doing that would be totally illegal in France. Can we/I see the scans of your collages somewhere, he/I asked hopefully? Your dad likes Iceage? Wow! A dad who likes Iceage! Wait, I'm dad age and even, yikes, grandpa age, holy fuck, and so I guess that's not so weird. But it's cool. You leave for the north ... tomorrow, right? Are you packing and taking a lot? My weekend was pretty good. Zac and I did some film role interviews on Saturday, and one of them scored us a performer, and the other one hopefully did. We'll find out today. And we talked over the 'club scene', which is the last scene we're filming, and we figured out how to revise it into something workable and good, and I'm working on the first draft of that now. And we decided how to go on the 'music performance' thing, and now we're searching out the music maker and the performer who will play a music maker in the scene. And we hung out, ate, etc., which is the best. And on Sunday, I mostly did film related thinking and emailing and stuff. It was good. I guess your Monday is probably heavily involved in trip prep? Fill me in, pal. ** Keaton, Hi! If only, ha ha. Thanks for worm-holing Rwdpt's thang, man. ** Dennis Cooper, It's always so awkward to see you here. Uh, ... how are you? ** Aaron Mirkin, Hi, Aaron. Thanks a lot for seeing to Rwdpt's work. Yeah, it's actually really fun to change things on the fly when you and your collaborator are so on the same page and telepathic about things, like Zac and I are. It's just weird. One scene was changed so much on the fly that I'm not even sure what we've got in the footage. It'll be curious and exciting to go back into it and find out and try to shape it. I think letters are a really good way to put things, to allow yourself the thoughtfulness and privacy to really try to say what you feel and want and etc. with that safety zone. I also like it because it respects the autonomy and power of the recipient. It's scary, though. I don't know, of course, and I'm as confused about this stuff as anyone, but it seems like you have to think long-term with him, and it seems like you have to wait and see if your feelings are true enough to have the patience to wait for what could be quite a while. Yeah, ugh. It's tough. Sucks that you didn't get the funding. Sorry, man. Wow, it would obviously be really awesome if you get to do a Fucked Up video! ** Chilly Jay Chill, Hi, Jeff. Thank you kindly for your thinking and words for Rwdpt. I'll check out the Lucy Corin book, thanks. I don't know it. Oh, yeah, I listened to your Bookworm interview that day that it launched. I think you might have been in NYC doing the theater piece or something at the time, which is why we didn't talk about it. I thought it was really good. Yeah, I was mentioned a lot, which was, you know, kind and self-conscious making. Maybe we can have a phone/Skype conversation about it. The only thing I'll say for now is that I think Michael, with the greatest of intentions no doubt, made way too big a thing about my stuff's supposed influence/earmarks on yours. I don't think that's so true at all, but I think that was Michael's way into your work or something. It would be interesting to chat about it sometime if you want. My novel has been forcibly neglected by all the film work for too long, and I'm trying to get back into working on it in a hands-on way right now. I've been developing it in my head constantly, and that's been very good, I think, but the actual writing has been interrupted by the film process more than I had anticipated. But, that said, I think it's going really well, and I'm still excited about it. I still see it hopefully as the first book in a cycle, yeah. Time will tell on that one, but, yes, I do. Having that cycle plan and concept is helpful. I don't want to say too much about the novel 'cos I'm superstitious about that, but what I'm writing about feels too massive to be represented in one novel, so having that possible future set out before me lets me not try to overload the novel or think it's my one shot at trying to get everything in. Thanks, Jeff! How's yours going? ** Flit, Hi, man! Excellent to see you! Those were some super interesting and kind of thrilling thoughts for Rwdpt. Very cool to read from the sidelines here. You good? What's up? ** Misanthrope, Hey, G. Fantastic, detailed, smart response to the excerpt. That was fascinating to read, and it was really great of you. Wow. I'm glad you weren't being alarming. I wasn't, like, alarmed per say, just, hm, intrigued with a dollop of concerned mixed in. Anyway, glad the loop that was thrown has landed elsewhere. Yes, my b'day post offer was the real deal. If you can tell me by tonight, I'll get whatever you want up by your b'day, meaning, I guess, the weekend slot. Sweet. That tall glass filled in the way you descried is some good shit right there. Now you're talking. ** Chris Dankland, Hi, Chris! Very happy to see you even amidst running around. I'm running around too. Hugs from the fly, man. ** Cap'm, Cap'm, my cap'm! What lovely, lovely words for Chris. Thank you, sir. Are you good? What's going on, if you don't mind saying? ** Fin. Spiders. Are you guys afraid of spiders? I guess I'm not since I didn't shudder once while making that thing up there. But I thought about fear and how it works. See you tomorrow.