New York City
Ferndale, Michigan
West Los Angeles
'Revolver Records', Bristol, UK
'Camelot Music', North Carolina
Paris
'Virgin Megastore', Paris
'Tower', West Hollywood
unknown, New York City
London
Kalamazoo
'Moby Disc', Sherman Oaks, CA
Melbourne
'Bleeker Bob's', New York City
New York City
'ethereal', New York City
New York City
New York City
New York City
New York City
New York City
New York City
New York City
New York City
'Ear Wax', Williamsburg
Hoboken
Savannah
'Graysons', Louisville
Seattle
Seattle
Buffalo
'Sound Exchange', Austin
'Oarfolkjopolis', Minneapolis
Minneapolis
Minneapolis
Minneapolis
Hollywood
New York City
Clarendon, Virginia
San Francisco
'Music Village', Mill Valley
London
Denver
State College, Pennsylvania
New York City
Los Angeles
Los Angeles
Tempe, Arizona
Detroit
Detroit
New York City
'Northern Lights', St. Paul
'Peaches', Los Angeles
Los Angeles
Buffalo
Boston
Newport Beach, California
Duluth, Minnesota
New York City
Elizabeth, New Jersey
Kirkcaldy, UK
Melbourne
Melbourne
Melbourne
'Au Go Go Records', Melbourne
'The Last Record Store', Melbourne
Seattle
'Disc World', Manchester
Cambridge
Cambridge
London
Chesterfield, UK
Dublin
Dublin
New York City
Haddon, New Jersey
'Asta Records', Oakland
Berkeley
'Rather Ripped', Berkeley
Grosse Pointe, Michigan
New York City
Binghamton, New York
Toronto
Stockton upon Tees, UK
Athens, Greece
Wellington, New Zealand
Vancouver
Hatboro, Pennsylvania
Chicago
Chicago
Rotterdam
New York City
'Turning Point', Glendale, CA
London
Leicester, UK
'Bonapart Records', Croydon
Philadelphia
Shreveport
East Lansing, Michigan
DeKalb, Illinois
Athens, Georgia
Saugus, Mass.
Buffalo
Brooklyn
Brooklyn
Dallas
Memphis
New York City
'Coconuts', Tampa Bay
'Turtle's', Augusta
'Turtle's', Atlanta
Pasadena
'The Tape and Record Room, Long Beach
Downey, CA
Apple Valley, CA
Dallas
Brockton, Massachusetts
Pittsburgh
'Stackhouse Records', Clarksdale
'Tower', San Francisco
'Rooks and Becords', San Francisco
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p.s. Hey. ** David Ehrenstein, It's quite possible. Sagat is a nice guy, very shy and was pretty insecure in that context, what with being out of his comfort zone. Yeah, my monologue was deliberately challenging to him, in and outside the role. Christophe wanted me to surprise and shake him up a bit, so what I was saying to his character, rejecting him sexually and characterizing his signature giant gym body and tattooed hair by inference as kitsch, did throw him off, and it did do a number on him emotionally, and I think you can see that. I felt weird doing that to him, but Christophe was encouraging, and when the scene was shot, he said he was cool about it. But the discomfort and stuff in his reaction is pretty real. ** Sypha, Yeah, I figured you would. I used to try or at least want to try to control and organize my books' exteriors and stuff, but, with major publishers, they really don't let you do that. It's more that you can reject the approaches they suggest until they come up with something you can live with. Sorry about the badness of your lately. Things got better for me yesterday, and maybe somehow the upswing was contagious. ** Kier, Hi, K. Yeah, sorry for the complainy rap. Everything just kind of caught up to me, but yesterday was better. Progress was made, and there are routes to resolutions now, at least. Yeah, I spent the day with Zac working on the film and hanging out and doing meetings, and being with Zac is always a total joy, plus we did maybe find one of the performers we need, fingers crossed. Cool that you liked the Johnny Dickie post. Yeah, he's cool. A bonfire in the rain is, yeah, such a nice image. Really. Okay, I get you on the knitted cap. Sounds sweet. Ha ha, Kylie Minogue. That should do the trick. I'll luxuriate in it post-p.s. Thanks, Kier, How was today? Love, me. ** Steevee, Hi. Thanks. Oh, I wouldn't even try to do something like this film alone. I would have bailed ages ago. So, yeah I can totally understand how intimidating your film project must feel. Any thought of doing it as a collaboration in some respect? I don't know, with a cinematographer/cameraman or ... I don't know. It does seem like someone who would make a game called 'Bomb Gaza' would be someone who even craves negative publicity. I look forward to reading your review. Everyone, here's Steve 'Steevee' Erickson's 'review of Joaquim Pinto's excellent film WHAT NOW? REMIND ME.' ** Hyemin Kim, Hi. Well, it's a very, very Paris thing for people to go away for weeks either at the end of July or in August. Half of the stores here are closed for their owners' vacations. You don't really get that in the US at all, yeah, or not in my experience. But here, the population of Paris tilts way towards visitors and away from residents in the late summer. Most everyone involved in the film is finally back, so it's getting a lot easier. That's interesting about the protocol vis-a-vis academic conferences and related correspondence. I wouldn't even have noticed, but I'm from LA where 'hi' is about as formal as it gets, ha ha. ** _Black_Acrylic, Thanks a bunch for passing the post along to those guys. That's really great! Thank you about my day, and I'm sorry for the stress-out here. Things, as of this morning, are a lot better or at least clearer, and hopefully that will hold. Have an awesome day on your end. ** Thomas Moronic, My pleasure, and thank you, Thomas! ** Chilly Jay Chill, Hi, Jeff. Thanks, cool. Things are brighter today, thank you. I'm sure I'll love the Benning. I can't think of a film of his that I haven't loved. Pass along the word on the longer cut of 'The Grandmaster'. I haven't seen the earlier truncated version, so, if this version is a huge improvement, or, well, even a slight improvement, I'll angle for it. ** Misanthrope, Thanks, yeah, things are better today. There are a lot of possible problems and stress-creating things to do that we don't really know how we're going to do them, but optimism has made a very welcome return. Thanks, pal. ** Keaton, So cool that you dug the post. I was hoping/guessing so, as I said the other day. Horror story this weekend? Sounds fucking ace. ** Mikel Motorcycle, That's really exciting sounding stuff, man. That genre is one that interests me a lot, and I spend a fair amount of time investigating and listening to that kind of work, helped and directed immensely by the focus given to it by The Wire, which is sort of my only periodical Bible these days. So, yes, that's really exciting indeed. Whenever there's an opportunity to share any of the work or even talk about it here, if that interests you, that would be super interesting for me. Thanks much about the Day. Really appreciate it. ** Mark Gluth, Thanks, Mark. Yeah, bad days show up sometimes, what can you do, and luckily it was a 24-hour flu-like downer. It's not so much distance that helped as the fact that my collaborator Zac is back from being away, so we can lock into what's wrong and what we need to do together. It was really hard dealing with all of that singly. I love dealing with fiction singly, but this film stuff is gigantic and so social, it can get scary. I will definitely and with great honor do a 'welcome to the world' post for your book. Oh, you can send me anything you like. You can send me stuff -- excerpt, descriptions, images, links to relevant things, any video, etc. -- and I'll make the post, or, if you want to make a post yourself, you can do that too. Whatever is most fun and interesting for you. I'll see if KP will let me take an early peek at your KP book. Weird but entirely cool, it seems, about the audio book thing. Yeah, Johnny wrote to me about that yesterday, So interesting. You did brighten me, and I thank you muchly, Mark. ** Kyler, Fire Island, wow. I haven't been there since it was ... well, I was going to say since it was the big gay party zone/mecca, but it probably still is unless Provincetown has totally stolen its sunny gay thunder. Ha ha, good thing that problem got resolved 'cos, in my experience at least, your publisher, cool as they seem, would have to be Gandhi to agree to reprint the book because of one wrong word. So, whew! ** Rewritedept, Hi. Yesterday was better, yes, thank you. What a healthy snack. ** Bill, Hi, Bill. Yeah, my keel has evened, for now at least, thank you. A piece that you're obsessed with, yum. With Cook and Hulson on-aesthetic-board? I like the tone of that! Pray tell when it's time to ... pray? Thank you very much for the news about the early week post arrival. Super, super appreciated. ** Right. Tons of dead record stores today for some reason. Interesting? See you tomorrow.