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p.s. Hey. The blog explodes back into the present day courtesy of the latest in Mr. Thomas Moronic's series of aptly named eye-blows. Please enjoy the fireworks and spare an ooh-ahh for the man himself. Thanks! Me, I'm very pleased but exhausted and sore after three very long shooting days, and it's nice to see you, and I'll do my best to stay alert this morning. ** Saturday ** Jose Osoria, Hi, Jose. Welcome! Very nice to meet you and to have you here. I'm not a member of Karagarga, which is ridiculous, as I've been meaning/planning to join it for forever. Thanks for the great reason to just go ahead. Patrice Énard ... no, I don't think I know that work at all. I will definitely look into her films right away. Thank you for that, Jose, and please come back anytime. ** David Ehrenstein, Hi. The Demy thing may be because he started out working as a cameraman for Demy when he was young. I asked Christophe Honore about his work because I figured he would know it, and he does a little, and he said Gilles's work is something of a meeting of Bresson and Demy in his mind. I don't know Paul Vecchiali. I'll check his stuff out. Our film is most definitely not a porno. ** Etc etc etc, Hey, man. Bonsai kittens ... that rings a bell, but my brain is toast this morning, so it's a muted one. Are you still here in the big P? ** Bill, Burning Man, jeez, I don't know, is some kind of epitome of something absolutely nightmarish to me. But I hope your friends have fun. Cool about the McDowell program. And about the DVD. Oh, and thank you so much for the guest-post! I'll set it up and give you a launch date straight away. ** Hyemin Kim, Hi. Yeah, I imagine the vibe of peacefulness I get from gardening and plant growing is very naive. Funny how that works. I'm glad you liked Gilles's film manifesto thing. I only vaguely understood it, but it seemed very nice. No, Zac doesn't look like him. Understood about the zoned. I'm sort of sleep-typing this morning. ** gucciCODYprada, Hey, Cody! Wow, that sounds very cool and intense. And I'm so happy that you're fully into it and digging it so much. Please, yeah, put me on your email chain. That would be awesome! I want to hear as much of the totality that words entice out of you. Tons of love from me right back! ** Thomas Moronic, Hi, T. Thank you so much for reinvigorating the blog today so vigorously! Very nice exercise for the kids. In working with that form, for me, it's weird and cool what it accesses and how. Yeah, very interesting. ** Kyler, Congrats, K! So happy to hear that! And thanks for the news about their liking of my 'TMS.' That's of course really nice to hear. ** Steevee, Hi. Hm, curious to see 'Love is Strange' then. I suppose it'll play here. Yeah, surely. ** Kier, Hi, K. That's so cool about the snow globe! Especially coming out of a scene in our film which is a lot like a scene that takes place in a snow globe. Three days straight of fake snow everywhere. Man, the real life version is a fuck of a lot of work. A pocket shrine. What's that? Wow, I like that idea a lot. Filming went really well. Better than I think we had hoped. They were incredibly long days, and I think I'm too brain dead this morning to remember or describe the shooting 'cos it was non-stop and inescapable, but I think it's going to look really amazing in the film, and everyone in it and working with us were so great. But, yeah, we didn't finish until very late last night, and it's still kind of a total blur. ** Misanthrope, Hi, G. I'm going to do a RMS post. I just need to wake up first. Ha ha, that is a very colorful image/story there about the skinny Hulk guy. ** Rewritedept, Hi. I'll go look at your FB photos, cool. Uh, like I said, everything went really great on my end over the weekend/early week, but I'm too fried to get into details about it this morning. 'Porn aggregation tumblr sites': what is that? ** Djk5474, Hi there! Oh, wow, it's hard for me to remember that teen idols thing. I did it a million years ago, and, until someone shared it on Facebook, I honestly had forgotten all about it. Some of them were boys in porn magazines, so the names were just the names that the magazines gave them. Vince was a teen idol of the time named Vince Van Patten. Mark is Mark 'Star Wars' Hammill. I'm drawing a blank on the rest. Thank you for asking. Take care. ** Monday ** Thomas Moronic, Hi. Oh, yeah, that could have been why I made the post. It's funny/sad because now I'm one of them too, what with the disastrous George Miles novel I tried to write sitting here on my computer in a grave-like file folder. Lawrence Braithwaite's 'More at 7:30' was actually scheduled to be published by a small press as of two years ago, and I have no idea what happened with that. I'll see if I can find out. Talk about a cursed mss. I'm sure you know it was originally supposed to be the second LHotB book. It's really, really incredible. ** David Ehrenstein, Thank you, sir. Was Mallarme's 'Le Livre' ever translated? I'd be fascinated to read that, obviously. Ha ha, Christophe H. was in the scene that we shot yesterday, and I mentioned your anecdote about Waters's question re: Huppert's influence re: 'Ma Mere. Christophe just smiled, and said, 'Maybe.' ** Keaton, Hey, pal. Welch is so great. Ha ha, as always when you trash DFW, I will now say, You are so wrong about him. ** Kier, Hi! Denton Welch is highly recommended by me as well. Start with 'In Youth is Pleasure'. Oh, wait, you've read him. Sorry. My brain, my poor vague brain. A Bob shrine! Like a big one or a pocket one or ... ? I want to see these! ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi, Ben. Oh, interesting. That list of celebrity heavyweights who made that big public face of asking Scotland not to leave the UK got so much publicity, which obviously was the point, and it seems like you never get a clear picture of the other side via the media outside of Scotland, which seems really fucked up. ** Tuesday ** Thomas Moronic, Hello again, Thomas. Cool. Yeah, her poems are really impactful at their best. Back in the 70s/80s. there were hardly any American poets writing such fierce, blunt, but carefully organized and written poems. ** David Ehrenstein, Hi. ** Kier, Hi again, K. Great about the psych visit! Have you finished the shrines yet? ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi. Too bad about the lack of Art101 updates. I guess Kate Bush did the first of her comeback or whatever gigs last night? There was stuff everywhere about it when I woke up. She does look a little like Lemmy now, as she had forewarned. Just a little. ** Hyemin Kim, Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed the poems. That sexual offenders matter sounds very confusing, whatever it is. ** Steevee, If it's any consolation, that's basically exactly what happened to me when I had to get my prescription changed on my reading glasses and procrastinated before changing it for as long as I could. Look forward to your review. Everyone, here's Steevee's review of the Mexican documentary THE NAKED ROOM. ** Chilly Jay Chill, Hi, Jeff. Everything went really well with the film shoot, yeah, thank you. A short respite now, and then we shoot that last and most difficult by far scene, so we're trying to gather our strength and acuity. I've never seen The Clean live. That sounds amazing, I'll keep my eyes out. Hope the novel drama de-dramatizes. ** Rewritedept, Hi, C. The new La Bruce played here months ago. Nothing I read or heard about it made me want to see it at all. Filming went great, and I have the diminished brain power and aching muscles to prove it. Sorry about the return to the glacial. I almost look forward to that return on my end. Almost. ** Sypha, Hi, James. Very glad you liked the unfinished novels thing, man. Oh, I like that Calvino book a lot, as I guess you probably know. ** Bill, Hi, B. Never read 'Homeboy'. I can't imagine I ever will at this point, but I definitely remember the buzz/hype and all of that. For me, even at his best, there's always a fairly large dollop of silliness in Jodorowsky's films, but if there's not the hallucinatory intensity to balance and/or cancel that out or something, I can't imagine. ** Right. That was a unwittingly half-brained and listless p.s. if there ever was one, and I'm sorry. I'm going to go try to get out of my daze somehow now, and you enjoy getting into a daze of a very different sort courtesy of maestro Moronic. See you tomorrow.