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p.s. Hey. ** David Ehrenstein, Hi. Well, biggest in French history. B H-L spoke too soon, as he often does. The morning after the rally, the Right was all over exploiting what happened, and they want a French Patriot Act, etc., etc. Do LeBoeuf and Franco ever talk about each other? And why do I wonder? ** Kier, Hi, K! I should really do a scour of my files someday just to make sure I don't have a copy of that play. I'm sure it was bad, but still. I basically find gifs through general keyword searches on google and directly on Giphy. I just try tricky mutations of the search terms and sometimes add 'weird' and other adjectives to try to get into the more obscure gif troves. I'm happy for at least that teentsy bit of your feeling better. You're much better though today, I hope? Mm, no I don't think I've heard the Xiu Xiu Rihanna cover. Cool. I'll grab it. My day: Zac was still working on the sound stuff, so we didn't edit. I did some writing work. I was supposed to see Gisele, but Stephen is having some visa issues, and that ended up totally occupying their day. One of the performers in our film, Paul Hameline, who's an artist and a prominent young fashion model and a really awesome guy who's become a good friend, is in Paris for a few days, so we made plans to meet up. Here's him in his model mode. In the afternoon, I met up with Zac. One of my Xmas presents to him was the transformation of him into a lifelike figurine at this newish 3D portrait studio Moimee, so we went there, and he froze inside this camera-packed cubicle for a while, and the figurine-making process was begun. Then we had a coffee and hung out for a while. The rest of my day was just dinner and blog post making and this and that of little note. Did you rouse yourself from your sickness enough to have any fun or anything else cool today? ** Steevee, Hi. No, it wasn't like that at all. The foreign news coverage was completely off. Like I said, the big wigs didn't get within miles of the rally and march. A section of the city was completely emptied, blocked off, and protected by snipers, and they exited their armored buses long enough to stand in a deserted street and pretend to walk a few meters before reentering their buses and heading off for the synagogue for their second photo op, and then I guess they went back to their hotels or something. Their participation meant absolutely nothing to the million-plus people who gathered. Nice about the no co-pays. I hope the rest of the process goes very smoothly. ** Sypha, You're free! But for how long? Hm, yeah, I get it about the acknowledgements. Well, it's a symbolic thing, isn't it? So it's up to you. I guess it's an emotional decision, really. I think I've been in situations like that, and I think sometimes I acknowledged the estranged person because I felt like why not, and I think other times I left the person off the list. Follow your heart on that one, I guess? ** _Black_Acrylic, Very sweet about the interview for Art in Scotland! Especially now that watchers can go directly to the source. Cool. Nice jumper. Yeah, sure, you can turn it around. I guess just don't sweat too profusely under the bright lights or spill any of the free red wine they'll undoubtedly hand you on it. ** Heliotrope, Hi, Mark! The crowd size was pretty willying. Wait, that's not a word, ha ha? Oh, shit, Mark, this mysterious 'episode' is, of course, very, very concerning. Please at least post on Facebook about how the neurologist visit goes or let me know or something. Fuck. Extreme, volcanic positive and health-inducing vibes from Paris with a terrible American French accent. Focus is always a plus, I'm pretty sure. I can't think of a counter-argument. I, of course, thought of you immediately when I read that Ian McLagan passed away, yeah, because I do so remember your stories about him and about you and him. Paints! What are you doing with the paints? Curious. Massive love from your ancient, loving buddy, me. ** Keaton, I loved it. Like is not enough. It was a pretty A-okay birthday, yep. Well, those are some idiosyncratic thoughts on the Paris march, and you know idiosyncrasy is my middle name or something. It is a nice monument. And strangely more so now that they removed the street that used to run around it. That effect surprised me. I'm a Haussmann fan for totally sure. ** Misanthrope, Hi, G. Okay, that is a weird dream. I wonder what our resident dream expert Bernard would make of that. Bernard, any thoughts? I had a dream last night wherein these two boys who used to beat me up all the time when I was elementary school had turned into wasps for some reason. Talking wasps. And they wanted to sting me to death. I killed one of them with a book, but the other landed on my arm, and that's when I woke up. You're taking antibios for your bronchitis, right? They always rid me of mine pretty well. Yeah, I'm doing good, I think. Yeah, no, I definitely am. ** Cal Graves, Hi. Jesus Christ, as it were, ha ha, that is one hell of a big, tough question, man. Hm. I really think I would probably make it just a continuation of whatever life everyone had lead, but I guess with perfect health and killer charisma and magic powers yet to be determined. Or it would be like an infinitely large Disneyland kind of place. Man, that's hard. I beseech you to answer that question yourself. ** Chris Dankland, Hi, Chris! As you can imagine, I'm very all-for you getting heavily into French literature since it made me everything I am today, for better or worse. Gosh, either 'Tropisms' or 'The Golden Fruits'. They're really different. You might have a hard time getting the latter. I think it's really, really out of print in English? I love the sound of your book, and the challenge you're giving yourself is a really exciting one. Yeah, certain French writers have done that, and beautifully. I'm spacing on examples, but I'll think of some. Perec. I think your instinct to make the 3rd person voice overtly opinionated is a really promising one. The voice needs to be very present. If you can do that, the characters can swim around in it. I've tried switching perspectives in my stuff. I guess quite a bit, like in 'Period' and 'The Sluts', and, albeit organized into distinct chapters, in 'Closer', And I even/also switch tenses a lot in 'Guide'. I think it's wholly, wholly possible, and I super encourage you to try that, and I would be extremely interested to hear how you construct that and how it works. That's very exciting, Chris! The march here was really nice. And you can feel the difference in Paris now. It seemed to de-stress people here, at least for now. ** Aaron Mirkin, Hey, man! I suspect it was pretty ridiculous play, but it would have been fun to try to stage it. No, Richard really wanted to do a play with Lurie and Patton, and I think they tried to find another writer, but I don't think they ever ended up finding anything that they all could agree on. Interesting question. I'll think about it because there must be many examples, The only that springs to mind is Alain Resnais's 'Providence', one of my very, very favorite films. Let me ask the others too. Everyone, awesome filmmaker Aaron Mirkin needs some help with suggestions re: an idea he has for a film he's making. Can anyone here please help him out? Here he is: 'Right now I'm in the process of gathering inspirations for a feature idea and I was wondering if you could think of any interesting films with more than one storyline using the same actor (or actors) as different characters in each?' I'll ponder the question, and take care. ** Dungan, Sean! Awesome, you came back! Way, way too long! Yeah, please do keep me abreast, if you don't mind. It looks like I might be going to LA finally in early March, and it would great to see if you if I do and if you're around. Love, me. ** Okay. Wow, today's post. I don't know what to say about it. It just happened the other day. I was just the fingers doing its bidding. That is all. See you tomorrow.