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p.s. Hey. ** Scunnard, Hi, man! Sure, happy to be picked apart re: sound artists when your time comes. I've been good, thanks, busy finishing a thing just like you've been. Is this project/pdf/book going to go public, he said hopefully? Oh, I can't remember what I asked you. Lost questions are kind of poetic. I have to find a way to enter the comments your way. It feels weird that I don't know how the gate works. Best to you, buddy! ** MyNeighbourJohnTurtorro , Howdy! I'm good, thanks, and you? Oh, influences, well, Zac is the director, so he has command of that stuff, and he's really original, so I suspect it's pretty unique. The few who've seen it say it's very fresh. I mean, I can feel some kind of relationship to Bresson and Malick in there, in its depths or whatever. Glasgow U., cool. Is that squared away? I mean are you in/accepted or still in the app. phase? Really glad you were into the gig, man, of course. You have a most splendid day ahead too! ** David Ehrenstein, Oh, he's a tap dancer who ran with the wrong crowd. That sounds juicy. ** Tim Jones-Yelvington, Hi, Tim! Very glad to see you! Thank you for making me excited. Oh, okay, yeah, I'll get on that asap. ** Tosh Berman, Hi, Tosh. Dylan as a glam artist, that's interesting. I have to think about that. I'd go for the label genius on his late '60s stuff, 'Blonde on Blonde' and 'The Basement Tapes' especially, but that's it, I think. I love mid-late Phil Ochs: 'Pleasures of the Harbor', 'Tape from California', 'Rehearsal for Retirement'. And I adore Donovan, who's a god. And I would add to the 'as good as if not better than Dylan' same period guys: Leonard Cohen, David Ackles, Loudon Wainwright III, Buffy Sainte Marie, Tim Hardin, a.o. ** Sypha, Thanks! Well, we still have to figure out what the Titles and Credits will look like and sound like and a few other odds and ends, but, barring whatever, we're pretty finished. It's only February so hopefully, surely your book will get out this year, but those guys are notoriously unpredictable in their timing, no? That Kevin Killian 'Shy' reprint has been announced for years. ** Justin Headrick, Hi, Justin! Welcome to here and thank you for entering. Oh, wow, no infringement at all. That's an honor and exciting, I'll go listen. Thank you very, very much for that! Cool! ** Grant maierhofer, Hi, Grant. Oh, man, I've meaning to read Mathias Enard's 'Zone' for quite a while now. I really need to get that. Noted in bold. It sounds really interesting and totally up my little alley too. Thanks a lot for filling us/me about it. That wasn't rambling at all. Perish the thought. Thanks again, Grant. ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi, Ben. I got the new Napalm Death because I was reading here and there in places whose thoughts I believe in mostly that it's their best in a while, and I think so. That 'You Suffer' Day was/is a classic. Hope the place is both dreamy and utterly available when you tour it today. And that the ArtinScotland.TV interview goes splendidly. Quite a day for you today. Huh, off the top of my head I don't think I know Florian & Michael Quistrebert's stuff. Might be spacing on the name. Looks pretty interesting. I'll see what I can find. ** Schlix, Hi, Uli! Really, really glad that the gig had some stuff in it that proved to be helpful discoveries. That's the best. Ha, yeah, I can see the coolness of the name Lescalleet with 'Jason' as the whipped cream topping or something. Black Forest in the snow. You just made me hungry for some reason. Oh, Black Forest cake, right, that must be it. And the snow. We apparently got 20 seconds or something of snowfall yesterday here, but I was staring at my laptop at the time and missed it. Hope you slept great. ** Keaton, The 'repetition' thing, maybe, yeah, good call. I'm not a massive Tom Waits fan or anything, but Lanegan is like the muck on the bottom of his shoes. Well, since I actually admire Earth but find them kind of really boring at the same time, I would pick singers whom I think would wake Carlson the fuck up. Russell Mael from Sparks maybe. Or what's-her-me from Crystal Castles. Or Mickey Mouse. ** Steevee, Hi. I've watched a lengthy excerpt from 'La Brune et Moi', but not the whole thing, entirely to see Clementi, and back when I was doing 'research' for 'The Marbled Swarm'. It seemed really charming. I remember wanting to watch it in its entirety. If you go, I would be really interested to hear how you find it. ** Mark Gluth, Thanks, man! Yeah, I think we're finished. You never really know, and we have 10 days or so to fiddle if we want to, but, yeah, other than invisible-to-the-naked eye changes, it's probably a done deal and ready for its post-production polishing. Yes, Elri is one our stars. That's how Michael found him. He's amazing in our film. I may be busy, but I'm never too busy to turn down something on the order of that pdf, so, yes, please, thank you! ** Alistair McCartney, Hi, Alistair, maestro, old pal! You're back! In LA and in here. Having followed your Australia visit remotely via FB, it seems like you were there quite a while. But then with that flight, it would be crazy not to. Really, really happy that your book is going well! The light at the end is always proverbial, so that's great! Pruning, yum! Anyway, sweetness to see you, my friend! Love, me. ** Cal Graves, Ha ha, deneanor is good. Thank you! My name is such unexpected mulch, it's cool. Cool that your prof. got it. That's pretty key, obviously. Oh, right, yeah, I didn't even think about the fucking them up angle, which is kind of weird, me being me. Got it. The film is a done deal, I think, except for the sound and color correcting. It's like the final degree of focus, I guess. Good question, hm. Well, when I did drugs a lot, my drug of choice was LSD, but when you take LSD with someone, the someone basically just disappears for most of the time, if it's good LSD, so I guess I won't pick that. I guess it should be some kind of social enhancing drug. And I'm in a benevolent mood or something, so I'm not going to pick a Date Rape drug and choose some historical hottie as my companion, tempting though it is. So, what and who does does that leave? I used to wish I could have met Rimbaud really badly. It's not as strong a dream now, but it's still a pretty appealing idea. But there would be the problem of him seeming to have been kind of a total prick. So, okay, maybe ... this might work ... I want to take Ecstacy with Rimbaud. What's your choice? Cool, I'm not even going to try to outdo my sign-off from yesterday if it worked that well, ha ha, so I'll just say Fare Thee Well, an old standard. ** Kier, Ha ha, denightful. Seriously, what is the story with my name's mutability? I've always hated the name Dennis, but now I'm softening on it. Oh, yeah, your body should be used to it. But you do a lot of physical stuff, and I don't at all, so maybe my body's deficiencies are always napping or something. Oh, ugh, terrible, about the chicken killing. Jesus. Out with the old and in with new? Weird. That Gira book is really rare, yeah. I don't know why he's such a hard ass about reprinting it unless it has finally been reprinted without my knowing. Really, about 'Streetcar'? Huh. I remember there being kind of great things here and there in it, I think, but I haven't watched since I was a youngun, so I believe you. Anyway, your day was really rich in event and detail. Cool. Mine wasn't, ha ha. I ... hm. Not much of note, this and that, stuff, a bunch of minor stuff that I can't even remember. Zac had to wait until last night to upload our film to Vimeo because his internet connection is too crap, and it would have taken 20 hours or something, so he used some friend's high-speed spot when the friend got off work, so I guess it got uploaded during the night. I'm waiting to hear. Made two blog posts, emails, phoners with associates, a bit of reading, a bit of listening, a bit of figuring out the upcoming trip to Halle/Berlin, and ... wow, it's just a blur of my nose having been to a grindstone of little entertainment value. Oh, well, sorry. Maybe today will hold something colorful in store. Could be. So, how did you top your yesterday? ** Bill, Hi, Bill! Thanks! Well, thanks on behalf of the various authors and publishers, I mean. canooooopy is really, really curious. A recent discovery for me. Looks pretty fruitful. You good? What's up, man oh man? ** Slatted light, Hi, David! Oh, the Hebdo thing, yeah, I was weirded out about that in general for a while, sorry. Thank you very much about 'ZHH'! That means a whole lot. I'm really happy with it, and, as you can see from today's post, I am not yet finished with my interest in working literarily in that form. Hard to tell at this point when our film will actually get out to people. I know the producers want it to play some festivals first. I know they'll be shooting for Cannes and Locarno early in the spring, but I don't know about any others. I know there's some kind of limited theatrical release plus DVD release deal in the States, but the producers are keeping Zac and I in a lot of darkness about all of that stuff. I suppose all of that stuff will get more concrete when we're in Berlin doing the post-production. And, as I've mentioned, the producers don't like the film, so that will undoubtedly affect everything too. So, big question mark re: your question for now for a lot of reasons, but I do think that we'll know a lot more once we've been in Berlin. Great to see you, D-ster, and big love back from me! ** Okay. So, I managed to write a novel using gifs. And then I managed to write a short story with gifs that I posted here a short while back. And now I think I've managed to write a poem using gifs, and there it is. Dig or don't or whatever you do, and I will see you tomorrow.