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p.s. Hey. I have to move quickly-ish again today as I'm due @ film work shortly, sorry. But I have tomorrow off, so I'll be more talkative and attentive then, I think. ** Armando, Hi, man! No, I haven't read your texts yet, I'm very sorry. I'm in the midst of daily day-to-night film work and, until today, also intensive new apartment searching, and I've been without time elsewhere, but I'll be able to read them soon. Oh, right now talking would be pretty tough, but once I've finished he film work and moved my stuff to the new place, that could work. I do want to see the new Larry Clark film even though I'm not a huge fan of his films other than the two films Harmony Korine wrote. But, yeah, I always end up seeing them. I've heard not such good things about the new one, but it being set in Paris is inherently intriguing, so yeah. Really good to see you! ** David Ehrenstein, Nice vid share, sir. Oh, wow, you wrote about your wedding! Awesome! Everyone as I think you might know, the honorable David Ehrenstein got legally hitched recently to his longtime love, the writer Bill Reed, and now Mr. E. has written about that experience and its implications and so on, and we can read it. That's right, read it! Us! Go do that for a million reasons. The piece is called 'I Am a Wedding (In Camera)', and it's here. ** Zach. Hi. Moving sucks, but the purging I need to do should be interesting. Not the gruntwork of the purging itself, ugh, but the lightening. You're going to UPenn. That's cool. I don't know a ton about the school, but I have a good vibe about it. And their online resource of streamable readings is great, of course. Let me see if I can find you some advice. Everyone, here's d.l. Zach. He'd love some advice about something. Can you advise him? Zach: 'I have been working on a couple things, I finished my Masters and now I am headed to UPenn to do my PhD (speaking of moving, I have to figure out a move from NYC to Philly, if anyone has any advice).' Excited for the launch of the magazine! Cal Graves, superstar. I know Michael Hurley, yeah. Really curious, interesting, unique stuff. Huh. I haven't listened to him in ages. Now I will. Yeah, he's really good. Best to you! ** Sypha, Hi. Jesus, your brother writes long books. I can't do that whatsoever, and I have a hard time reading hem, but I admire the heck out of writers who can do that. How is it? Very, very happy to host that post, man, so, yeah, whenever you're ready. Thank you! ** Sickly, Hi! Really? My best guess would be that we're all being duped, but the question is whether it's him mindfucking us or some random image thief. ** Thomas Moronic, Hi, T. Oh, not sure about the novel. I mean I haven't worked on it even given it a good, close look in a long time, even though I've never stopped thinking about it and developing it in my head. It was something, and I think it'll still be that thing, but I have new ideas about how to implement its thingness that I'm anxious to try out. I think the time away has likely been very helpful, yeah. I'm pretty sure. ** Chris Dankland, Thank you again so much, Chris! It was a hit! Yeah, I'm fascinated by country music lyrics. I think they're very underrated as a rule. They can be so clever in this way that's simultaneously really dumb and daring/ sophisticated on a technical level. Writing the film was pretty different than writing for Gisele. Other than in a couple of cases -- the new, in-progress piece and 'Kindertotenlieder' -- I don't write scripts per say. Mostly I work with Gisele on the imagery/texts simultaneously, so there are just texts written to fill in certain spots or to elaborate on or challenge her visual imagery, so the 'scripts' don't make any sense as a whole on their own. The film was written in advance, although it got changed, like, a hundred times along the way. When there's not talking, there was a kind of generalized outlay of what I thought the context and action would be which Zac had total freedom to alter or improvise off of as he saw fit. Once the film is out and about, it might be interesting to publish or post the script to show how it was made and how the film differs from the script/skeleton. My French publisher wants to publish my Gisele scripts as a book, but I'm not sure they would work on their own. We're talking about maybe doing a book combining the texts and relevant images from the theater pieces. That might work? Are you interested in writing for film or theater? They're pretty interesting forms to work in. I recommend it. Thanks a ton again, and hugs to you! ** Chilly Jay Chill, Hey. Welcome back! I can't imagine how intense AWP must have been. Even in the pix people have been posting on FB and elsewhere, it looks overwhelming. I know Open Letter and Song Cave a little, but I'll set my sights on getting to know them better. 'In C' played by a jazz bass/saxophone combo is a fascinating idea. Is it recorded anywhere or videoed? The Grant Hart story is spooky. Yeah, we're getting tech help and supervising the work closely. The sound mix guy is fantastic. The film sounds really incredible now. Sound is really important in the film. It's complex and detailed. Next we have to have the color fine-tuned and get the special effects right. We'll supervise the first, but I think the latter will need to be farmed out. Frank Stanford ... Do I know his stuff? Sounds familiar, but I might be thinking of another poet: Ann Stanford. You like? ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi, Ben. I signed the lease, so the new place is mine, and now the hell of moving there begins or it will in the next few days. ** Magick mike, Hi, Mike. Oh, shit, ... Thank you for the last minute hard deadline. By tonight California time. Okay, I'll send something by the time I hit the sack Paris time. It might be kind of a straightforward thing. Anyway, yeah, apologies for the slowness due to my mega-distractions of late, and thank you again for the hard and fast time frame. ** Steevee, Hi. Curious sounding, that film. My eyes are peeled. Thank you. ** Misanthrope, Hi. Weird, yes. Wow, that pot guy is still hiding successfully or dead or whatever? That's impressive. I mean, in these pot-schmot days of now, having even that much pot wouldn't be such a huge deal, would it? ** Alistair McCartney, Hi, Alistair! Hi, buddy! I did score the apartment, whew. I've got the keys jangling in my pocket. Ugh about the cold. Spring colds are cruel. No, I haven't seen that Gael Morel film. I definitely will, scribble, scribble. Really lovely to see you! Give my love to Tim too. ** Okay. I did a gif thing today. Like the last one I did, 'Breakfast', this one isn't a short fiction or a poem or anything fancy. It's just a gif thing. A thematic gif thing. Hope it pleases. See you tomorrow.