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p.s. Hey. Happy Bastille Day. ** Bernard Welt, Morning, B. My favorite thing in the post was the way the roommates talk. 'Beyond Black,' by Hilary Mantel is sounding very, very tempting. If we hit Berkeley Books, and we should at some soon point, I'll see if they have it. Ha ha, about the friend of Chris Pratt. What did you say about him? Oh, I'll ask you when I see you. ** David Ehrenstein, Seemingly, no? But they do seem to make very good masters and slaves. That's nice that Marjorie is excited about Zac's and my film. I hope she gets to see it. Nice, a piece by Tim Parks. I like his writing. Thank you for the link. ** David S. Estornell, Hi, David! Well, I think it's at least more normal than if the post today causes you do that, ha ha. ** James, Hi. Yes, we have exchanged post materials and coordinates by now, and it'll go up on Saturday as indicated via email. Excellent! Thank you very kindly, James! I'm not so sure that cops wonder what criminals were/are thinking, or not these days if they ever actually did. There are definitely some, at the very least, not unsexy Satanists amidst the master/slave set based on my looky-loo investigations. ** Gary gray, Goodness! It's you, Gary. How the heck are you? It's very nice to see you! Ha ha, funny. Things are going well, yes, thank you. And with you, pray tell? Love, me. ** Bill, Oh, yeah, it is/was real albeit a few years ago. I only just discovered it/him the other day, though. Strange it didn't go more viral at the time. It has all the viral elements. I ... don't think he was in an escort post. He seems to have done his brief escorting through grinder, and I confess that I've never even looked at grinder. Cool, about the Cameron Pierce, which reminds that it was one of the books I spaced on when making my 2015 faves list, shit. He's good, and he's cool too. He runs that very awesome press Lazy Fascist as well. Shellac, wow. I didn't like that recent record of theirs much at all, but live is a whole other can of worms. Thanks, gotcha, about that Momus album. I must say that I am now highly intrigued to hear him sing Howard Devoto. I adore Devoto, and, theoretically, I could see his stuff working via Momus's mind and mouth. ** Steevee, Ha ha. Have you ever watched 'Vegan Black Metal Chef'? Here, if not. It's interesting/ amusing, albeit in the rather short term. Very good news about your eyes' improvement, obviously. The new Bilal, cool, I'll check it out. I haven't tried the Miguel album yet either. Thank you very much, man. ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi, Ben. Ah, yeah, I figured it was pure or at least nearly pure bureaucracy. As I think I mentioned, I'm a 100% automatic man myself, and I dig it. Oh, wow, cool that 'Don't Deliver Us From Evil' is quality. I wasn't sure about that either. And thank you a ton for the link directly to it. I'll try to watch that sometime today in celebration of Bastille. ** Schlix, Hi, Uli. I love Sebald. He's so great. Man, talk about a writer who got swiped from us painfully too abruptly and soon. I'm so happy that the blog was able to hook you guys up. The Kis background comparison vis-à-vis Tisma intrigues me. The 'more conventionally written' thing takes away a bit of the allure, of course, me being me. I'll try to find a book and check out the prose and see what happens. I'm very grateful for your intro. I'm so glad that things are better for you now, pal. Do tell me the story, if you feel like it. I'm definitely curious and interested. And, gee, thank you for giving my address to Puce Mary. Wow, that's great. I love her work really a lot. Best to you today, my friend. ** Kier, Hi, K! Iggy loved it? Wow, I thought it was so bland that I can't imagine enthusiasm for it, but I think it's the most successful movie in history or something, so apparently I missed out. That said, I really don't think you need to spend your valuable time on it. Yes, I'm thrilled that 'The Marbled Swarm' is being published here! It's a big dream come true, for sure. Okay, about how your ear thing happened. An infection bursting your eardrums sounds so intense. Just laze about for as long as you need to, obviously. 'Beyond the Black Rainbow' ... no, I haven't seen it. The same is familiar, but I can't remember what it is. I will investigate it post-haste. Thank you! My Monday was productive. Zac and I finally had our big meeting about our new film's script, and we went over it in great detail. He had amazing ideas, of course, about how it should be improved, all of which I totally agree with. From detail-y things to do a kind of slight reinvention of the main character that will make a huge difference in the best possible way. So I'll be spending a bunch of this week doing the revision, and, hopefully, we will then have a finished script whereupon we'll need to get it translated into French because, as I think I've said, Zac wants this film to be in French. Anyway, that was great, and I'm excited. Other than the meeting and hanging out with Zac, it was pretty quiet and work/ catching-up-related plus gathering supplies since everything in Paris will be closed today due to this, the country's biggest annual holiday. Not sure if or how I'll celebrate the occasion, but we'll see. You have the most fun-filled Bastille Day you can under the circumstances, and please tell me all about it. ** Misanthrope, Ha ha. Randy Orton's like that now? Huh. Wouldn't have imagined. Kurt Angle still exists out there in the pro-wrestling world? Wouldn't have imagined that either. Late 20th Century boy, but foxy as a motherfuck, I guess, right? ** Kyler, Hi. Ah, Fire Island. I went there twice back in the, what, 80s, yeah. You can no doubt imagine how much I didn't feel at home or dig it very much. Cherry Grove was okay-ish, though, I think. But The Pines, yuck. But the first time I was staying at the abode of a famous gay writer who was doing the whole cruising and fucking in the bushes and whipping his short off under the disco ball thing 24/7, so that didn't help. The second time ... I can hardly remember that time. Anyway, I hope you're having fun. It's not the 80s anymore, as much as people there probably wish it was. ** Right. Today's post, yeah, I don't know, I was into it. Still am, I think. One of those things. See you tomorrow.