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p.s. Hey. ** Juan molina, Hi! Good to see you! No, I've kind of dreamed of making noise music though. My friend Zac makes experimental noise music, and it's fascinating to watch and, obviously, hear. I did receive the samples, yes! Thank you so much! I haven't had an opportunity to read them yet because I'm in the middle of a bunch of taxing stuff to do with the premiere of Zac's and my film at the moment, but I'm greatly looking forward to reading it! I've been good, just very and even unusually busy, but all for the good. The finished film is going to premiere soon, so we're getting ready for that, and the next film is written and being translated into French right now, because it's going to be shot on French, and then there'll be the no-fun part of trying to find a producer and financing and all of that crap. I don't know what's going on at the moment with 'Weak Species'. I know the director is still hard at work trying to get it made, but I'm not sure where the project is technically right now. You have an equally if not even moire marvelous day, etc., and onwards, man! Thank you! ** Jeffrey Coleman, Hi, Jeffrey! Always a true pleasure. Thanks, man. Yeah, F ingers is very interesting, and I too am hot for the new album. Sure, uncertain is great. I need to feature Florian music here again soon. I like the new Ashtray Navigations as well. I just got it and started listening to it. Ditto the Thighpaulsandra. We're really on the same page here. I don't think I know The Last Hurrah!!, huh. Sounds really promising. I'll go hunt it down right away. And I'll try the link first. Thanks really a lot. I hope you're doing really good. ** David Ehrenstein, Hi, sir. 'The Garden' is very beautiful. One of my favorite Jarmans, in fact. I'll go find the Simon Fischer Turner soundtrack album. I didn't know that existed. Thanks a lot! ** H, Hi. I hope you're having an excellent day! ** Thomas Moronic, Hi, T. I don't know how one could resist monkeys. I do know people who find them terrifying. Or find their amount of intelligence frightening. Weird. Really glad you got into the gig. The Rat Columns album is pretty consistently good. And, yeah, Islam Chippy is wild. I started listening to him, and it was hard to stop. Really particular and intense, especially the live video/ recordings. Gisele loves Earth. She wants us to collaborate with Dylan at some point. I wish I liked them more. I respect them/him, but I can't really get into them that much. It doesn't help that Mark Lanegan sang on their newest album. He's one of my very least favorite singers. You're listening to 'Gruidés'! I saw that performed live twice here in this old church. It was amazing. The new Locrian is maybe their best yet, I think. Ti West: Hm, I don't think I know that name at all. Huh. Cool, I'll go make my discovery. It sounds really fun. Thank you very much, sir. ** Steevee, Hi. I've heard of that book. Maybe you mentioned it before? I will check that out. Obviously, I'm extremely interested in reading people write and think aloud about this issue. Thanks very much for the tip. Oh, if it's of interest, I just saw Gaspar Noe's 'Love'. You know I'm a huge fan of his films, and 'Enter the Void' in particular is really up there for me, but, I have to say, 'Love' is, as everyone seems to be saying, really bad. Boring, self-indulgent, horribly written, listlessly and badly acted, and not even interesting visually, which is a real shock given his penchant for showy camera and lighting work. It seems like some personal project that he felt like he needed to get off his chest or something, but, for me, it was almost completely without interest. I was very unpleasantly surprised. Well, hang in there until the 25th. That's unfortunate. I have heard a little of that Goldberg album, yeah, and it is a very interesting curiosity, at the very least. I've been meaning to pay close attention to it. I do like that era of eccentric, minor-visionary singer-songwriter work. It was a quite fruitful and, obviously, adventurous time, and it's fun how many lost, odd artists and records kept being re-found. ** James, Your weekend sounds pretty good and not entirely unlike mine, actually. ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi, Ben. Oh, cool, yeah, F ingers, very interesting. You're so lucky to have a turntable. I miss mine, like, every other day. ** Bernard Welt, You made it back to the big, weird continent. (I guess I initially misspelled that word because it got corrected into 'incontinent', which I almost left.) You liked Glasgow a ton. Interesting. I've always wondered what the deal was with Mary Queen of Scots. Literally, my only association is Lou Reed's reference to her in one of the songs on 'Berlin'. Back to work you go, man! Get right the motherfuck back on that horse today! Imperative! ** Postitbreakup, Hi. I'm definitely going to watch 'The Imposter'. I'm tracking down the best way to do that now. Ouch, shit, re: your toe. Take it easy below the knee, man. Glad my words resonated, cool. Thanks! ** Misanthrope, Happy after Birthday! Does everything, including here, look better through your upgraded lens? There's something really funny about the image of LPS giving you a One Direction album as a gift. There's something complexly funny about that. Can't identify what, though, apart from, well, the obvious. Low-key birthdays are usually the best ones. That's my rule of thumb or whatever. ** Etc etc etc, Hi, Casey. Yeah, I answered the questions and sent them back this morning. As ever, thank you immensely! ** Joshua Nilles, Hi, Joshua. I just saw an email from you this morning that has 15 attachments. That must be them, right? If so, thank you! I look forward to them as soon as I get some much needed space. How are you? ** Kyler, Hi. Ah, Jonathan Galassi. I imagine you know my back story with him? If not, briefly, when my first little novella 'SAFE' was published in '85, he called me into his office -- he was at Random House at that time -- and raved to me about it, and he said he wanted to publish my first novel, which I was in the early phase of working on. He made me promise to send it to him when it was finished. So, obviously, I was very excited. So, I moved to Amsterdam and wrote 'Closer' assuming it was going to be published by Random House. Then he moved to FSG, and he wrote me a letter then again saying he wanted to publish the novel. So, I was even more excited thinking I was going to be published by FSG. Then I finished it and sent it to him, and he really hated it and rescinded his offer/promise. So, that was weird and sucked. But oh well. I've never read his writing, I don't think. If I see the novel somewhere, I'll give it a gander. ** Schlix, Hi, Uli! Really glad you liked the gig. How are you? What's happening? ** Right. Today I'm using this space to present my new literary gif work. I hope that those of you who are interested in my gif work will have a look and, I don't know, say something in its regard if you're so inclined. See you tomorrow.