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p.s. Hey. ** David Ehrenstein, Hi. I've tried 'Full Metal Jacket' a few times, and every time it seems very fuzzy and imprecise, and I've never been able to figure out where Kubrick is trying to come from in that film. I know he had full control of it, but it always feels like he didn't to me. Weird. I like 'EWS', orgy included. ** Tosh Berman, Hi, Tosh. Semiotext(e) has published a few of Duvert's books in English, all extremely good. Your theory on the title sounds right, and I think Grove was trying to locate the book inside the vogue for experimental French literature with a 'hard', 'trippy' edge that they were concentrating on putting out at that point in the early '70s, and the toughening up and existential-izing of the title might have to do with that too. Crazy the difference between then and now. Never in a million years, would I ... Etc. ** Sypha, Hi. I haven't read Poppy in ages. I should repost that very old PZB Day I did here years ago. Has he quit writing entirely? Poppy was always really kind of about my work. We used to correspond quite a bit for a while around and just-pre- 'Exquisite Corpse'. Ha, I have no idea what that means about the announcement on my blog telling anyone everything they need to know, but that's very funny. ** Jamie McMorrow, Hi, Jamie. 'A nice oblique eighties computer game vibe': totally, nice. My Friday was ... hm, let me think. I think I mostly only worked on stuff, this and that, all day. And figured out what area (the 8th and 18th arr.) of Nuit Blanche I want to explore tonight. And wandered briefly about. So it wasn't day for the history books or anything, but it did its job. Autumn rules, yeah. It's very autumn here now. No more brief, weird day-long side trips back into summer, thank goodness. Cool, do, about your music and its access times and points. I like the name Winter Cowboys. Yeah, it's actually real nice. It kind of starts softly and then spreads strangely. It's good. I hope your entire weekend is splendor incarnate. ** G.r. maierhofer, Hi, buddy! FC2 is a great realm to get stuck in, if one wants to scour a realm. DeShell ... do I know that work? Hm, I'll go find out. Ooh, I like that idea of a full book with 'The Tunnel' as a lens. Yeah, it's a leaping idea. Wow, cool, about being on the 33 1/3 short list. Fingers extremely crossed. I heard there's a book about Sparks''Kimono My House' on the short list, and I'm rooting for that one too. Another wow about the pregnancy. That's incredibly momentous. Congratulations to you both! Cool too about your reading at Publication Studio. Say hi for me to anyone there I might know, and knock 'em out. Man, you sound really, really good, my friend. I'm so happy to hear and read that. ** Aaron Mirkin, Hi, Aaron. I saw your email upon awakening. I'll do everything I can to watch it this weekend, which should be a shoo-in, I think. Oh, gee, Tokyo recommendations. It's so dense and rich with stuff it's hard to know where to start. I think maybe the best thing is to start by checking out the things you're already interested to see and then, when the detailing appears, go there. I would very highly recommend eating a meal at Itosho. You have to make a reservation. It's an experience like no other. And ... I'l have a think and look through my notes and stuff for other ideas. Kyoto is very nice and pretty much all about the temples, seeing the temples. That's basically what you do there, as far as I could tell. Osaka is strangely very cool for such a new, non-beautiful looking city. Again, I'll have to wrack my memory to suggest specifics. I've never been to Kanazawa. Maybe next time. Zac and I are jonesing to get back to Japan as soon as we can. ** H, Hi. Wonderful about your Jarman paper being accepted! Whoever they are, they are very wise! Yes, all credit and thanks to the anonymous scanner, who, unless I misunderstood, wishes to be anonymous, but, if that person is reading these words and wants instead to be credited, they should know that I will give full credit where full credit is due immediately. ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi, Ben. I think I've seen Hideyuki Katsumata's stuff. I think maybe he has shown here at Palais de Tokyo. If so, I think I thought it had tons 'o' skill and visual bounce, but it seemed very 'now' in a way that didn't interest me so much. ** Liquoredgoat, Hi, man. Yeah, I think Semiotext(e)'s efforts on Duvert's behalf are pretty much a labor of love. When I was putting together that post and looking for texts to use or link to, I was surprised that, even with the new presence of Duvert's work in English, there still is very little written about his work in English. I think people are afraid to support it, for the obvious reasons, especially in this climate of trigger-happy p.c.-acolytes and outrage addicts. ** Brendan, Hi, B. As you should be. Well, not oversensitive, but sensitive. Boringness ends up gradually eating the work of a whole fuck of a lot of artists, obviously. I didn't see 'Ex Machina', but I've wanted to. I'll see if French Netflix has evolved to the point where it would include something like that. I definitely won't be in LA on the 24th 'cos our film is showing in Berlin that day. I just missed The Melvins here in Paris, and it's still killing me. I got the date wrong. Fucking hell. Go, duh. ** Steevee, Your idea about Mark and Duvert makes utter sense, and Mark would have jumped at the chance, if I'm not mistaken. My policy is to keep my emotions out of FB. It's just a massive emotion blender where the expression of individual feelings gets turned into a swirling mush heading harmlessly down the drain of amnesia or something. Oh, blah, on that Armond White thing. Jesus, when did half-thinking get legitimized as thought. ** Thomas Moronic, Cool, hope you get nothing but inspiration from the Duvert. ** Bill, Ha ha, ... I was going to try to find some kind of homely beauty to praise re: the moniker 'San Francisco Music Day', but alas. I think the Paris version is just called Free Music Day, if that's any consolation. The best NB stuff this year seems to be in the odd location of the 8th arr. - 18th arr. So, if nothing else, it'll be fun to wander around in a Paris I never ever go to otherwise. ** Okay. This weekend I made a Halloween maze attraction in gif form for Zac and also for you guys too. No emergency exits, sorry, so stay on the official path. See you on Monday.
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p.s. Hey. ** David Ehrenstein, Hi. I've tried 'Full Metal Jacket' a few times, and every time it seems very fuzzy and imprecise, and I've never been able to figure out where Kubrick is trying to come from in that film. I know he had full control of it, but it always feels like he didn't to me. Weird. I like 'EWS', orgy included. ** Tosh Berman, Hi, Tosh. Semiotext(e) has published a few of Duvert's books in English, all extremely good. Your theory on the title sounds right, and I think Grove was trying to locate the book inside the vogue for experimental French literature with a 'hard', 'trippy' edge that they were concentrating on putting out at that point in the early '70s, and the toughening up and existential-izing of the title might have to do with that too. Crazy the difference between then and now. Never in a million years, would I ... Etc. ** Sypha, Hi. I haven't read Poppy in ages. I should repost that very old PZB Day I did here years ago. Has he quit writing entirely? Poppy was always really kind of about my work. We used to correspond quite a bit for a while around and just-pre- 'Exquisite Corpse'. Ha, I have no idea what that means about the announcement on my blog telling anyone everything they need to know, but that's very funny. ** Jamie McMorrow, Hi, Jamie. 'A nice oblique eighties computer game vibe': totally, nice. My Friday was ... hm, let me think. I think I mostly only worked on stuff, this and that, all day. And figured out what area (the 8th and 18th arr.) of Nuit Blanche I want to explore tonight. And wandered briefly about. So it wasn't day for the history books or anything, but it did its job. Autumn rules, yeah. It's very autumn here now. No more brief, weird day-long side trips back into summer, thank goodness. Cool, do, about your music and its access times and points. I like the name Winter Cowboys. Yeah, it's actually real nice. It kind of starts softly and then spreads strangely. It's good. I hope your entire weekend is splendor incarnate. ** G.r. maierhofer, Hi, buddy! FC2 is a great realm to get stuck in, if one wants to scour a realm. DeShell ... do I know that work? Hm, I'll go find out. Ooh, I like that idea of a full book with 'The Tunnel' as a lens. Yeah, it's a leaping idea. Wow, cool, about being on the 33 1/3 short list. Fingers extremely crossed. I heard there's a book about Sparks''Kimono My House' on the short list, and I'm rooting for that one too. Another wow about the pregnancy. That's incredibly momentous. Congratulations to you both! Cool too about your reading at Publication Studio. Say hi for me to anyone there I might know, and knock 'em out. Man, you sound really, really good, my friend. I'm so happy to hear and read that. ** Aaron Mirkin, Hi, Aaron. I saw your email upon awakening. I'll do everything I can to watch it this weekend, which should be a shoo-in, I think. Oh, gee, Tokyo recommendations. It's so dense and rich with stuff it's hard to know where to start. I think maybe the best thing is to start by checking out the things you're already interested to see and then, when the detailing appears, go there. I would very highly recommend eating a meal at Itosho. You have to make a reservation. It's an experience like no other. And ... I'l have a think and look through my notes and stuff for other ideas. Kyoto is very nice and pretty much all about the temples, seeing the temples. That's basically what you do there, as far as I could tell. Osaka is strangely very cool for such a new, non-beautiful looking city. Again, I'll have to wrack my memory to suggest specifics. I've never been to Kanazawa. Maybe next time. Zac and I are jonesing to get back to Japan as soon as we can. ** H, Hi. Wonderful about your Jarman paper being accepted! Whoever they are, they are very wise! Yes, all credit and thanks to the anonymous scanner, who, unless I misunderstood, wishes to be anonymous, but, if that person is reading these words and wants instead to be credited, they should know that I will give full credit where full credit is due immediately. ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi, Ben. I think I've seen Hideyuki Katsumata's stuff. I think maybe he has shown here at Palais de Tokyo. If so, I think I thought it had tons 'o' skill and visual bounce, but it seemed very 'now' in a way that didn't interest me so much. ** Liquoredgoat, Hi, man. Yeah, I think Semiotext(e)'s efforts on Duvert's behalf are pretty much a labor of love. When I was putting together that post and looking for texts to use or link to, I was surprised that, even with the new presence of Duvert's work in English, there still is very little written about his work in English. I think people are afraid to support it, for the obvious reasons, especially in this climate of trigger-happy p.c.-acolytes and outrage addicts. ** Brendan, Hi, B. As you should be. Well, not oversensitive, but sensitive. Boringness ends up gradually eating the work of a whole fuck of a lot of artists, obviously. I didn't see 'Ex Machina', but I've wanted to. I'll see if French Netflix has evolved to the point where it would include something like that. I definitely won't be in LA on the 24th 'cos our film is showing in Berlin that day. I just missed The Melvins here in Paris, and it's still killing me. I got the date wrong. Fucking hell. Go, duh. ** Steevee, Your idea about Mark and Duvert makes utter sense, and Mark would have jumped at the chance, if I'm not mistaken. My policy is to keep my emotions out of FB. It's just a massive emotion blender where the expression of individual feelings gets turned into a swirling mush heading harmlessly down the drain of amnesia or something. Oh, blah, on that Armond White thing. Jesus, when did half-thinking get legitimized as thought. ** Thomas Moronic, Cool, hope you get nothing but inspiration from the Duvert. ** Bill, Ha ha, ... I was going to try to find some kind of homely beauty to praise re: the moniker 'San Francisco Music Day', but alas. I think the Paris version is just called Free Music Day, if that's any consolation. The best NB stuff this year seems to be in the odd location of the 8th arr. - 18th arr. So, if nothing else, it'll be fun to wander around in a Paris I never ever go to otherwise. ** Okay. This weekend I made a Halloween maze attraction in gif form for Zac and also for you guys too. No emergency exits, sorry, so stay on the official path. See you on Monday.