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p.s. Jesus, David Bowie. That's just crazy and incomprehensible. RIP. Um, okay, starting tomorrow, the blog will be in reruns, excepting the monthly escorts post, and will lack full-blooded, spontaneous p.s.es through Friday, the 29th. Also, the post posting times will be really different because I'll be launching them mostly from Australia, which is, I think, 11 hours forwards in time from Paris. Technically, if it's of interest, I'll be in Abu Dhabi tomorrow, Australia from the 13th through the 25th, and then in Hong Kong until the 29th. Please do feel more than free to hang out here and talk together or leave messages for me because I'll be looking in to read what you guys are doing/saying whenever the opportunities arise, and I'll address every comment that gets left here on Saturday, the 30th when new stuff and p.s.es and I will return. ** Lee, Hi, Lee! Really good to see you, and thank you so much! I hope everything is extremely awesome in your world! love, me. ** Dennis Cooper, Have a great trip! ** David Ehrenstein, Hi. That's a cool story. I didn't know that. Now I really, really want to rewatch it. Thank you a ton, sir! And for the link to the thing about James Laughlin! And for coopting Marilyn for me! ** Chilly Jay Chill, Thanks very much, Jeff! No, it's pure coincidence that my birthday straddles the trip. In Australia ... it's really kind of a blank for me. Definitely excited to check out Tasmania, and I hope we (we being Zac and me plus the currently Melbourne-ensconced Kiddiepunk and Oscar B) get to travel into something of the Outback, but I don't know the logistics on that. Hong Kong is a serious blank. I have no idea what that will be like, which is fun. Sure, yeah, let's Skype when I get back. Very best luck with the complications until then. Thank you very much for asking around about 'LCTG' screening possibilities. Zac and I both really appreciate it! ** Tomkendall, Thanks a lot, pal. Take good care while I'm elsewhere. ** Sypha, Thank you, James. Have a great couple-plus weeks! ** RIDDLEOFLUMENIMAGES, Hi! No, you definitely aren't. Even I can tell. Those minimal logos on you blog look great! I look forward to delving further. Thank you! ** Damien Ark, Thanks a bunch, Damien! I will do my best to have all the fun possible. You too in your location, okay? ** Jeremy McFarland, Hi, Jeremy! I didn't do too much at all on my birthday, mostly did stuff I needed to do before I leave on my trip. I hung out a little with Zac, who's fighting off the end of a bad flu, and we checked out the one year anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo event ceremony at Republique and the currently completely drained (for cleaning and repair) Canal St. Martin, and that was pretty much my birthday. But it was all fine and good. Yeah, I'll memorize everything on my trip that's worth sharing and try to take pix and stuff and share it here when I get back. I love caves. Even fake caves like at Disneyland. I'm easy to please on the cave front. That sounds like total fun: your planned trip to NYC. It's not so, so far a drive from you to there, is it? I'm not so great with geography. I guess parking a car in or near NYC would be an expensive headache. Hm, I don't know. I hope you guys get to go! Have a really good two and a half weeks, and promise to tell me all the highlights, or, well, even lowlights when I get back. Big love right back to you! ** James, Hi, James. Thanks a lot! Hong Kong should be quite an eye opener of some sort, yeah. Aw, the world's a whole lot less shabby with you in it too, my friend. Love, me. ** Kyler, Hi, K. Oh, gosh, you're so kind, thank you, man. You too! And here's hoping re: your dream's prescience. ** Thomas Moronic, Thanks, Big T! 'Game of Pricks' is a perfect thing. And, yes, the melody/key shift at those points is like a seriously great drug. Totally. Hooray! Thanks for the mush, my friend! Lots of love! Have a sweet time across the board until I get to see you next. ** Bernard Welt, Hey, B! Thanks. Oh, you know what? I'm really not hugely familiar with GP-O's work, strangely. Just here and there. I just sort of slide in and out of his post-TG work. Sorry. Do you know Scott Treleaven at all? He's a super massive expert. Let me throw your request out here and see what happens. Everyone, Can you help out a buddy and d.l. and awesome writer by thinking up then throwing out some suggestions for Mr. Bernard Welt? It would be awesome if you could. Here he is with a request: 'My class will hear Genesis P-Orridge speak at the Phillips Gallery in DC on Jan 21. Anything I should show them (or give them to read) to prepare, or encourage them to ask about? It's kind of odd that this is happening; don't know if it will be a huge event or not.' Thank you! You take care for the next couple of weeks plus, okay? And I'll talk with you soon. Lots of love from me. ** Pascal, Hi, man! Always a super treat to see you! Thanks a lot! You good, everything good? I hope so. Take care, my pal. ** H, Hi, h! Aw, thank you! I hope your next two and a half weeks are very productive and inspiring and peaceful! Love, me. ** Postitbreakup, Hi, Josh! Thank you so very much! Here's to the best year yet! Love, Dennis. ** Schlix, Thanks a whole lot, Uli! I hope the world is cuddling and exciting you simultaneously! ** Flit, Hi, Flit! Thank you, thank you, thank you! Stay amazing while I'm gone, okay? Promise? ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi, Ben. Thank you kindly, sir. I'll try to record anything of especial note to spread around when I'm back. Here's heavily hoping you get the Art101 progress that it and you so deserve. New B.E.! Everyone, please go catch up on BLUE EYES by absorbing its tenth growth spurt entitled 'Real' by clicking this. Take good care for the next short while, my friend. ** Paul Curran, Hi, Paul. Thanks a lot! I feel weirdly unprepared for the Australia trip, in terms of the detailing, but it feels okay. Melbourne, Tasmania, and then as far inland as the time and opportunities and transportation allow. Have fun in Tokyo! Love, me. ** Chris Dankland, Hi, Chris. That's such great music to my ears that the post got you to make your own GbV/Pollard/Sprout playlist! Yeah, 'The Temptation of Saint Anthony'. I came to it after 'Sentimental Education' and 'Madame Bovary', and I just couldn't get into it at all. It's so different. That's exciting, obviously, but, yeah, my head was not ready for the shift or something. But that was many decades ago. I'm glad you're finding yourself able to ferret it out. It has to be amazing, right? Flaubert just is. Have a totally and seriously great next couple-plus weeks, okay? Talk to you soon. Love, me. ** Misanthrope, Hi, G. I didn't do much of anything, really. Saw a little of Zac, saw a little of Paris, tried to meet a deadline, did laundry, blah blah. It was fine, good. Yeah, I remember about your fucked up hearing. I fear that most of the stuff I'm listening to and putting in those gigs is rough, abstract stuff on ears like yours. Sucks. It's good stuff. Wish your ears were higher tech. Oh, the name comes from the badge? Huh. I guess the sexual innuendo slang thing comes from them via the badge too. Huh. I don't remember how I could have gotten that peculiar take on the Green Berets. I think I'm just tripping. Yuck, no, I didn't hear about John Wayne, Jesus, yuck. And strange. Awesome about LPS's lightening. Have a super sweet and swell time while I'm away doing whatever it is that I end up doing. Love, me. ** Thomas, Hi, Thomas! Really great to get to see you, buddy! Cool, I'm glad that my Pollard/Sprout cull worked magic on a fellow scholar and devotee like you. I ended up deciding to not go into the post-reunion GbV catalogue, as you could tell, because then it would been 100 plus songs, and the page would taken forever to load, and everyone would have wound up here in a bad mood. I don't have 'Suitcase 4' yet. Ooh, lucky you! You friend made those videos? Wow. Send him my kudos and encouragement to do more, for sure. Cool, I'll go hit those youtube links today as a bag-packing escape, thank you! I'm glad your band is still rocking it! Excellent! Moving house is the weirdest combo of exciting and mega-stressful. Really good luck with that. Thanks again, man! Take good care! ** S., Thanks, buddy boy! Have a really, really great next weeks, for sure! Love, me. ** MANCY, Hi, Stephen! Yay, a playlist! Obviously, an impeccable one. 'Evil Speakers!' Great call. I hope everything is wonderful with you. See you soonish, I hope. ** Rewritedept, Hi, Chris. You definitely should give yourself a whole hell of a lot more props than you do, that's for damn sure. Yeah, Bowie dying is a complete mindfuck. Wow. Really, really insane. Favorite apple? Mm, I don't know their names. It's green. One of the green ones. Not the really hard green one. Feel much better, pal. Come on, you deserve it, admit that. My Monday will be just me getting ready to travel tomorrow, and those days are always just nerve wracking and ugh, but they are a necessity, ugh. Great GbV list. Some awesome goodies everywhere I look. Take care. See you pretty soon. Love, me. ** Armando, Aw, thanks, my pal Armando! Hugs and love right back at you, buddy! ** Right. I decided the other day that I would send you into rerun-ville with a bunch of asses. Seemed like a very 'me' thing to do or something. All of you guys have a really great time doing whatever you do until I see you live and almost in person next. Love, me.