p.s.  Hey.  My crappy camera put limits on what I can show you from the Festival d'Avignon, but it was a blast.  The 'Jerk' performances went extremely well, and there massive crowds turned away every night, and we were happy.  Speaking of crowds, the turn out so far for the upcoming Writers post has been pretty low.  So low that I've extended the deadline by a day (see: upper right announcement).  There are a lot of writers hanging around here, and it shouldn't take you much time to put your entries together, so come on, you guys.  I want to show 'the world' not to mention all of you the kind of wildly various, big talents who have staked a claim on this little vicinity of the internet.  Please contribute, and thanks much.  Okay, I'll catch up now.  **  Armando, Hey, man.  Happy you liked it.  That is very good news about the Woody Allen, and I have to say I'm pretty excited about 'Inglorious Bastards' from what I've been reading about it.  Did you just watch some Hitchcock?  If so, what exactly?  **  Thomas, Hey, pleasure to see you.  I knew nothing of Neuwirth/Jenilek's opera based on 'Lost Highway', and that's fascinating news to say the least.  I'll check out the link and hope it arrives in Paris eventually. You doing good, I hope?  **  Perfecto, Greetings, and thanks for the input.  Well, get over here and find out exactly what having a coffee in Paris with me tastes like.  You and your primary partner's blogs are very cool.  I did leave your buddy a comment.  I couldn't help myself.  Well, yeah, come back any old time, etc.  Good to meet you.  **  Wagner israel cilio iii, Thanks for letting me post your story.  I liked it a lot.  Send something to writer's introduction day post if you like.  I salute you.  **  Squeaky, Hey, pal.  Thanks for taking the time to be you.  **  Roger P., Yeah, we're still putting our Basque country plans in place -- where and when for how long, etc.  Some beach, some city.  It's complicated for some reason, but we'll ace it.  Hope you had a great few days.  **  Stan_cz, Big congrats on getting the last of your foot off of that dreaded property at last.  **  David, Yeah, I figure I should at least dip into the Sherman film.  I mean I do like her work so, and Carol Kane is quite enough reason.  I should do a Carol Kane Day, come to think of it.  Hope you're doing well.  **  Miss Lit., You're great.  Your hard to please comments are really helping me wake up in the mornings.  Yeah, cool.  **  Akechikogorou, Dude, I got and love it, and I wrote to you about getting it, so hopefully you know the score, and thanks a lot.  **  David Ehrenstein, Much appreciation for the Lynch input.  Sissy Spacek, sigh, another person I should do a Day on.  Did you know she was John Waters' first choice to play the lead in 'Serial Mom', but apparently the role freaked her out a little too much.  That would have been something to see.  And watching Mr. Monnier take that gloomy bath is always a sore eyes queller, so gracias on that front as well.,  I just read that the LA fucking Times is killing off the Sunday Book Review section, which is just unspeakably obnoxious of them.  **  Chilly Jay Chill, I hadn't seen that rejected Lynch cow item.  Nice.  You know Dr. Strangely Strange, excellent.  I really don't know a ton about them.  I bought their two albums back in the day, and dug them and strangely still do, and that's the extent really.  They were obscure even when the albums were fresh at least in my part of the world.  No, I wasn't Little Timmy, but his voice soothed me.  **  Michael Karo, Sire, squire, spire, empire.   No DL Day would have complete without your luminous highway video, so thanks for saving our DL Day from also-ran status.  **  Bernard, You being a theater buff, you should really try to go to Festival d'Avignon.  It so much fun and so crazy.  In addition to the official festival, all these little theater companies descend on the town hoping to draw crowds and curators and critics, and this year there were 900 theater pieces playing in every nook and cranny, storefront and alley and hotel room of that little medieval town, and just walking around is just complete sensory overload.  Plus it's a gorgeous place too.  You should really try to go sometime, seriously.  **  Misanthrope, Yeah, but if he changes his name to Blackbird, he'll be not only hated but scoffed at and dismissed offhand and all sorts of really negative stuff.  Antoine knows his shit, man.  Yeah, Jared, right?  You'd better dig something up for Writers' Day if you know what's good for you, and I think you kind of do.  **  Panda?, Hey.  I don't think I've even heard the last couple of Mum albums actually.  Strange how that happens.  You've sold me totally on the new 'Hellboy'.  Now I just have to wait and wait until it makes it over to France.  I know it's going to suck and everything, but I keep wanting to go see that 3D 'Journey to the Center of the Earth', which is already playing here, but I think it's just because everything else is taking so long to get to Paris.  And I keep thinking, How bad can something in 3D be? But then I remember 'Spy Kids 3D', and then I think again.  Hope you had an awesome few days.  **  Matt, Congrats on the phone survival, although it's been so many days since I've last seen you that having your old phone probably isn't so terribly exciting anymore.  **  Steevee, Oh, as a critic, yeah, of course, that makes sense.  Did you get confirmation yet?  Do you usually try to go ton the festivals?  Have you ever been to Sundance?  I haven't, but I've been tempted.  **  SATAN, It's so sweet that you could have any ass in the world with a finger snap and yet you want Matt's so badly that you're revealing yourself as the insecure sugar daddy you really are.  Awww.  **  SYpHA_69, Big breasts, huh?  That's interesting.  Like how big?  Like Russ Meyer big or like porn star implant big or like just a nicely stacked girl big.  What about the nipples?  Is there a type of nipple you're into?  I mean being into big breasts must be hugely common, but I can't think of anyone I've ever known who was vocal about that interest before.  **  Laurabeth, Hi, Laura.  Have you had  a good or at least decent last few days?  What's going on, pal?  **  JW Veldhoen, I bet you're in the wilderness by now, aren't you?  **  McGregor, I need to see 'Fire Walk with Me' again.  I mean I loved it, but I remember thinking the first twenty minutes or half hour wasn't that great, but I don't remember why.  I think the Bowie cameo/role bugged me when I saw it, but I don't remember why anymore.  I most love the scene where they're dancing in that road house to the really loud music and their conversation is subtitled.  The pix of your coming out party are so great!  I want to meet your friends.  That daylight at night thing is so disorienting.  Yeah, thanks so much for sharing those, M.  What an awesome party.  **  Distimium, Hi.  Thanks for posting the translation, and I hope it wasn't too much trouble for you.  Your blogs are beautiful, and if I can encourage you, I'm proud.  The 'My Loose Thread' translation is bad?  That completely sucks.  Yeah, except in rare cases, I have no knowledge of the translations of my books at all.  I just have to sit here and hope they understand what I'm doing with the novel and got it right.  Well, if I ever get the opportunity to be translated into Castilian again, I'll tell the publisher that they have to consult with me, I guess.  If you would like to do a Fernando Vallejo Day for my blog, I would be very honored, and I would do my best to help you with the translation or try to find someone to help if you need and would like that.  Thank you, my friend.  It's such a great pleasure to have you here.  **  Kindertrauma, Thanks a lot, and it's really nice to see you.  I visit your site a lot, and it's really fantastic and a true gift. **  Craig, Hey, man.  I haven't read this controversial book you guys were discussing.  Now I'm not sure if I should.  Wait, 'PP' is lame?  That's crazy talk.  A gun?  I'm so confused.  Take care, pal.  **  Blendin, So you should be back home safe and sound by now, I reckon.  Well, why would you ever want to order anything without cheese on it?  Minneapolis is right, man.  Oooh, I'm gonna punch you so hard.  **  Antonio, My cotton and dye allergies means no haute couture.  And my loose pants are part of my battle against allergy too since organic pants are too ugly for even me to wear, so I wear evil unorganic pants, and while it's true that if they were skin tight the sight of my basket would change lives, my flushed skin and pounding headache would undo all the good my basket could bring.  My life is blessed, but not in every single way.  At the spa, I'm gonna gets the works, man, because it's free and because what else am I going to do in the Swiss woods?  I'm going to sacrifice myself to their mystical machinations.  I love your round glasses thoroughly in theory.  How about a pic to be sure.  You can crop it heavily.  I've heard Dan Sartain, yeah.  Not a whole lot.  It was all right, respectable, not exactly my thing, but my thing is not the point, is it?  Is he big in Europe?  Err, he's not big in France.  I mean he's not not big, all things considered, but France just generally gives barely half a shit about American indie rock in general, which is one of the rare flaws that beset the French race.  They like all that Klaxons and Franz Ferdinand and Arctic Monkeys kind of English stuff instead.  I guess they probably like White Stripes because of the red and white clothes thing.  Anyway, I think you should probably be friends with that Sartain guy, but you should be the Aleister Crowley to his Jimmy Page sort of thing.  Because if I'm remembering it right, his stuff needs to be a lot more fucked up than it is.    Play him Ariel and test him out.  Hey, if you know Dr. Strangely Strange, you should find out about Quatermass because there's one track on their album that will kill the tripping brains at your party.  It's the long track on the album, duh, whose title I can not recall.  I'll burn it for you when I'm in LA for some future party.  It's kind of killing me that I can't come to your party.  Will you have the AC on?  'Cos isn't it always viciously and sensually hot in Alabama every second of every day?  **  Spunky, It was super great to have around here so richly while I was away.  **  Zod Microbe, Thanks a lot, man!  It's an awesome and far too rare treat to have you here.  'Pornography: A Thriller' is almost finished?  Did I read that correctly?  Congrats, if so, and I hope I'll get to see it somehow.  Did you end up finding a composer you're happy with?  **  Rigby101, I was a member of DL.com for a while and was very happy.  In fact, I gave away my membership to the site in a contest I held on this very blog maybe two years ago or something.  I'd completely forgotten that.  On the CB thing, I haven't talked to him since that happened, and I doubt there'll be much I can pass along once I do, but for now I'll just say that what the media is saying happened is so extremely out of character for him and so unlikely that I'm sure something very minor has been blown massively out of proportion.  **  Winter Rates, 'Vineland' is the only Pynchon I didn't manage to finish.  I wasn't that wild about it, like you, and, like you, I mean to try again because it's hard to imagine that it isn't amazing somehow, you know?  Pass along your related thoughts as you read it, if you don't mind.  Yeah, that Davies set list wasn't as littered with obscurities as I dreamed, but those nuggets are seriously great nuggets nonetheless, and thanks, pal.  It's cool he did 'See my Friends'.  Yeah, and I want that promised story.  **   Thomas Kendall, Hey, man.  Thanks for passing along that shy Mr. Moronic's book arrival info.  So do you actually watch the movies you decorate with popcorn?  **  Aaron, Wowzer, hey, pal.  I'm down with Slimane era Dior, but I'm like you: me in that stuff?  That would be sad looking not to mention itchy.  **  DavidC, Hi, sir.  I'm gonna try to send you some questions this week.  I'll do my best.  **  Thomas Moronic, That preview of your book looks so tasty.  Wait ...  Everyone, go have a little preview of our fine and brilliant friend Thomas Moronic's new book of poems right here, and buy one for goodness sake.  Wonderful, man.  I can not wait to see it.  Hey, send in something for the writer's day post, if you don't mind.  **  Wolf, Your Lynch paen was manna.  It still is, in fact.  Are you down south now?  Man, it's so hot and muggy and gross down south, if Avignon's weather means anything.  **  Jheorgge/George Taylor, Hey.  I really love your songs.  I already even got them magically moved over onto my iTouch even, but how is a trade secret.  I'll check out Ponytail.  Right, Bun B., now I remember who he is.  I liked UGK, but 'solid' probably won't get me rushing over to hear his record.  Thanks, pal.  **  Tonyoneill, Really great, kind words about the Lynch Day.  Yeah, these guys in and around here put together something incredibly special.  Something for the writer's day would be mega-swell.  Hope you're doing great.  **  Math T., Ow, fuck, Math, that's horrible.  I hope today is a brand new day.  And you're Nobel Prize-worthy for starting to knock out a Patti Smith Day in the midst of that.  Man, give me a heads up on how you're feeling today, okay?  **  Paul Curran, Thanks a lot for that, Paul.  Send me a Writer's Day entry, please?  **  Joe M.,  Greetings to you, Joe.  You will send me something for the writers post too, yes?  Even though a bunch of people here know your work, there are still far too few here who do as well.  **  Tender Prey, I'm guessing that the newest work on your blog represents what's in your show at Five Years?  It's fucking incredible.  Wolf was describing some of those works to me, and it's amazing to see them.  Everybody, our own Tender Prey aka artist Marc Hulson has some new work on his blog that you really need to see.  It's here.  Any news on the possible Paris gallery front?  Thanks a million, man.  **  Shai Hulud, That DH helium thing sounds so crazy in theory, yeah.  I didn't know that, so, obviously, thanks.  **  Little Timmy, I'm not Mr. Ehrenstein, but I liked that movie, if that helps the very helpable you.  **  No more teenage kicks, I hope that dream was all future-telling too, natch.  I mean everything real seems to have been in its proper place.  You need to get a french translator for your novel.  Then we can both nod and wave as we stroll the Parisian streets together.  Nodding and waving and strolling at the same time takes some getting used to, but the benefits win out.  Your piece for the Lynch Day was fantastic, Mark, enormously impressive.  **  I've now caught up with you guys, and let's begin again.  Let Avignon do whatever it wants to do with your eyes today, and I'll see you all again once Thursday becomes relevant.