----
Monday, June 1, 2009
p.s. Hey from LA. So, yeah, I'm home and preparing for the next round of 'Ugly Man'-related things to do, starting tonight at Skylight Books and then tomorrow at Book Soup, which I mention in case you're in my locale and have nothing else to do. The NYC wing of the trip turned out pretty well, I think, except for the usual problem of not having been able to spend a decent amount time with even a fraction of my friends while I was there. My old friends and collaborators Ishmael Houston-Jones and Chris Cochrane (aka d.l. 'Chris'), who are among the pals I did get a chance to see, and I are thinking about revamping and restaging 'Them', the first performance art piece we made together in the early 80s, so I might get back to NYC in order to work on that sooner than I've previously thought. In any case, it's really great to be in my real home and hometown even for a few days, and even if I'll mostly just be doing book promo activities while I'm here. Anyway, onwards we go. ** T H O M, Hey. Well, that's great news! You might want to RSVP a ticket earlier than later because I'm pretty sure the shows will sell out. Or maybe I can get you on an RSVP list or something. Let me know if you need my help. Is this tour for the cool sounding band you were talking about earlier? ** David Ehrenstein, Hey from across town. Very interesting about Antonioni, and also about the new Woody Allen. Yeah, I think if this Robbe-Grillet theater piece happens, and if I end up in it, I'd be playing Antonioni post-stroke. As I recall, that's when it was written and when they'd talked about making it together. ** Stan_cz, I'm in LA until Thursday. Very quick, way too quick and busy, but I'll take what home time I can get. I really haven't spent enough time in London to know how it compares in terms of expenses. My sense, and my understanding from people who live there, is that it's a fairly pricey place to live, but I don't know the scoop compared to Paris or LA. When one actually lives in Paris, and if one lives modestly, it's not too horribly expensive, but there's no question that, compared to LA, almost everything apart from museums and music shows and theater performances and things like that costs notably, painfully more than everything comparable does in LA or in the US in general. ** Math t, How was the Holzer show? Of course, I wasn't close to having any time to see it or much of anything when I was there. Again, it was so, so great to see you, pal! ** Mark Gluth, A big push? No, not that I know of. My work isn't really suitable for a really big push, I don't think. More push than the last few books that I did with Grove got, that's for sure. I'm quite happy with and grateful for the degree of push they're doing, definitely. Email, okay, I'll check it later. Traveling always makes my email box even more clogged than usual, which is usually bad enough. Good to see you, Mark! ** Patrick deWitt, Hey. I'm glad stuff's going well. I saw your book very clearly in NYC a lot, in stores and at the BEA, of course. Nice. ** Michael_Karo, I guess there are some Lammy pix at Homo Neurotic. I haven't looked at them yet, so I don't know if I'm in any of them. Funny about Doty in the bathroom. My Lammy was sent to me via the post since I wasn't there to get it in whenever, 2006, and it arrived very chipped. ** Bill, Hey. Gosh, feel a lot better if you aren't feeling tip top already. ** Flit, Hey, pal. What's new? ** No more teenagekicks, Yeah, great to see you too, Mark. You seemed quite lucid at the Bookforum thing to me, or no less lucid than anyone else I talked to. Yeah, I was surprised how much fun that party was, and I too met all kinds of really cool people. Hope the rest of your weekend soothed and formed a doormat for your muse. ** Steven Vineis, That music collaborative thing sounds really great. Yeah, do pass along anything you can about that. Hope your weekend was full of everything. I'm medium jetlagged, not enough to whine about. I'll save the whining until I get to Paris where it'll no doubt fuck me very seriously. ** Bernard Welt, Nancy Allen ('Carrie', 'Robocop', etc.) came on to me heavily once at the old NYC club Limelight. She was with Michael Pare at the time, and he almost punched me. I'll keep that porn star under my hat. I sure don't want to put him under anything else of mine, ha ha. Yeah, I can see the possibility that he'd like to keep his niceness and intelligence under his own hat. Wow, you exchanged words with Angela Lansbury. That's pretty big. I saw her in 'Sweeney Todd' too. My only in-person ever with her. ** Postitbreakup, Hey, Josh. Yeah, you're much missed, you know, but I understand. I'm really glad you're liking 'UM' so far, obviously. Are you writing? Please say yes. ** Alan, Hey, man. I'm mourning the fact that I didn't get to see you in NYC more, but we're on our way, at least. I saw a street blocked off for the Obama motorcade, but not the motorcade, just a lot honking cars. Great you finished the Pakistan project. So is it clear sailing on the novel now? Have you started back into it yet? ** David, Hey. Thanks for the tip re: the Lammy pix on Homo Neurotic. I'll swipe some for my upcoming slideshow since I forgot to drag out my little camera that night. ** Oscar B., Oh, good that the metal band project is still on its way. That should be one hell of a final show. I really hope I can see it. I'll have to try to plan a timed visit out in advance somehow. LA is famously a place where I rarely ever meet or get to know people who grew up here like I did. ** JW Veldhoen, Me too. ** Orestes, Hey. Oh, I'm never too busy for you, man. You good? You writing at the moment? It should be quite nice here in LA. Doing readings always stresses me out, but I'll hopefully get to see some friends from here and elsewhere because of the readings, so that balances things out. ** Steevee, I'm very glad to hear you're feeling better. So is the next step with the film the editing of it? That's this month, right? ** Clovenskull, Wow, hey, Alex! It's so nice to see you. A skipping 7" is a pretty accurate portrait of my brain, yes. Maybe a 7" picture disc. Pretty imagery, bad sound quality. You okay? What's going on? ** Pisycaca, Gosh, your Primavera experience sounds so incredible, and how awesome it is that you got to meet and hang with Bradford, not to mention getting a dedicated song, wow! He's so great; they're so great. Even with the weird Wavves set, it sounds really ideal. Poor Xet, though. I'm glad he felt better before the whole thing was over. Yeah, great, great! My tour's going pretty well, I think, as far as I can tell, knock on wood, etc. ** Pascal, Things sound intense with you, but you gave it a positive spin, so I'm hoping it's one of those breakthrough-style lifequakes. Oh, yeah, I like 'Red Desert', you bet. I love Antonioni's films in general. And I'm glad to hear the Spicer suits your needs. Yeah, cool, take care, and fill me on the specifics of the big change when or if it seems suitable to do so. ** Paul Curran, Hey, Paul. Is the novel still moving ahead without much of a hitch? The tour's pretty good, I think, as far as I can tell, although it's all about whether my publisher is happy enough to want to keep me around, really. I think it's going okay enough. ** Katsim, Wow, a comment from the Hong Kong airport, how cool. And you sounded so lucid. Oh, right, you said you have no problem sleeping on planes, right? So you must be completely down under by now. How is it? Is it feeling as right as you hoped? ** Mark, (1) My dreams normally hide from my waking state, so, if they did complete a film, the best I can hope for is a deja vu or something. (2) What a perfect title, err ... Uh, thanks! ** SYpHA_69, Yeah, it absolutely can't hurt to be evaluated by a psychiatrist. I can't see even a tiny half-reason why that isn't a really good idea. So have you bought the condo already? You seem really set on the imminent, which is why I ask. ** Misanthrope, It was great for me to see you too, man, duh. The flight was weirdly okay. It arrived an hour and fifteen minutes early, which the pilot announced might have set some kind of record. But then I just had to sit on the curb at LAX for an additional hour-plus waiting for Joel to pick me up, so the earliness wasn't such a boon on my end. Thanks a lot about the Bryant Park deal and 'UM'. My post-trip depression is waiting for me in Paris if it's not neutralized and buried by jetlag. That's usually what happens. Maybe jetlag is God's sedative or something. ** NB, Yeah, it was a total pleasure and nothing but to finally get to meet you and spend the little amount of time hanging out that we had. Act 1. Any follow up questions on the novel thing that I can try to answer, feel free and always ready, obviously. I have no time to write while I'm on this tour. I did look over my novel-in-progress a couple of times and fiddle with a sentence or two. The first time, I thought it was disaster, so I quickly closed the document. The other time, I thought it was fine, so I quickly closed the document for the opposite reason. I'm already enjoying the grillz, thank you. They're still packaged, but they've delighted a friend or two even so. Take care, N. ** Inthemostpeculiarway, My weekend was a blur, but good, yes, apart from the not being be able see many of my friends part. Lots of running around, and then a plane in motion, and then the sights and sounds of my happy LA home, and then a friend, and then some Mexican food, and then the MTV Movie Awards, which were, well, what they are. I'm almost literally dying to see 'Enter the Void'. I hope it opens in Paris soon. I wonder if it'll get a theater release in the States. I'd guess so since 'Irreversible' caused at least a little fuss. Mm, I think I've probably eaten bits of my chapped lips at times in my life, probably when I was on coke or something, so that factoid wouldn't have spoiled my breakfast if I ate breakfast. Surely not so surprisingly, I don't like Lady Gaga. Not my thing at all, but I haven't seen the video, so I'll make that trek with an open mind. Hope you enjoyed 'Crash', man, and see you tomorrow. ** October, Yeah, it would have been great if you were down here for the LA stuff if not the more ambitious NYC trip part. Your dad's such an ass, I'm sorry. As always, just try to remember that he's just a fucked up aggressor, and that you're awesome and in the clear: a great, very unfairly treated person. It really sucks, though. What's up with your love life that's made you get obsessed with it? Anyway, it's really good to see you, and take care, and tell me what's going on. ** Adam Egypt Mortimer, Hey. Really interesting thoughts about the post. Thanks for that. I just had my first look at your website, which is full of fascinating stuff. Lots of respect on your work. Everyone, use the link imbedded in the second to previous sentence. Oh, you'll be there tonight? Great. I'll try even harder to do a decent job. ** Tomkendall, Ultimately, the good outweighed the bad, I think. Unless I'm crazy, and I suppose I am in my own low key way. How's writing? In the 'good' column, I hope. ** Tender Prey, Hey, Marc! Mm, did I post graphs and so on here? Maybe. I don't quite remember doing that, but it would haven't seen so long ago that I might be spacing. They would have been re-creations. Okay, I'll search around and see if I can find any jpegs or something that would fit that description, and, if I do, I'll post them here at some point. I hope you get to make it over to Paris in late June, obviously. I'll be away in Belfort working on the new theater piece from the 18th or 20th to the 25th, I think, but otherwise I should be there. I think I'll be in London for all three 'Jerk' shows. That's what I've been lead to think. I hope so. I'll definitely be there for the first two because I think I'm supposed to do a short reading as part of the show on the second night -- maybe the third night too? -- and Chris Goode is interviewing G. and I onstage on the first night. I'd love to go see Five Years and galleries with you! I think I'll have the time to do that whatever happens. Yeah, that would be awesome. ** Jesse Hudson, Hey, Jesse! Yeah, 'Bookworm' is really a great thing, and depending on how much of the show's archive is online, there's a mega-wealth of listening pleasure waiting. McSweeneys is going to put out a big, multi-part book featuring the best (or Michael Silverblatt's selection of the best) of the interviews from Bookworm, which should be amazing since basically every great living or recently living writer has been on that show at some point. Okay, J., talk to you a little later. ** Roger P, Hey! Welcome back, my friend. I'm really glad you made it home in one piece, and I've missed you a lot, and I really look forward to catching up! ** Blendin, Yeah, Daphne seemed really great. Is there somewhere I could read her work? Thanks for alerting your friends about my gig. There's the one tomorrow night too if they're previously engaged or need a little time to decide if they can handle me, ha ha. Good morning. ** Atheist, Thanks a lot, A. You good? What's the haps? ** Okay, I'm off. I have another small handful of previously M.I.A. porn images on show for you today. Lots of antique cocks for you classical members-loving types, it turns out. Hope they suit. If I don't see you at Skylight tonight, I'll see you here tomorrow. Take care.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)