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p.s. Hey. ** Dominik, Hi!!! You made it through and back! I’ve been fine. I finished a new draft of the script that I’m excited about, and I’m waiting for Zac’s feedback. Yes, we’re going to SF (and nearby LA too) for the festival screening. Already dreading the jet lag, but it should be cool. It’s a big queer festival, and I’m curious to see how that goes since it’s not a hugely queer film. Or I mean it’s coincidentally queer in one aspect, but it’s not about that. The escorts live on thanks to love! Love congratulates you and all of Austria for your Eurovision triumph, G. ** Steeqhen, Pikmin is special. It’s one of the few games that Miyamoto still has a heavy hand in. Glad your illness is dying out in your biology. Unless someone trustworthy ever infiltrates the Kremlin, the helicopter prostitute incident will always be a question mark, you’ll be presumably happy to know. ** julian, Blurring the line between fiction and non-fiction is definitely interesting. It’s a bit of a trope in France where autofiction is pretty much the most employed genre right now, but the vast majority of that ‘fiction’ doesn’t experiment with the idea in any particularly interesting way. Favorite disaster movie … that’s hard. They don’t really stick around in my mind afterwards. Among recent ones, I liked ‘San Andreas’ pretty well. Basically, the less time they spend on back story and the characters’ interpersonal goings on and the more time spent on over the top CGI madness, the better. Yes, Zac and I directed a music video for Xiu Xiu that Jamie was the star of, but the record company rejected it so it never got released. I like him. He’s a very complicated guy, no surprise. ** PancakeIan, Thanks for attending to Carsten’s post. Oh, right, Megan’s a doll or something, I remember now. I think the only recent horror movie that I actually loved was ‘Skinamarink’, but it’s more of an experimental film that coopts horror, I guess. Disneyland and Ecstacy were actually a wonderful combination. It made the park seem like the unearthly, heaven on earth type of place it aspires to be. I just saw Walt walking down the main street with a group of people, mostly kids, so my guess is he was taking some important person or potential financier and their kids on a VIP tour. Haha, OJ looked guilty, no doubt. I’m on the search for the van Dantzig book. Happy Monday. ** Steve, Wunderbar! Everyone, The fifth episode of Steve’s ‘Radio Not Radio’ podcast is now out: here. He says, ‘Feast upon it like a raccoon at a trash can full of food!’ And you should! Really, about ‘Pavements’? I love them so much that I’m going to keep my hopes up nonetheless. ** _Black_Acrylic, Hey, maestro. Hm, so maybe I’ll just go ahead and read that book you mentioned. Although even meh true crime does have its pleasures. ** Carsten, Thank you ever so much again from amidst the afterburn. ARTE’s fine, but they’re not Anthology Film Archive, if you know what I’m saying. Their online offerings are more adventurous than their programming. I’m still absorbing the post’s totality, and I don’t have favorite poems as of yet. ** jay, Hey. Your bf’s laptop aced the job. I’m happy that ‘Adorable’ got a grip on you. Yeah, she’s an excellent prose stylist. I hope your holiday is peaking as I type. ** Misanthrope, Yep. Because Alex prefers your booty unscorched? My weekend was fine. I hope the office is twice as interesting as ‘The Office’, which I’ve never watched and thus have no idea what I’m talking about. ** RYAN / ANGUSRAZE, Hey. I read your message, if you’re referring to the one I read, and I responded to it, I think. Cool, being an inspiration is a dream that I daren’t even dare to dream. Oh, right, I need to send you my email address, sorry. I was in a writing jag, and that tends to eat everything else. Will do. ** HaRpEr //, I watched about the first, oh, two-thirds of Eurovision before I bailed on behalf of sleep. I was actually rooting for Austria. It was so over the top and going for it full board with the b&w and operatic caterwauling and everything that I relented. I think I liked Switzerland okay, or is that one where the trans-y guy ripped his wig off and everything? But mostly I just thought, ‘Do people actually still listen to all of this rinky-dink, low end nightclub-intended pop/techno junk?’ French speaking hosts here, yeah. I didn’t understand them so well, but they seemed fairly enthusiastic about everything and not that snarky, unfortunately. Obvious luck re: the reading, and don’t get too nervous. Also very curious how you are received. Oh, cool re: Gluck. My favorite is ‘Jack the Modernist’ which I think is going to be reissued soon. ** Darbz 🕷️, Cool, I get to read you from the confines of NYC. It sounds like it’s going really well. You’re really getting around, pal. Nice. Naruto Ramen: noted. God, I do love Ramen, and it strangely hard to find great Ramen, it’s weird. I hope today brings you even more sparkling input. Have so much fun! And I’ll be biting my nails in anticipation of more. Hugs, love, me. ** Right. I haven’t done a piñata post since years ago when Zac and I were prepping ‘Permanent Green Light’, which has a piñata component, so I figured it was more than high time. See you tomorrow.
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That first pinata… dark. I love how a lot of these photos seem to be candid photos in the dark, makes it feel like a snuff film for the pinata. So many are horror movie characters as pinatas, what do you think is the reason? People love to hit them? A funny/eerie disconnect between the childhood pinata and the terror of the horror movie? I got a bit transfixed by the one pinata gif of the black alien head thingy with the purple exposed head… is that even a pinata??
How’s your day looking? Mine is probably just trying to do some simple writing, articles and the such, to occupy my brain, and meeting up with a friend later. I think I was first introduced to Pikmin through Super Smash Bros Brawl, which was my intro to many video game characters that a 8 year old in the late 00s would not know, like the Starfox series, Earthbound, F-Zero, Metroid. I know Brawl is kind of the worst Smash Bros, but I have so much nostalgia and love for the single player mode and the weirdly dark design of that game. Anyway, I always thought Olimar and the gang of Pikmin were completely adorable. I had a dream one day that I found a copy of Pikmin 2 in a shop, and then later that day I did, in fact, find a copy of Pikmin 2, which excited and terrified me! Maybe my dreams contain powers… I hope not coz I had a very unnerving dream this morning.
I’ve found myself listening to Radiohead a lot recently, particularly The Bends and Ok Computer. Which is weird as I’ve never been a big fan of The Bends, but something about the mid 90s rock sound is speaking to me. I really don’t care for High and Dry, but I think Fake Plastic Trees is a gorgeous little ballad, and then Street Spirit is incredible.
Not last night’s dream, but the night before was a weirder version of my own life; basically my roommate is moving out in June, and I’ll be getting her big room downstairs. My dream consisted of living in a different house, with a choice between two rooms: one long and thinner room, and another room with two beds. I couldn’t make my decision. There was also a giant spider the size of a hat, which at first terrified me, but then I was worried about incase something bad would happen to him. I think it’s about the stress of having to move everything downstairs. Not as much of a problem as moving houses would be, but I do have a bit of an attachment to my room.
Anyway, I’m off to have breakfast and start some work!