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The Final Cut
Life size prop. She was kidnapped, tortured, her feet and arms were cut off, now as your guests walk in her head is being cut off. This is one amazing effect; the chainsaw moves in and her head is cut off… the body then falls forward and sprays water or air on your haunted house guests… it really scares them! Includes the life size prop body, chainsaw, lots of metal parts, tourture table HDTV screen, and video play back components. It works out of the box, just add a trigger to start the prop. $3,499.99
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Evil Child Lunger
Child waits hidden behind clothes then child shoots out 5′ turning left to right while lifting arms. 4 independent movements. $2,488.77
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Dinner Time
Full length animated body is gutted out. His head is slowly moving and legs are twitching. This Halloween Animtronic is designed to be filled with ‘blood’ and has a plastic container foamed into the body. Perfect addition to Bubba. Gruesome! Includes movement control, digital sound and speaker. Works great with our BUBBA Animatronic. $2,950.00
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Craven’s Crypt Haunted Shooting Gallery
You and your party have stumbled into Craven’s Family Crypt awakening Lord Craven, who does not tolerate unauthorized visitors to his final resting place. He commands you to leave and when you don’t he summons his dead descendants to drive you from his crypt. 28 different Zombies reanimate before your vary eyes, blasting out of their crypts, the walls and even the floors, as their matriarch the Lord Craven commands them over and over to keep attacking you as you try and defend yourself against the coming horde. Each time you shoot, the zombies react and retreat only to regenerate and just keep coming until finally, the Lord Craven is ultimately defeated and he and his children must return to their final resting places until they can summon the strength to return. $18,899
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Under Pressure
A man runs up to the window frantically trying to open it and causing it to shake as he does. Suddenly, a zombie steps in, grabs his head, and crushes it between her hands blasting viewers with water. This prop is a crowd favorite and will startle even the bravest of patrons. Price includes pre-programmed control hardware, solid state video player, monitor, flow control valves, digital sound, 6in. by 23in. mat switch trigger, and all necessary electrical and pneumatic connections. Prop connects to air lines with a 1/4in. male quick connect coupling. Requires 100psi compressed air and 110VAC electrical. $4050
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Feeding Frenzy
This is our Feeding Frenzy Great white Shark Animatronic shark Spitter. This is one huge Animatronic Tank is 4 feet high and 4 Feet white..Shark comes up to near 7 feet out leeping out of tank..Once up it sprays a mist of water out of its mouth to feel like blood hitting you.. Comes with Controller, Sound, Motion, Tank, Shark, Spitter (Installed), Two Strobes and Smoke Machine. $2.999.99
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Creepy Butler Zombiette w/ Swine Is Served
Creepy Butler Articulating Zombiette All electric character has 5- separate articulations. Swine is Served A large silver covered dish sits atop a fancy rolling butler’s cart, when the lid flips back and an enormous screaming bloody pig thrashes to life from an opening under the dish. Pig character has various lunging, neck, head, jaw movements as well as air blast from mouth. $6,388.77
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Demonica
Something wicked this ways comes – Demonica is her name and she’s rising from the grave. With her illuminated eyes and open mouth, she rises and lowers as if to leave and re-enter the afterworld at the slightest sound. Her head moves as if to cry out in anguish, or to call you to join her. Join in the spooky fun this Halloween when you decorate with this amazing prop. Additional Information The sound-activated Demonica Animated Zombie Prop is an over two foot tall zombie creature who pushes herself out of the grave to over three feet, rising up and down with a moving head and light-up eyes. Requires 4 AA batteries; not included. Sound activated. Optional 6V 3.0a adapter and foot pad activator sold separately. $119.99
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Chain Saw Butcher Pig
CHAIN SAW BUTCHER PIG Waits behind curtain, then curtains fly open, Butcher lunges forward 5′ while lifting chain saw up and down. Comes with Character, pneumatics, programmed controller, motion sensor. (Plug & Play). Custom Sound, MP3 Player & Power Speakers Ships freight. $2,688.77
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Storm Damage
A thunderstorm can be seen through the window when a sudden crash of lightning breaks a tree branch and sends it through the glass. With a rush, viewers are hit with wind and rain while the curtains blow with the storm. Best of all, this prop only requires electricity making it easy to install. Price includes pre-programmed control hardware, solid state video player, monitor, digital sound, 6in. by 23in. mat switch trigger, and all necessary electric connections. Requires 110VAC electrical. $4225
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Wizard Giant
This gigantic centerpiece animatronic can be used to help “sell” your attraction (and generate additional revenue). The giant head tilts, turns and talks as the eyes move left and right. Special EFX lighting, fog and strobe are included! Includes movement controls, digital sound, amp and speaker. Custom vocals and programming available for additional cost. Requires air compressor and AC power. Additional $150 crating. $8,493.77
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Earnest Granpa Walker
Geriatric Walkers – these old coots have lost their Depends in a big way, in fact everything from the waist down is completely gone! But, that’s not going to stop them from trying to chase after you!!! Disturbingly funny and frighteningly realistic movements cause these characters to thrash back/force and side/side as they attempt to propel themselves after their victims…… don’t let them catch you! $3,188.77
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Crate Spider
Watch in Horror as this Creepy Spider charges out of it’s crate with full movement. Legs move independently and body curls up while the spider charges out to meet your guests. The Crate Spider Halloween Animatronic is 3 feet long and 32 inches wide. Digital sound is available for an additional $300. Spider Spit Mechanism is available for $350. $5,100.00
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Madame Isabella
(10) function animatronic talking head. Used (2) ways- pre-programmed and recorded or operated Live interactive with a microphone and joy stick. Use Madame Isabella as a pre-Show to tell the tale of your attraction, pacing your patrons thru at a desired interval or use her as a stand alone second or side attraction. Charge extra admission for a seance side show before patrons go thru your main attraction. We can custom design a seance attraction just for you and your budget, making the entire room come alive to create an astonishing 5-10 minute seance allowing (1) operator to control live an entire room full of interactive special effects to astound and entertain your patrons.TLK100 Madame Isabella. $5,888.77
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Crematory Furnace
A man trapped in the fire punches the doors to escape, moving them as he does. With his last ounce of strength, he gives the doors a hard hit knocking them open and blasting viewers with the smell of burned flesh. Price includes pre-programmed control hardware, solid state video player, monitor, flow control valves, digital sound, 6in. by 23in. mat switch trigger, and all necessary electrical and pneumatic connections. Prop connects to air lines with a 1/4in. male quick connect coupling. Requires 100psi compressed air and 110VAC electrical. $4075
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Possessed
She’s possessed! Designed to lay on her back on floor or a table while she shakes violently while moaning and screaming. Soundtrack CD is included. Table and CD player not included. All electric, life size prop Clothing may vary. $349.99
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Squish-O-Matic
This amazing effect will leave your guests bewildered as to what just happened. Pile driver shoots toward actor and appears to splatter their head. Heavy metal construction. Fabric walls are optional. Approx. 5 ft. x ft. x 6 1/2 ft. tall. Includes movement controls, digital sound, amp and speaker. Requires air compressor and AC power. COMES WITH CURTAINS. $3,688.77
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Pig Meister PIG OUT
Watch Out the Pigmeister will get you..this animatronic prop goes for a brutal attack if you mess with his meal. Squealing and trying to hack you up. Works off 100 psi..sound , controller and 6 ft dead body all included. $1.749.99
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Deady Bear
The Deady Bear animated decoration is a tattered stuffed light brown bear intent upon stabbing itself again and again. The motion activated bear stabs itself as its head moves from side to side and one eye lights up. Dimensions: H” x L” x D”- 12.5″ X 7.5″ X 6.5″. $34.99
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p.s. Hey. You guys who have been looking at this place for at least a year probably know that, roughly six weeks before Halloween, my Halloween fetish barges uncontrollably into the blog on a regular basis, and so it begins. So, people who like this blog but don’t like Halloween are going to have a rough next month and a half, sorry. ** Jax, Hey. Idiotic me didn’t check the comments yesterday, and so I missed the live stream, but I’m hoping it’ll still be in storage there today, so I’m going to pray and click that link simultaneously the very second that the last i is dotted. Damn. ** Michael, Hi, Michael! Very awesome to see you! Novel is plunging along. I guess that’s the best way to put. What’s plunging or even tiptoeing along for you? All the best! ** Kiddiepunk, Nice as hell seeing you yesterday, buddy boy. Time for the next time. ** David Ehrenstein, Hi, David. It’s kind of crazy how viral the BEE vs. DFW has gone. I suppose Bret is rolling in clover about that. Wow, ‘The Master’ sucks? I haven’t been as excited by the trailers as a lot of other people seem to be, but suckage is unexpected. I’ll wait patiently for the full opinion-vexing black out to end. ** Cobaltfram, Hi, John. Oh, understood about the schedule change thing yesterday. We’ll sort out another time. When I saw Lynch scribbling, it definitely looked like a ‘leave him alone’ situation to me. That interview with me happened during the year that I was living in an apartment in the Marais. That’s the spartan living room behind and around me. And, if you were to look out that window, you would see the building that I ended up using as the inspiration for the narrator’s loft in ‘TMS’. Same address as in the novel and everything. It was what I always saw when I smoked at the window, and I got to know it so well that I thought I could use it. I think BEE is just stirring it up like he’s always trying to do, and this one just worked the best for him, I guess. It just seems like jealousy to me. I don’t see even the beginnings of a valid critique in what he wrote. ** Chilly Jay Chill, Hi, Jeff. Thanks about the books post. And of course about the novel writing trauma. I’m in a brief okay period right now ‘cos the timeframe I’m writing about at the moment was sort of the happiest, most serene phase of our friendship. Um, it’s really hard for me to be objective about what I’m writing, and I’m just plowing along as steadily as I can. It’s very raw, and I want it to stay fairly raw, although, of course, heavily tended to. I don’t know if it works or not. It could be powerful, and it also could be something I need to do that I will never publish. I’m hoping the former is the case, obviously, but I don’t think I’ll be able to tell until the first draft is finished. Really want to see the documentation of that art show, man. For sure hook me and the blog up as soon as that’s possible. I haven’t read Mishima in ages. I was quite into him for a year or so in the early ’80s. I’m not sure if I would be so into his stuff now, and I don’t seem to feel much pull to revisit him. I thought, like just about everybody does, or so it seems, that ‘Confessions of a Mask’ was the best one. I have always wanted to see that Schraeder film, though. I should do that. ** Math, Oh, that is sweet and awesome. Your new thing, I mean, of course. I slid and searched there a bit, and I’ll click my way to the bottom of it today. Great work, maestro. Everyone, the masterful master of an artist Math Tinder has just launched a new piece/project online, and it’s really awesome. Go check it out. It’s called ‘ash anywhere’, and it’s here. And Math says, ‘hint some drawings are clickable.’ Thank you, dear pal! ** Bill, Hi, Bill. Ah, don’t let the bothering aspect of the Cicero thing ward you off. He’s a particular thinker, as you probably know. It was just the only kind of ‘overview’ of Alt Lit that I could find out there to use. ** Chris Dankland, Morning (or whatever the case may be), Chris. Dude, the boost was so true and heartfelt, man. You are a ruler. The good kind of ruler. The question of what or rather who is Alt Lit is an interesting one. It seems like the categorization is kind of vague at the moment. Personally, I like the idea of an Alt Lit that includes Blake Butler, Amelia Gray, Shane Jones, and others who are slightly more established at this very moment, and separating them out seems kind of weird and artificial to me, but there does seem to be this idea going around that the Alt Lit tag only applies to the writers/scene around Tao and Steve Roggenbuck. That’s one of the problems I had with the New Sincerity tag, because that seemed like it was trying to isolate the Tao/Steve group. But I guess the definition should be up to the writers themselves. That kind of thing can be pretty blurry. I mean, there’s the much earlier and tighter movement tagged New Narrative, for instance, where sometimes Kathy Acker and I and others are included, and sometimes we’re excluded or defined as being outside sympathizers. It’s been about 20 years since New Narrative was invented, and it’s still not defined. I think that’s quite odd about Michael Robbins’s reaction. I guess some writers are really opposed to being grouped or historicized as being part of a collective? Seems really odd. Really nice weekend that you had there, man. The best of everything, kind of. Sweet. ** Gregoryedwin, Hey, G. Yeah, me too, on the busy thing, urgh, but, damn, let’s talk. I’ll missile you. Thanks for saying that about my book/efforts regarding George. Yeah, right. I need and want to feel really close to him, and, yeah, I think it’s a very small sacrifice to make for him. Are you giving yourself, like, a set amount of time to get the writing/ teaching adjustment balanced out? I think it happens naturally, if there’s any relevance between your particular subdivide and mine, but I do think making a conscious, dedicated effort towards making that split work is pretty important. ** Pilgarlic, Hi, man! Always a great pleasure to lay my eyes on your text. You’re very kind about my suffering/novel. I hope so. I hope it’s not just a cathartic explosion of love and pain that deserves no better than a diary, but we’ll see. Ugh, about the low offer. You feel like you should take it? You think that’s basically the ballpark you’re stuck with? I’m so sorry, man. As if the emotional loss isn’t hard and unfair enough. Love to you, my friend. ** Steevee, Well, wasn’t BEE talking about how ’50 Shades … ‘ was a masterpiece or something for a while? I still think Bret’s Twitter feed is at least mostly a prank/project. ** Mark Gluth, Mark! Awesomeness! Long time no see, man! I can’t believe some asshole stole your bike. Sweet that you not only got to hang with Mancy but saw his band. Yeah, if you see him before I do, tell him that I heavily second the recording suggestion. Great about the interviews, but you didn’t say where I can find, you tease. Where can or will I and the others be able to read them? Pony up. How is the new novel going at the moment? ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi, B. So excited about the new Korine! And super cool about Rachel Maclean asking you to write that text! Enjoy the Leeds time. Is the fundraiser going well? I haven’t checked lately. I hope so. ** Bollo, Hey, J! Welcome the hell back! No way, the Black Metal Museum is no more? Wtf?! What happened? The last I’d heard, they were working to move it into a proper semi-museum-like building. Shit. Great about the new pieces-in-progress. What exactly are you doing at the sound/ performance event on Friday? ** Dom Lyne, Hi, Dom! Well, I guess if you can’t fully make the treatment into the Grand Marshall of your upcoming life, the thing is to tap into your passivity and pragmatism or something? Like, I don’t know, here’s the cliff, and there are the guys with the gun to your back, and, uh … jump? I think I kind of understood that Wikipedia description of the treatment. In theory, it has its ace aspect, but that’s why they call them theories, I guess. Yeah, I hear you about the difficult prerequisite to any new relationship. I don’t know if this relevant or helpful at all, and it’s obviously a different situation, but I’m writing this book about George Miles right now, and, very long story very short, he had pretty extreme things to deal with, and that people who knew him also had to deal with. He was severely manic depressive, even as a kid, and he was diagnosed as psychotic in his ’20s, and I think there were a lot of other things that were never diagnosed, probably because it was back in the ’60s through the early ’80s when people weren’t as intricately diagnosed. He was already pretty beset with issues when I met him at 12, and they only got much worse/clearer, and I knew that about him and experienced it daily from the outset, but, man, I loved him like I’ve never loved anyone else in my life, and I would still be with him if that had been possible, and the things his condition forced into our relationship were nothing compared to the complete privilege and joy that every minute with him gave me, so I guess maybe I’m saying there are surely amazing things about you that you don’t have any idea are even there or that could impact other people and that totally compensate for all the trickier intricacies of you. ** Sypha, Hi. I didn’t see ‘Magic Mike’, but it doesn’t take a rocket scientist or a psychic to know that it can’t possibly do any better than lick the soles of the boots of ‘Moonrise Kingdom’. ** Schlix, Hi, Uli. I put together a post about The Sound yesterday for the near future. I hope you’ll think it’s okay, and thanks a lot for suggesting it. Man, totally weird that I somehow never got into their stuff at the time. ** Misanthrope, I don’t think I’ve ever watched an episode of Dr. Phil. I think 90% of the time that I’ve watched him do his thing, it was in the context of parodies of him. I think Dr. Drew is a sleazy moron. Man, knocking on wood and throwing salt over my shoulder for you re: the job until you give me the good word. ** Starlon H, Hi! Oh, sure, the Tao Lin hatred is very familiar and omnipresent. I don’t think I’ve ever read anything written by someone hating on Tao that wasn’t just self-indicting and obviously jealousy/ bitterness-based. I also don’t get what’s supposed to be so bad about so-called hipsters. What’s wrong with ‘hipsters’? What’s wrong with people wanting to be stylish and ‘in’? Who cares? I think ‘Richard Yates’ is my favorite of Tao’s books too. I’ve liked them all, though. The only Sam Pink book I’ve read is ‘Person’, which is kind of weird. I liked it a lot. I really need to read more of him. Great, and thank you about the growing love thing re: ‘TMS’. That was my masterplan, or … is it my trap, ha ha? So lucky of you to get to see that Swans/Xiu Xiu double bill. Tell me how it was, okay? Take care, pal. ** Right. How about letting my filtering of Halloween start exciting you today, please? That would be for the best, for me, for you, for the blog, etc., and, yeah. See you tomorrow.
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Hey DC
I don't know why the BEE vs dead-DFW thing pissed me off so much, but it really rankled me. It's not like you can't criticize the dead (fuck Reagan), and it's not like you can't ream into somebody and it automatically be jealousy (fuck Franzen — if there's anything I envy about him it's MAYBE the attention he gets, but even that's just a little embarrassing). More, it's the way Bret uses his Twitter as this completely non-interactive, narcissistic platform for douching whatever dumb, gossipy shit comes into his mouth, without ever actually conversing with anyone on there, and then accusing someone ELSE of being a narcissist/self-centered/immature is just aggravating to me. That, and it seems like a blatant attempt to bring himself cry-baby attention when his last two books have been SO BAD. So that's that.
Yeah, we'll definitely Skype soon. I have this, like, disgustingly full week at work that I keep telling myself is money in the bank but which I still wish Chad, who likes his job, could do, so that I, who doesn't like my job, could work his shorter hours. That, and the late shifts put me in a dark, bitchy place, it's hard to explain exactly why, and I come home like a real narcissist/self-centered/immature BEE type. I'm working earlier stuff this coming week though, which I don't mind as bad, and hopefully Chad won't kick me out when I get home, haha.
The trip is coming together; paying off the last of the bills, running the last of the errands, etc. Still working on this "fun" project, which is still hard (it's writing). And very cool about the Marais — I definitely remember it from 'TMS'. Did you ever read Kazuo Ishiguro? He meant like a huge deal to me when I was younger and I've been thinking of playing with him again lately. 'When we were Orphans' was my first experience with a narrator blatantly lying to me, and I didn't realize it until, like, six months later, which was a cool experience to me. And his themes of his characters all lying to each other and to themselves and to the reader were, like, my first exposure to one of the central themes of my art and the art I gravitate to. Someone should put 'Frisk' and 'Remains of the Day' in a book-merger program and see what comes out.
Love til soon
JF
The Overture to the DennisCooper Halloween Opera has begun!
Fascinatinvg that you're still writing about George Miles. Looking forward, needless to say.
Spekaing ill ofthe dead is one of life's greatest joys, cobaltram. I never pass up an opportunity to kick the corpses of Christopher Hitchens, William F. Buckley Jr., Andrew Breitbart and others deserving of perpetual scorn.
I hope to be writing about The Master at length as it's not an ordinary bad movie.
Anthony Lane jumps the gun and reviews The Master less favorably than I was expecting. This will greatly annoy Harvey.
Dennis, Love these pieces! And yes, your Halloween countdown always does wonders for my end of summer blues. Going back to Bridgend, I know you did a day on Aokigahara a while back but I meant to ask if you ever saw this Aokigahara Suicide Forest doc. The way this guy talks about suicide is really interesting. Thought it might be helpful for your novel.
It's so cool I get this personalised birthday list plus momentum thing here – this birthday is freaking me out some though stupidly cos numbers mean fuck all but people's reactions to them do define you in some way and I keep wanting to say something different, or whatever? I like the headsquish thing – it's kind of hot but a lot of money and I could probably improvise well enough with string and a large rock.
It's been really interesting yr describing the difficulty of what and how yr writing now. I'm trying to avoid – I dunno how to put it – intensity or something? In my life, also in writing – but it fucks both up and and makes it this blank sterile thing – I dunno – like it has potential but I'm not equipped yet, not profficient enough to make it glow enough if it's not ripping me up in that way. The big stuff just destroys me too much right now and i'm scared to be where i was last year – it's tricky i think
Hey Dennis, that meant a lot, and was helpful. I guess I'm in a bit of a dark place at the moment. I'd kinda hoped that I'd had that person that would look beyond all the mental side of things, but I still managed to pull it all down to the ground, and bow I'm looking at all the rubble thinking "the treatment was to make this all better, and it's not here anymore so what's the use?" In a way I've gone in a big full circle over the past two years and have found myself right back at square one after all the effort I've put into everything, and gone from having someone that close to you who would help you through it all, to pretty much standing alone and that's massively scary. When you said about the cliff, that's pretty much how I feel, that and I've finally reached the limits of my strength and am toeing the fine line of actually breaking.
I'm gonna take the risk and jump head first into it. 🙂
Maybe my memory is failing me, but I think BEE was supposed to be involved in writing a screenplay for a 50 SHADES adaptation at some point.
My MASTER embargo ended today, and my review will appear in Gay City News at the end of this week. I liked but didn't love it. The best thing about it is Joaquin Phoenix's performance – a career-best, I think. The worst thing is the way PTA has begun to repeat himself, especially reworking chunks of PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE.
Well I hated Leaf's performance. It's DeNiro with Asperger's syndrome.
Back in 1962 the great Manny Farber wrote
"The three sins of white elephant art (1) frame the action with an all-over pattern, (2) install every event, character, situation in a frieze of continuities, and (3) treat every inch of the screen and film as a potential area for prizeworthy creativity."
That's The Master to a T. Anderson is fascinated by conmen and creepy power relatoships. But he doesn't turn that fascination into something of genjine interest. In There WillBe Bloodhe had Daniel Day Lewis to carry us through. Hoffman by contrast is like William Bendix with a headcold.
While he'stried to prevaricate in print this is PRECISELY about Scientology in its early days. He should be thnakful the whole silly religion is on its last legs.
Now will he go after the Catholic Church next?
AS IF.
As Anthony Lane and David Edelstein have posted reviews the "embargo" is off IMO.
Dennis:
Hey, bro. Wild and fun post. I watched this VICE video last night where they interviewed this Japanese cannibal; last name Sagawa, I think. If you haven't seen it, I think it's worth a watch. Very strange series of events and really taps into the sexually repressed side of Japan. Anyways, things are well. Hope it's the same your way.
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DeNiro with Asperger's actually sounds kinda awesome – to me, at least.
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Dennis, this is my first post here. It's impelled by two things.
One, my admiration for The Marbled Swarm. There's a particular sentence in it that presented an image of carnival rides, I think, crashing down upon one another and forming some monumentally grotesque concatenation… That sentence, man. It instantly elbowed a high place for itself on the List of Things I Wish I'd Written. I believe I put the book down for a moment and cursed aloud.
And–there! Fucking delicious, to tell a writer that you are grateful for his work and know you're getting through. Which brings me to impulse-for-posting number two: the–and I'm going to use a silly word–the vibe of your site. Is this the friendliest, most mutually encouraging place on the internet? It seems so. I was going to just read the thing. Then it tugged. The mere act of saying "Your book is great!" feels like the most healthful thing I have done in months.
I thank you one and all and will be in touch. One question: does three grand for an animatronic cannibal-zombie strike you as low, high, just right? Calling this thing a "fetish" would seem to declare your residency in a mental space where, say, haggling (or not) over the head-squisher makes sense, mobilizes sympathies. I'm asking in a Nicholson-Baker-ish way, with marveling dorky joy.
(Cobaltfram: Christ, Ishiguro is good. And so patient, assured, unfussy. So un-vain.)
DC's Halloween posts are a seasonal fixture! It's great to have them back.
Yeah the writing for Rachel Maclean's Lolcats show is off to a good start. I had an idea to create a lolcats conspiracy theory, and we're both excited about that. I have a few days off later in the week so will start putting some flesh on its bones.
The AGK fundraising seems to have stalled for now: 5 donors thus far, so we'll all need to restart publicising and getting in people's faces with it again.
Hey Dennis- sorry about being vague. The one interview is with this amateur literary critic from Seattle who sought me out, I'll send ya the link to the blog where he posts stuff once he transcribes it. The other, Black Metal, one is going to be part of this publication called P.E.S.T which is part of a symposium Black Metal Theory (the publishers) are putting together. Diarmuid Hester is conducting the interview, does he ever post here? Anyway it's allowing me to think through my in progress book and kinda gather some mental steam. There will be 2 or so excerpts from the book as well. As much as I find Black Metal compelling I'm not as immersed in the culture as most fans and I hope I bring a unique outsiders perspective to it. Or they'll think I'm a poser 🙂
The book is feeling good, I'm down to one 3,000 word piece of it that I have to be very delicate about to make sure all the mechanisms in the book click rather than crash…or maybe crash in the right way. Anyway hopefully it will make sense to you someday.
I read what you've be posting about your new book. Wow, I'm sorry if it's wearing on ya, it seems like a really emotionally overwhelming thing, but in a good way maybe? And then translating emotion into writing in a way in which the emotion works and feels authentic is such a tricky act….best of luck
Yeah re: my bike, thanks. It's my main/only form of transport and we are always borderline broke so I don't exactly have the funds to replace it, but I have a swell pal who lent me one of hers for the meantime. And now bookworm me is trying to be a mechanic and get an old bike I have in working condition….
I saw what you said to Sypha about Moonrise Kingdom….it is so glorious, isn't it?
Ishiguro: I brewed a few more thoughts about him on the train.
His work takes one of the ideas we cherish most–the idea that introspection must lead to self-understanding–and turns it inside out. An Ishiguro narrator is someone who performs a heroic feat of introspection and afterward understands himself less than before. Introspection is self-deception, memory is a cover-up. (Pulling this off on the page, by the way, is a miracle of technique. You don't realize you've seen the trick until you walk out of the theater and find your pockets empty.)
So: you're trapped in yourself, we're all trapped, the lie you tell yourself only deepens. This is horror, right? Ishiguro is a sort of horror writer. It's unfortunate that Merchant Ivory came along to swaddle him in their domestic mists.
steevee, The story is that BEE was supposed to be in on it but was dropped. Some people think that's why he came out so strongly against the possible casting of Matt Bomer. Who knows?
Dennis, I've got some proofreading coming this week, so if the job doesn't happen right away (didn't hear anything today), then I should be okay.
Somebody needs to slap Dr. Drew. Or beat the fuck out of him. The guy just rubs me the wrong way anymore. Dr. Phil's not as bad and is actually very good in some respects, especially when he's dealing with situations of abuse and domestic violence. I don't get any "look at me" stuff from him. But still, he's on TV and presenting other people's problems. Though they do write to him first.
Fuck, I'd forgotten all about Halloween. I hope everyone has a very cannibalistic Halloween this year. Really, we won't have evolved until we enjoy each other's flesh as a delicacy.
You know, I'm to the point now where I can barely watch TV anymore. It's just so bad. This isn't some sort of moral judgment but an aesthetic one. It's just so mediocre and worse. Which is why the pay channels have much better shows, I guess?
I liked Tony O'Neil's parody of Dr. Drew in his last novel.
If BEE thinks Matt Bomer shouldn't play the lead in the 50 SHADES movie because he's gay, what business does a gay author like himself have writing the script?
hey dennis!
oh man so i'm crazy sorry for dropping off the world for a month or so on here, i've just been doing a lot of nothing mostly which was stupid, but now i'm trying to be more productive and stuff and look to the future and whatnot 🙂
So me and Luke have kinda been just staying at my dad's empty house and working part time jobs and trying to save up for the eventual move to wherever…. moments like these made me wish i saved more money in college instead of spending it on vinyl, movies, and zines… whatever it was totally worth it 🙂
So yeah i'm working at a shoe shop now which kinda sorta blows, but at least i've got a job… we'll be outta here soon enough!
so excited for all the Halloween posts i'm totally ready! Me and luke have been watching Resident Evil movies getting ready for the new one which comes out next week… we just got a mailer from Universal letting us know about HALLOWEEN HORROR NIGHTS! and all the haunted houses… Most excited about: Silent Hill … Least excited about: Penn & Tell in Vegas…. WTF??
I'm reading My Loose Thread at work whenever i have a break and it's the most awkward book to explain to people when they ask what it's about….
Ummm like the main character is this guy who thinks maybe he's gay and he like beats up his friends and maybe tries not to have sex with them first… meanwhile he's kinda pretty much having this incestuous relationship with his brother… oh and did i forget to mention that he murdered some younger kid at the beginning of the novel… yeah because that kinda sets up the whole plot 🙂
yeah…. my fellow employees are already loving me lol
really hope you've been doing great and sorry again for falling off for a while!
xxfrank
I like the Crate Spider.
Oh, it is already time for the Halloween countdown. Time is moving fast again. The summer is already gone?
I cannot decide which one is better: The final cut or Dinner time.
Cool about The Sound post. I hope it was fun to put it together. I am glad to manage to download some stuff of them so I don`t have to stick to youtube, haha.
I really want that gigantic floating wizard head. I would totally use that for Mister Ugly, haha
I agree every negative review is with so much spite it is ridiculous.
The whole idea is that people just hate people who dislike the "mainstream" and they believe that anyone that subverts from what the "mainstream" are hipsters. For example, if I listen to a band that a person hasn't heard of they will brand me hipster just based on that. It has gotten so out of hand recently that I have been called a hipster for reading and wearing a scarf (actually I was called a gay hipster(How is wearing a scarf during winter have anything to do with my sexual orientation? Come on!)). The stupidity doesn't end there either, it is now considered an insult in which anyone says does something out of the norm or someone likes something that is somewhat difficult to understand (Naked Lunch, Ulysses, Xiu Xiu, Swans, Suicide, hell even The Velvet Underground) are labeled as someone that lacks sincerity in their likes and dislikes. The definition of a hipster to day is actually looser that ever before, so what I am saying might be completely wrong which is probably the most irritating part of such a ubiquitous term.
Have you read Lin's poetry? I heard only a few poems by him (one from his bookworm interview and a few readings on youtube) and was wondering which poetry book to buy by him.
I will need to check out Person then. From what I read he Tao Lin, Noah Cicero (I actually never read any of his books either) and Sam Pink are the major writers from the Alt Lit scene so I guess I might as well read all of their stuff.
Unfortunately I am not sure if I am going to go see that Swans/ Xiu Xiu show. Really just keeping my fingers crossed. If anything I would just finish the Marbled Swarm .
Just got the drum machine for Mister Ugly and Bryan and I are going to have our first practice this Saturday. Hopefully we could make a few demos.
Hi Dennis
AWESOME!!! the fake window video pieces are really cool, i had a look at a few others too. tempted to buy a deady bear, the kids sound is freaky with the mouth movement and the stabbing. if i could have them all i would. looking forward to way more of these days!
the plan for the sound performance is kinda planed to be like Pat Maherr meets Russel Haswell, lots of reverb & delay using electronics, tapes and records to improvise with, Schönberg's Verklärte Nacht is one of the sources. im just giving myself a start point and seeing where it goes, could be a complete flop but as long as its fun i'll be happy. i might change every thing and just play steve roggenbuck videos for people. ive left the whole night very vague so i can do what i like there. http://monstertruck.ie/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/jmposter.pdf
yeah Kenneth from the NoseBlød said that the BMM was only an exhibition and it was over for now, i was wearing the least unmetal clothing every that day. the shop is amazing though, id need a week there so many things to get and look at.
Hey.
Long time no see, man. Missed you.
From what I know so far, 'The Master' and 'To The Wonder' seem to be really great films. I'd really like to see them. 'To The Wonder' apparently focuses on the women, though. Too bad. Still, it seems to me it is great.
I really need some cheering up. Desperately. Any suggestions? A joke, maybe?
Have a good day.
Dennis, the video of the Clark thing isn't up yet, but I am reliably informed it should be available later today. I'll drop you an email when it is, save you checking.
SO much to tell you about the whole experience, and will do so as soonas I get sme work out of the way. Maybe a post for the blog, in fact?Since the video will be available on-demand until October.
I always love your Halloween posts…
hey man, cool post. I'm feeling some post-party, continuing unemployment, general blah-ness with a hint of pending misery. It'll pass.
I watched pickpocket again recently and now i can't decide which is my favourite bresson. Anyway it made me pick up notes on the cinematographer again. Beautiful stuff in it. It made me wish my own work could work like that…i'm too showy or melodramatic or something. I don't know.
What was I going to say?
Keep you chin up champ