‘Guro, also sometimes called Ero guro (エログロ), is an artistic genre that puts its focus on eroticism, sexual corruption, and decadence. As a term, it is used to denote something that is both erotic and grotesque. The term itself is an example of wasei-eigo, a Japanese combination of English words or abbreviated words: ero from “ero(tic)”, guro from “gro(tesque)”, and nansensu from “nonsense”. In actuality the “grotesqueness” implied in the term refers to things that are malformed, unnatural, or horrific. While items that are pornographic and bloody are not necessarily ero guro, and vice versa, the term is often used to mean “gore”—depictions of horror, blood, and guts.

‘Ero guro nansensu, characterized as a “prewar, bourgeois cultural phenomenon that devoted itself to explorations of the deviant, the bizarre, and the ridiculous,” manifested in the popular culture of Taishō Tokyo during the 1920s. Writer Ian Buruma describes the social atmosphere of the time as “a skittish, sometimes nihilistic hedonism that brings Weimar Berlin to mind.” Its roots go back to artists such as Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, who, besides erotic shunga, also produced woodblock prints showing decapitations and acts of violence from Japanese history. Ukiyo-e artists such as Utagawa Kuniyoshi presented similar themes with bondage, rape and erotic crucifixion.

‘Ero guro nansensu’s first distinct appearance began in 1920s and 1930s Japanese literature. The Sada Abe Incident of 1936, where a woman strangled her lover to death and castrated his corpse, struck a chord with the ero guro movement and came to represent that genre for years to come. Other like activities and movements were generally suppressed in Japan during World War II, but re-emerged in the postwar period, especially in manga and music.

‘There are modern guro artists, some of whom cite Erotic Grotesque Nonsense as an influence on their work. These artists explore the macabre intermingled with sexual overtones. Often the erotic element, even when not explicit, is merged with grotesque themes and features similar to the works of H. R. Giger. Others produce ero guro as a genre of Japanese pornography and hentai involving blood, gore, disfiguration, violence, mutilation, urine, enemas, or feces.’ — collaged

 

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Posted byu/albert_ara
I do not understand how people can be into gore/guro Pornography.

If you do not know what that is, please don’t google it.

Guro is a category of porn (I hope always drawn, usually in an anime style) where for example someone is having sex with another person they just cut open their stomach and their intestines are gushing out while that person is in agonising pain. Just explaining this makes my stomach turn.

I just want to understand why someone would like that without being completely crazy (I knew a girl that was alright but liked guro, she wasn’t willing to explain why). I just want to understand why.

Posted by Crayshack
Most porn contains an idealized exaggeration of something that the consumer is attracted to in real life. For most people, this is only slightly exaggerated, but for others it is exaggerated past the point of the fantasy being something that is realistically attainable. For example, someone who is attracted to fit women might look at porn like this. At the same time, some people might look at a version exaggerated past the point they are likely to ever encounter such as this. It is the same concept, but taken to the extreme. When you enter the realm of drawn images rather than simple porn photos, you can take the extreme even further past the point of what is even physically possible such as this.

Unrelated to that, sadomasochism exists. It is completely understandable why some people might have difficulty grasping why someone might be a sadist or a masochist, but for me the reason is quite simple. When you experience pain, your body releases adrenaline. The purpose of this is so that you can feel the pain and know something might be damaged, but then have the pain dulled enough to continue whatever task you are doing. However, under the right conditions for some people they can trigger an adrenal release that is more powerful than the pain they experience. For these situations, it turns experiencing pain into a literal high. Once you have enough experiencing pain as way of accessing an adrenaline high, you build a Pavlovian relationship in your mind and start to enjoy the pain itself. Sadism is simply being the one on the outside.

When you combine the concepts, there is a very clear pattern. There is porn of realistic depictions of pain play that do closely resemble how most people do it in real life. Then there are depictions that go beyond what most might try in real life but are still physically doable such as this. Then you have the ones that are physically impossible (at least without killing your partner) such as this.

For both examples of the gradient, some people will realize that they are getting into weirder and weirder shit as they make their way down it. However, sometimes they won’t notice until they are pretty far along because there will not be many sudden jumps. Instead, they are one day asking themselves “What the fuck did I just fap to?” and find that even once they acknowledge it is fucked up it still turns them on because sexual attraction is not something decided by the conscious part of the brain.

Most people if you ask them, would not be able to articulate this process of how they got into what they are into. At best, they can give you some of the details they fixate on and what little things turn a gore pic from general gore to porn for them. However, that does not mean that they have not gone through this sort of development. Everyone goes through a similar kind of association when it comes to sexual attraction. They start by being attracted to something simple and common, but then they start seeking something similar to that initial influence and start building associative relationships. However, most people simply find themselves spinning back around to something else that is common (for example, someone instinctively attracted to breasts might have known a large breasted redhead when they were younger and they are now also attracted to redheads). There are just a few fringe groups that have managed to developed a sexual association with something more bizarre. Guro is not the only strange fetish you can find on the internet, it just might be the one that is the most disturbing to anyone who has not found there way to it naturally.

 

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p.s. RIP Jean-Marie Straub. ** Dominik, Hi!!! Not a one? Oh, gotcha, insect fear. I guess I don’t have that. Even with mosquitos, it’s hatred not fear, I think. Well, it’s always wise to assume that a lot of the escort and slave photos are repurposed from someone and somewhere else, I think. So, yeah, WokeBlond is probably just some nice, normal dude somewhere oblivious to his perving fanbase. Sadly? Love weaning the world’s musical tastes off Taylor Swift, like, today, G. ** malcolm, Hi, Malcom. Ah, so you need an actor who plays deep. Same with Zac’s and my ‘Dad’. Actually, everyone in our films needs to be able to play deep. But most or maybe even all the time they just have to have a soulful looking face, and we’ll take care of the rest. Wow, Ethan Hawke might theoretically be in your film? That would be kind of huge. Fingers strugglingly crossed. 2 or 3 day shoot? So quick. You guys are concentrated. I envy you. Trying to shoot for 25 days like we are is unpleasantly expensive. I hope your day off was very fake bloody. xo. ** David Ehrenstein, David Hedison! ‘Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea’ was a childhood fave. ** Ian, Hi, Ian! How’s it? Oh, huh, I think ‘Starship Troopers’ would qualify? I don’t know why it didn’t come to mind whenever I made that post. I have not checked out ‘Cialis, Verdi, Gin, Jag’ yet, but thank you for reminding me. I’m going to score it today before I space out again. That does sound pretty. No snow here yet, but winter light is arriving, and Paris in winter light is kind of an unbeatable visual. Great to see you! What’s new? News on your book? ** Sypha, ‘Them!’, of course, provided the title for Ishmael’s and my ‘legendary’ performance work. Ishmael chose it, so I’m not sure why other than the obvious. Your dad was so postmodern! ** Misanthrope, Hi. Oh, well, I don’t hate you, obviously, but I do think you cut off your nose to spite your face, as my mom used to say. And don’t ask me what the means because I have no idea. I saw a vid from that tour, and Brett does seem to still be pretty lively/faux-faggy for an old guy. ** Bill, Hi, Bill. I’ll keep my eyes peeled for a Paris appearance by Jess Curtis’ group Gravity. I don’t know that work at all. Paris loves dance, so maybe we’ll get lucky. ** Steve Erickson, Thanks for the Clementi reboot. Everyone, If you want to see Pierre Clementi rocking out as ‘Charly the Knife’ in the 1968 film ‘Les Idoles’, and I think you do (?), Steve has hooked you up thusly. Yeah, if a Broadway musical was actually K-Pop and not some Broadway-style watered down thing, that does sound like a glove-like fit. ** Bob, Hi, Bob. Welcome, nice to meet you. You know, I’ve barely read Thomas Disch. I think I’ve only read ‘Camp Concentration’ a long time ago. ‘Sci-fi’ fiction is my weakest area as a reader. I know very little other than the most obvious guys like Dick and Gibson and so forth. I should read more of him. What do you recommend? ‘The Roaches’? I do know Rorem’s ‘Paris Diary’, yes. It was great. I met him a few times in the 80s because he was friends with some of my older writer friends in NYC. I remember him being pretty fascinating. How are you? How are things in your world? ** Gick, Hi. Oh, I’m really happy my words helped. And I’m glad you’re going to get it out. That’s relieving. Excited for the package! Thank you, thank you! Have the ultra-best day! ** Paul Curran, Cool. It’s true, right? About the bug names. It was kind of a thing in the late punk days. The Wasps, The Flys, … Great to hear that about the J-Pop novel! I feel like I know that scraping thing. I’ve been scraping at this one short fiction thing for months, and the turf is still not settling right. Grr. Yes, the package with ‘Bloodbath’ and the ‘Left Hand’ reprint got here safely, and I’m currently destroying my mind with the former. So, so brilliant, man! And I think it’s helping with my gravel. Love, me. ** Jamie, Hi! My weekend did not unfurl as I had planned, but that’s fine. It was as quiet as yours was, but with less success on the writing front. I think I have watched the majority of the films in the post, come to think of it. Weird. They were always on late night TV back when late night TV horror movie marathons were a thing. Paris is a friend. Brussels is your pal? Wide open mouth with lots of visible cavities love, me. ** _Black_Acrylic, Thanks, bud. Congrats on the bookshelf. Books organised by size and color make me feel very confused about them, I don’t know why. ** Brian, Hi there, Brian! Very good to see you! Giant insect movies and click bait titles go together like soup and sandwich. Things are good generally. There’s not a huge amount of things that aren’t attached to the film project though. They did just announce the Buches de Noel for this year, so that was exciting (see: future post). Yes, Lucia Berlin, wonderful, right? I will say I’m very suspicious that the upcoming film adaption of her stories is being directed by Almodovar, which does not seem like a good fit. I’m imagining Ozu bouncing off Evangelion and my imagination is rupturing. Enjoy the good parts of what’s worldly and on offer to you this week. I hope your week doesn’t wake up from its dream. ** Okay. It’s been a while since I foisted Guro on y’all, and I guess I thought it was time. In the post’s defence, I’m eternally fascinated by art that attempts to represent extreme and shocking things in a palatable way — an especially difficult task when the art is visually inclined — and Guro is a research area for me for that reason, and, on the off chance that others are interested too, I hereby give you this. See you tomorrow.

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‘Beginning in the 1950s, golden-age Hollywood created a new film genre: the Big Bug Movie, a cross between science fiction, which mixed in pseudo-technical explanations to account for invasions of whatever giant insect happened to be the movie subject (ants, slugs, wasps, grasshoppers), and sheer horror. Although Hollywood had throughout the 1930s and 1940s given us horror and sci-fi flicks, those usually concerned creatures that were not real, such as giant apes or man-made monsters or tuxedo-clad vampires. (OK, raise your hands, everyone who’s met a real, honest-to-god werewolf; and we don’t mean the kind that whistles on sidewalk corners).

‘But bugs are different. Bugs are real. Bugs are common. Bugs are always with us (ask anyone who lives in a New York City apartment). And bugs are—not pretty. All right, maybe butterflies; we’ll grant you that. And little kids think ladybugs are cute. But what about spiders? Or a big, buzzing, blue-bottle fly? Do you really want those guys hanging around? And, truly, is there anyone who feels the slightest bit of empathy for a roach? No doubt about it—bugs are not warm and cuddly. But, we add with a sigh of relief, at least bugs are small. They may be nasty, but it’s not like dealing with a ravening horde of great, big—oh, say, brontosauruses. No, that’s not right; brontos may be big, but no one thinks they’re scary. All right, at least bugs are not like great, big, ravening hordes of—well, for instance, BIG bugs…

‘That, basically, was the concept behind the Hollywood Big Bug Movie: take a bug, make it the size of a brontosaurus, and see what fun results. And the results could be shockingly unpleasant. It’s one thing to pick a slug off a rose leaf; it’s another thing entirely when the slug picks you for breakfast. What was innovative about the Big Bug genre was how it went beyond mere horror; it brought in the Ick Factor. That’s not just the moment when viewers scream with fear. It’s when viewers squeeze their eyes shut and shriek, “Ewwww!” And what could cause an audience to do that? Obviously the sight of something…icky. And what could be ickier than Big Bugs? Bring on something that’s already cringe-inducing, like a tarantula; blow it up to three hundred times its size; let it loose in a populated area; throw in a close-up of slavering, buggy jaws; and what have you got?

‘But there was also the Horror. In just about every Big Bug Movie, we come to the scene where a white-jacketed scientist explains the Law of the Jungle: bugs live by eating everything in sight, including each other; Big Bugs will do the same, only on a much larger scale; this means that Big Bugs are going to eat—us. That’s right, we, the poor, innocent viewers, sitting passively in the theater, are the prey. To heighten the horror, the scientist often shows a film-within-the-film, of actual bugs actually eating—allowing our already overtaxed sensibilities to imagine that being done to ourselves. As one cinematic scientist explains, Big Bugs “use their mandibles to hold, rend, and tear their victims,” not a phrase to send us out into the sunshine thinking happy thoughts. The unfortunate reality is that Big Bugs are not our friends. No use protesting that, Uncle-Toby-like, you’ve never done any bug any harm and that you’ll gladly sign the anti-Raid pledge; the bug would merely pause, thoughtfully flick a six-foot long antenna, then scarf you down (and it would only pause because it was mentally calculating whether it could engulf you in one bite or two).

‘Why, though, did the Big Bug genre come of age in the 1950s? One reason, of course, was the Big Bomb. After the testing and use of the atomic bomb during World War Two, America became bomb-conscious. “When man entered the atomic age,” says one movie scientist, “he opened the door into a new world”—though he probably wasn’t thinking of giant grasshoppers being part of it. The development of the A-Bomb, and then the H-Bomb, as well as nuclear testing in the New Mexico desert, made Americans acutely aware of radiation and its effects. So many of the big bugs in Big Bug Movies become big due to mutations caused by radiation exposure. Giant insects can easily be interpreted as a metaphor of post-war nuclear anxiety: This is what happens when science goes too far. Although the irradiated Big Bug is always defeated by movie’s end, we’re still left with the uneasy feeling that, as many a bug-filled film darkly hints, who knows what may still lurk Out There, in the radiation-soaked Unknown.

‘But another reason for Big Bugs, however, may have been the 1950s emphasis on bigness itself. As a victorious military power enjoying a post-war economic boom, America seemed obsessed with Big Things: big business, machines, cars, houses, highways, movies (this, after all, was the age of Cinemascope)—even, ah, ladies (Mamie van Doren, Alison Hayes, Jane Russell, Jayne Mansfield, on an ascending scale …). So why not Big Bugs? After all, 1950s Hollywood was already giving us other big creatures, such as The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, The Giant Behemoth, The Amazing Colossal Man, and Attack of the Fifty-Foot Woman. So why not bring some of those scurrying critters from out under the sink and into the imaginative landscape of cinema, where even the lowly ant can conquer the world, at least temporarily.’ — GRAND OLD MOVIES

 

 

Gordon Douglas Them! (1954)
The earliest atomic tests in New Mexico cause common ants to mutate into giant man-eating monsters that threaten civilization. Stars: James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon, James Arness

 

Jack Arnold Tarantula (1955)
A spider escapes from an isolated desert laboratory experimenting in giantism and grows to tremendous size as it wreaks havoc on the local inhabitants. Stars: John Agar, Mara Corday, Leo G. Carroll, Nestor Paiva

 

Tony Randel Ticks (1993)
A group of troubled teenagers are led by social workers on a California wilderness retreat, not knowing that the woods they are camping in have become infested by mutated, blood-sucking ticks. Stars: Rosalind Allen, Ami Dolenz, Seth Green, Virginya Keehne

 

Frank Darabont The Mist (2007)
A freak storm unleashes a species of bloodthirsty creatures on a small town, where a small band of citizens hole up in a supermarket and fight for their lives. Stars: Thomas Jane, Marcia Gay Harden, Laurie Holden, Andre Braugher

 

Lorenzo Doumani Bug Buster (1998)
Killer oversized cockroaches swarm a small lakeside community. Stars: Randy Quaid, Brenda Epperson, Katherine Heigl, James Doohan

 

Tibor Takács Mansquito (2005)
A scientist and her subject turn into mutant insects. Stars: Corin Nemec, Musetta Vander, Matt Jordon, Patrick Dreikauss

 

J.R. Bookwalter Mega Scorpions (2003)
Residents of a half-way house are bombarded by 6 foot long killer scorpions. Stars: Nicolas Read, Marcella Laasch, Sewell Whitney, Sarah Megan White

 

Nathan Juran The Deadly Mantis (1957)
A giant prehistoric praying mantis, recently freed from the Arctic ice, voraciously preys on American military at the DEW Line and works its way south. Stars: Craig Stevens, William Hopper, Alix Talton, Donald Randolph

 

Kenneth G. Crane Monster from Green Hell (1958)
A scientific expedition in Africa investigates wasps that have been exposed to radiation and mutated into giant, killing monsters. Stars: Jim Davis, Robert Griffin, Joel Fluellen, Barbara Turner

 

Edward Ludwig The Black Scorpion (1957)
Volcanic activity frees giant scorpions from the earth who wreak havoc in the rural countryside and eventually threaten Mexico City. Stars: Richard Denning, Mara Corday, Carlos Rivas, Mario Navarro

 

Arnold Laven The Monster That Challenged the World (1957)
Giant mollusk monsters attack California. Stars: Tim Holt, Audrey Dalton, Hans Conried, Barbara Darrow

 

Bernard L. Kowalski Attack Of The Giant Leeches (1959)
A backwoods game warden and a local doctor discover that giant leeches are responsible for disappearances and deaths in a local swamp, but the local police don’t believe them. Stars: Ken Clark, Yvette Vickers, Jan Shepard, Michael Emmet

 

Peter Paul Basler Big Bad Bugs (2015)
After a convoy of American soldiers disappears, a special ops team is deployed to rescue them. They soon encounter an army of gigantic scorpions, spiders and snakes that have come to Earth from another dimension. Stars: Jack Plotnick, Sarah Lieving, Ted Jonas

 

Brett Piper Arachnia (2003)
When a small research plane carrying a group of science students and their professor crash-lands in the middle of nowhere, the survivors go to a nearby farmhouse to look for help but soon find themselves besieged by giant mutant spiders. Stars: Rob Monkiewicz, Irene Joseph, David Bunce, Bevin McGraw

 

Clark Brandon Skeeter (1993)
As the result of a corrupt businessman’s illegal toxic waste dumping, a small desert town is beset by a deadly swarm of huge bloodthirsty mutant mosquitoes! Stars: Tracy Griffith, Jim Youngs, Charles Napier, Jay Robinson

 

Gary Jones Mosquito (1995)
A violent massacre caused by human-sized mosquitoes forces the lone survivors to band together in a fight for survival as the mosquitoes continue their onslaught. Stars: Gunnar Hansen, Ron Asheton, Steve Dixon, Rachel Loiselle

 

Ed Raymond Glass Trap (2005)
When an army of radioactive ants are unknowingly carted into a skyscraper, a group of people have to find a way out before they’re eaten one by one. Stars: C. Thomas Howell, Stella Stevens, Siri Baruc, Brent Huff

 

Bert I. Gordon Empire of the Ants (1977)
A con artist tries to sell bogus real estate deals in an area overrun by giant ants. Stars: Joan Collins, Robert Lansing, John David Carson, Albert Salmi

 

Gilbert Gunn The Strange World of Planet X (1958)
A friendly visitor from outer space warns against conducting experiments with the Earth’s magnetic field, that could mutate insects into giant monsters. Stars: Forrest Tucker, Gaby André, Martin Benson, Alec Mango

 

William Fruet Blue Monkey (1987)
Detective Jim Bishop and Dr. Rachel Carson must find a way to stop a giant monstrous insect that’s eating people in her quarantined hospital before it procreates and spreads a deadly infection it’s carrying. Stars: Ivan E. Roth, Steve Railsback, Gwynyth Walsh, Don Lake

 

Ellory Elkayem Eight Legged Freaks (2002)
A variety of horrible poisonous spiders get exposed to a noxious chemical that causes them to grow to monumental proportions. Stars: David Arquette, Kari Wuhrer, Scott Terra, Scarlett Johansson

 

Bill Rebane The Giant Spider Invasion (1975)
Giant spiders from another dimension invade Wisconsin. Stars: Steve Brodie, Barbara Hale, Robert Easton, Leslie Parrish

 

Gregory Gieras Centipede! (2004)
A group of cave explorers are menaced by giant centipedes. Stars: Larry Casey, Margaret Cash, Trevor Murphy, George Foster

 

J.P. Simon Slugs (1988)
Killer slugs on the rampage in a rural community. Stars: Michael Garfield, Kim Terry, Philip MacHale, Alicia Moro

 

Bert I. Gordon Beginning of the End (1957)
Audrey Ames, an enterprising journalist, tries to get the scoop on giant grasshoppers accidentally created at the Illinois State experimental farm. She endeavors to save Chicago, despite a military cover-up. Stars: Peter Graves, Peggie Castle, Morris Ankrum

 

Paul Wynne Tail Sting (2001)
A pack of massive genetically altered Scorpions escape containment on an airplane, turning passengers into victims and forcing one ordinary woman to confront her worst fears. Stars: Laura Putney, Robert Merrill, Shirly Brener, Gulshan Grover

 

Tommy Withrow Scorpius Gigantus (2006)
Geneticist seeks to make a name for herself by saving the planet from disease by using eons-old antibodies, harvested from enlarged six legged creatures. The creatures don’t like being big and escape. Send for help. Stars: Jeff Fahey, Jo Bourne-Taylor, Hristo Mitzkov, Evgenia Vasileva

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Roger Corman The Wasp Woman (1959)
A cosmetics queen develops a youth formula from jelly taken from queen wasps. She fails to anticipate the typical hoary side- effects. Stars: Susan Cabot, Anthony Eisley, Barboura Morris

 

Jim Wynorski Wasp Woman (1996)
In this remake of the 1959 classic,the owner of a cosmetic company works with a Dr. that has been experimenting with a miracle cure for aging. He has extracted an enzyme from queen wasps that eventually change Janice into a giant insect. Stars: Jennifer Rubin, Doug Wert, Daniel J. Travanti, Melissa Brasselle

 

Tibor Takács Ice Spiders (2007)
When a young ski team training for the Olympics arrives at the remote and isolated Lost Mountain Ski Resort to focus on training… Stars: Patrick Muldoon, Vanessa Williams, Thomas Calabro, David Millbern

 

Kyle Rankin Infestation (2009)
A slacker awakes to find himself weak and wrapped in a webbing; after realizing that the world has been taken over by giant alien insects, he wakes a ragtag group of strangers and together they fight for survival. Stars: Chris Marquette, Brooke Nevin, Kinsey Packard

 

Joe Knee Dragon Wasps (2012)
A scientist enlists the help of the US army to investigate the mysterious disappearance of her father… Stars: Corin Nemec, Dominika Juillet, Nikolette Noel, Benjamin Easterday

 

Jeff O’Brien Insecticidal (2005)
Cami is a dedicated student of entomology that is researching insects in her sorority  house. When her sorority sister Josi sprays insecticide on her bugs, Cami becomes upset. But sooner she learns that the insects had grown bigger and bigger and she and her sisters are under siege by the insects. Further, Josi is the host of the breed of mutant insects that are very hungry. Stars: Meghan Heffern, Rhonda Dent, Travis Watters

 

Jack Perez Monster Island (2004)
Six friends win a vacation to the Bermuda Triangle and become trapped with only an MTV Crew to help keep them alive. They have to rescue Carmen Electra escape while they all battle the monsters on Monster Island. Stars: Carmen Electra, Daniel Letterle, Mary Elizabeth Winstead

 

 

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p.s. Hey. ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi, Ben. Yes, France is making sure that we’re all aware that the World Cup is imminent and that France intends to kicks the rest of the world’s ass too, of course. Since I feel rather detached from the whole thing, I’ll join you in saying, ‘Go Wales!’ ** h now j, Hi. It’s very interesting: his book. It’s true that the sunlight in LA is very particular and special. I forget that until everything is bathed in it again. Very happy to hear you’ll soon have time for your own things. And I hope it’s at least somewhat extensive time. Happy birthday to Jean Painlevé, whom I should really make a post about. I hope your weekend rules, or you rule it. ** Daniel James Taylor, Hi there. Welcome! Ha ha, thank you. If I could retroactively slap that sentence on the cover of ‘The Sluts’, I would. How are you? What’s up? ** Tosh Berman, Oh, I somehow missed your commentary on the Clementi book. Awesome, on it. Everyone, The eminent Mr. Everything Tosh Berman wrote about Mr. Clementi’s book of yesterday on his Substack, and you can (and surely should) read it here. ** Misanthrope, Hi, G. As I’ve just now passed out of my jet lag, your welcome back is actually still current. I trust you greatly enjoyed that mega- double bill last night. ** David Ehrenstein, Indeed! ** T. J., Hey, T. J.! How are you? How have you been? There’s a DVD compilation of Clementi’s directorial films put out by Re:Voir that I highly recommend if you do DVDs. ** Dominik, Hi!!! Oh, yes, I guess that isn’t a surprise, come to think of it. There was this website for a while that published only one sentence reviews of books, and it was great, but I think it got killed off. Do let me know how (and what) ‘82189: Confessions of a Prison Bitch’ is once you’ve read it. Love wishing my QAnon believing, Trump loving, anti-vax, conspiracy theory ranting younger brother happy birthday for me today so I don’t have to, G. ** Bill, Hi. Clementi’s a superhero. I saw a screening of the newly restored ‘In the Shadow of the Blue Rascal’, introduced by his son Balthazar, while I was in LA, and it’s amazing, and its score is incredible. ** Jamie, Hi. Big support for your plan to watch Clementi’s films and read him, natch. Oh, hm, as to which of my novels would make the most sense to me as a board game, … well, ‘TMS’ would require an insanely difficult to realise board, but that is quite an idea there. Otherwise, maybe ‘Period’ for some reason? It’s true if I had come to Herzog’s work after he became the kooky pop culture icon he is today, I might have had a real trepidations. No, I didn’t see the Marclay yet. The Pompidou is doing a Simon Leung film retrospective, so I’ll try to time my visit with a screening. Yay, victoire, about your novella turnover. Best feeling ever, no? Um, this weekend I have my biweekly Zoom ‘book club’, and I’m going to hang with Stephen O’Malley, I think, and I might try to work on some fiction, and we just set up a Notion workspace for our film that I need to fill in, and whatever else. I hope we both come back from our respective two days flush. 90% gluten love, Dennis. ** Sypha, Worth your time. I’m honestly wishing I could go back in time and make a documentary film about you and your family playing that corrupted ‘LotR’ board game. Wow. ** Steve Erickson, As I said above, I saw a screening of ‘In the Shadow of the Blue Rascal’ in LA and adored it. It’s Clementi’s most narrative film by far. Your Clementi playlist link led to Brockhampton, which was kind of trippy. Curious to read you on ‘Bones and All’. Everyone, Steve has weighed in on Timothee Chalamet’s cannibal movie here, and on Brockhampton’s new, final album here. ** Robert, Hi, Robert! I’ve been allergic to the New Yorker since I was knee-high to a grasshopper. With notable exceptions, the kind of ‘literary’ fiction it promotes could die a gruesome death, and I’d be fine with that. Well, I probably don’t need to tell you that it’s a lot easier to live a life as an artist in France than it is in the US. They have government artist subsidies and stuff here. I don’t know how to advise you to ace that heavy work schedule vs. writing conundrum, but I hope you find a way. Your addiction to writing will surely help if not even eventually tip the balance. Helluva dream there. I never remember mine, and, when I do, it’s always just me being chased by someone who’s trying to kill me. I’m doing okay. No, I hated Thanksgiving even when I was living in the US, and it’s persona non grata here happily. Are you doing it up? ** Paul Curran, Thank you, Paul! Trip was all it was meant to be. Do I have #1? Maybe. I bet Michael does. And I bet he didn’t bury it in a chateau’s walls, the bastard. Love from me. How’s your J-Pop novel? ** malcolm, Hi, m. I went in a shoe store here the other day with a friend who was buying shoes, and I recognised the guy who helped my friend pick out her shoes as an escort from my escort site trawling, and I tried not to let my face reveal that I recognised him, but I think he could tell I had because he gratuitously gave me his card when we were leaving with a wink. I always wanted to work in a record store. I’m very romantic about that job, and you’ve only reinforced that. Nice. However, those are a lot of work hours to work around. And yet you’re so productive. Awesome about the film progress and scoring the mom. Is the dad a complicated character? We have a complicated dad in our new film, but I think we’ve got our dude to be him. Wasn’t easy. We shoot ours in March. How long is your shoot? We’re hoping for 25 days for ours, funds allowing. I hope your weekend is supreme, sir. ** Right. I think maybe it was my recent bout with jet lag and its consequences on my brain, but I decided it was a good or at least fun idea to restore this big, silly old post for you this weekend. See you on Monday.