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kill me. pls.










do u fetish. will u fetish w/ me?



developing a photograph of myself in a room of blinding light

 

 

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p.s. Hey. Today the writer and much more plus d.l. Cal Graves has made the blog a smokin’ hot totem pole to fireally entertain you while you’re here. Please seek entertainment therein, and thank you for the pretty gift, Cal. ** Chris Kelso, Hi, Chris. Cool about the ‘Haxan’ screening. Which soundtrack did you use, if any? It seems to have thousands. Take care. ** Ferdinand, Okay, cool, will do. ‘The Hollywood treatment’: eek. Little good ever seems to come from that transition apart from bank account input. ** David Ehrenstein, Hi, David. Glad you’re a fellow admirer. ** Misanthrope, Always a pleasure to de-defamiliarise. Maybe your basil-murdered sauce would have been a sensation and you could have been the new Paul Newman. I read a couple of things by Will Bernardara Jr. One of them was packed with all this racist and misogynistic stuff that just seemed like ‘shocking’, controversy-chasing click bait, and I found that really uninteresting and didn’t read more of his stuff after that. But RIP if he’s actually dead, and sorry for your loss. ** Sypha, Ha ha, yes, I know your ‘holding off’ thing very well, and I am totally understanding. It was your birthday? And your 40th? Big earmark there, congrats! How did you mark such an auspicious occasion, pray tell? ** KK, It’s really good, man. And since it’s Infinity Land, it’ll undoubtedly be an ultra-beautiful looking tome. Inside the Castle is such a good press. Really one my very, very favorites. Yep, about Mark Fisher. Cool, I’ll get a bunch of Ka today. I don’t know why he has slipped by me. Thanks, buddy, and hang way in there. ** NLK, Hi. Oh, then I’ll go over to her site today and hope her generous gifting to the homebound is still in play. Thanks a lot. I just don’t understand why so many Americans are so self-indulgent and stupid about the pandemic. It doesn’t seem cowboy-like, it just seems idiotic. Unfortunately, barring an actual full-blown revolution, which won’t happen given the US’s extremely entrenched system, we have hope for an aggressive, incremental shift and, as much as anything, for believers maintaining their focus and attention span on the matter at hand, which is becoming a very rare phenomenon these days, obviously. Well, I hope you get that writing gig because, I don’t know, you’ll have the option even if you decide to turn it down. When will you hear? I think the blog idea is an excellent idea, no surprise. Yeah, ‘I Wished’ is a pretty different kind of novel for me. I mean it’s very ‘me’, but it’s also kind of unlike me. I don’t know. You tell me once it’s out there. Thanks, man. A day full of much upward momentum to you. ** Steve Erickson, I understand why people are numbed by Trump and feel powerless and keep letting all his destructive shit keep happening, but it still really shocks me. I haven’t seen ‘Proud’ because I just don’t watch television. I saw a clip. It looked okay to me, maybe not a whole lot more than that, but you tell me. Everyone, Steve Erickson has reviewed the new documentary about Roy Cohn if you’re interested. I am, and, if you are too, enter. Perhaps the Spike Lee will get a theater release here. Our movie theatres reopen on the 22nd. ** Mark Gluth, Hi, Mark. In what I’ve seen of the US coverage, basically via international CNN and CNBC, etc., the Paris protests are framed briefly as one of the many examples of non-American related protests going on in the world, which is understandable, I guess. It’s not like French TV has the US protests onscreen day and night. Love, me. ** Armando, I’m good, how are you? Well, naturally your book was there since it was one of the best. My pleasure iow. I’m glad you liked the Marten book as much as thought you might. Today? Probably work with Michael on the imminent new GIF novel. Maybe have a coffee with a visitor. Skyping with a couple of friends. Sorting out a Zoom conversation with Richard Hell that the German magazine Diaphanes wants us to have for their next issue. And other stuff. You? ** chris dankland, Hi, Chris. My total pleasure, sir. Good anxiety can be such a help. It’s strange. Oh, I miss tripping, sigh. Interesting, yeah, that’s been my sort of take on the BM guys, that they’re pretty much nerds. I’ve met some through Stephen O’Malley, and they’ve all kind of like that. As is ‘scary’ Stephen himself in a great way. I’m sure there must be actual Satan worshipping BM bands out there, although I do get the feeling there are more actual Satanist BM fans than actual Satan believing BM bands. Maybe not unlike Marilyn Manson or young Trent Reznor vis-a-vis their fans or something. I don’t know. Interesting question. Dude, start a petition to change your school’s name. You could get a couple of thousand signatures easy. May your morning be your day’s pearly gates. ** Right. Please luxuriate in Cal’s stack until further notice aka tomorrow.

Fiction
(in no order)

Mark Gluth COME DOWN TO US (Kiddiepunk Press)

Gary Lutz THE COMPLETE GARY LUTZ (Tyrant Books)

Meghan Lamb ALL OF YOUR MOST PRIVATE PLACES (Spork Press)

anon I’m us TEXTILOMA OR, THE POSTMODERN EPIMETHEUS (Calamari Press)

B.R. Yeager NEGATIVE SPACE (Apocalypse Party)

Lidia Yuknavitch VERGE  (Riverhead Books)

Estelle Hoy PISTI, 80, RUE DE BELLEVILLE  (After 8 Books)

Christopher Zeischegg THE MAGICIAN  (Amphetamine Sulphate)

A W W Bremont HEY BOY  (Rebel Satori Press)

Karolina Zapal NOTES FOR MID-BIRTH  (Inside the Castle)

Thomas Moore ALONE  (Amphetamine Sulphate)

Susan Neville THE TOWN OF WHISPERING DOLLS  (FC2)

Pierre Klossowski THE SUSPENDED VOCATION  (Small Press)

Julio Cortazar ALL FIRES THE FIRE  (New Directions)

Audrey Szasz INVISIBILITY: A MANIFESTO  (Amphetamine Sulfate)

Lee Rourke VANTABLACK  (Dostoyevsky Wannabe)

Brad Fox TO REMAIN NAMELESS  (Rescue Press)

Amanda Michalopoulou GOD’S WIFE  (Dalkey Archive)

Douglas A. Martin WOLF  (Nightboat Books)

Douglas Payne IF YOU HAVE GHOSTS  (Amphetamine Sulphate)

Michael Seidlinger DREAMS OF BEING  (Maudlin House)

 

 

Poetry
(in no order)

Joyelle McSweeney TOXICON AND ARACHNE (Nightboat Books)

Elaine Equi THE INTANGIBLES (Coffee House Press)

Lonely Christopher IN A JANUARY WOULD (Roof Books)

Sun Ra SOMEWHERE AND NOWHERE: POEMS (Arts Libris)

Bernadette Mayer MEMORY (siglio)

Matthew Rohrer THE SKY CONTAINS THE PLANS (Wave Books)

Bob Kaufman COLLECTED POEMS (City Lights)

Joseph Goosey PARADE OF MALFEASANCE (EMP Books)

Tony Towle MY FIRST THREE BOOKS (Vehicle Editions)

Fanny Howe NIGHT PHILOSOPHY (Divided Publishing Ltd)

Ted Rees THANKSGIVING: A POEM (Golias Books)

David Grubbs THE VOICE IN THE HEADPHONES (Duke University Press)

Laura Theobald KOKOMO (Disorder Press)

Rachel Levitsky NEIGHBOR (Ugly Duckling Presse)

SJ Fowler I WILL SHOW YOU THE LIFE OF THE MIND (ON PRESCRIPTION DRUGS) (Dostoyevsky Wannabe)

 

 

Nonfiction
(in no order)

Bruce Boone DISMEMBERED (Nightboat Books)

Steve Abbott BEAUTIFUL ALIENS (Nightboat Books)

McKenzie Wark REVERSE COWGIRL (Semiotext(e))

Maurice Sachs WITCHES’ SABBATH (Spurl Editions)

Lucy Ives THE SADDEST THING IS THAT I HAVE HAD TO USE WORDS: A MADELEINE GINS READER (siglio)

Jay Slayton-Joslin SEQUELLAND: A STORY OF DREAMS AND SCREAMS (Clash Books)

Laura Mulvey AFTERIMAGES (Reaktion Books)

Jeanne Gerrity & Anthony Huberman DODIE BELLAMY IS ON OUR MINDS (Semiotext(e))

Joanne Robertson & Byron Coley 1979 SONGBOOK (Tenderbooks/Bad Taste Press)

Wayne Koestenbaum FIGURE IT OUT (Soft Skull)

David Sudnow BREAKOUT: PILGRIM IN THE MICROWORLD (Boss Fight Books)

Harry Dodge MY METEORITE (Penguin)

Gary J. Shipley STRATGEM OF THE CORPSE (Anthem Press)

Momus NICHE (FSG)

Bruce Andrews and Charles Bernstein L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E: THE COMPLETE FACSIMILE (University of New Mexico Press)

 

 

Music
(in no order)

Yves Tumor HEAVEN TO A TORTURED MIND (Warp)

Destroyer HAVE WE MET (Merge)

Villaelvin GHOTT ZILLAH (Hakuna Kulala)

Concrete Mascara PERENNIAL DISAPPOINTMENT (Malignant Records)

Aki Onda NAM JUNE’S SPIRIT WAS SPEAKING TO ME (Recital)

Ewa Justka UPSIDE DOWN SMILE (Editions Mego)

Zeroh BLQLYTE (Leaving Records)

Chris Cochrane THE INVENTION OF SHOES – VOLS. 1 & 2 (bandcamp)

Guided by Voices SURRENDER YOU POPPY FIELDS (Rockathon)

serpentwithfeet APPARITION (Secretly Canadian)

Irma Vep EMBARRASSED LANDSCAPE (Gringo Records )

Stephen Malkmus TRADITIONAL TECHNIQUES (Matador)

Soft Pink Truth SHALL WE GO ON SINNING SO THAT GRACE MAY INCREASE? (Thrill Jockey)

Klara Lewis INGRID (Editions Mego)

Moor Mother CLEPSYDRA (no label)

Sparks A STEADY DRIP DRIP DRIP (BMG)

Vladislav Delay RAKKA (Cosmo Rhythmatic)

Marja Ahti and Judith Hamann PORTALS (Cafe Oto)

 

 

Film
(in no order)

Tzuan Wu THIS SHORE – A FAMILY STORY

Guy Maddin STUMP THE GUESSER

Daniel and Clara NOTES FROM A JOURNEY

Pedro Costa VITALINA VARELA

Leslie Thornton GROUND

James Benning MAGGIE’S FARM

Patric Chiha SI C’ETAIT DE L’AMOUR

Margaret Honda EQUINOX

Dietrich de Velsa EQUATION TO AN UNKNOWN

Noel Lawrence SAMMY-GATE

Luis and Andrés Rodriguez ASCENT

 

 

Art
(in no order)

SUPERMARKET OF IMAGES (Jeu de Paume)

Peter Saul ART HISTORY IS WRONG (Almine Rech Gallery, Paris)

Keith Sonnier FILES, SHIELDS AND NEONS (Galerie Mitterand, Paris)

YOU (Musee d’Art Moderne, Paris)

Dan Flavin UNTITLED (David Zwirner, Paris)

Robert Grosvenor NEW WORKS (Max Hetzler, Paris)

Penny Goring ESCAPE FROM BLOOD CASTLE (Campoli Presti, Paris)

Allen Ruppersberg THE MYSTERY OF NABOKOV… (Michele Didier, Paris)

 

 

Internet
(in no order)

SCAB
Profound Experience
Small Press Distribution
X-R-A-Y
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Please Kill Me
Rhizome
Theme Park Review
Evergreen Review
The Call
TOWARDS CYCLOBE
Musique Machine
Original Cinemaniac
Fanzine
Volume 1 Brooklyn
Queen Mob’s Teahouse
dark fucking wizard
TL;DR
The Chiseler
Experimental Cinema
The Los Angeles Review of Books
3:AM Magazine
Alienist
largehearted boy
pantaloons
Harriet
Open Culture
Locus Solus: The New York School of Poets
giphy
The Wonderful World of Tam Tam Books
Hobart
Entropy

 

 

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p.s. Hey. So it’s that time of year when I do my mid-year faves list, and thus I have. I’m sure I’ve forgotten some great things. If you have faves you’ve experienced this year that you want to recommend to the world at local/large and me in return, I would be appreciative. ** David Ehrenstein, There is that rare occasion when they’re 8 billion times cuter, but … Everyone, Mr. Ehrenstein’s now legendary and culturally rich house/yard sale is still a thing if you’re in the SoCal realm and into accruing goodies. Here’s David to explain: ‘If you live in the L.A. area please write me @ cllrdr@ ehrensteinland.com about my endless sale of CDs, DVDs and Books and make an appointment to drop by and buy. I have hand sanitizer.’ ** _Black_Acrylic, I enjoyed that as well. Oh, shit, man, about your phone. As implausible as that method seems, I do know a few people who’ve had it work miraculously, and I hope you are now one of them. ** Corey Heiferman, Hi. Everyone, Corey suggests that if you were left drooly by the characterisation of one escort’s diarrhea as a great spaghetti sauce yesterday, you might be into settling for this. Sorry about the job. My luck wish does a hairpin curve and angles at your new prospect. I didn’t do Danse avec les Robots because I have moon sickness issues re: things that revolve, but Zac did it, and he found it quite underwhelming. ** wolf, Howl! And not the Ginsberg version! They were a clever bunch of lads, I think so too. Yes, you were listening to GbV! You are even more of a god than you previously were in my head! It is an amazing record! And it is technically their latest although there’s already a new GbV album coming out in a couple of weeks. Praise for the almighty Bob Pollard! From you! You’ve done my entire soul, such as it is, a whole world of great this morning. Thank you! Two weeks off. Damn, I wish you could glide over here. It’s so nice. We got indoor restaurants and cafes back yesterday. So we’re just about fully reopened apart from movie theatres and old fashioned theatres and gigs. Well, I guess today is fortuitous since I would obviously say use the list right up above as a possible shopping list. Shirley Jackson knew her shit, for sure. You sound good. It’s so good to hear from you. All is well enough on this end. Let’s Skype again. That was a blast. Love, me. ** Bill, Indeed! Possibly an escort first, or at least amongst my blog’s motley crues. The return of bookstores is a biggie. But, yeah, work first, or as long as it’s your work. ** john christopher, Hi. Oh, it makes sense. People often assume I must be an Araki fan. I like his first few, really early LA-meets-Godard films that no one ever talks about anymore. In Switzerland. Huh. It certainly is possible that he was/is more appreciated over here than in the States. That does happen. Have a great day, sir. ** chris dankland, Hi, Chris!! Very good question. I have no idea, but, yeah, there is surely a culinary version of Grindr or at least of Craig’s List out there somewhere. I believe that was the first time I’ve seen someone use a BDSM site to seek a jobs= as a chef or cook. There are definitely guys on those sites hoping against hope that some Master will take them on as a non-sex, non-torture house cleaner and so on. My strange pleasure about the harvesting. The crowds at Futuroscope were not gigantic but healthy sized. There were social distancing rules/guidelines all over, yes. Most people wore masks everywhere, and everyone wore masks in the rides and lines and at eateries and so on. The French are being very good and dutiful about the precautions, which is a big reason why we’re (so far) moving out of the pandemic with flying colors. Hm, I would need to have a think to tell you my fave Black Metal, etc. albums. I’ll do that. I generally just play tracks, but I’ll check my storage bin for files of full-on LPS, as I do have faves. It’s a good genre. It finds a spot that no other genre really does and hits it squarely. Cool. You good in general? Things getting any better there in AZ? I read somewhere that they aren’t, but I don’t believe what I read very much these days. ** Jeff J, Hi, Jeff. Yeah, they weren’t too linguistically shabby this month. I put together v=a Bette Gordon post yesterday, and I saw during its course that ‘TUSoA’ is on The Criterion Channel, which, you know, is not available here tragically. Very interesting about the new Pere Ubu. I didn’t know about it. Well, that’s kind of a must-get, isn’t it? I’ll go do that. Sure, sure, whenever it’s good re: Skyping. I’m around. ** Steve Erickson, If you mean porn that uses COVID/quarantine as a forefronted thematic or narrative device, no, I haven’t noticed any of those. I have seen some that mention that the sex occurred under quarantine conditions to give the sex a kind of ‘ooh, we’re so daring’ kind of vibe. Ah! Everyone, Mr. Erickson has written article about LGBTQ-themed films that are currently streaming on MUBI if you’re interested and/or hold a desire for that form of entertainment plus have a MUBI membership. Go here. ** JM, HI, Josiah! University does have a semi-guaranteed derailing effect, god love it. Great to hear that you’re freed! And I hope your visit there today (or yesterday?) goes/went smoothly. Watch your back. Anyway, victoire! Happy for you! I’m good. Semiotext(e) says they love Zac’s and my conversation-afterword for Derek McCormack’s astounding upcoming novel, so that’s a relief. Getting the new GIF novel ready for launch. About to pow-wow with the producer of Zac’s and my new film. And other stuff. And still exhilarated by the amount freedom we have to actually live here. Great to see you, my friend! ** Okay. The day is already introduced up north and is now awaiting your perusing and possible counter-suggestions. See you tomorrow.