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2019: West Coast Racers (Six Flags Magic Mountain, Valencia, CA)
Using electro-magnetic propulsion, two trainloads of passengers on opposing tracks will rev up to 55 mph on a straightaway and chase each other around a course filled with inversions, pops of airtime and overbanked turns. After an indoor “pit stop,” during which the famed car builders from West Coast Customs will cheer the riders on, the trains will take a second lap, but on the opposite tracks. The three-minute experience will include 14 “near-miss” crossings.

 

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2019: Maxx Force (Six Flags Great America near Chicago)
Instead of electro-magnetic propulsion, Maxx Force will use a compressed-air launch system to catapult its trains from 0 to 78 mph in two seconds flat. That’ll be the quickest acceleration of any coaster in North America. It will then soar an attention-grabbing 175 feet and deliver two high-flying inversions. The third time Maxx Force sends its passengers tumbling heels-over-head, they’ll be hightailing it at 60 mph, which Six Flags contends will be the world’s fastest coaster inversion.

 

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2020: BOLT: Ultimate Sea Coaster (Carnival Mardi Gras cruise ship)
A giant new ship on order for Carnival Cruise Line will boast a deck-top roller coaster. To be called BOLT: Ultimate Sea Coaster, the attraction will be 240 metres long and feature twists, turns and drops with riders reaching speeds of nearly 65 kilometres per hour.

 

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2019: Taiga (Linnanmäki Amusement Park, Helsinki)
Dubbed Taiga, the new ride is a launch coaster that will have a top height of 52m and a track length of 1,104m – the longest in Finland. It will feature two launches and four inversions, reaching a top speed of 106kmph. “We are very excited to finally announce that Linnanmäki is making its greatest ride project ever in co-operation with ride manufacturer Intamin,” said Pia Adlivankin, managing director of Linnanmäki. “This most unique high-profile launch coaster can be described as a coaster enthusiasts’ dream.”

 

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2019: Harry Potter’s Forbidden Forest Coaster (Islands of Adventure, FL)
Universal has been mostly mum on the new coaster that is taking the place of its Dragon Challenge dueling coaster that used to be part of the original Wizarding World of Harry Potter. The theme park resort is promising that it will become its most highly themed coaster. That’s saying a lot, considering that Universal already offers Revenge of the Mummy and Harry Potter and the Escape from Gringotts, two of the most sophisticated and richly themed coasters on the planet. The construction site for the project includes a large building, so it is virtually certain that the ride will weave both indoors and outdoors. There is strong speculation among Potter-philes that the coaster will feature Hagrid the half-giant and that the attraction will take muggles on a journey through the Forbidden Forest.

 

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2019: Polercoaster (Atlantic City, NJ)
The New Jersey Economic Development Authority approved Thursday $38.4 million in grants to help pay for a 350-foot-high vertical Polercoaster, The Press of Atlantic City reports. The funding will come in the form of tax breaks for the developer, ACB Ownership. Overall, the project is projected to cost $138 million and would occupy space where the Sands Casino once stood. The area is area bordered Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, and Mount Vernon and Kentucky Avenues. The 52,000-square-foot attraction will also host a bar and restaurant, a food court, retail shops and video games. The Polercoaster, designed by U.S. Thrill Rides, transforms a traditional roller coaster design into a vertical amusement ride. The track hugs an observation tower and features loops, dips and twists.

 

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2020: Twisted Tigers (Busch Gardens, Tampa, FL)
During a press conference to release the all-new Tigris, Busch Gardens may have revealed a bit too much, “with Gwazi’s existence it’s always been a little bit of a Rocky ride, so we decided we’re going to go ahead and revamp Gwazi into a new attraction. Now I can’t give anymore information than that, but I can tell you that your going to be holding onto your seats. It’s going to be an awesome ride, it’s going to be thrilling, you’re going to love it.” Busch Gardens Project Manager, Andrew Schaffer said. “More information is coming on that in the coming months.” This statement, with the words “rocky” and “revamp,” almost 100% confirm the transformation of the Gwazi coaster into an RMC creation. RMC ibox track is known for its smooth ride that features twists, turns, and inversions that transform wooden coasters into steel rides. The name “Twisted Tigers” was also filed for trademark with the names “Tigris” and “Uproar” back in late March , so we can assume this will be the name of the new Gwazi coaster, and that it will still feature two dueling tigers. Whether the track will be Mobius or kept as two separate tracks is unknown.

 

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2020: F.L.Y. (Phantasialand, Brühl, Germany)
Phantasialand will debut the world’s first flying launch coaster, named F.L.Y. It is also set to be the longest flying coaster in the world, a record currently held by The Flying Dinosaur at Universal Studios Japan. The new roller coaster will open in 2020, and will be located in a new steampunk inspired area of the theme park called Rookburgh.

 

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2019: Steel Curtain (Kennywood near Pittsburgh)
A mighty coaster based on the mighty Pittsburgh Steelers will punt passengers 220 feet into the air and rush them 75 mph before sending them topsy-turvy with nine separate inversions (which will be a North American record). One of the flip-overs, a corkscrew at a height of 197 feet, will lay claim to the world’s tallest inversion. The coaster will be the highlight of Steelers Country, an entire Kennywood land devoted to the beloved hometown team.

 

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2019: Zadra (Energylandia, Poland)
Energylandia in Poland has announced that Europe’s tallest hybrid roller coaster will open at the theme park in 2019. The new ride will be over 60 metres (196.8 ft) tall, 1300 metres (4265 ft) long and reach a top speed of 115 km/h (71.5 mph). Zadra (the Polish for splinter) will feature 3 inversions, including a Zero-G roll and an inverted airtime hill. The theme park opened as recently as 2014 and already includes 70 rides and attractions over 26 hectares.

 

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2019: Yukon Striker (Canada’s Wonderland near Toronto)
The world’s tallest, longest and fastest dive coaster, Yukon Striker will bring passengers to the precipice of a 245-foot, 90-degree drop, let them mull it over for a few agonizing moments, and then dive down at 80 mph before bottoming out in an underwater tunnel. Inversions and other mayhem will follow. The new ride will mark the 17th coaster at Canada’s largest theme park.

 

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2019: Sandia Peak Mountain Coaster (Sandia Peak, N.M.)
The ski lodge at Sandia Peak Ski Area was buzzing with curious residents, conservationists and enthusiastic families for an open house centered on a proposed alpine mountain coaster at the top of the mountain. The ski lodge at Sandia Peak Ski Area was buzzing with curious residents, conservationists and enthusiastic families for an open house centered on a proposed alpine mountain roller coaster at the top of the mountain. Engineers with the Sandia Peak Ski Area were on hand to show off the design, a project timeline and a POV video of a similar mountain coaster experience. The coaster is projected to cost $2 million and work will be completed by the end of summer 2019.

 

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2019: Unnamed ‘Eurofighter’ coaster (Nickelodeon Universe, East Rutherford, NJ)
One of the world’s biggest indoor theme parks, Nickelodeon Universe, is coming to one of the world’s largest malls, American Dream, and it will feature a “Eurofighter”-type coaster will climb up a vertical lift, bust through the top of the mall into a see-through tower, and give passengers a stunning view of the Manhattan skyline from its 141-foot perch, before plummeting down at a severely overbanked drop of 121.5 degrees – the steepest coaster drop in the world – and hitting over 62 mph. It will then zoom up into the rafters of the mall and deliver seven inversions. A second coaster will intertwine with the “Eurofighter” and include cars that will freely spin. At a height of 85 feet and a length of 2,247 feet, it will be the world’s tallest and longest spinning coaster.

 

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2019: Copperhead Strike (Carowinds, Charlotte, NC)
Another coaster that will forgo a traditional chain-driven lift hill, Copperhead Strike will feature two magnetic launches. The first one will get things cooking from 0 to 42 mph in 2.5 seconds, while a mid-course booster launch will goose the speed from 35 mph to 50 mph. After the trains leave the station, but before they launch, they will slowly roll passengers upside down in the first of Copperhead Strike’s five inversions.

 

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2019: Tigris (Busch Gardens Tampa, FL)
Florida’s tallest launched coaster will impel its train forwards and partway up its track where it will stall and roll backwards. A second launch will keep it moving backwards partway up the opposite side of its giant loop. Tigris’ third launch will give its train enough oomph to climb to the top of a 150-foot loop, slowly invert at the apex, and then descend down the other side. Tigris will be similar to Tempesto at sister park Busch Gardens Williamsburg in Virginia.

 

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2019: Tidal Twister (SeaWorld San Diego)
It will appear that two trains will be barreling toward and narrowly averting each other. In reality, the first-of-its-kind Tidal Twister will feature two sets of cars mounted on one long train with that will span the entire length of a 320-foot, horizontal, figure-eight track. Passengers will face both forward and backward, and the train will travel both directions as it revs up to 30 mph.

 

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2019: Batman: The Ride (Six Flags Discovery Kingdom, Vallejo, CA)
Similar to other “4D Free Fly” coasters, Batman will climb 120 feet and crisscross three undulating ribbons of track that will include inversions and beyond-90-degree drops. As if that wouldn’t be crazy enough, the trains’ seats will be on the outside wings of the track and will spin willy-nilly in both directions – or, as the ride‘s designer characterizes it, free fly in the fourth dimension.

 

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2019: Dragon Flier (Dollywood in Pigeon Forge, TN)
A suspended coaster (in which the trains hang under the track), Dragon Flier will be the featured attraction at Wildwood Grove. Like the rest of the new land that will open at Dolly Parton’s park, the ride will be geared to families with pre-teens and will keep its thrills in check.

 

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2020: Max & Moritz (Efteling, Holland)
After more than 34 years, the Bobsleigh Run makes way for a new rollercoaster: Max En Moritz. It becomes a double roller coaster. The current Swiss theming and the station building of the Bobbaan are retained. In September 2019, construction work will commence for the new roller coaster, which will cost EUR 15 million. The attraction Max En Moritz opens in the spring of 2020. The supplier of the job is the German manufacturer Mack Rides. Max and Moritz are two boys from the famous German poem from 1865, who make their village unsafe by removing a number of areas where the villagers become the victims. The Efteling uses this story as inspiration for the new roller coaster.

 

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2020: Unnamed hypercoaster (Hersheypark, PA)
Hersheypark will get a new roller coaster that officials say will be the park’s “tallest, longest, fastest and sweetest” ever. The Pennsylvania amusement park said Wednesday its $150 million Chocolatetown attraction will “unlock an all-new chapter.” The 23-acre area will include a restaurant and bar, a confectionary kitchen and an ice cream parlor. Patrons also will be able to shop at a 10,000-square-foot store. According to park filings with the Federal Aviation Administration, the ride will be classified as a “hypercoaster” because it rises over 200 feet.

 

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2019: Hakugei (Nagashima Spa Land, Japan)
According to Japanese Television reports, Nagashima Spa Land has named the RMC (Rocky Mountain Construction) I-Box track conversion of the park’s former White Cyclone wooden coaster Hakugei, which translates to White Whale. The steel hybrid coaster is scheduled to open in March 2019 and will feature a 180.4 foot (55m) 80° drop, three inversions, a double-up, an outward banking turn, a double-down, and a top speed of 66.5 mph (107 km/h) over 5,020 feet (1,530m) of track. Renderings and a model also confirm the removal of the iconic giant mid-course helix White Cyclone was known for. Hakugei is one of two RMC I-Box track conversions scheduled to open in 2019.

 

 

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p.s. Hey. ** kier, Hi, in-kier-edible! Fake PGL merch would be heaven and perfect and all that good stuff, so, if your muse heads you that way, trust that Zac and I will transfigure into fireworks. Yay about your full strength’s homecoming! Slow and steady. I’m procrastinating on about 15 things right now, so I share your stress, but hey, right? My day was all right. Got a long needed haircut, did a radio interview for some SF station to promo the PGL screenings there, procrastinated, ha ha. It’s Friday already, whoa. I hope yours lends you deserved mastery. Love, me. ** David Ehrenstein, Indeed he did. He was also a big flash-in-the-pan teen idol even earlier on. Thusly. Ah, fantastic about the new ‘RbH’ piece! Everyone, Mr. Ehrenstein has had published a new slice of his long awaited and legendary memoir ‘Raised by Handpuppets’ over on Gay City News, and it has the potentially raucous moniker ‘Kevin Spacey and The Sugar Plum Fairy, and join me in accepting this eyes-and-brain centric gift. Et voila!. ** Sypha, Ha ha, I mean, cool. Oh, yes, salvia. I have friends who’ve imbibed it, always with high marks. Yeah, that typo-driven confusion will work if confusion reigns. Whew. ** Steve Erickson, Like I said, I have friends who’ve done it, none of them 16, at least not technically. I’m glad you liked some of the gig entries. Yes, I used the CDJapan link literally because I couldn’t find any other route to her stuff. Odd. ** _Black_Acrylic, Oh, cool, yeah, that Teresa Winter LP is hot. I saw the pic of The Call’s cover on FB. It looks great. Everyone, Gawk at the cover of _Black_Acrylic’s forthcoming zine dedicated to art and speculative literature aka The Call, why don’t you? ** JM, Hi. I can’t get with James Blake, maybe for the reasons you mentioned. Everyone or almost says Beach House is big fun live. I’ve read some of the very mixed reviews of ‘Glass’, and the positive ones seemed far more convincing. It just opened here, so I’ll go find out. Oh, yeah, I mean I can’t say that  handling the first copy of a new book of mine has quite the mind exploding bliss that it did when my first couple of books arrived, but it’s a singular and heady sensation for sure. Enjoy the heck out of yours. ** Okay. Today I indulge one of my abiding fascinations by delivering a new edition of my theme park newsletter and you are the … lucky, I hope, recipients. See you tomorrow.

 

Maria w Horn
Kai Whiston
Shohei Amimori
Icky Reels
Ricardo Dias Gomes
Teresa Winter
Overlook
White Boy Scream
Jasmine Guffond
Kyary Pamyu Pamyu
Machine Girl
Swan Meat
Klara Lewis & Simon Fisher Turner

 

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Maria w Horn Ångermanländska Bilder
‘Ångermanländska Bilder is an Audiovisual Piece that was commissioned by the Art Museum in Härnösand in 2017. The commission was part of a larger project where several composers and visual artists with connections to the area were invited create something based on material found in their main collection – Quistska samlingen. Maria w Horn has been using Super-8 footage that depicts the environment of Ångermanland from 1930-1940. The video is a sort of documentation over the the manor houses of the rural community, the steamboats transporting timber along the river, also their sawmill before and after its closure. The piece is composed using the EMS Buchla 200, a reel to reel tape machine and archival field recordings.’ — 4:3

 

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Kai Whiston Mushy Seize
‘There’s something painterly about 19 year-old producer Kai Whiston’s hyper-surrealist beat music, with each sound being contorted and manipulated to the point that would rather reflect the mark-making of a De Kooning piece than any genre-focused electronic scenes. After exploring the ideas of adolescent fury on ‘Fissure Price’ EP –Released on Big Dada last year– and facing the dramas of the UK justice system after a brief false imprisonment, Whiston’s rupturing abrasion refuses to take it’s foot off the pedal. Across 40 minutes, his maximalist pastiche spans across the entire LP, drawing fractured influences from Arca, Hudson Mohawke, Death Grips, Timbaland, nu-metal and so much more.’ — Fissure Price

 

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Shohei Amimori Coincidental Planet
‘While having an academic background, Shohei Amimori is a composer that takes part in various scenes from pop music to contemporary art. Between his various activities such as exhibitions of two sound installations, presentation of orchestral works in the contemporary music scene and participating in the music production of television programs, Amimori finished his new album for the first time in two years since his previous release of SONASILE. Approaching from various angles the “abstractness of music itself”, this album’s concept is a bold hypothesis that “music does not yet exist ? imaginary music ? PATA MUSIC”. Compared to his previous work which had a strong electronic taste, his challenging new album intentionally eliminates unity and direction; it is a collection of straightforward pop rock music sung by himself, cinematic music that incorporates string quartets and experimental music that uses pitch circularity and phase transformation.’ — nobel label

 

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Icky Reels Large Sorry
‘Without much fanfare, Adrian Bertolone has been making some of the freshest, most intriguing electronic music on the scene. Also a talented visual artist, Bertolone made his bones with Cleveland, Ohio’s Jerk — a gnashing, tempestuous noise rock group that centered on cheap and barely-functioning electronic gear systemically deconstructed by Bertolone and his bandmates. Rarely did a gig pass without some patched-together keyboard or synth ending up in the junk pile. But throughout Jerk’s decade-long existence, Adrian was concocting addictive, spastic, hypermelodic digital music under the calling card Ay/fast. Periodically, CDRs and files would leak out and make bigger name artists look foolish and boring.’ — Schematic

 

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Ricardo Dias Gomes 1 2 3 Nenéns
‘Ricardo Dias Gomes returns with a new full-length of experimental compositions. Following up on 2015’s critically-acclaimed “-11”, heralded as a “weirdly hermetic sound world, alternating between tender, introspective ballads, rude electronic grooves, and dissonant ambience” by the Chicago Reader’s Peter Margasak among others, Aa continues Gomes’ intimate explorations of sound. This time, Gomes opts to collaborate with other like-minded aficionados including Moreno Veloso, Pedro Sá, and Arto Lindsay, who was a particularly guiding force in the creation of Aa. Inimitable, unplaceable, and beautiful,’ — Kill Shaman

 

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Teresa Winter For Murder
‘Breathtaking bad dream of a second album by Teresa Winter for The Death of Rave; a uniquely allegorical study in female sexuality and occult, transgressive fascinations that comes highly recommended if youre into Cosey Fanni Tutti, Coil, Jani Christou or Jean Rollin.’ — ÜBERMENSCH

 

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Overlook There Was Truth And There Was Untruth
‘Overlook is one of the most talented producers on UVB-76. Along with label alumnus Pessimist, he’s making waves outside the drum & bass community. Public Image is Overlook’s latest EP. The title track’s pacey, Downwards-informed drum beat disappears, only to crash back in with a whip-cracking rhythm that sounds like it’s trying to break free of its confines. Atmosphere and mood are also weapons in Overlook’s hands. “Deja Vu” feels like the kind of ambient track that would open a techno album, but it’s expanded into something substantial, with bass pulses that hit as viscerally as any kick drum. “There Was Truth And There Was Untruth” might be the most exciting cut. Its drumbeat is more diffuse and dubby than its counterparts, but the dungeon synths and cavernous atmospheres make it imposing.’ — Resident Advisor

 

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White Boy Scream Thou
‘Micaela Tobin is a classically trained soprano and sound artist who makes her own hybrid of noise-opera under the moniker “White Boy Scream” as a process of reclaiming and reconciling the construct of the “diva”. Her latest release, “Remains” is an accumulation of pieces composed between 2015-2017 that bear witness to her unique process of dissecting her operatic voice through the use of electronic fx pedals. The album itself serves as a tender and abstracted dedication to the poetry of a late friend.’ — CMS

 

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Jasmine Guffond Degradation Loops #3
‘Engaging the process of bit crushing, in “Degradation Loops” the sampling rate and bit depth of the audio signal is step by step, gradually, and completely reduced. The algorithmic unraveling of these tracks renders them increasingly discordant and unpredictable as time passes. Using intricate and highly articulate audio loops from an existing authored work, sound gradually becomes noise. Beauty is broken down allowing another type of beauty to emerge. By deliberately deconstructing the audio signal of otherwise highly deliberative compositions, “Degradation Loops” speaks to a contemporary audio realm where principles of High Definition dominate, in an overall musicscape preconceived as uniform.’ — karl records

 

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Wume Gold Leaf
‘Towards the Shadow is at its best when the music reflects the subject matter’s balance of heady complexity and emotional urgency. The majority of the songs are written in odd time signatures, but the effect is largely thrilling rather than obtuse. Synthesist and keyboard player Albert Schatz is a master of skewed melody, injecting each song with intricate, subtle details that seem not only natural but engrossing. On the instrumental “Ravel” he takes simple melodic fragments and twists them into different shapes, providing several layers of counterpoint for each iteration. Camlin’s drumming is ecstatic but precise, arriving at a midpoint between Can’s Jaki Liebezeit and Neu!’s Klaus Dinger.’ — Jonathan Williger

 

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Kyary Pamyu Pamyu Kimino Mikata
‘Like many Japanese artists, commercial ties in Kyary Pamyu Pamyu’s music are so many, so numerous, and so gauche that they surpass gaucheness. Constantly entangled in webs of advertisement, she nonetheless maintains a weirdness that is unimaginable for an artist of similar stature in the Anglosphere. Camp rejects elitism; it is a taste in the arts of the masses. And as for boredom — it’s refreshing, today, to hear these straight-up bangers that eschew the snoozeworthy midtempos of most contemporary pop and the eternally suspended buildups of recent PC Music pop-oriented fare.’ — Rowan Savage

 

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Machine Girl This is Your Face on Dogs
‘Traversing the history of punk, the opening 30 seconds explode from the distant beating of drums to the synthesized onslaught of sequenced drums. The tensions between punk and dance music that haunted post-punk — with its gentrified visions of funk, “world music,” and pop, and its eventual copout in New Wave — are eviscerated. Machine Girl, now expanding to a duo and incorporating live drumming, does not give a shit about this history. Instead, on their new album The Ugly Art, the dividing line between hardcore and underground dance music dissolves, replaced by the amorphous blur between mosh pit and gabber dance.’ — David Farrow

 

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Swan Meat Lisp
‘The producer’s by-now signature crashing drums and stacked arrangements of noisy fragments join waves of theatrical, MIDI strings, sprinklings of 8-bit-inspired synths, and what she calls “a common sonic milieu that calls to mind early PS1 boss battles without feeling super obvious or referential.” She cites games like Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and Don’t Starve as influences for these songs, especially the plucky “Flying Ants Waltz,” which rush at you, suddenly, like two magnets drawn into each other’s force fields. They snap against your back, bow-and-arrow style, or your hip, sword-like, with as much crisp force as the “bombastic, cinematic taiko hits” that clap throughout the release. A “repeated vocaloid voice,” which first appears on “Lullabye” and later on “Lisp,” haunts like a potentially helpful, potentially harmful spirit, as it sings, for example, “I feel sick for so long/ I search for help/ But the lullaby plays on.”’ — COOKCOOK

 

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Klara Lewis & Simon Fisher Turner Tank
‘Embracing dualities and paradoxes of nature and technology, gender and age, aggression and fragility, the pair bring the best out of each in four expansive parts, where Fisher Turner brings over 40 years experience between pop, post-punk and the avant-garde to Klara Lewis’ fine-tuned ear for field recordings and her diaphanous production palette. ‘Tank’ ventures into into the Middle East with the buzz of kids singing soon enough cut short by politically timed ballistics, leaving listens reeling in a fizzing mid-air streaked by stressed strings and a plangent Arabic vocal that leads into Muslimgauze-like dub rhythm and a gorgeous electronica coda.’ — boomkat

 

 

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p.s. RIP Lorna Doom. ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi, Ben. How did the zine class go today? So cool. I watched part of the debate pre: the no confidence vote last night, and the combination of excessive decorum and totally babyish behavior in the UK parliament is completely wacko. It’s true that it feels a bit like pulling teeth to even think about willingly listen to anyone do ‘Halleluja’ at this point, but I’m intrigued, okay. I’ll try. Thanks, pal. ** Josh D, Well, hi, Josh! A rare and lovely pleasure. Your book! Cursed or not, I’m ultra-happy that it’s in the world. I will of course go partake as soon as I’m out of here and have answered a few urgent emails. Cool. Everyone, Joshua Dalton, a near-lifelong d.l. of this blog and a fantastic writer, has a new and very long awaited book available to read at a finger’s touch. It has the great title ‘i hate you, please read me’, and I so highly recommend you use this rare opportunity to luxuriate in Mr. Dalton’s work. Do so right here. Thanks, man! Exciting! ** James, They say coincidence is a … I forget. Rough and deep with your father. I feel you. Well, I think if you believe death means relocating to a wonderful, druggy, locale of some sort, death can seem theme park-like. If you think you’re about to be nothing and gone, it’s not so easy to surrender to. I guess. Thing/time with your rapping nephew sounds like big fun. No, ‘PGL’ doesn’t have any merch. Can’t imagine it ever will, well, unless a DVD counts. Very safe and swift trip home. Love, me. ** David Ehrenstein, Hi. Yeah, I dig that film too. I did in fact do a Day on Michael Gothard some time ago. I’ll go see if it’s salvageable and restorable. Funny, LA rain being a preventative, but, yeah. Surely someone will have iPhoned Gary. ** Amphibiouspeter, Hi there. It’s great to see you! I’m pretty good, thanks. And thanks about ‘God Jr.’, and yeah, about the leaking obsessions. The Brexit seems as nuts as anything could possibly be. Excellent news about your writing becoming more available to you. Heavy encouragement and interest from me, of course. Hope to see you again soon, and, yeah, take care. ** rewritedept, Hi, Chris! Great that you can come see the film. And I think Puce Mary is going to do a music set after the screening, which should be amazing. I’m not sure about hanging out time. My schedule is getting being figured out for me. Curious what the Jawbox reunion will be like, although I seriously doubt they’ll make it over here. GbV are playing in London in June, their first trip overseas in 18 years, and you can bet I’ll be taking a little trip over there for that. Paris is fine. The powder keg aspect is interesting. I’m in Paris, but going to London next week for the ‘PGL’ screening there then to the West Coast for the screenings there. Love, me. ** Steve Erickson, I hope your cold has vamoosed. I’ll look for the Nuri Bilge Ceylan film, naturally. Sounds very interesting. ** Brendan, Hey, hey, B! Jeez, I’m really glad you’re out the other end of the bad health stint. And excited about your stuff’s new ideas. Cool, cool, thanks for getting a ticket. Like I said up above, I think Puce Mary is going to do a set after the screening, and that’ll make it a real shebang. Can’t wait to see you too! ** Bill, Nor was he on mine until the commissioner directed me to spotlight him. Great about the upcoming projects! Can you say more? ** Misanthrope, My mom liked/read Chopra. That’s how I know. I like Yoko’s music, well, only the very early avant-screaming stuff, but her ‘wise’ aphorisms are mystically phrased cliches. Ha ha, your Trump imitation is just uncanny! Kidding. Duh. Devoting a little time every day to your writing, even if it’s just daydreaming time, is a big key to getting things done, I think. So, cool. ** tender prey, Hi, Marc. Oh, wow, your reminder of that ‘O Lucky Man’ scene just brought a bit of shuddering back to my fore. So, yes. And, yes, it’ll be cool to talk to you about the thing I mentioned. And to see you! Have a fine, Brexit-scrubbed day! ** Okay. I made you one of my basically monthly gigs starring recent music I’ve been into and that I feel like sharing. So have at it or, I guess, don’t, if you insist. See you tomorrow.