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p.s. Hey. ** Carsten, The rent on my LA pad isn’t bad, but I’ve ‘lived’ there since 1990, and they can only raise the rent yearly by millimetres. My place is in Los Feliz. Okay, cool, just send the post and we’ll sort it out if we need to. Thanks, man! ** Dominik, Hi!!! Of course my great pleasure. My head cold or whatever is a weirdo. It’s mostly in my ears, and I’m mostly just slightly dizzy, but not fall down on the ground dizzy. Your love picked a lovely blurb as well. Love inspiring a thrashing mosh pit wherever he goes today, G. ** jay, Excellent about the excellently delivered and received presentation! Now you can really luxuriate. No more baby steps. ** Misanthrope, Here it was just protests and dimmed storefronts. Kind of nice. Hm, I’ll try to think of any culinary wonder-style restaurants I hit on my last NYC trip. Next week, nice. And David is … presentable enough? ** Måns BT, Yeah, you seem wholly alert and fleet on your keyboard, so big thanks to your sturdy biology. Money absolutely comes and goes, that’s its vocation. Hope the book delighted you. No, no protesting, unfortunately. My neighbourhood isn’t a rebellious hot spot to say the least. Almost the weekend. What’s your agenda? ** _Black_Acrylic, Me too. I mean, me too re: in a theater not on a blog post. ** Darbz, Hey, buddy. You can get through this, just don’t accept what others’ definition of ‘getting through this’ means. Try to always remember you’re an original, and original people have to invent their own standards of what constitutes success. It’s a burden, but it’s also a gift. Trust the people who understand you or who want to at least. You can write anything you want here, my friend. I may not always know what to say in return that is genuinely insightful or helpful, but I read every word and think hard about it and appreciate it. I don’t know why I mentioned your mother. I figured the trip is all your doing. NYC … it’s huge, right? I like to look at art. I personally greatly prefer to hang out in the East Village and Lower East Side, which, despite their gentrification, are the still the most chill and interesting areas of Manhattan, I think. I don’t know, let me think of suggestions. It sounds like that trip is pretty precisely what you need right now. Lots of respect and international hugs to you. xo. ** Steeqhen, Haha, no, there’s actual meaning in the day. Man, don’t sweat what you worry isn’t in your work. I’m sure it’s a serious boon. Museum got relocated to today, so we’ll see. ** catachrestic, The entertainment industry’s increasingly lower and lower risk-tolerance is precisely what keeps the underground alive. I think people who use that term ‘underground’ tend to be very romantic about that term implies — secret societies and grubby artists experimenting in squats and stuff. There’s a ton of experimental work being made and appreciated and creating related scenes everywhere, pretty much. In LA alone, there are numerous places presenting experimental music and film and art and theater and writing with small fervent audiences attending and artists creating therein. Someday those scenes will be seen as very romantic, but right now they’re just part and parcel of the search to make and experience innovative work. Or I think so. Basically, what you said in so many words. My cold is sneaking around in my ears and it’s weird but doable. Thanks for watching ‘PGL’. Yeah, Benjamin (Roman) is extraordinary in the film. I don’t think a lot of people realise how difficult what he’s doing with the character is. Obviously I encourage you to make one, just be careful who you work with. Thanks, J! ** Dom Lyne, Malibu sounds like a nightmare. Rum and coconut are on my no way list. I can’t take sweet drinks. Even wine is hard. Haha, cue cards, nice. That psycho-seeming dude has a kind of Robert Blake in ‘Lost Highway’ quality in my admittedly overactive imagination. Don’t forget your mace. xo, me. ** Steve, Yes, you’re one of lucky proximate ones. And re: ‘Pavements’ too. I hope it plays here. Hard to tell. Right, it’s Bandcamp Friday, I’m going to shop there when I get back from my day’s IRL requirements. Happy launch. ** HaRpEr, Hey. You know, I don’t think I’ve ever read ‘Faust’. Isn’t that ridiculous? I think so. Hmmm. I think once you realise how funny Bernhard is, say courtesy of ‘Woodcutters’, then you start to pick up on how funny he is virtually all the time albeit with the humor resting at the bottom of the fiction’s ocean in some cases. Yes, I like Werner Schroeter. Here’s the Day I did about his work some years ago, if that’s useful. ** Okay. The old post I’ve resurrected today is kind of a cheapo thrill, but what’s wrong with that? Anyway, it had fallen into disrepair over the years, and I so rebuilt it just so you guys can have a cheap thrill if you get your cheap thrills from things like it. See you tomorrow.