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p.s. Hey. ** jay, Hey, hey, jay! I don’t know, maybe the vampire/lesbian fantasy complicates the power dynamic in hetero guys’ fantasies and makes the dominant female-centric lust less self-excoriating? Or something? I haven’t seem Takashi Miike’s ‘Teorema’ reworking, thanks. Everyone, You want to see how Takashi Miike reworked Pasolini’s ‘Teorama’? Thanks to jay, you can. Here. No, makes sense, re: AI vs. dreams’ real world incompatibility. I’m glad to hear that your concussion only left a little bit of a short term superficial mess. My weekend happened without too many highs or lows, and yours? ** Steeqhen, Oh, okay that makes sense. The logistics. As I think you know, my dreams dissipate upon my awakening, so dreaming is mostly just exotica to me. Luck re: the job. Well, and especially re: that contest. Not bad. Not bad at all. ** Connie, Hi! Your friend’s theory makes sense, yeah, although I can’t parse why, or at least not without a degree of thought that the p.s. construction makes less than doable. No, I haven’t seen Stephanie Rothman’s ‘The Velvet Vampire’, but I’ll try to seek it out. Oh, that dropbox thing is your set? Thank you! Fascinating, or I mean it obviously will be to imbibe. Sounds intensely interesting. Exciting work you’re doing. Very cool. ** _Black_Acrylic, ‘Iron Rose’ is his peak? That’s interesting. Okay, I get that. We had a TV channel called Bravo in the States, but it sure wasn’t like yours. ** Dominik, Hi!!! Oh, there are six people involved in the biweekly Zoom club, and we take turns choosing and assigning a film and a text for us to discuss. Member Jack Skelley chose ‘Teorema’. I chose the text this time, a piece of Jean Jacques Schuhl’s novel ‘Ingrid Caven’. No criteria. Anything goes. Just something that seems like it’ll provoke interesting blabla. I hope love isn’t lactose intolerant because that would so suck aka cheese! Err, was love’s suspicion wrong, one hopes? Love legally changing his name to Wishing Well, G. ** Alice, Hey. I’ve been okay, you? Oh, wait you’re going to tell me, cool. I played guitar in my teens. I was in two bands. But I couldn’t seem to make myself get better at guitar playing so I quit. And I played the recorder briefly. I was in a recorder consort that performed at a Renaissance Festival. That wasn’t interesting whatsoever. Have I seen ‘All About Lily Chou Chou’? I can’t remember, so maybe not. I know ‘Vengeance is Mine’ assuming it’s the same film. Zac’s and my films heavily linger on faces, so yes. Our characters are always quite introverted, and doing that is key to making our films work. Wishing you a fruitful week in return. ** Misanthrope, I was famous for my carrot cake at a certain point years ago. The trick is to not make a carrot cake too sweet because they’re usually way too sweet. Nice birthday. I’ve never had a Funko pop. I guess they must sell them over here. Massive luck on the 9th, and of course more so on the 18th. I’m sure it’ll just be a fly through. Get yourself rewarded. ** Charalampos, Cool. And thanks. I wish I could transport our weirdly spring-like cool weather down there. Well, not all of it, but a helpful portion. Luck with the boy troubles. Hi from Paris and me trying to write something I promised to write and without terribleness. ** julian, Hi. Oh, maybe the early vampire movies are a decent entrance. They’re fun, and they’ll let you know how interested you are in his style. Wilson contributed to her ARTPOP thing, right, makes sense. I usually try to start doing the p.s. between 8:30 and 9 am, but I often end up starting just after 9 am. It usually takes me anywhere from 90 minutes to two hours+ to finish the p.s. depending on the number and complexity of the comments. ** Steve, MP3 player, whoa. ‘The Blue Mask’ was a pretty good one. I sort of tend to think ‘The Bells’ was maybe the last really good one. Happy to have provided the links. ** Carsten, Very long story as short as possible, Zac and I crazily decided we wanted to to go Antarctica. To get there you take a ship with a bunch of mostly rich people from Ushuaia, Argentina. When you get there you sail along one part of Antarctica for ten days. You sleep on the ship, and every day they take you to the shore in little boats and you can walk or hike around in a supervised way. There’s nothing there but snow, ice and penguins. No plants, no insects, nothing. You’ve never experienced such silence. One night they let you sleep overnight in tents on the surface. Sounds kind of boring, but I can assure you that being in Antarctica was completely mind blowing. The 300 euro/year healthcare I have is pretty good but not completely thorough. I think if I was hospitalised I’d have to pay something but it would be shockingly little. I haven’t yet been ill or anything since I got it, so it’s still a mystery to me. ** Bill, I think you probably have the overall deal. Shipley’s most recent book ‘Stab Frenzy’ is quite good too. ** Måns BT, Måns!!! Hey, buddy! Haha, sounds like you had a classic Berlin experience, and your love of it is both utterly confusing to me and wholly admirable. Basmah, whoop! Good going. Oh, shit, you remind me that I extremely need to write to the film place in Stockholm. Shit, I’ve been so busy with film. I hope they still want to screen the film. I’ll write to them. Oh, fuck, I hope I didn’t blow that golden opportunity. We have some festivals and screenings coming up that I’m just about to get the green light to announce. That sounds most lovely and promising with the girl. I guess keep doing what you’re doing. Congrats so far, pal. That’s so nice. Laika’s idea was that ‘God Jr.’ would be their first combo animation and live action film. They had the option for almost ten years, and they were planing it and giving me updates, but they never quite figured out how to do that combo to their satisfaction, and so eventually they begged off. It was cool, it was sad. So very nice to see you!!! ** Hugo, I’m so over zombies, Jesus. ‘Martin’ is really good, I agree. I hope you’re not sick. Wood being knocked. That is a nice opening. Your friend is quite talented. Does he write outside of his diary? ** HaRpEr //, Hi. When you say comfortable, do you mean compromised? To me I think being comfortable means I can do my work more concentratedly and well. I’m not a huge Pasolini fan, much to the shock of most of my film buff friends. His films just don’t reach me interestingly. ‘Teorema’ interested me in that it seemed like Pasolini doing Bunuel. I liked the early part of it when it was playing around visually. I was okay with the Terrence Stamp phase, but the aftermath seemed really half-baked. His films seem kind of half-baked me to a lot. I recognise that the problem is mine. I think if I had to pick a film of his that I think is the most okay it would maybe be ‘Porcile’, but I think Pierre Clementi’s involvement is probably what tips the balance. ** lotuseatermachine, Hi machine with interesting eating habits! Maybe start with the early vampire ones. I used to take a ton of LSD when I was young and loved it, but marijuana always made me paranoid and I avoided it. Strange. Probably a good idea to stay away from drugs. Their invasions are definitely not always helpful or worth the attacking aspect. ‘The Ruins’ is kind of fun. You live in Australia? Why did I not realise that. I’ve only been to Melbourne, which reminded me a lot of LA, and Tazmania. Seemed very interesting, but, gosh, the plane trip to get there and jet lag, whoa. ** horatio, Happy to have a facilitated a fun viewing experience. Oh, great, about Athens International Film and Video Festival! I’ll submit our film to them this very day. Cool, exciting and soon to be nerve-wracking. Thanks about your prof. My weekend was semi-relaxing, which is realistically as good as it gets, I think? I hope your week relaxes you, but not too much, of course. ** Right. I don’t generally like to focus the blog on my own work, but … For a few years I was concentrated on making novels using animated gifs, as some of you may know. I used the blog’s behind-the-scenes space to construct them, and sometimes I shared parts here when I felt okay with them. So I’m restoring one of those parts today for whatever reason. The gif fiction up above ended up being a chapter in my gif novel ‘Zac’s Freight Elevator’, which I think is probably the best of the five gif novels I made. Anyway, that’s what’s going on here today. See you tomorrow.