Belden Village Mall, Canton, Ohio
Dixie Square Mall, Harvey, Illinois
Muscatine Mall, Muscatine, Iowa
Hawthorne Plaza Mall, San Diego
Felicita Mall, Porto
Miracle City Mall, Miracle City, OH
Marketplace Mall, Syracuse, NY
Columbus City Center, Columbus
Rolling Acres Mall, Akron
Crestwood Mall, Missouri
Military Circle Mall, Norfolk, Virginia
New World Mall, Bangkok
The Highland Mall, Austin, Texas
Westminster Mall, Westminster, Colorado
Westgate Mall, Nairobi
Granite Run Mall, Middletown Township
Hammerhead Mall, Filly, Montana
Old White Gold Mall, Cebu City
Richland Mall, Ontario, Ohio
Dixie Square Mall, Harvey, Ill
CenterCity, Englewood, Colorado
Azalea Mall, Richmond, VA
Wilderness Mall, Reading, UK
Omega Plaza, Novosibirsk, Russia
Tri-State Mall, Clayton, Delaware
Capitano Mall, Vancouver
Arkadia Mall, Nile Front
Hawthorne Mall, Hawthorne, California
Fiesta Shopping Center, Sonoma
Undercliff Mall, Meridien
Metro North Mall, Kansas City, Missouri
Greengate Mall, Greensburg, Pennsylvania
Windsor Mall, Louisville
Cloverleaf Mall, Chesterfield
Northland Mall, Detroit
El Con Mall, Tuscon
Rehoboth Mall, Rehoboth
Cumbernauld Town Centre, Cumbernauld, UK
Eastgate Shopping Center, Indianapolis
Randall Park Mall, North Randall, Ohio
Crestwood Plaza, Seattle
Seminole Mall, Seminole, Florida
Archamps Mall, Archamps, France
Weifang Mall, Weifang, China
White Flint Mall, North Bethesda
Red Bird Mall, Dallas
Penhorn Mall, Dartmouth
Bannister Mall, Kansas City
Apollo Plaza Mall, Monticello, NY
Duck Creek Plaza, Bettendorf, Alabama
White Flint Mall, North Bethesda
Capital Hill Mall, Helena, Montana
Battle Mall, Santa Barbara
The Quad, Whittier
Jefferson Square Mall, Joliet
Raleigh Springs Mall, Memphis
Plaza Shopping, Niteroi, Brazil
Jamestown Mall, St. Louis
Westridge Mall, Fergus Falls, Minnesota
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p.s. Hey. ** jay, Hi. Cool, happy it pleased you. My vibe is that one would need to be interested in Robbie Williams to get what’s needed from ‘Better Man’, and I’m not interested in him, but maybe I’m wrong. I’ll see if I can find a link to some animated macro-micro porn so you can see what I mean. It has its charms, for sure, but erotic? Hard to see. I’ve been on a vacation from Mario only because I can only use the Switch when my roommate isn’t here since it’s in his ‘office’, and I’ve been out every time he’s been out lately, but any minute now. What are you playing? ** Gray Gary, Wow, hi, GG! How are you? It’s been a while. I’m okay, busy with mostly rather uninteresting but necessary things. What about you? Catch me up now that Cloudflare seems to have become at least somewhat transparent, if you don’t mind. ** Steeqhen, I used to be really into baseball, and I remember how prioritizing that the games of my fave team were, although it seems odd that they were now. Yep, yep, about ‘IE’ and ‘The Return’. Yes, of course, please link to your Lynch piece when it’s worldly. So how photogenic was the bdsm techno club, and in what ways? ** Charalampos, I’m sorry you’re feeling down, my friend. World stuff, interior stuff, both, … ? Uh, I was blown away the first time I saw ‘IE’. It was Lynch going in the direction that I most wanted him to go. I’m hoping for beaucoup light down there where you are. Here, it’s gray, but what else is new. ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi, B. The last episode, eek. Thanks for reminding me, or, rather, I guess me taking your statement as a way to remind myself to hear the most recent episode which got lost in my current life swampage due to visa-preparation duties, urgh. Wow, you must’ve been up all night! ** James, Publishing on the internet is going to be writers’ only lot in life soon enough. But not shittily in your regard, or mine hopefully. Your questions would need to be answered by the other James, but I’m not sure if he’ll do that. Anyway, appreciative that you were mostly appreciative. Starting in May, US citizens will need to have a short term visa to enter the EU. Because I’m here so much, that visa won’t work for me, so I need to get a long-term residence visa to be able to continue living here to the degree I do. ‘Sitting outside a grubby chicken shop on a cold brick wall talking to my friend about how crappy things are’ sounds quintessentially British to an outsider, or else just to me. Same here but without the grubby chicken and brick wall and with an espresso in one hand. Maybe reality is 4D, I don’t know either. Makes sense, I guess. Someone else here loves ‘Bullet Train’, or, no, wait, the movie called ‘Bullet Train’. I don’t know if they’re related. Guided by Voices is my favorite band, and Robert Pollard, who essentially is GbV at this point, is my favorite living artist, so the answer is yes. Shakespeare’s birthplace, right, duh. Awesome that it occasioned so much fun. I look forward to speaking with you once you’ve gotten some tea in your stomach. ** Jack Skelley, Dude, you made it! I think the Cloudflare monster is starting to die or at least to lose his vice grip. How the heck are you? Hang in here. Your work got referenced in the comments this weekend, I hope you saw that. ** Shane J. Christmass, Hi. You’re being far too humble, sir. ** PL, Hi. I don’t know where my work would be without piracy. I only saw the original release ‘Caligula’, and it was pretty terrible, and it’s hard to believe removing the quasi-porn would fix it, but now I’m curious. I don’t know ‘Belladonna of Sadness’ or ‘Wicked City’ unless I’m spacing out, so I’m not sure. There’s a lot of AI porn floating around out there these days. I’m not sure if that counts as animation — I guess so technically? – and I’m not sure if its effect is sufficiently erotic. It can be weirdly, seemingly inadvertently emotional, which is interesting. Exciting about the interview. When is that happening? What’s the blog? It sounds worth a serious look. It’s fun and kind of a gift being interviewed, or I think so. See what you think. If you need to be pretentious, go for it. Pretentious people can be interesting, or at least in interviews. Cool, happy week ahead. ** Steve, This is going to be a very grotesque day which I intend to avoid like the veritable plague. A Lynchian but not necessarily recognisably Lynchian song, intriguing. Thanks about ‘Lynch/Oz’. I’ll save it for when I’m feeling random and easy to engage. ** Tyler Ookami, Hi, T. It’s true, a lot of the micro-macro animated porn I’ve come across involves the tiny one being stepped on and sometimes surviving by squeezing in between the giant toes. I have seen some, though more rarely, where the tiny one is used as a dildo by the giant or as a sounding device. And then there’s the vore-micro-macro crossover ones where the tiny one gets swallowed or chewed like a stick of gum. I haven’t seen those ‘Starfox’ pix, how curious, I’ll see if I can find some. Thanks! And especially for the linked interview. The intermissions in my day ahead are now spoken for. How are you? ** Dan Carroll, Grr, re: the blog’s cannibalistic tendencies. Mm, I sort of don’t want to go negative on an artist who means a lot to you, because that value is what’s important. I hate having to write about my work, but, yeah, it can be revealing. Anyway, that sounds really interesting. I’m really happy you have that context to work in. Feel more than free to share any experiences that you feel like expounding upon. ** Dominik, Hi!!! James N. showed up yesterday, so I presume you read your thanks and felt consequently thankful. My weekend was mostly just a bunch of business-y stuff getting done. I tried buying and microwaving and eating a frozen pizza and realised why I don’t normally want to do that. I hope Damien was looking in and read that. Next morning we woke, he couldn’t have been a nicer bloke, over breakfast made jokes, about Dre and his homies and folks, neither of us asked if or when, we would see each other again, but I thought that was cool, ’cause I was already late for school, by then, I’d fallen in love, G. ** Muelrath, Hi! Welcome. I’m so pleased that you didn’t mind me contextualising your great piece here. It was a pleasure, an honor for me. Thank you very much for coming in here. I look to reading more of your writing. ** James Nulick, And there you are, the man of the recent numerous hours. I hope/assume you saw all the excellent commentary on your book. ‘RT’ will premiere in early spring, and, as far as actual theaters, I don’t know. It’s not exactly a blockbuster, so we’ll see. Good to see you, pal. ** alex, I hope the back of your knee is peaceful by now and newly and forever more scenic. Sounds good: the tat. Yay about the burst of writing and editing! I look forward to the spoils. Yes, we need a sales agent for distribution and also for screenings and festival showings. Our new producer is great, but he doesn’t know North America at all, and Zac and I don’t have the knowledge or energy to try to set things up ourselves, so we need help, assuming there’s a sales agent willing to work with our strange film. ** Diesel Clementine, Thank you! If you remember your ‘Gold’ question and want to ask, I’m around here obviously. Mr. Skelley! He was here this weekend, so hopefully he saw your good wordage. Lovely to see you. You sound really good, and I hope that persists. ** HaRpEr, Right, about ‘Three Poems’. When I read that as still an aspiring writer, I really think it had a huge ambition-enlarging impact. Holy shit, about the playlist. Wow, thank you, amazing! And, yes, ‘Spanners’ was the record of his that I was heavily into while writing that novel. Even Joan Osbourne, haha. Everyone, the amazing HaRpEr has created a Spotify playlist including all of the songs and music referenced in my novel ‘Guide’, and obviously that’s mind blowing to me, but maybe you might find some pleasure or insight, if you’re seeking any, by listening to the ‘Guide’ sonic lineup. If so, it’s here. That’s so incredible of you, thank you so much, really. I of course am going to spin that and get lost in my memories today. I’m so very happy you liked ‘I-Be Area’. I personally don’t think Ryan can do anything without genius being involved, so enjoy the journey if you do that. Huh, that’s great about Pilot Press and ‘The Orchid Stories’. The unimpeachable press Song Cable brought that out in the US a few years ago, but awesome if it gets over to your neck of the world. Talk about a great, under-recognized writer/poet: Elmslie. ** Callan, Hi, Callan! I’m glad to learn you were piqued. ‘Hard Truths’, not yet. I hear really good things about it. I’m definitely a Leigh fan. ‘Naked’, of course, but really most of this films. I actually really, really love his somewhat uncharacteristic film ‘Topsy Turvy’. What’s your take on Leigh’s films? And on ‘Hard Truths’? Thanks so much for asking. ** Okay. The other day I was thinking about all those big, often dead consumerist behemoths that seemed like such a good idea at one point, and today you get the offshoot/result of that. See you tomorrow.
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Some very Ballardian views here today. There’s a place round the corner from me here in Leeds called the Crossgates Centre that’s becoming a bit like this around the edges. Used to work there as a teen in its 90s heyday before I upped sticks to Scotland.
These days Crossgates is more like a post-Brexit dystopia, although I suspect most of its residents voted that way so it only serves them right in my opinion. Boozing and gambling are the growth areas.
My Twin Peaks rewatch will only involve 1 episode per day. Still quite an undertaking but pretty much doable. On the 3rd episode by now and it’s looking better than ever.
Hi!!
These spaces look so much better abandoned and half-dead.
Yeah, frozen pizza is… very, very far from the real thing. I tried this spinach-and-cheese one the other day, and it didn’t exactly deliver what I was hoping for.
So good, so good! Crazy love is all around me, love is crazy love is kind, but I know somehow you’ll find me, love is crazy love is blind, Od.
Hey Dennis,
Got some compliments from people I sent the Lynch piece to, particularly the editor of the Entertainment section of the magazine, so hopefully it’s good 🙂
The photoshoot/interview went well; I mainly got a lot of friends coz it was easier (plus they all dress up for those themed nights which is what I was trying to showcase), though I need to send on some questions to the ones who organize. Went to bed with a bit of stress about all the random tasks and jobs I need to get done this week, but I’m also trying to see the silver lining which is that I am incredibly productive, something I always used to feel bad about not being. Part of me knows I need to delete all social media and distractions from my phone as it leads me to waste hours in this cocoon state, but it’s so frustrating that so much of the way i contact people is through social media, especially for writing.
Have to do this weekly journal for my Narratology class where I update the lecturer on my progress into the novel Little Constructions and my feelings about the narrative. Gotta send that in the next hour and then get deep into my backlog of tasks!
Hey Dennis. Apparently this new cut is not a censored version, is a whole new movie with not a single frame from the original one. They found the film somewhere and edited it so it could be more similar to the original script by Gore Vidal. There are some defects still, but Helen Mirren is so fantastic that I choose to ignore. I’m surprised you haven’t watched Belladonna and Wicked City… it’s very you. After I sent the message I started to think about hentai, which is porn but there’s no real sex, so I kinda understand why people would call these films softhentai — they have the sex, but they have a story too. Yes, I would say that technically AI porn is animation. There’s kind of a odd phenomenon going on with some incels that can only be attracted by “made up” girls. Including AI and Hentai, more hentai. I think it’s interesting how intensely a drawing can affect someone but it’s a bit sad too how someone can ruin themselves through porn addiction. I personally never liked porn, but I get it, of course. By the way, have you watched The Beast with Léa Seydoux? Great film, the best of the decade I think.
The name of the blog is “Arquivo Blush”. I helped one of the girls that run it with a work about Breillat. It’s very girly but in a nice way. Now that I’m thinking, I may be one of the few men they interview. I don’t know the date yet, as I haven’t received an official invitation. My friend sent me a print of a conversation that he had with one of the girls and she said I’m “on the list*. Since she said “on the list” and not “next” I think it will be on March. It would be nice if it was in February because it’s the month of my birthday. Have I ever told you that me and Matt, my brother, were born in the same day? I was born in his 4th birthday. When I say this to people they don’t believe it, but it’s not like it’s impossible.
Other than eating a lot, yesterday I watched a very beautiful film called “A New Love in Tokyo”, finally made a (mid) drawing, and listened to the Janet Jackson album “Velvet Rope”. I think she’s my second favourite pop singer. You like her?
Great to talk with you
Aw, get in, I love empty shopping centres. While we have plenty dormant shopping places in the UK they’re usually semi-open, just with very few businesses, and they’re pitifully small places anyway – American shopping ‘malls’ that grow empty and revegetated are just on their own awesome level. I so want to explore one of these kinds of places before I die. You could just get up to so much stuff in one. Walking around, for instance, or doing illegal stuff, or going on dates. I like that they evoke kenopsia – that spooky sad feeling one gets from seeing usually bustling places empty.
My nose is dastardly cold, as ever, hey D-Dawg. I do love the internet but I do also love physical books, #ashamedtoenjoycertainmaterialpossessionssorrythat’ssowordlyofme. But what would be really cool… is internet-y books… in a normal physical form. Which is possible. Amygdalatropolis is a popular example, and Sluts has that forum thing going on. I don’t know what’s so satisfying to me about being able to see usually digital formats in a book on paper. May we both be as free of shittiness as arbitrary fate decides x/
It’s okiedokie, unanswered questions have their own worth, as you know. It is *so* grey and still over here, yeesh. Appreciative that you’re appreciative of my being appreciative, naturally.
Oh, joy. Delightful to learn there is ever more paperwork out there in the world. Best of luck with that. Lucky me, not having to worry about Visa stuff.
Grubby chicken shops and brick walls are very much a British thing common in the kind of post-industrial English towns which are all over the shop here, and they make up a large bulk of my town which I dislike so heartily, but talking about how crappy things are is a pretty universal experience for everyone, definitely, regardless of place.
Man, dimensions are mathematical, and maths isn’t my thing T_T I never even really liked using the 3D filter on my 3DS. However, I *do* like those red and blue 3D glasses cinemas have. They’re so stylish.
The Bullet Train film was based off the novel, but the character Ladybug is – in the novel – a black-haired, glasses-wearing, spindly, lanky awkward kind of guy – but in the film, he’s played by Brad Pitt, which just totally clashes with the image I have of Nanao (the actual name of Ladybug) in my head. And doing a little more research, one of the best characters in the novel, this sociopathic teen boy called The Prince who does evil shit just for the fun of it – was made a girl with the bogstandard motive of ‘I’m out to get my dad.’ I’m sure the film has its merits, but, meh, I really liked the book. I don’t think I’ve read a better thriller.
I’ve had Gold Star for Robot Boy stuck in my head for the past few days, and I learnt it on guitar, not that it’s very complicated. Listened to all of Bee Thousand, and a few other tracks here and there, so cheers for some pleasantly musicky music.
Understandably, Stratford milks the fuck out of the whole Shakespeare thing, kind of comically, he’s stapled on everything in that town. My brother and I have this joke where we say ‘Shakespeare famously loved his x,’ the x value being literally any modern item that Shakespeare obviously didn’t have despite Stratford-upon-Avon slapping his name on it. Was a sweet day out, got to drink a mocha and saw a cute guy for a solid like ~7 seconds in the toilets at intermission. Very much awesome! And Hamlet’s on in March, which I’ll be seeing too, woopwoop.
Hullo, several cups of tea consumed and lunch wolfed down. I’ve spent today so far studying and creeping on random Youtube profiles. I’ll do some reading and maybe a bit more studying, since tomorrow I have my first mock exam -_- booooo. Thus begins 6 papers spread over 4 days. Yeesh. See you tomorrow, presuming I’m not so tired and miserable after the paper that I can’t blog it up.
Wow this playlist of the songs referenced in Guide? Ok good company lifts my spirits haha I say hi to the song Brand new love
I am doing better today but I am moodswings village anyway so don’t take me seriously
I went to the pavement blue butterfly like two times today maybe I will do a late afternoon walk around there too
@PL I love The Velvet Rope. Together again is maybe my favourite Janet song? Maybe because I have many
In my book I have a poem called Runaway dedicated to and referencing her song Runaway
In the album The velvet rope, I say it all the time, the song “Empty” is one of the realest songs I have ever heard about online romance. Towards the end when it goes off, I ascend
I wonder how it was received this album when it came out, if it left immediately people shook or if it had sneaky effect because of how deep and forward it is
Exploring the post above as I go out the door for my walk pondering if I will go to the gym or skip and go to the pavement butterfly
Love from Chania
Have to come in to also talk about how much I love Janet Jackson and The Velvet Rope!!
Ha, malls usually more interesting after they’re abandoned and falling apart.
A lot of Twin Peaks on my calendar this week. Also looking forward to the Leonora Carrington show opening at Wendi Norris. We all know what to avoid on this ugly day.
Bill
Dennis yes I randomly tried to comment yesterday and — voila!! YAY ! Thanx for directing me to Diesel Clementine’s comment. I replied. Apparently Diesel Clementine was at the Glasgow art opening by amazitastic writer Daisy Lafarge. Daisy’s show is titled “The Invisible Worm.” She asked me a few others to pen something on the theme. My poem has the same title. All based on Wm Blake poem “The Sick Rose.” Daisy’s latest book Lovebug is science/memoir/theory that is unique yet universal. (Daisy also blurbed Myth Lab!… She also published killer review of Fun To Be Dead book in Frieze. etc etc. Catch up more soon !!! WOW -Jack