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p.s. Hey. ** lotuseatermachine, Hi! No problem, good to see you. Excellent that you’ll be in the new SCAB! I really look forward to reading your piece. I haven’t written poetry in quite a long time now. I seem to have lost my impetus to write poems, I’m not sure why. It wasn’t a conscious decision. It’s just that fiction and films are where all my thoughts are going. Take care. ** Adem Berbic, Cool. Let’s stay in touch and try to work out meeting up. Should be possible, I think. We’ll be scrambling, but hopefully not too taxingly. I think there are quite a few Londoners here on the blog. We’re supposedly going to be knocked flat by a big strike kind of action in France today, but we’ll see. Another big strike supposedly coming on the 18th, FYI. ** jay, Huh, that does sound really interesting. I’ll definitely find it wherever. Cool, thanks, pal. Keep winning, winner. xoxo. ** _Black_Acrylic, My pleasure, of course. Manuel Ferrara looks like a tough French guy with an adopted non-French, presumably tougher sounding name. Enjoy the colloquial reciting. ** Dominik, Hi!!! Absolutely no doubt there. Yeah, 10 days, more or less. So far Chicago seems to have remained sufficiently hospitable, but I’m eagle-eyeing the news. Will do on the action. I’m still waking up, but it does sound a little unusually quiet outside. Love trying to answer his own question by positing that it’s because she’s comfortingly intellectually bland, the opposite of aesthetically challenging, white, attractive but not intimidatingly so, stays as apolitical as she can without coming off MAGA, canny enough to accurately guess what white people who want to hear music that makes them vaguely feel things want to hear and feeds them that, and for other reasons in that general area, G. ** Sarah, I think you’re right. ‘Room Temperature’s’ life so far is going well. We’re happy. We’re looking for opportunities in New York. One possibility just fell through this morning, so we’ll keep hunting, and we’ll find something. But, yeah, NYC is a must. It has to happen. organ bank press, cool, noted. Oh, shit, I’m so terrible with email. Hopeless, really. I just get lost, I’m so sorry. I’ll go hunt that email down and get the pdf today. Two novellas! Great, really exciting! I’ll go get the pdf and get started. No, I mean yeah, getting a book published is a real mix. I hate asking people for things. It’s really not in my nature but I have to force myself. With the film right now it’s constant seeking help to get it out. I just try to go into machine mode about it. But, yeah, I don’t think that part ever fully goes away, but of course with time and more work being public, you do have to do it less. Concentrate on the exciting parts! You have a book coming out! That’s what matters and is amazing. All the gruntwork will fade away. ** Steeqhen, I had a boyfriend in the early 70s who was obsessed with Joni Mitchell so I ended up seeing her play a bunch of times, and it was hell, haha. But then I dragged him to see weird stuff like Captain Beefheart and early Roxy Music and so on, so I had my revenge. Enjoy Scotland. I’m surprised that London seems affordable. It’s much more expensive than Paris, which always surprises me. ** Minet, Hi! Oh, mutual thanks then. The Google Forms thing sounds fine. I’ll get to it as soon as I can. Really, thank you! Cult following! Me too. Cult followings are the best. That’s so exciting! I’m so happy for you! ‘Prayers’ that it’ll get into English at some point, of course. ** julian, Hi. There don’t seem to be any signs that the festival its going to get cancelled. So far at least. I think that part should be okay, knock on wood or its equivalent. ** Carsten, I think my favorites are probably ‘Ice’ and ‘Route One USA’. Yeah, I head to the States next Tuesday. The traveling aspect is stressful pre-trip, but I’m excited to show the films and see what happens and meet/see people. ** Steve, Oh, nice. Everyone, Steve has posted Robert Kramer’s last film ‘Cities of the Plain’ on his Internet Archive channel, so you can watch it gratis and very easily. Do that here. So far it looks like the festival is on course to happen, so I’m not worrying too much about that. We’ll see. Uh, I think we travel to Toronto from Chicago on the 23rd, but it’s not totally set yet. ** HaRpEr //, Me too about the new Pynchon excitement. I’ll check your Substack today. When my fiction started getting to the point where I felt like I was in control of it and of what I wanted it to do with it I definitely regretted having published things that weren’t good enough and wondered what I was thinking when I let them be published. So the answer is yes, I guess. ** Uday, Thank you for the email. I’ll go look for it. I’ll wish you a Wednesday that provides a stockpile of interesting magazines then. ** Right. Today’s post thoroughly indulges whatever degree of OCD the blog possesses, and you are its recipient for better or worse. See you tomorrow.
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hi dennis!
upon seeing the title/theme of today’s post i immediately thought “there’s going to be bouncing breast gifs isn’t there?” and i was right. i have a collection of horny gifs/images that i use in my sex work (it’s basically sexting/phone sex but i also use images/gifs/videos as well). i saved the anime breast bouncing gif (where she’s got the guy in a headlock) and the anime panty shot gif. for the record i also saved other gifs as well like the team fortress 2 heavy gif. thank you for sharing them!
thanks! i hope you enjoy my scab magazine piece!
i’m somewhat similar in that i’ve lost my passion for poetry as well (both reading it and writing it). i’m much more interested in prose nowadays. not sure why either.
Hey there Dennis!
Thanks for the advice that you gave about writing. I can get into some head spaces where I feel compelled to write something even if there isn’t the enthusiasm. Lately I’ve been taking things easy on myself and engaging with the art that’s around me. Most of my time has been taken up listening to music. Some artists in particular are David Berman’s work in Silver Jews and Purple Mountains. His particularly observant and at times debilitating prose has really fascinated me. Additionally, the album The Sunset Tree by The Mountain Goats has taken up the majority of my listening. It reminds me distinctly of how I engaged with the household I lived within when I was younger. I’ve really come to love it in recent years.
Beyond that, I’m continuing my first viewing of Twin Peaks: The Return. I’m particularly drawn to the fixation of death and how its characterised as brash or removed of the sentimentality that so often is seen in Lynch’s work. It exists in spots, but it’s overwhelmed by a world that proceeds to contradict it. If you’ve seen the season, do you have any thoughts on it?
Hope things are well for you!
Vengaboys – Up & Down was a big Euro hit back in the late 90s and I’m sorry to have to share it with you. If ever anyone insists on getting nostalgic about that time and place then a few seconds of this tune ought to put them right.
Boing-boing-boing — I would like to be in a bouncy contraption now, but unfortunately I’m on an un-bouncy train. I’ll drop you an email Friday-ish to touch base, but count on me having basically no plans or obligations from Sunday onwards, I think. Off the back of my writing, James recommended me the book ‘Babyfucker,’ which, hum, maybe a risky choice for an avowed Sotos fan, but it sounds up my street. I’ll look for a PDF in advance of the Glasgow train. Give Zac my bounceless hugs.
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Eureka Seven! The anime that started it all for me, but not super popular even after all these years. Love today’s post! Reminds me of my physics lecture on elastic and inelastic collisions. When you make these posts, do you gather all the gifs in that moment or are these gathered throughout some time and then you decide to make a post later?
I’ve been looking at online places to buy used copies of your books. Is there a reason for some versions of ‘The Marbled Swarm’ he looks straight out and in others he’s looking down to the side? I couldn’t find anything about these different versions. Also is ‘God Jr.’ out of print? I found some really pricey copies.
Still haven’t gotten my windshield fixed, now I’m just procrastinating. I also almost didn’t go to the concert on Monday, but I’m so happy I decided to go last minute. Sunny Day Real Estate sounds amazing live and their opener Cursive was a fun discovery! I’ve been dealing with bouts of hopelessness and it’s funny because every time I manage to get myself out of bed the day after crying for 24 hours, I always have the most ridiculous series of events. Today every single possible road situation to cause traffic that could have happened happened.
Anyway I’ve decided to learn html/css because I had an idea for a personal website so that’s been fun. I hope your week’s been well so far? If I don’t comment again by the time you leave for your trip I wish you the most fantastic of trips! Much love to you, Dennis!ଘ(੭*ˊᵕˋ)੭* ੈ♡‧₊˚
Hi!!
Yeah, I’m checking the news from time to time as well – about both Chicago and France. From afar (and I really don’t know which sources I can believe at this point), the strike seems like a pretty heavy thing.
Love is probably absolutely right. She was supposed to have a show (or maybe a double show?) here last year, which was canceled because of a bomb threat, so grieving fans flooded the inner city, organizing random “Swiftie” meetups and activities. I really felt for them.
Love finding himself in a Halloween mood and wondering when the first Halloween post of the year will land on the blog, Od.