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''It's too early yet,' thought he, glancing at the hairdresser's cuckoo-clock, and seeing it was only nine.' -- Gustave Flaubert

'God does not play dice with the world. Yet there is now abundant laboratory evidence that unpredictability reigns supreme at the atomic realm. Newton’s majestic clockwork has been replaced with a cuckoo clock cosmos, hooked up to a random number generator.' -- Albert Einstein

'I wind my way across a black donut hole / and space that clunks. / Once I saw on a stage, / as if at the bottom of a mineshaft, / the precise footwork / of some mechanical ballet. / It was like looking into the brain / of a cuckoo clock and it carried / some part of me away forever.' -- Elaine Equi

'Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.' -- Ernest Hemingway

'Wouldst thou be taught, when sleep has taken flight, / By a sure voice that can most sweetly tell, / How far off yet a glimpse of morning light, / And if to lure the truant back be well, / Forbear to covet a Repeater's stroke, / That, answering to thy touch, will sound the hour; / Better provide thee with a Cuckoo-clock / For service hung behind thy chamber-door; / And in due time the soft spontaneous shock, / The double note, as if with living power, / Will to composure lead, or make thee blithe as bird in bower.' -- William Wordsworth

'Somewhere a cuckoo-clock, having struck between twenty and thirty, became the echo of a street city, which now entering the mew gave Quid pro quo! Quid pro quo! Directly.' -- Samuel Beckett




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Cuckooland Museum
Black Forest Clocks .org
The World's Largest Cuckoo Clocks
Cuckoo Clock World
Cuckoo Clock Nest
Edible Gingerbread Cuckoo Clock with Internal gears
Cuckoo Clock Hospital
Cuckoo Clock @ Facebook
Cuckoo Bird Sounds




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'Do you want to make those fairy tales come to life, which you might have heard in your childhood days? Well, not all stories can come to life, but the Wildermann cuckoo clock for sure gives the feel of a fairy tale. This wall mountable cuckoo clock is a bizarre mix of modern tech, with it's red LED display, and old world materials and craftsmanship with the cut wood in the shape of wood forest creatures.'-- this next






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'This interesting project by French artist Stephane Vigny, is a combination of a cuckoo clock and a giant loud speaker. When the bass is loud, the largest speaker on the bottom is released on a hinge-mechanism and catapulted into the room, retreating back to the cabinet when the sound softens.'-- Make:






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'The Long Now Foundation are taking a much longer view than next year, or even the next hundred years. They're building a clock into the side of a mountain in Texas which will run for 10,000 years. The 200-foot tall clock is being built on a piece of land in the Sierra Diablo Mountains, in West Texas. It will tick once a year, with a century hand that advances once every hundred years and a cuckoo that comes out once each millennium. Carved into the mountain are five room-sized anniversary chambers; the one year anniversary chamber contains an orrery showing our solar system's planets and the Earth's moon, in addition to all of the interplanetary probes that we've launched during our first century in space. The orrery will run an automatic animation sequence once each year.'-- Gizmodo







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'Struggling actors in Hollywood have a new way to lose their dignity. As part of a new cereal promotion, a 66-foot cuckoo clock has been unveiled in Los Angeles featuring actors in costume as the cuckoo bird, or, in this case, shark.'-- CNN






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'Designer Chris Dimino created a cuckoo clock themed after Stanley Kubrick‘s classic The Shining. Dimino was challenged to create a cuckoo clock in which the clock itself, the cuckoo motion, sound, and the pendulum capture a moment in time fitting these elements to a concept. The solution was the classic moment from The Shining in which Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrance comes crashing through the door wielding an ax. The clock mimics the moment from the film, and every hour Jack breaks through the door and the famous line “Here’s Johnny” plays followed by a scream by Shining co-star Shelly Duvall.'-- Slash Film






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'Dubbed the Nooka Cuckoo by designer Hannes Grebin, this concept cuckoo watch features a digital, Tamagotchi-esque bird that appears on screen to delineate the time. And indeed, its mixture of an angled roof and rounded bottom seems to merge modern design trends with the iconic bird house clock of yore.'-- Yanko Design







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'With themes ranging from violence, to death and even sex, these extreme cuckoo clocks by German artist Stefan Strumbel exaggerate the traditional cuckoo clock with elements of urban art and pop art. Five years ago he decided to stop painting graffiti and concentrated on his art. Strumbel’s clocks, which are based on traditional models but are adorned with grenades and handguns instead of rabbits and antlers, now sell through Galerie Springmann in Freiburg for $1,200 to $35,000 each.' -- Trendland








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'Wind these guns like watches with a key that’s stored underneath the barrels, and when they're “fully loaded” use your thumb to pull back the safety levers. Then squeeze the triggers. What emerges is not a bullet but the tiny bird, no larger than a cherry pit. It rotates around its own axis, flaps its wings, shakes its tail and moves its two-millimeter beak. It even sings. (Unlike the cuckoo in a clock, it doesn’t tell time.) On May 20, not one but a pair of identical singing-bird pistols, estimated to sell for 20 million Hong Kong dollars to 40 million Hong Kong dollars for the pair (US$2.5 million to US$5.1 million), will go on sale at Christie’s auction of watches. These pistols, which date back to roughly 1820, are attributed to the Rochat brothers, Swiss artisans who pioneered the art of mechanical singing birds.'-- Coocooclocks.org







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'The very first cuckoo clock is attributed to Anton Ketterer of the village of Schönwald who added the famous cuckoo to his clocks in 1738. It is possible that the rooster clocks were Ketterer’s inspiration. It was certainly easier to make a clock go “coo-coo” than making it crow, but it still must have been difficult to develop the mechanism to do this. Ketterer’s answer was the same gadget that is used today; twin bellows that send air through small pipes like a pipe organ. By this time, clockmaking had become widespread in the Black Forest, and folks began to specialize. Some cut gears, others carved the decorations or made the cases, and still others did the painting. Many cuckoo clocks in the 18th and 19th centuries were painted with elaborate scenes on the front of the case. According to one source, in 1808 in the town of Triberg, 790 of the towns 9,013 residents were involved in clockmaking.' -- Salem Clock Shop







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'This screenshot shows a cuckoo clock located in Jacques Renault's (character) cabin in David Lynch's TV series Twin Peaks. When the clock strikes the cuckoo's call is heard but the bird does not emerge and the doors remain closed, awakening Sheriff Truman's (Michael Ontkean) curiosity. After he opens its little doors several chips fall down, one of them is a notched chip from One-Eyed Jacks casino/brothel, providing another clue to Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan).'-- Cuckoo clock in culture






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'Dave Fleisher's 1937 "Pudgy picks a Fight", an episode of the Betty Boop cartoon series, undoubtly is the most inspired of the Pudgy cartoons, the nightmare sequence centered on a cuckoo clock being particularly imaginative. Its theme of guilt and imagination running away with it would be revisited by Disney in Donald’s Crime (1945) with equally impressive results.'-- animationreview.com






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'In Roman Polanski's first short film The Lamp (1959), a doll maker works in his shop in waning winter light, a kerosene lamp beside him, a jumble of dolls and doll parts, whole and broken, surrounding him. There are noises, too: a cuckoo clock chirps the workday's end. The artisan completes a repair and leaves, shuttering the shop from outside. Back inside, whispering begins. What else is in store for the shop's seemingly lifeless denizens?'-- IMDb






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'Certainly what is most interesting in this Tex Avery's short cartoon The Cuckoo Clock is its rare immersion in a dark and Gothic universe more associated with the psychological dramas of the previous decade (a mansion, a tortured main character) as with Poe's short story in which is informally based. Avery's tone of course is more subordinate to the generic conventions of the cartoon universe of its time, as shown by the fast reorganization from its uncommon prologue to more usual clichés of the cat-search-a bird in a Sylvester-Tweety style.'-- nickmovie






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Zack Lerner 'Cuckoo Clock' (2006)






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'The Raven (voiced by Mel Blanc): A raven who lives in The Munsters' cuckoo clock and repeats the word "Nevermore." When the raven occasionally makes smart alecky remarks, Herman throws objects at him. Sometimes, the raven will come out of his clock, but often only for short breaks, or to flee when frightened.'-- retroland






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'Bananas in Pajamas is an Australian children's television show that premiered on 20 July 1992 on ABC. It has since become syndicated in many different countries, and dubbed into other languages. The main characters are two humanoid bananas named B1 and B2. Other characters include three teddy bears named Amy, Lulu and Morgan, and Rat in a Hat. The bananas, the teddies and Rat in a Hat all live in the same neighbourhood, a cul-de-sac called "Cuddles Avenue". The show was performed using human actors in elaborate costumes, in the style of the British Teletubbies or Tweenies. In the show's early days, the voices of the bananas were provided by the same actors as were inside the costume, but the original actors eventually gave up that aspect of the show and substitutes manned the hot, stuffy costumes.'-- AnimationXpress






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'In Rupert of Hee Haw (1924), Stan Laurel as the king has been helped to his feet by the smallest guard you can imagine (Sammy Brooks, a real-life midget actor) in an act of duty. The sound of a cuckoo clock triggers a rather unnecessary reaction from him and he forcibly shoves the tiny guard to the ground by pushing the palm of his hand into his face. It's both cruel and funny at the same time!'-- Another Nice Mess









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'This is truly the mother of all cheaters — the female cuckoo bird will not only raid the nest of her warbler neighbor to steal eggs, she then leaves her own eggs behind to replace what she just ransacked. In a true testament of nature vs. nurture, despite being abandoned, the baby cuckoo bird is just as much of a con artist as its birth mother. Thanks to incubating an egg similar in appearance to the other warbler eggs, the baby cuckoo bird blends among the other chicks and is therefore treated and fed like one of the family. You'd think with the baby cuckoo bird's rapid growth (we're talking 10 times the size of its foster mother!) the warbler would finally take notice that something is amiss.' -- Animal Planet






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'"The Cuckoo Clock" (1932) is a song for piano and vocal by Thomas Griselle and Victor Young. It was recorded in 1934, performed by the soprano Rosa Ponselle and conducted by Andre Kostelanetz.' -- allmusic






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Dr Acula 'The Cuckoo Clock': 'I'll shank you real ol' fashion style for the win / that shit is vintage / like us now? / i'm sick of your status quo / your so god damn literal / your kind is a dying breed / like us now?'-- lyricsmode






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'One song that totally stands up for me is "Cuckoo Clock" by Rachel Sweet, one of the Stiff Records mafia in the late 70s and a total Midwestern American girl. Yes, despite the fake British accent on this one. I think it rules. I wish someone besides The Mr. T Experience would cover it.'-- Detailed Twang






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'Video Game Music is Pretty Neat (HQ) #23: Lumines, the excellent and addictive puzzler for PSP and PS2 has had some excellent music as a core part of its game play. Series sound leader Takayumi Nakamura has released a few albums of the music. Opening with the serene “Cuckoo Clock”, telephone dials, electric piano and clock chimes are integrated into break beats that roll off your tongue. It’s a very well choreographed piece and one that sets you nicely into the world of Lumines.' -- Higher Plain Music






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The Beach Boys 'Cuckoo Clock': 'We knew it must have been late/ (Tick-tock, tick-tock) / We had no time to wait / (Tick-tock, tick-tock) / I went to light the fireplace / (Tick-tock, tick-tock) / I planned it all this way, and / (Tick-tock, tick-tock) ... ' -- songcoleta






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'American composer Morton Feldman intended Madame Press Died Last Week at Ninety as an elegy for his piano teacher, Maurina Press. I must say that the charm of Feldman's music usually escapes me, but this is a highly poetic four minutes. A cuckoo clock continually strikes over a slowly shifting texture of block chords, to evoke an innocent, almost Mahlerian vision of eternity.'-- Classical Net Review






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'The Monks' rhythmic attack is intact on "Cuckoo." It's the lyrics and vocals that strike one as eccentric. Burger's vocal opens the tune, swiping a page out of some outlandish Beach Boys' songbook. He nails high notes that no male, unless he's a castrato, should be able to hit. Johnston's monotonal singing voice tells an odd story about somebody stealing his pet cuckoo. During the bridge, fuzzed-out guitars and booming drums remind the listener that, yes, this is the Monks. Then, Burger reprises the chorus, jarring the listener back to unreality.'-- Liberal England







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'What is the horror film about an evil cuckoo clock growing insde the walls of a house that takes over the minds of the family living there, all but the son?' -- Anonymous

'A few months ago I was watching a 50's black and white movie where a possessed demonic clock is trying to kill a housewife and/or ruin her marriage. The clock is a wall style cuckoo clock with a feminine voice that makes the dog lay in the doorway so the wife will trip over it and break her neck. Anyone know the title?' -- Katie

'Does anybody know the title of the movie that has the evil cuckoo clock that attaches itself to the fireplace and starts to cause glitches in time, as well as turning the father and daughter of the new family into evil versions of themselves? I think the clock turns the entire house into a cuckoo clock?' -- Ry

'I'm looking for the title of a film that is famous (infamous) for a scene where a young girl is raped by a demonic cuckoo clock? Can anybody clue me in?' -- George

'Can anyone tell me the name of this movie a friend of mine told me about where an evil witch claws out of the vagina of some chick and there's a cuckoo clock where the bird is replaced by a tiny human head that belches blood when it strikes the hour? I think maybe it was Italian?' -- Avra
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p.s. Hey. ** David kelso-housman, I'm a number one son too, or the oldest sibling at least, although I'm pretty sure that I didn't do the duties which that position assigned very well. I'm sorry to hear that about your mom, D. I hope the x-ray and new pain meds helped do the trick. ** Allesfliesst, Well, Yury is kind of a little guy, but he does swim regularly, and he is, yes, Russian, ha ha. I'll go find your jello experiments on FB as pronto as possible. Exciting, seriously. I asked Gisele about Vinge/Muller. She said she hasn't seen the work, but she knows of it and has seen documentation, and that it's probably the work going on right now that she most wants to see. She says their work hasn't been seen in France, as far as she knows, but she and I are going to lobby the theater/ performance curator at the Pompidou to try to bring them over. He probably knows the work or of it, and it would seem to be very up his alley. ** Ratty St. John, Hi. Yeah, totally, about how the internet has helped make hopefully glorious fetishists and 'freaks' out of people who might have remained timid and roiling inside in the non-good old days. Well, I guess we're still roiling inside, but at least we have fuel, and those of us who are lucky enough to be artists get to exfoliate our roils in public in good company, if we like. I wonder if that sentence sets some kind of record for most usage of the word 'roil'. I've read the Saunders and the Denis Johnson book, both excellent, but I haven't read the Bolano. I haven't read any Bolano, isn't that weird? The hype is kind of putting me off trying him for some reason. I keep waiting for the Bolano mania to die down, but it isn't, so I think I should just go ahead and stop being such a wuss. Do you write fiction? Well, the line between poetry and fiction is a thin and often useless one, but I guess I mean, do you write things that you consider to be fiction? ** David Ehrenstein, Nice Scott Walker FaBlog. He should be impeached just for having the same name as the great Scott Walker. ** Tosh, Hey, Tosh! Oh, man, it's cool, don't worry, I understand. It was really nice just knowing you were here in the place we both love. Another vote against 'Melancholia' by another great man! I'm feeling less and less alone. Awesome that the LA Cinematheque is moving into such high gear. I think ours is about to do the whole Tim Burton show/retrospective that was at LACMA recently, so yours definitely wins for the upcoming moment. ** Stephen Tully Dierks, Hi, Stephen. Great, I'll keep my eyes very peeled for the piece of yours on HOUSEFIRE. That roundtable discussion thing sounds really interesting too. HOUSEFIRE has turned out to be a really great, increasingly crucial place, no? Anyway, yeah, thank you, man. It's always really a pleasure and honor to see you here. ** Pisycaca. Montse! I'm so happy to see you. Oh, your wonderful post is launching this Friday, tomorrow. Sorry for the late notice. I was going to write and tell you, but I've been in crazedville lately. I'm good just, well, crazed. Oh, the final, firm line-up for 'Teenage Hallucination' should be posted later today or tomorrow finally. I updated it a week or so ago with many but not all of the dates and times, if you didn't see it. Give your little dog a head rub for me, if he or she is into the head rubbing thing. Love from me! ** Hyrule Dungeon, Hi, J! Thank you for thinking of me at such a highly appropriate moment. I did read ATTA. I thought it was very, very interesting. I'm going to do a 'loved' thing about it in the next recently read books roundup post. I definitely recommend it. You good? What's going on? ** Kyler, Hooray! I, of course, will have to wait until later on to get to read it, but ... Everyone, the fine writer, d.l., and human-shaped connective tissue between us and the realms beyond/ around/ etc. us aka Kyler has a short fiction piece called 'The Loneliest Man On Earth' newly published and readable online at ASHE JOURNAL, and I think this is the first chance that folks around here have had to read Kyler's writing, so it's a momentous and warm occasion, and please do yourselves big favor by taking advantage of it by going here. Very cool, pal. ** Rewritedept, Oh, you sent me the question, no wonder. My email box is often a sad mess of languishing mails. Was it a big salad? I can only kind of eat huge salads for dinner. I like my dinners to weigh a lot. Actually, the 'French cheese is bourgeois' idea is an American slant. Cheese is really cheap here, so everybody can eat great cheese if they want. There's probably a cheese here that tastes like tillamook, but they don't call it tillamook. A cooking show post would be awesome. I wonder how many people here would be willing to go to the trouble of filming themselves cooking and then uploading the videos to youtube. It seems like a lot to ask maybe. But it's a genius idea. Maybe even two or three people would do it. That would be enough. Or even one person. You're not giving me too much to read at all. Don't give that a second thought. It's cool for me/us, and if it helps you too, that's very cool. Yeah, I guess I would go ahead and sing all of those lyric possibilities and just spread 'em out. All right, the care, and later, man. ** 5strings, Hey. Godard's good. Well, he's a lot more than just good. Big oeuvre there. Where to start? Hard to say. 'Pierrot le Fou'? I never could stand Sammy Hagar. He's like a cross between Ted Nugent and Jimmy Buffett or something. I think when I was a kid I was totally apolitical. I remember getting to come home early from school on the day JFK was killed and being all very cool with that and my mom stopping me in my tracks and yelling, 'What are you so happy about!' *slap* I hope your day is happening big time. ** Alan, Yeah, it does feel like that at HTMLG this week. Very nice way to put it. I kind of wonder whether the Megan Boyle thing isn't what inspired Blake or Gene or whoever to lock the doors. I think you're right that there's one guy out there somewhere who does nothing all day every day of his life but post comments there under various screen names. Thanks again so much for yesterday! ** Postitbreakup, Hey. Oh, that side effect sounds kind of, yeah. Like writing a novel. Like writing a great novel that gets bad reviews. Or something. Your link didn't work, but I think I got the idea of what to expect, ha ha. I can't even remember the last time I threw a party. I don't like parties very much at all, much less throwing and being responsible for them. Uh, the last party I can remembering throwing was for Kathy Acker when she came to LA one time, which tells you how long ago it was and how infrequently I do that. It was nice, not too wild, not too boring. Lots of people. Kathy was happy. ** Matty B., Hey. Yeah, that comments disappearing thing is a weird phenomenon. Sometimes I'll check in on the comments randomly and see a comment, read it, etc., and then when I check again later, it has completely disappeared. Oh, you've met Richard Cheim? I'll bet he's cool. He seems so, and his writing is awesome, obviously. ** Steevee, Yikes, Sorry to heart about the freakout but happy to hear that it flew right by. Link, great, that was fast! Everyone, the masterful thinker/scribe Steevee has just interviewed the great documentary filmmaker Frederick Weissman about his new film 'Crazy Horse' over at Studio Daily, and you can and really oughta read it, and here's how you can. Greatly looking forward to it, Steve. ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi, Ben. Oh, so it sounds you did hear from Generator, albeit maybe vaguely? PIPA and SOPA are a complete and total nightmare, obviously, but, from what I'm seeing, I think the outcry and protests have pretty much killed them dead. Still, yeah, it's important to be vigilant until they're not only dead but burning in hell. I'll pass on your thing and check it out myself later. Everyone, please read this important open letter from the great Yuck n Yum zine to the world about the PIPA/SOPA debacle. Thanks. ** Ken Baumann, Ken! Mm, okay, good, then wherever my curiosity leads me, whether further inwards or in a reaching-out direction, I'm very glad to know that your happiness will prevail. Very cool about the book cover, and for such a cool thing on top of that. Obviously, I'm mucho excited for the Higgs/Butler/Place thing. I assume you've already got your hands on the Sean Kilpatrick. I just ordered it. Way excited. Lots of excitement over here. ** NipperDog, Hey. Photoshopped escorts are maybe sort of like escorts wearing leotards, and leotards are sexy, or I think so. Yeah, 'The Wild Boys' is kind of a head scratcher, and, yeah, that's part of its excitement factor, or it was for me. See what you think. ** Paradigm, Hi. Yeah, same here about Amazon making foreign books more affordable than the beloved local bookstores. Interesting about the b&w and color thing in your novel. Yeah, yeah, that rings a total bell with me. Very interesting. I'm very curious to see if when HTMLG's doors reopen, there'll be some kind of group hug initially, or whether the usuals will rush back to, say, the currently locked post asking whether Blake Butler or Tao Lin is the better writer and immediately fill it with pent up snark. Good writing to you, man. ** Chris Goode, Hi, Chris. Ha ha, yes, simultaneous blemishes. We'll make them play three card jimmy with only two cards. I certainly relate to the having to talk about something that is supposed to do all the talking or none if it so chooses. Ugh, that must be really weird and hard to negotiate, especially in this situation. You know what I try to do if journalists allow, which they usually don't because they eat and expel meat: extenuate and/or illustrate the thing's charisma. Anyway, ugh again, and good luck fending off and with Time Out today. Well, Jonny's already done that bucket of water trick with you so surely using me to do it again would serve no one's better interest, yes? I still want to read there, long story short, although perhaps I'll bring along my umbrella microphone. Jonny has grown his hair out, or did. It looks good. I'm being interviewed on film today for a documentary about queer zines by the guy who made that recent Burroughs documentary, and I really needed to get a haircut, and my room is a psychotic looking mess, and he's insisting that he needs to film me in my room, and oh no. ** Misanthrope, UK TV is different than European TV. For one thing, they have a lot more comedies. The French famously suck at comedy barring Tati and a few other rare actually funny people, and yet they're proud like French people are, so they don't like other countries' comedies that much either, except for, you know, Woody Allen and a few others, so French TV is kind of serious, although the French are pretty good at being light-hearted, so that's something. The worst are those pop up ads that slip and slide across webpages evading your arrow for as long as they can. Those are evil. Bieber isn't even 18 yet? See, I didn't know that. Wow, you and Sypha are such total pervs! ** Chilly Jay Chill, Safe trip, Jeff. Man, concentrate on the work you need to do. The post will be awesome, but don't stress it if it's a thing too many. Kate Valk = god. Inspired listening? Mm, no, I've been way too busy and needing to avoid distraction. Because I'm The Writer, I have to write all the press/promo texts for all the Teenage Hallucination events and shows, and it's harder than it sounds, and the deadline is today, and, yeah, I'm having to stick to concentration-friendly silence at the moment. What about you, though? Any particularly good sounds? ** Statictick, Man, Jimmy's tough. You guys are certainly an interesting tough guy couple. It's very romantic, although that's easy for me to say since I don't have the physical fallout part. Questions about Minus? Mm, I don't know what you mean or I am spacing out, but, of course, feel free. ** Chris Cochrane, Enjoy, enjoy, enjoy! ** Frank Jaffe, Hey Frank! Dude, a post is yours. In fact, I insist. It'll be a boon for here, and, if it's a boon for you, awesomeness! Send me stuff whenever you're ready. I was the same way about 'The Skin I Live In'. I mean Almodovar is great, and there was a lot of cool stuff in it, but I didn't think it was one of his best, and usually he wins me over re: the implausibilities and huge plot holes in his films with his style, but this time I noticed them and they bugged me. I mean, it was nice, but I didn't love it. Veggie tempura, huge fave of mine. I haven't had it in ages. I'm gonna find some. Yum. I did ask Yury about Oribe. He knew of it, and he said he has never tried it himself, but he said that it's very well regarded by people in the field, and that it's one of the favorite products among top professionals. So, he was impressed. Hope you got good sleep. French air very moist today but a little less chilly. ** Bill, Ha ha, that's true, isn't it? How are you today? ** Chris Dankland, That's the spirit and thinking about any rejections. It's true. Oh, mm, let me think on that ebook recommendation request for a day. I'm getting a bit fried, and I have so much work to do today, and I have to preserve my brain's cells, but I do know some ebooks I like a lot, and I'll make a list. No, I don't know 'Cat Soup'. Hm, interesting. I'll check that clip/link when I get done with my appointed shit later today. Thanks! Do you know the anime 'Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space'? It might be my all-time favorite anime. Totally weird and great. Emil Cioran: hm, yeah, that is even better. Ellen Degeneres? Whoa, I have to think about that one, ha ha. ** Bollo, Hey. Most of his photographs were porn/erotic ones. I think I said this already but, before he died, he was mostly known for his photographs, which is pretty weird considering how amazing his writing is, and now everybody's coming around on his novels, which is, you know, great, but, you know, bad on the timing front. ** Jeff, Hey! Thanks a lot for the French Black Metal tips. See, I don't know those bands at all. I'm so behind. I'm okay, just kind of very fried and overworked at the moment. I've heard really interesting things about that Tito Purdue. Let me know what you think. Reggie Oliver is new to me. I'll follow that link, and thank you even more. Excellent books are on the way to you, top to bottom, I say, That Teratologen is really something. Okay, man, gotta zoom out of here but it's great to see you. ** GAYUMBOS E-ZINE, Hey! How nice to see you! Your blog is looking super sharp, I must say. Everyone, for your delectation, GAYUMBOS E-ZINE. Take care! ** Okay, I'm done. I hope you like the post today. I kind of especially like it. I shouldn't have said that, though. Never mind. Just be yourselves with it, and all will be well. See you tomorrow.

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