618 | Rob Davie

619 | Jane Mikoni

You could have stayed in Sacramento forever

The current issue of the Paris Review has an interview with Joan Didion.

INTERVIEWER You could have stayed in Sacramento forever as a novelist, but you started to move out into the worlds of Hollywood and politics.

DIDION I was never a big fan of people who don?t leave home. I don?t know why. It just seems part of your duty in life.

underground movies and the vaginal eye

Thank you, Bob Moricz. After a long day helping a friend move, I had high expectations for the Underground Movie Night planned that evening as an opportunity to unwind. Bob and his assembled movie shorts didn't dissapoint.

Arriving an hour early helped; choice of seats, dinner before the show, and a "keep 'em coming" policy on the Guiness pints.

Bob's fuck me/ fuck you self-deprecating style made a show of inevitable technical difficulties. He's such a showman, making even the occasional ear piercing noises that emerged from the equipment seem funny (Ha! Ha! My ears are bleeding!)

Highlights:
It was a real treat to see Bob acting in a film directed by someone other than himself, playing a diabollically hilarious interviewer-from-hell in Jermey Cooke and David Krause's The Interview.

Torreya Cumming's film Eye Contact uses clever camera/mirror play to pull off one remarkably erotic short film. A morphing eye becomes cunt.

577 | Alex Rettie

Finished the design today and sent a .pdf copy of it and the poem guts to Alex.