Smart! Thank you very much for voting for my track/s. I’ve had a very good year as usual, although it was very intense, getting on a really big roll, writing new stuff constantly, really looking forward to isolating myself next year even more! Hope everyone has a totally boring New Year’s party, overdoses on everything and chokes on their own vomit on the bathroom floor, make sure you lie face down just before you pass out!
Signed, Pritchad.g.kraymes.

The newly translated collection of Thomas Bernhard’s prose, aptly titled Prose (Seagull Books – August 15), should be anticipated as a major literary event (or at least as a book to celebrate). Whenever readers of the future want to recommend a Bernhard to start with, I hope that it will be this one. It’s possibly the most deranged, compact and dangerous performance I’ve seen Bernhard give, a performance somehow polyphonic within Bernhard’s singular voice that’s always, to often brutal and hilarious effect, dashing behind itself only to expose its weaknesses again and again. Here Bernhard is a tightrope-walker like no other. And, of course, the translation is gorgeous. More soon.

On Kickstarter, even though I don’t really like Troma movies this looks great: Movies of the Future With Lloyd Kaufman: A Movie About an Underground Film Icon.

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The winners of the Robert Lopez Kamby Bolongo Mean River contest are: amelia, jim r, magicmike, moga, elizabeth, ryan mcdonald. Winners, please send your address to the htmlgiant addy to claim. Thanks to all, and sorry for the delay…

Tao, when you are 73, I hope you get arrested for shoplifting from American Apparel: Seniors. (And I mean that with the greatest affection.)