not the first time i have watched it

wanted to share with you my tears. you said you cried and you said you felt heartsick you weren’t in it. this is a pointless email because all i want to say is how much i loved the film. i cried and cried especially at the end. i found baldwin’s narrator so especially emotional. what an incredible film. i was awestruck that owen had contributed to writing the film. this is so silly me writing this and if i wasn’t drunk i would surely delete it but let me say this

i love your blog. i love about it (three things because i used to play a 3 things positive game with a lovely girl)

1. it’s so honest, that may or may not be a confabulation/deliberate construction but i don’t care (if it is a construction then of course you are a genius and as gwyneth say’s such words are not used lightly)
2. got me listening to bjork after your isobel piece when you were singing whilst doing your hair
3. food pornography, music pornography (amp in your recent piece where you are posing a recent example) and your own sweet pornography (sweet in a nice way i think) but also i sort of thinkk you and px are lovely and also i guess i associate with it and your life a it i guess

actually i hate that list but it will have to do, i have vampired your blog for so long without giving anything back.

raymi, i have never voted before, but hopefully, sober tomorrow, i will vote. i also loved your pieces of diary inclusion. especially when you were in england. i identify with your loss of the best towel ever and in my own mind miss it a bit. it is hard to let such losses go.

if i may go back to the royal tenenbaum’s, it’s richie who kills me, and as you loved gwyneth paltrow, i think i thought the same of ritchie. doesn’t he look fantastic as he cuts away. anyway you are over this i guess and i am lame but i am drunk and so fuck it. what a movie. major resonance for me is the father dislocated.

raymi, please keep up the good work and i imagine for everyone who bothers to give you the energy back there are a thousand or so workers who are happy to be observers. if i may appropriate your energies, in a way i think you do it for us.

love steve
xxx000

p.s i have four copies of my home produced record “robot songs” left. can you give me a postal address so i can send you one. plus i attach here a tribute to the departed sleater kinney.

Raymi:

I have been thinking about you a lot lately, and thought I would say a couple of things.

First, congratulations on the art show. You deserved every piece of publicity you got, and everyone who bought a piece of art from you got lucky. The hose guy was my favourite, but someone beat me to the bid. I hope you keep making it.

Second, your writing has been killing me lately. It’s hilarious and brilliant. I write nothing like you, obviously, but I am taking a fiction writing workshop right now, and I cannot help but think of the way you write. I just love the way you describe things. It is a mixture of hilarity, profanity and randomness that I sometimes try to emulate, but at which I never really succeed.

(That is all.)