I came over here to work on a model to photograph for the model maker. But was distracted by champagne, beer and liqueurs.

Now we’re waiting for Jonny to get here. We’re transferring video from Skye’s external drive to elise’s. Making of footage for them to peruse in preparation for the film. We’re also listening to horoscopes.

Han writes from Cannes:

“films we’ve acquired at cannes so far:
Entre les murs (the palme d’or winner)
La vie moderne (Modern Life, Raymond Depardon’s beautiful and poetic doc)
Mermaid (the Russian Amelie, Sundance Best Director 2008)

“the post-cannes shit is killing me.”

And in other news, I sold De Chirurgie, the antique book that an investor gifted us. It went for $1,000, which was very exciting at first this morning, but then I went to Excel to add that to the raised budget section and saw that I already had it in there for that amount, on the assumption that it would sell for no less than $1,000. So, well, that part of the budget is now officially covered, not just wishful thinking, but it doesn’t resolve my issue with the additional moneys Alex and Keturah added to the budget last week.

LOL

Marcella and I had a good day yesterday.

Jonny got in to SF last night. We’re about to meet for breakfast and plan out our weekend here. Then tomorrow we drive down to LA.

Tonight we’re meeting some of the SF crew to hang out. I might go over to Berkeley early to make a model of the space out of cardboard. Susan found a model maker it appears. Now I need to get him detailed views and plans. This model will be the first move towards that.

Jonny and I also hope to make it over to The Headlands Center for the Arts to meet David, who has a residency over there right now.

And I finished Jared Diamond’s Collapse a couple days ago. I’m re-reading Postproduction by Nicolas Bourriaud.

I surrender at the frontier
Of dawn
A re-discovered love letter for instance
My understanding of his ghost goes thus:
Her box is being opened again
A kind of courage only happens in the opera

I discover but then I escape
Escape from the shadows of unknown memories
Grayer than gray
Grayer yet than November
I’ve had the afternoon tea for hours
Sitting still like a mysterious sculpture
Or, I happen to be that mysterious one



Birth (Jonathan Glazer, 2004)

Today I’m at Marcella’s selling books and jewelry. I have a handful of art books I kept back when I got rid of all my stuff. We’re putting most of them on Marcella’s Amazon store. Others we’re putting on her ebay.

The jewelry I received from my mom years ago. She went on a QVC credit card binge for awhile. I’ve given most of it away to friends, lovers and children over the years. But I still have a few pieces. Of those I’ll sell a couple to help pay for Disembody.

Below are jpegs and links to the items in case you reading this want to support us indirectly…

Nobuyoshi Araki, Tokyo - Marketplace of Emotions

Francis Bacon - Portraits et Autoportraits

Irina Ionesco - Nudes

Jeff Koons - SFMOMA Catalogue

Lorenzo Lotto by Jacques Bonnett

Odd Nerdum - Paintings

Handbook of Rubber Bonding (this it turns out is the most valuable of these, selling for $250 on Amazon used. Here’s hoping we get close to that.)

Shingu - Message from Nature

Ralph Steadman - Scar Strangled Banger

Thierry Mugler - FashionFetishFantasy

Joel-Peter Witkin - Joel-Peter Witkin