Arnon

Yes Arnon, and you can find someone better, Angelina would be a second choice ;)

A serious question: Did you met John Malkovich?

I would be interested to see you half-naked between the sheets. But I'm not sure I am considered the average person.

John Malkovich too, by the way.

Mieke

This is quite a thing to say, did you give it a serious thought.?

Arnon

So that's why it didn't work out between us. I look too much like Angelina Jolie.

david

Use the search function on this site and your question will be answered.

Mieke

If I make love to Dens’s sister you can definitely watch, if you promise to be silent and please don’t shout instructions. I hate it when the peeper shouts: “Do this, do that, go down on her, touch her ear etcetera etcetera.”

Margot

Now you know. Are you able to forgive me?

I would just like to say...

I would go see any movie featuring John Malkovich half-naked 5 times, Angelina Jolie or no.

Arnon

Can't find it, maybe Mieke will explain?

To Pefko

I ask this with much empathy.

Are you mentally challenged?

http://www.arnongrunberg.com/blog/446

Flor

Five times 1/2 does not add up to one.

Pjotr

Thank you very much, in 2007 i didn't read this blog, but i see you did!

To awnser your question: What do you think yourself?

What's wrong with Angelina Jolie? Who's your type then.. John Malkovich? ;-)

No just kiddin'. I mean if she's good enough for Brad Pitt, why not for you?

Just for the record: "Great actor, but not someone you want to see half-naked in the sheets next to Angelina Jolie." ... is strange way the movies marketing works, but it works that way after all I guess guess

Remindings

Probably not a word, but a word that came up.
This blog reminds me of a femme fatale (Marilyn Monroe, Kim Basinger, Uma Thurman?) who said, i quess during an actress performance: ' i'm everybody's type.' Angelina Jolie is able to say this easily in my opinion. To you also, Arnon.
From my remindings now, i'd guess it was the actress playing Angel in the comedy King Pinn who said this. Don't now her name, not the time too look this up right now, but anyhods... if she came on too you, she would be your type for at least a short while!

If you'd do my sister, you'll have to be quick. She's looking for a house to buy with her boyfriend; We all know what buying a house means, don't we.

David

Pjötr asked kindly if you are having problems using the search function on this site.
Apparently you do.

I think John Malkovich would be perfect next to Angelina Jolie.
I think Arnon Grunberg, as an actor, would have been ideal to perform as Bob Dylan.

David

I have given it amplius thoughts. I mean it.
As I stated here before, I consider Arnon to be a very sexy man.

Arnon

Only if you keep sending me dresses. J-man has my size.

Arnon

I'll think about it.

Bernard

Arnon would make a great Hamlet.

Make-up artist

I would never say yes to Brad Pitt.

@Mieke Dutoit

Neither would I. ;-)
Not sure about Angelina though..

Dear Mieke,

I understand that dreaming about blogger A.G. half-naked takes all your attention,
but did you see I left a message for you in the lobby?
Or are you already finished with you discours on art and communication?

yours,

Eric

Arnon

I would prefer a search option that shows the inside text.

Mieke

You are right, Arnon is a very, very sexy man.

I like it

For me a bedscene with Angelina Jolie and John malkovich would work perfectly.

Dens

I don't want to be your sister's husband, I want to be her lover.

about Angelina

Are those her sizes she has tattooed on her arm, or what her E additives and vitamin count is?

david

Please, contact Sander.

Arnon

I will.

Arnon

Arnon,, there's plenty to read on Angelina's body. Een if she's only HALF-naked, almost a short novel. If a woman with a novel written on her skin isn't your type, who is?
Frank

Mr. Arnon

Clearly you've never looked at houses with your companions. The search for a good house is a painstaking search for the relationship. Is this it? Is this the way I would like to spend the rest of my life. Is this the person I want to do this with?"

People on the search for a house are the easiest victims for casual lovemaking. This doesn't mean I encourage you two to engage in lovemaking, I choose to believe she is asexual, but if anything, you'd make the pain more bearable.
It would, however, mean that I could never read anything of you ever again.

Dens

I think you underestimate the impact of having children together.
A house you can sell, or leave or burn, with a child it’s something else.

Dens

Is your sister a literary type?
Please tell her that in the world of love I consider myself a (delicious) side dish. She can keep her main dish, and if she feels like living in one apartment, or one house, with her main dish she should do so.
But please tell her that I’ll be her side dish forever.
And she should realize that, she is old and wise enough, that a main dish often needs a side dish to blossom.
She can also tell the waiter: Serve everything at the same time.
I’m open to that kind of meal as well.
For the time being I will consider your sister a strawberry sorbet.

Margot

I'm not your pimp, and neither is Johannes.

Dens

Don't listen to Arnon, as you know, sometimes you regret ordering the side dish or sometimes you regret ordering the main dish and in the end you regret both of them.

Arnon

I look upon you as an appetizer.

Eric

Any new angle is welcome.

Dear Mieke

Well, if you don't mind I would like to dwell a bit longer on the angle you proposed.
If I understood what you wrote right of course.
But your the one that should tell me.
If you rather dream about blogger A.G. just tell me and I won't bother you with this anymore.

best wishes,

Eric

To all

If you want the real taste of Arnon , I created a new cocktail yesterday;
Grunberg follies.
2 cl of wodka: strongwilled as he is.
2 cl of Picon: to add a little bitterness; this gives depth.
4 cl of passionfruitjuice: standing for his engagement.
Add some sugar
8 cl of champagne: sparkling, like his character.

Arnon

Did you have to think a whole day to come up with that one?
I understand it's your ambition to sound like Scarface, but please don't rub it in.
We all know the world is yours. Enjoy it.

Dear Eric

You, wandering in the world, your name suits you well, how do you look upon death? Do you have an equal clinical approach? What are you so much attracted by Bacon? Do you think his paintings are about death?
Sincerely.

Mieke

Be careful, Eric is a very sensitive person.

Dear Mieke,

my approach clinical.........
you really think so?

The painting of Bacon attracts me because of the immediate horror I feel when looking at it.
It attracts me because the image is disturbing and disturbing things are often fascinating.
It attracts me because it doesn't look like a painting of another author.
It attracts me because the painting gives the impression that you feel the energy with which it is painted.
It attracts me because I like the colors.
It attracts me because I don't really know what is happening in the painting.

If this painting is about death, you ask me.
Didn't cross my mind yet.
How I look upon death?
My own death, a violent death, genocide?
What kind of death do you mean?

But -I ask again- did I give a good summary of your reflection on D. H.?

Yours,

Eric

Dear David Manos Pefko ,

An interesting remark you have there.
Out of curiosity:
What makes me a sensitive person?
And why does Mieke has to be careful?
You think she's not capable of handeling sensitive persons?

(While listening to Beethoven op. 18 no. 1)

yours truly,

Eric

Margot

Try Mieke's cocktail. It might cheer you up.

Dear Eric W,

First of all, why the change in ‘W’ instead of your full name? I don’t know if it’s fictive at all, but it’s a strange change.
I see you as a very sensitive man, a man who can’t handle silence, especially when it comes to questions you ask on this blog.
The way you write, the way you begin and end your post gives me the feeling of a very sensitive man.
Mieke is very direct in her writing, and i was afraid it would scare you a lot.
I must say you made your point saying she is only busy with mister Grunberg, she fantasize of sharing sheets, she even creates cocktails specially for him. It’s like an unhealthy obsession. (But witch obsession is healty..)
And no, i don’t think she is capable of handling sensitive persons.

Beethoven op. 18, very nice and very good for a lonely afternoon. I like the one performed by the Takacs quartet the most, but not the old recordings; the new Decca ones.

Best regards,

David

David

I might surprise you how capable I am.

Mieke

I can't wait

David

"I don't think she is capable of handling sensitive persons."
Do you think I am not sensitive?
I feel like injustice is being done on me. Did I say something to offend you? It's not that because I am outspoken -from time to time- that I am insensitive.
I wouldn't say I am obsessed by Arnon, I still think it's a healthy addiction, one who makes me laugh most of the time. I was merely saying that I would be interested in seeing Arnon in a movie in wich he appears half-naked between the sheets. I fancy my imagination a lot.
I have also taken the habit of writing down my ideas, some of them are useful. Better to do this ,then letting them disturb my mind.

Mieke

I can’t lie that i got that feeling, i am free to let you know, but it doesn’t sounds so nice, I agree, and its maybe unfounded if i just say this to Eric W, without explaining why.
A lot of your posts have a very ‘insensitive character’ and if they are sensitive than they are to Arnon and not to others.
I read your response to Eric and thought: ‘insensitive’
Ok, maybe I must take ‘obsession’ back and replace it for ‘healthy addiction’
If your thought disturb your mind, why write them down? (I wanted to write that they can be disturbing to others, but that’s not the case)

Dear David,

To answer your first question: it happend by accident.
It might be a strange story, listen:
Some months ago I wanted to write a comment on this blog and for this I was asked to sign in.
The website didn't recognise me as a regular visitor.
I typed Eric W. instead of Wander; a habit when I write friends.
I wanted to use the delete button, but I pressed the accept button.....
..........So there you have it.
I have no idea to what degree it is strange, but if you say it's strange I believe you.

What gave you the impression I can't handle silence, if I may ask?
I consider silence an important thing you know.
I spent a lot of time with it.

Then I have to say that I don't agree on the 'directness' of Mieke.
I actually think that she is everything but direct.
And also everything but 'insensitive'.

yours,

Eric

P.S. The Takács Quartet, very good. I agree.

"Pee on what you can't fuck or eat"

Philosophy of the dog. In your case, a cute poodle with a sharp bark. Sometimes, we all behave like the dog does. You even did it with a certain style (I'm imagining that white poodle lifting his leg gracefully ).

calisha

Pee? Fuck? Poodle? Eat?
There is no reason to expose yourself as a vulgarity.

David

I'm afraid Eric is the better psychologist of the two of you. I recognise myself more in his description, maybe this is due to the fact that he is around longer then you are. Still I don't take it too serious. If Arnon would tell me this, then I would, because I think he does know me the best.

Dear Eric

Bacon's horror in his paintings too remind me somehow of destruction. That's why I made the link with death. Sometimes it's almost as of his pictures decompose before your eyes. Very frightening if you ask me. But for me he also tells stories about the dark side of human psychology.

Sorry, if my answer is a bit short, but I try to limit my contributions to this blog to half an hour a day.

Dear Mieke,

Short answers are fine.
Nicely said "as of his pictures decompose before your eyes".
But are you not the one who "tells stories about the dark side of human psychology" when looking at the painting?

with friendly greetings,

Eric

Mr. Arnon

My sister isn't a literary type. Well, she reads books and likes reading them, but she hates the books I recommended to her. So I stopped doing that. She once said that the story is better if I tell it, reading it spoils everything.

I'm not sure if she's into side dish. I've never considered her to be an eating type. But maybe I'll tell her about your offer. If time is right.

(On the backcover of the Dutch version of McEwan's Atonement there's a picture of McEwan on which he resembles a lot like you, Mr. Arnon)

Dens

Does your sister have an eating disorder?

Mr. Arnon

No, I don't think so.

Dens

I must have misunderstood you.
Are you saying that your sister is longing to be my main dish?
Does she believe in monogamy?
It's possible to believe in monogamy without being a monogamist.
Please send pictures of your sister to Johannes at your earliest convenience.

Dear Mieke,

it's quite tiring: asking you a question.
If your thoughts on communication in art resemble your idea of communication with me, I think I get an idea what it's about.

Eric

Eric

I admit, I have difficulties with ongoing conversations, mine are most often very short and superficial.
So, you want to know if maybe I amprojecting ideas in the painting that weren't put there by the painter. I am aware of that fact, it is possible, at the same time it is my conviction that with a good piece of art ,the piece transcendents the meaning that an artist initially put in to it. You can read more into it then the artist was aware himself wqhen he created it.

Mieke

Wel my dear Mieke, I didn't expect an answer anymore.
So it *is* a nice surprise there is one.
Thank you for this.

I do agree that *you* can read more into a work of art then that the artist was aware himself.
I even think that what you read in a work of art can have nothing to do with what the artist was aware of himself when he created it.
And I think that someone can enjoy a piece of art because of the fact the painter uses dots and lines.

What you said about the Damien Hirst box: that it's about death and a reflection on art.
Did you read that somewhere, or is it your own feeling when looking at the box?

yours,

Eric