Joyce Carol Oates blows me away. So did the guy doing the light show at José Contreras’s show at the Tranzac last night using all those old lighting contraptions I saw used like that only once before, in the 90s, at Metro in Chicago. That guy in Chicago apparently did same transparency psychedelics and coloured oil for the Doors. Last night, when I got home I listened to an interview with Joyce Carol Oates. Looking like Shelly Duvall’s old aunt. Says so many true things compelling and surprising, “I don’t think I have a personality” and “the great enemy of writing is just the interruption of others.”