PJ Poetry Press... are you in? Or what?
setaside2
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Hey there all...
Was wondering, you know, somewhat, if, you know, any of you might be interested in doing a published project together? A group effort?
Put this poetry in some leather, heather. Who knows? It might get some backing, we could even sell it through the 10C store or something. It may even be (GASP) a good time.
I don't know. The idea came last night at about 3:30 in the morning. I wasn't drunk but I was tired enough that it made no difference, my sobriety. But I thought it had at least SOME merit.
Whatcha say, whatcha say, whatcha say WHAT?
seta
email, pm, or post. hee hee LET ME KNOW.
yes, that would be ANOTHER ultra smiley. I find myself addicted. He looks SO happy and yet... somewhere... I think he just plain farted.
Was wondering, you know, somewhat, if, you know, any of you might be interested in doing a published project together? A group effort?
Put this poetry in some leather, heather. Who knows? It might get some backing, we could even sell it through the 10C store or something. It may even be (GASP) a good time.
I don't know. The idea came last night at about 3:30 in the morning. I wasn't drunk but I was tired enough that it made no difference, my sobriety. But I thought it had at least SOME merit.
Whatcha say, whatcha say, whatcha say WHAT?
seta
email, pm, or post. hee hee LET ME KNOW.
yes, that would be ANOTHER ultra smiley. I find myself addicted. He looks SO happy and yet... somewhere... I think he just plain farted.
I'm stepping in front of the gushing hydrant in a hurricane. I'd like to see the traction I keep.
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See I'm just the idea guy, I'm always hoping someone will come along and say "Brilliant!" and do the work for me... LOL
No no no.
I think it could work. The most difficult issue would, at first, be trust. Who's got the desktop publication software to put it all together? Would it just be Adobe Photoshop or Pagemaker or Quark or what? And can we trust them with our life's work?
I don't KNOW yet. I suppose I should learn to post my thoughts after I have woken up,
Of course, now that it's been brought up, we all take a risk posting on this board. Someone could come in, copy, paste, and have their "own" little book of poetry in NO time. So an interesting dilemma.
sigh. I'm digressing big time. How USUAL.
I'll see you all in a bit
seta
http://www.myspace.com/alotalotbetweenus
okay then we have... sevensins... which sounds interesting if you read it aloud.
I need a couple days to figure out how we might go about doing this.
Maybe I'll set up an email addy just for the poetry and I'll start archiving it. If you all have photos that you might want to go with your poetry, that might be cool.. I will probably be doing that since photog stuff is my game as well...
AAAAGH! I DON'T KNOW!
hungry. must eat.
http://www.poetism.com/copyright.htm
I'm happy.
Sorry I'm late.
I'm in like flint on this.
Sadly, my imbecility to desktop publishing methods prevents any new ideas. Heck, I cna bareely tyypppae. I have come up with a preliminary list of requirements, though: poets, poetry, and lightsabers. That's all I got so far.
Perhaps we could bring in the Art Wall people to illustrate parts of the book? Do we want to relegate it to poetry, poetry, spam, spam, poetry, and spam? Or do we want poetry, spam, fiction, spam, poetry, picture, fiction, spam, and poetry?
There are several online book publishers who could handle meshing our stuff into book form, but do we want a third party involved? Of course, there are fees to be considered if we do that.
My feeble services are at your disposal.
where did that phrase "in like flint" come from? Of course I realize that it is a modern cliche, one with the greats, but my etymology fails me in this case... wait... wait...
okay I found it... at least, it's original form...
in like Flynn adj. phr. by 1940s perhaps from US Army Air Corps.
Accepted; acceptable; belonging to a select group; = IN "Are you in or out right now?" "I'm in like Flynn. Didn't you notice the picture on my desk?"- Art Buchwald (origin uncertain; perhaps merely a rhyming phrase; perhaps associated with the sexual and other exploits of the actor Errol Flynn)
The Abridged 2nd Edition of the Dictionary of American Slang. Copyright 1998
by Robert L. Chapman PhD.
I LOVE OWNING THIS BOOK. YOU ALL MUST GET ONE.
hee hee. You wouldnt believe the words and quotes and cliches that they have in here. It's sweet. Things as far back as the 1300's.
I don't know. I think that it would be just as easy/difficult to do it as a group onliine as it would be to set up a group offline... All it takes is some moderate ability in desktop publishing and a decent eye for art...
We'll have to see. Let's see how many more people want to get in on this... Although I'd say we have enough to make a good start right now.. LOL I wasn't ready for it yet.
seta
Thanks for the etymology edification. I used the phrase in recollection of James Coburn's 1967 film "In Like Flint". I had presumed the phrase was a reflection of how Flint, Coburn's character, was able to deceptively infiltrate the enemy's secret resources and exploit them. Either way, I'm in like James Coburn's character in "In Like Flint".
Also, no need for Pearl Jam themes.. heck even the BAND doesn't use Pearl Jam themes... that's what makes this forum section the best of them all... it's so intensely personal, and so beautifully varied, it's like reading a new bedtime story every night.
The only need for a Pearl Jam thread base on the book would be merely because we all met here. I have written a great deal of PJ inspired poetry in my day, especially back in high school when 10 was released. And you know what? It was all crap. it was crap that meant something, but it was crap. I keep it around for nostalgic reasons, and that's all.
No, I think that we could all do it under our screen handles or under our actual names... legally it would be easier under our actual names. And I think it would be a damn good book. LOL
Just my .02 which you all know...: I just cannot keep my mouth shut around here.
seta
People scoffed at Columbus when he told them world was round.
People scoffed at Darwin when he explained his theory of evolution.
and Luke Skywalker scoffed at first sight of the Millennium Falcon. "What a piece of junk!" he sneered. Well, Luke, that piece of junk distracted Darth Vader from blowing your Force-sensitive ass up.
how about......smile mankind,were alive
( poems of the pj message bord)......no thats sucks
someone come up with something better
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I actually quite like that. Gives hope.
even thought no one has read mine and made any comments
(sniff)
guess ill settle for a lifetime of anonimity then
or NOT!!
INTER-FUCKING-MISSION!!!
Newcastle-Riverside 02/22/92!!!
E.rutherford New Jersey 01/06/06
Athens -Greece.survived !barely-
Wembley 18/06/07- no words- just smiles!
This is a great idea. And don't worry, I posted poems on the old board & nobody commented--it doesn't matter if writing it made you feel better.
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Funny you should mention that...
We have been in contact with the management office on a couple of occasions concerning the PJ Fest, including, hopefully, tomorrow, as the next gen letter has been sent to them fully updated.
A book thing would be something that we would have to set up on our own time, I suspect, and would then be pitched as a final product; either to the 10C or to PJ themselves (which is more likely). I am not entirely sure that the band has a want or the ability to get involved with a book project at this time. It would be time consuming, to say the least. The biggest advantages if they did that would be:
1.) they have the money to front for production costs... we don't have that... yet.
2.) they have the big name that could get the book into the limelight and really help out whatever charity (ies) we chose with better sales and therefore better non-profit dollars. That's, of course, after the Green Disease works its charms on the publishing agency and all THEIR people, who will get paid regardless. For books, it's always a PORTION of the proceeds going to charity.
We should talk to the folks on the art board as well and see if they would like in on this. I have had two people tell me that they would love to do it already, so we should let them know what kind of thing we are looking to do and see what they have to say.
LOL it'll be like going across to the dorm in the middle of the night and doing an abstract panty raid of ideas. i LOVE that.
and my dear SCAT CAT. I don't have ANY idea what the heck you are talking about. I love you all the same though. PM me if you are willing to share... or perhaps it is that my brilliance is of the type that even I cannot comprehend it.
But I doubt that. hee hee.
seta
INTER-FUCKING-MISSION!!!
Newcastle-Riverside 02/22/92!!!
E.rutherford New Jersey 01/06/06
Athens -Greece.survived !barely-
Wembley 18/06/07- no words- just smiles!
http://www.myspace.com/alotalotbetweenus
I'll forgive your ignorance before I forgive your spelling
Spam is a meat-like concoction, kinda like a dog turd. It's sold in cans. It's actually a form of spiced ham, hence the name: spam a/k/a SPiced HAm.
The term also applies to unsolicited junk e-mail.
The reference of spam used in previous posts derives from a Monty Python comedy sketch. I trust you've heard of MP? They did a hilarious diner sketch where the waitress reads of the menu for a customer: "We've got eggs, spam, sausage, spam, and bacon. We've got spam, spam, spam, eggs, spam, and sausage." Etc. The customer asks, "Don't you have anything that doesn't have spam in it?" to which the waitress replies, "Spam, eggs, sausage, and spam doesn't have much spam in it." And then the sketch kinda fizzles out after that.
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