poems you connected with
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what poems/songs have you connected with on a deep level, or been inspired by?
Smashing Pumpkins- Bullet With Butterfly Wings
Pearl Jam- Jeremy = this song got me to think of lyrics seriocly
Smashing Pumpkins- Bullet With Butterfly Wings
Pearl Jam- Jeremy = this song got me to think of lyrics seriocly
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what, that shouldn't surprise anyone with the WORDINESS that I appear to bring...
JD Salinger. Still writing, only not for you and me. Yes, I love Holden but I love his sister Phoebe even more and I love his character Teddy in Nine Stories the most.
Ken Kesey- specifically One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Powerful Stuff.
Jack Kerouac - On the Road changed my life
Stephen King - So did The Stand, which is still one of the most Human stories ever written
Franz Kafka - You name it, it was incredible. The Penal Colony is extraordinary.
Neil Gaiman - My modern era HERO. This man needs to be venerated. Anything in the Sandman series or Murder Mysteries or either American Gods or Neverwhere.
Ray Bradbury - Still the master of science fiction to me. Fahrenheit 451 is required reading for anyone I know. This means all of YOU.
C.S. Lewis - His Chronicles of Narnia are incredible and I read all 7 at least 4 times a year.
and of course JRR Tolkien - I wonder why.
I could go on all freaking day. LOL. There are many more but I guess this will do. LOL.
why?
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I have to admit, I found Neil first as a novelist with Neverwhere but I haven't read The Sandman yet. i know, *hangs head low* the shame. Good Omens is another GREAT one that he wrote with Terry Pratchett, its a comedy about the apocolypse.
He is brilliant and I don't know why more people aren't raving about him. Ever check out his website? its an interesting place, if you haven't.
And yes, Good Omens is a must read as well. Listen to coleen everyone!
seven: The "wonder why" was rhetorical LOL. I of course mean the Lord of the Rings Trilogy and the Hobbit. I don't see how anyone could read those books and come away unimpressed or unaffected.
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i think the new sandman series is called "endless nights" but don't take that as gospel. a friend had suggested that i check out Sandman when it started, but damned fool that i am, i remembered the recommendation but just never followed it up.
i'm sure its got to be nearly impossible to get the original comics now, but i've heard that there are graphic novels made for bookstores - do you think they'd be faithful to the original or would it be better to try to find the comics?
he's also involved in a few movie projects one with henson studios (two of my all time favorites working together) that should be released next summer i believe and the original Neverwhere BBC series was just released on dvd in august. its kind of kitchy and has a doctor who production quality to it, but its really entertaining...that is if you like that sort of thing, which i do.
If you are wondering whether or not I like that kind of kitchy production let's just say that while I never got to see many episodes, Red Dwarf was awesome and I've been a Python fan for many years... so production values don't bother me as long as the stuff is good. I have heard that the acting in the Neverwhere BBC release wasn't exactly stellar but I'm still willing to take a look at it....
The graphic novels for the Sandman series are indeed fatithful to the originals.
if you can, pick up the one with Midsummer Night's Dream in it and also the Graphic novel called The Doll's House. Those are my personal favorites in the early Sandman stuff from the early 90's. The whole series is still some of the top fiction I have ever read. Period
Also, if you can find it, there was another Gaiman piece done for DC Comics at the same time called the Children's Crusade which comprises of only 2 books but is worth your time... let's see... I believe he also did the original Black Orchid limited series.... which was INCREDIBLE. Check it out.
Which project is he working with Henson Studios on??? That must be awesome. I have to admit there is one, okay TWO other projects out that are exciting me...
1.) The Chronicles of Narnia have been licensed and they are making 5 count em FIVE movies... if they are anything of the production values that LoTR had, they will be MIND BLOWING. And they do have WETA workshop working on them as we speak. YEEE HAAAA...
2.) The Hobbit is rumored to be starting cinematography so that is also quite exciting. I cannot wait.
I have blabbed enough for this 10 minutes. I'll release you to your daily life.
Neverwhere is entertaining for its production value (not so great acting included - thats probably why i consider it to be very doctor who-esque) but I assure you that it is NO Monty Python. So maybe its best then if you skip that one. I have read on his website that Henson now owns Neverwhere (dare i hope?)
Like most kids I grew up watching Sesame Street and The Muppet Show but also loved The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth (David Bowie AND Jim Henson puppets) but I also loved a less memorable endeavor of Henson Studios - The Storyteller - which was their "answer" to Steven Spielbergs Amazing Stories television series. It was short lived but I never missed an episode.
Straight from Neil's website - "2004 will see the release of Mirror Mask, a film written by Neil Gaiman and directed by Dave McKean for the Jim Henson company and Columbia Tristar." Gaiman says that while people describe his book Coraline as a contemporary to Alice in Wonderland that it isn't but rather Mirror Mask is. Seriously if you ever have a chance to stroll over there he does an almost daily blog full of Gaiman's wit, humor, and also a lot of great information about his work as well as other amazing writers, comics, films, etc. The message board also has a section where people post their own writing which is usually pretty interesting and may also be up your alley.
I plan to get everyone of the Sandman graphic novels now that I can be sure they are faithful to the comics, is it important to read them in order? And thank you ever so much for the recommenation on the other comics.
I hadn't heard about the Chronicles of Narnia - now I have one more thing to look forward to. Did you happen to catch the BBC production of it about 10 or so years ago? Much better than Neverwhere to be sure but probably not even close to whats in store for us now.
Excited about the Hobit as well but I have won the babbling title for the morning (probably why i hardly post because i can't say good morning in 1,000 words or less) ;P
Thanks again for the information and its wonderful to finally "know" someone else that as is excited about Neil Gaiman as I am.
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I'm NOT sorry, mark, you can deal with it.
Coleen is much more polite and well mannered than I'll ever be.
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this one struck me first:
THE PRIEST
The priest sat in the airport bar
He was wearing his father's tie
And his eyes looked into my eyes so far
Whenever the words ran dry
Behind the lash and the circles blue
He looked as only a priest can, thru
And his eyes said me and his eyes said you
And my eyes said, let us try
He said, "You wouldn't like it here
No it's no place you should share
The roof is ripped with hurricanes
And the room is always bare
I need the wind and I seek the cold"
He reached post the wine for my hand to hold
And he saw me young and he saw me old
And he saw me sitting there
Then he took his contradictions out
And he splashed them on my brow
So which words was I then to doubt
When choosing what to vow
Should I choose them all-should I make them mine
The sermons, the hymns and the valentines
And he asked for truth and he asked for time
And he asked for only now
Now the trials are trumpet scored
Oh will we pass the test
Or just as one loves more and more
Will one love less and less
Oh come let's run from this ring we're in
Where the Christians clap and the Germans grin
Saying let them lose, crying let them win
Oh make them both confess
Porphyria's Lover
The rain set early in tonight,
The sullen wind was soon awake,
It tore the elm-tops down for spite,
And did its worst to vex the lake:
I listened with heart fit to break.
When glided in Porphyria; straight
She shut the cold out and the storm,
And kneeled and made the cheerless grate
Blaze up, and all the cottage warm;
Which done, she rose, and from her form
Withdrew the dripping cloak and shawl,
And laid her soiled gloves by, untied
Her hat and let the damp hair fall,
And, last, she sat down hy my side
And called me. When no voice replied,
She put my arm about her waist,
And made her smooth white shoulder bare,
And all her yellow hair displaced,
And, stooping, made my cheek lie there,
And spread, o'er all, her yellow hair,
Murmuring how she loved me -- she
Too weak, for all her heart's endeavor,
To set its struggling passion free
From pride, and vainer ties dissever,
And give herself to me forever.
But passion sometimes would prevail,
Nor could tonight's gay feast restrain
A sudden thought of one so pale
For love of her, and all in vain:
So, she was come through wind and rain.
Be sure I looked up at her eyes
Happy and proud; at last l knew
Porphyria worshiped me: surprise
Made my heart swell, and still it grew
While l debated what to do.
That moment she was mine, mine, fair,
Perfectly pure and good: I found
A thing to do, and all her hair
In one long yellow string l wound
Three times her little throat around,
And strangled her. No pain felt she;
l am quite sure she felt no pain.
As a shut bud that holds a bee,
l warily oped her lids: again
Laughed the blue eyes without a stain.
And l untightened next the tress
About her neck; her cheek once more
Blushed bright beneath my burning kiss:
l propped her head up as before,
Only, this time my shoulder bore
Her head, which droops upon it still:
The smiling rosy little head,
So glad it has its utmost will,
That all it scorned at once is fled,
And l, its love, am gained instead!
Porphyria's love: she guessed not how
Her darling one wish would be heard.
And thus we sit together now,
And all night long we have not stirred,
And yet God has not said a word!
Nirvana
"DRAIN YOU"
One bady to another says. I'm lucky to have met you.
I don't care what you think unless. It is about me.
It is now my duty to completely drain you.
A travel through a tube and end up in your infection.
Chew your meat for you. Pass it back and forth.
In a passionate kiss. From my mouth to yours. 'cause I like you.
With eyes so dilated. I've became your pupil.
You've taught me everything. Without a poison apple.
The water is so yellow. I'm a healthy student.
Indebted and so grateful. Vacuum out the fluids.
Chew your meat for you. Pass it back and forth.
In a passionate kiss. From my mouth to yours.
'cause I like you. You! You! You! You! You!
One bady to another says. I'm lucky to have met you.
I don't care what you think unless. It is about me.
It is now my duty to completely drain you.
A travel through a tube and end up in your infection.
Chew your meat for you. Pass it back and forth.
In a passionate kiss. From my mouth to yours. 'cause I like you.
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"Time"
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way
Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun
So you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older,
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death
Every year is getting shorter never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
The time is gone, the song is over,
Thought I'd something more to say
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by Cat Stevens
Well I think it's fine building jumbo planes
or taking a ride on a cosmic train, switch on
summer from a slot machine, yes get what you
want to , if you want cause you can get anything
I know we've come a long way, we're changing day to day
but tell me where do the children play
Well you roll on roads, over fresh green grass,
for your lorry loads pumping petrol gas, and you
make them long and you make them tough, but they
just go on and on, and it seems you can't get off
I know we've come a long way, we're changing day to day
but tell me where do the children play
Well you cracked the sky, scrapers fill the air,
but will you keep on building higher til there's
no more room up there. Will you make us laugh,
will you make us cry, will you tell us when to live
will you tell us when to die.
I know we've come a long way, we're changing day to day
but tell me where do the children play
Jim Carrol
Also, Toad the Wet Sprocket's Amnesia, which is still my favorite song ever.
Overkill, as done by Colin Hay of Men At Work.. his acoustic version gives me chills.
Anything by Cat Power or the Sundays.
Beth Gibbons and Portishead know how to inject their music with a certain dark hope...
The movie "Kafka" with Jeremy Irons.
I will post lyrics later, but I thought I'd get this stuff out now. I plan on coming back to this post many times now that I know the RULES.
Mark you dictator you.
"The Blower's Daughter"
And so it is just like you said it would be
Life goes easy on me
most of the time
And so it is the shorter story
No love, no glory
No hero in her sky
I can't take my eyes off of you
I can't take my eyes off you
I can't take my eyes off of you
I can't take my eyes off you
I can't take my eyes off you
I can't take my eyes...
And so it is just like you said it should be
We'll both forget the breeze
Most of the time
And so it is the colder water
The Blower's Daughter
The pupil in denial
I can't take my eyes off of you
I can't take my eyes off you
I can't take my eyes off of you
I can't take my eyes off you
I can't take my eyes off you
I can't take my eyes...
Did I say that I loathe you?
Did I say that I want to
Leave it all behind?
I can't take my mind off of you
I can't take my mind off you
I can't take my mind off of you
I can't take my mind off you
I can't take my mind off you
I can't take my mind...
my mind...my mind...
'Til I find somebody new
"Amie"
Nothing unusual, nothing strange
Close to nothing at all
The same old scenario, the same old rain
And there's no explosions here
Then something unusual, something strange
Comes from nothing at all
I saw a spaceship fly by your window
Did you see it disappear?
Amie come sit on my wall
And read me the story of O
And tell it like you still believe
That the end of the century
Brings a change for you and me
Nothing unusual, nothing's changed
Just a little older that's all
You know when you've found it,
There's something I've learned
'Cause you feel it when they take it away
Something unusual, something strange
Comes from nothing at all
But I'm not a miracle
And you're not a saint
Just another soldier
On the road to nowhere
Amie come sit on my wall
And read me the story of O
And tell it like you still believe
That the end of the century
Brings a change for you and me
And Amie come sit on my wall
And read me the story of O
And tell it like you still believe
That the end of the century
Brings a change for you and me
"Cheers Darlin"
Cheers darlin'
Here's to you and your lover boy
Cheers darlin'
I got years to wait around for you
Cheers darlin'
I've got your wedding bells in my ear
Cheers darlin'
You give me three cigarettes to smoke my tears away
And I die when you mention his name
And I lied, I should have kissed you
When we were running the reins
What am I darlin'?
A whisper in your ear?
A piece of your cake?
What am I, darlin?
The boy you can fear?
Or your biggest mistake?
Cheers darlin'
Here's to you and your lover man
Cheers darlin'
I just hang around and eat from a can
Cheers darlin'
I got a ribbon of green on my guitar
Cheers darlin'
I got a beauty queen
To sit not very far from here
I die when he comes around
To take you home
I'm too shy
I should have kissed you when we were alone
hat am I darlin'?
A whisper in your ear?
A piece of your cake?
What am I, darlin?
The boy you can fear?
Or your biggest mistake?
Oh what am I? What am I darlin'?
I got years to wait...
"Older Chests"
Older chests reveal themselves
Like a crack in a wall
Starting small, and grow in time
And we always seem to need the help
Of someone else
To mend that shelf
Too many books
Read me your favourite line
Papa went to other lands
And he found someone who understands
The ticking, and the western man's need to cry
He came back the other day, you know
Some things in life may change
And some things
They stay the same
Like time, there's always time
On my mind
So pass me by, I'll be fine
Just give me time
Older gents sit on the fence
With their cap in hand
Looking grand
They watch their city change
Children scream, or so it seems,
Louder than before
Out of doors, and into stores with bigger names
Mama tried to wash their faces
But these kids they lost their graces
And daddy lost at the races too many times
She broke down the other day, yeah you know
Some things in life may change
But some things they stay the same
Like time, there's always time
On my mind
So pass me by, I'll be fine
Just give me time
Time, there's always time
On my mind
Pass me by, I'll be fine
Just give me time
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here's one from the illustrious ms. bjork
Who would have known
That a boy like him
Would have entered me lightly
Restoring my blisses
Who would have known
That a boy like him
After sharing my core
Would stay going nowhere
Who would have known
A beauty this immense
Who would have known
A saintly trance
Who would have known
Miraculous breath
To inhale a beard
Loaded with courage
Who would have known
That a boy like him
Possessed of magical
Sensitivity
Who would approach a girl like me
Who caresses cradles his head
In her bosom
He slides inside
Half awake, half asleep
We faint back
Into sleephood
When I wake up
The second time
In his arms
Gorgeousness
He's still inside me
Who would have known
Who ahhh
Who would have known
A train of pearls
Carbon by carbon
Is shot precisely
Across an ocean
From a mouth
From a
From the mouth
Of a girl like me
To a boy
To a boy
To a boy
we live on a mountain
right at the top
there's a beautiful view
from the top of the mountain
every morning i walk towards the edge
and throw little things off
like:
car-parts, bottles and cutlery
or whatever i find lying around
it's become a habit
a way
to start the day
i go through this
before you wake up
so i can feel happier
to be safe up here with you
it's real early morning
no-one is awake
i'm back at my cliff
still throwing things off
i listen to the sounds they make
on their way down
i follow with my eyes 'til they crash
imagine what my body would sound like
slamming against those rocks
and when it lands
will my eyes
be closed or open?
i'll go through all this
before you wake up
so i can feel happier
to be safe up here with you
Bjork
you'll be given love
you'll be taken care of
you'll be given love
you have to trust it
maybe not from the sources
you have poured yours
maybe not from the directions
you are staring at
trust your head around
it's all around you
all is full of love
all around you
all is full of love
you just aint receiving
all is full of love
your phone is off the hook
all is full of love
your doors are all shut
all is full of love!
all is full of love
all is full of love
all is full of love
all is full of love
all is full of love
...
We don't need no education.
We don't need no thought control.
No dark sarcasm in the classroom.
Teacher, leave those kids alone.
Hey, Teacher, leave those kids alone!
All in all it's just another brick in the wall.
All in all you're just another brick in the wall.
We don't need no education.
We don't need no thought control.
No dark sarcasm in the classroom.
Teachers, leave those kids alone.
Hey, Teacher, leave those kids alone!
All in all you're just another brick in the wall.
All in all you're just another brick in the wall.
and:
"Hey You"
Hey you,
Out there in the cold,
Getting lonely, getting old,
Can you feel me?
Hey you,
Standing in the aisle,
With itchy feet and fading smile,
Can you feel me?
Hey you,
Don't help them to bury the light.
Don't give in without a fight.
Hey you,
Out there on your own,
Sitting naked by the phone,
Would you touch me?
Hey you,
With your ear against the wall,
Waiting for someone to call out,
Would you touch me?
Hey you,
Would you help me to carry the stone?
Open your heart, I'm coming home.
But it was only fantasy.
The wall was too high, as you can see.
No matter how he tried he could not break free.
And the worms ate into his brain.
Hey you,
Out there on the road,
Always doing what you're told,
Can you help me?
Hey you,
Out there beyond the wall,
Breaking bottles in the hall,
Can you help me?
Hey you,
Don't tell me there's no hope at all.
Together we stand, divided we fall.
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"Warning"
Bat your eyes girl
Be otherworldly
Count your blessings
Seduce a stranger
What's so wrong with
Being happy
Kudos to those who
See through sickness
When she woke in the morning
She knew that her life had passed her by
And she called out a warning
Don't ever let life pass you by
I suggest we
Learn to love ourselves before it's
Made illegal
When will we learn?
When will we change?
Just in time to
See it all fall down
Those left standing...will make millions
Writing books on the way it should have been
When she woke in the morning
She knew that her life had passed her by
And she called out a warning
Don't ever let life pass you by
Floating in this
Cosmic jacuzzi
We are like frogs oblivious
To the water
Starting to boil
No one flinches
We all float face down
When she woke in the morning
She knew that her life had passed her by
And she called out a warning
Don't ever let life pass you by
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Jeremy Walter
small penis
to big to hide
in the showers - ( realy connected with this one
&
it was only a
roch until i put my
cock on it
lastly
"The Recipe of Rage"
Fuck you.
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I've got some money 'cause I just got paid
Now, how I wish I had someone to talk to
I'm in an awful way
I got in town a month ago
I seen a lot of girls since then
If I could meet 'em I could get 'em
But as yet I haven't met 'em
That's how I'm in the state I'm in
Oh,
Another Saturday night and I ain't got nobody
I've got some money 'cause I just got paid
Now, how I wish I had someone to talk to
I'm in an awful way
Another fella told me
He had a sister who looked just fine
Instead of bein' my deliv'rance
She had a strange resemblance
To a cat named Frankenstein
Ooh, la,
Another Saturday night and I ain't got nobody
I've got some money 'cause I just got paid
Now, how I wish I had someone to talk to
I'm in an awful way
It's hard on a fella
When he don't know his way around
If I don't find me a honey
To help me spend my money
I'm gonna have to blow this town
Oh, no
Another Saturday night and I ain't got nobody
I've got some money 'cause I just got paid
Now, how I wish I had someone to talk to
I'm in an awful way
Neil Young
I'm a dreamin' man, yes, that's my problem
I can't tell when I'm not being real.
In the meadow dusk I park my Aerostar
With a loaded gun and sweet dreams of you.
I'll always be a dreamin' man
I don't have to understand
I know it's alright.
I see your curves and I feel your vibrations
You dressed in black and white, you lost in the mall
I watch you disappear past Club Med Vacations
Another sleepless night, a sun that won't fall.
I'll always be a dreamin' man
I don't have to understand
I know it's alright.
Now the night is gone, a new day is dawning
And our homeless dreams go back to the street
Another time or place, another civilization
Would really make this life feel so complete.
I'll always be a dreamin' man
I don't have to understand
I know it's alright.
Dreamin' man
He's got a problem
Dreamin' man
Dreamin' man
He's got a problem
Dreamin' man.