From the Desk of PastaNazi

FinsburyParkCarrots

EvilToasterElf wrote:

I think it does seem more likely to have been gobbled up by a growing music industry which took all the rhyme and meter of the romantics and butchered it with the love of a parent drowning their child.

I'll grant you that there's nothing more cringeworthy than hearing people call Jim Morrison "a poet".

DopeBeastie

olderman...

j, j, j....



heavenly range and acceptable morale... damn you dA mAN!



The only challege I have the energy to exert upon the dominiant ideology is to smile smile smile and to TRY to be the best of me (shiny happy people laughing). Were I more patient, I might be able to write something big enough to push America or the world at large... but I am not. So I write poems for myself and songs for my friends.

Evil, there exists the smallest contention between the poets and the musicians at my open mic. While it's to appear tongue-in-cheek, there lay underneath some sincere concern. I think the poets are jealous because the musicians CAN get the drooling public to at very least, tap their toes. It isn't the art, it's the consuming public, here. HOWEVER, that said... most of the poetry ppl read sux, so. Without a beat, or some serious screaming and yelling BLOOD GUTS GORE HATE ANGST, why the hell would the drooling mass lift their noses from their cappucinos to listen?

I read some of ROT (that poetry book that RadarBabaO'Rielly wrote) at the open mic last night while I MC'd. Then this sweet little 14 year old mormon girl got up, at the urging of her family and read some of the most affectatiously embarrasing poetry I've heard read aloud, ever.

Like, oh my god. You don't call.
you don't call
you don't call
you don't call
I wonder if you care at all?


so.


ok... I'm rambling, lol... back to work.


Keep pushing it, y'all.
lovelove
Rachel

EvilToasterElf

PastaNazi wrote:

olderman...

j, j, j....



heavenly range and acceptable morale... damn you dA mAN!



The only challege I have the energy to exert upon the dominiant ideology is to smile smile smile and to TRY to be the best of me (shiny happy people laughing). Were I more patient, I might be able to write something big enough to push America or the world at large... but I am not. So I write poems for myself and songs for my friends.

Evil, there exists the smallest contention between the poets and the musicians at my open mic. While it's to appear tongue-in-cheek, there lay underneath some sincere concern. I think the poets are jealous because the musicians CAN get the drooling public to at very least, tap their toes. It isn't the art, it's the consuming public, here. HOWEVER, that said... most of the poetry ppl read sux, so. Without a beat, or some serious screaming and yelling BLOOD GUTS GORE HATE ANGST, why the hell would the drooling mass lift their noses from their cappucinos to listen?

I read some of ROT (that poetry book that RadarBabaO'Rielly wrote) at the open mic last night while I MC'd. Then this sweet little 14 year old mormon girl got up, at the urging of her family and read some of the most affectatiously embarrasing poetry I've heard read aloud, ever.

Like, oh my god. You don't call.
you don't call
you don't call
you don't call
I wonder if you care at all?


so.


ok... I'm rambling, lol... back to work.


Keep pushing it, y'all.
lovelove
Rachel

Open Mic is a different animal entirely. I'd be happy to see someone put down Dan Brown and pick up a book of poetry (that isn't written by jewel...ugh) I think it's much harder to write good slam poetry, because it's such an awkward medium in general.

FinsburyParkCarrots

This man was a real poet and a real songwriter. I miss him.

http://www.kevincoyne.de/
http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/features/article332091.ece

DopeBeastie

EvilToasterElf wrote:

...it's much harder to write good slam poetry, because it's such an awkward medium in general.

slam poetry is not for the faint at heart, lol... ack, i hate writing slam! they should shorten them to 35 seconds... holy god, they're like friggin' playwrights! "slam poetry" should drop the "poetry" altogether. not because it isn't "poetry", but because "Slam" it is such a subsect of it, (or because it's art for a grade, i dunno... for fame, or a prize, or a woody, or whatever...)

sowhere'syourstuff steviltoastinshelf?

EvilToasterElf

PastaNazi wrote:

slam poetry is not for the faint at heart, lol... ack, i hate writing slam! they should shorten them to 35 seconds... holy god, they're like friggin' playwrights! "slam poetry" should drop the "poetry" altogether. not because it isn't "poetry", but because "Slam" it is such a subsect of it, (or because it's art for a grade, i dunno... for fame, or a prize, or a woody, or whatever...)

sowhere'syourstuff steviltoastinshelf?

I've been almost entirely consumed with my job search at present, there's a lot ruminating actually that I want to write, but I just can't focus enough to sputter it out. It will come though. I'll tack it on the end of the big thread.

Keep me entertained in the meantime though.

DopeBeastie

allllriiighhht

Astral Star

So apparently Hollywood= giant scapegoat for all of societies ills. Please can someone come up with a fresh entity to blame for the worlds problems?! How about the public for a change? Yeah thats right - the peeps of this planet pulling the cashola out of their pockets to see shity films and listen to canned lip synchers. If and when they refuse to do so then the powers that be get hit where it hurts and take note. Cause that is how capitalism works kids.

I for one have found some compelling, enlightening, and riveting films that have come out of my little town. Too bad the rest of the country doesn't want to see them. I blame the Republicans

olderman

FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:

I'll grant you that there's nothing more cringeworthy than hearing people call Jim Morrison "a poet".

easy fins, easy..

after all, it's only rock 'n roll

hwvr, i must concur that if someone wants to celebrate mr morrison's poetry, they should confine said

celebration to the united nations, yeah...

he was ok. larger in death than he was in life (kurt cobain refrain)..

i still dig lighter than fire and the soft parades escpecially runnin blue.

FinsburyParkCarrots

olderman wrote:

i still dig lighter than fire and the soft parades escpecially runnin blue.

Robbie Krieger wrote those two. That's why.

olderman

FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:

Robbie Krieger wrote those two. That's why.

it's true... from the 'wikipedia' internet page..

Although Morrison is known as the lyricist, this is in fact a misnomer, and Morrison himself was always at pains to point out the significant contributions made by Robby Krieger, who wrote or co-wrote some of the group's biggest hits, including "Light My Fire" and "Touch Me."

wishful sinful (another favorite of mine) was also written by krieger. morrison's main contribution to the band was his vocals and his charisma and his rebel ways. poetry? not. good songs? yes.