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LJ Idol Season 11: Week 5 - "My enemies are all too familiar..."

encrefloue Nov 04, 2019 15:40

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LJ Idol Season 11: Week 4 - Impossible

encrefloue Oct 26, 2019 13:37

The other day

I spoke with my grandfather-

the one

who died before my birth,

whose

voice

face

name

I don't know-

it wasn't

a conversation

so much as it was

a castigation

sieved through

the unyielding divide

of our languages

of our cultures.

My father

was one of his eight sons

and so I too

learned how to live

with one-eighth of the love

a son is due.

I didn’t learn:

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LJ Idol Season 11: Week 3 - Everything Looks Like a Nail

encrefloue Oct 15, 2019 17:03

Verfremdungseffekt

“Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.”

-Bertolt Brecht, though disputed

The inception of my ill, lusterless collegiate acting career resounded with a squealing trio of syllables dolefully mewled through the wan lips of Boy, a role vitally trivial in this nothing-if-not-earnest production of ( Read more... )

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LJ Idol Season 11: Week 2 - Living Rent-Free In Your Head

encrefloue Oct 07, 2019 18:50

Link to audio: https://drive.google.com/file/d/16_tzuOe3Df8I7-ooA9xnElfXtaRAH6me/view?usp=sharing
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Chloé la close

Là où les ( Read more... )

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