Lovers and friends of poets, why do you not realize you're beautiful? Have we not already been down this road? A poet opines about your beauty for hours upon end - regaling you with all manner of accounts which prove testament to your beauty be it inside or outside (often outside), and yet, you do not believe them! You do not know yourself to be ( Read more... )

Has anyone else noticed how aggressively named the slams in MN are? I mean St. Paul is Soap-Boxing, Minneapolis is Punch Out Poetry Slam... this is some kind of ferocious national event we are headed towards ( Read more... )

-After what feels like months of searching I finally acquired Grizzly Bear's Veckatimest from the library the other day. And of course it is just as good as most of the videos and songs I'd checked out had me thinking it would be - but there's something really excellent about being able to not listen to it while the creepy dolls exploding with ( Read more... )

( ...I am still a child at heart. )

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There is so much wealth in Beach Boys catalogue that gets totally ignored... please listen to the section of this from roughly 3:00 minutes to 6:00. Let me know what you think. If you're feeling gutsy go for the whole thing, it rewards multiple listens.

- If I were a bug living here I would use my windsheild as a suicide oppertunity too ( Read more... )

God, did I ever get punched in the face.

It's always struck me as kind of odd that for all the bluster of being the highest level of special defense forces in the United States, the G.I.Joe's base was pretty open to sabotage, with high level Cobra operatives running away from the outskirts of some top-level meeting with all sorts of secrets. Then again, there were a lot of issues going on ( Read more... )

In an effort to do the research for a poem idea I had been tinkering with I watched both Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory and Charlie & the Chocolate Factory, I am convinced that Gene Wilder is the better Wonka, but Tim Burton certainly makes the candy look amazing ( Read more... )

Due to the picking up of a string of "live" albums recently I've been thinking - if, as it is intended to, the live album captures and distills the true essence of a band, can a case be made that bands do not really exist on record until they have at least one live album to their credit ( Read more... )