“What’s great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coca Cola, Liz Taylor drinks Coca Cola, and just think, you can drink Coca Cola, too. [...]
Archive for February 21st, 2008
“I don’t think about art when I’m working. I try to think about life.”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cats, dogs, pet food on February 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Milton and Sex Education…
Posted in Uncategorized on February 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »
So on the subject of love within poetry, I wanted to offer up this unique and unexpected perspective on sex from the cuddly poet-Puritan, John Milton:
“Whatever hypocrites austerely talk / Of purity and place and innocence, / Defaming as impure what God declares pure…. / Our Maker bids increase, who bids abstain / But our [...]
Limitations and Rakim
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged David is awesome, Rakim, rhymes on February 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Rakim (the first Hip-Hop artist to master the art of enjambment and internal rhyme, thus revolutionizing the genre) once explained his method of creating rhymes. He said that he drew vertical (maybe two or three) lines from the top of the page to the bottom. Each word that touches that line has to rhyme. I [...]
Parts and Wholes
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged burping, philip seymour hoffman, synecdoche on February 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
In my extensive Internet perusing during the week (speaking of, does this speak to anyone else?: http://xkcd.com/214/), I discovered an upcoming wonderfully poetic movie.
It’s called… SYNECDOCHE, New York. You know, like the figure of speech. It’s about a theatre director who tries to create a life-size (!) replica of New York City in a studio.
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Frost on poetry
Posted in Uncategorized on February 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Most people know Robert Frost was a great poet, but few know how incredible his writings about poetry were. Many of his statements have the quality of aphorisms. Listen in:
“A poet must always prefer to do something well to doing people good.”
“It begins in delight, it inclines to the impulse, it assumes direction [...]
