Comments for Belched Words

Comment on I don’t know if this is actually cool or not… by gofigure24

gofigure24 — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 19:52:26 +0000

Very interesting…….somehow I find it quite intriguing.

Comment on 50 Cent weighs in… by gofigure24

gofigure24 — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 01:06:30 +0000

I guess I agree. At times, I write my poems at the last minute just so I can turn something in. But I believe that if you work on something for too long, no matter how good it is, your still going to hate it. Take for example, a term paper that you have been writing all semester. By the time it is due, you end up hating what you wrote and you turn it in anyways! So I do agree that writing short, sweet pieces of literature can be good improve your skills but writing long pieces of literature, to me, just ends up driving you crazy in the end.

Comment on Mmmm…tastes like burning! by Tiffany

Tiffany — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:50:22 +0000

I would have to disagree that Pet Sounds is, in any way, underrated. In addition to that random survey you cite, it’s #2 on Rolling Stone’s list of the greatest albums of all-time, preceded only by Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club. And if you meant that it’s underrated by our generation, I also believe that these amazing bands–the Beatles, the Beach Boys–continue to be listened to and worshipped by people of all ages. Rightly so.

Comment on Drugstore by Josh Bell by tymassey

tymassey — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 06:58:31 +0000

ok, this blog system for some reason is not a intuitive for my brain. i’m annoyed that i have posted new post before but cannot figure it out right now. anyways, i have something to say so i will just post it in a comment:

last night i watched great expectations (a movie made from the book by charles dickins)—which is one of my all time favorite movie (you should alllll watch it, immediately)—here was the first line that stuck with me, made me think:

“i’m not going to tell the story how it happened, i’m going to tell it how i remember it”

that’s true in its own way, and maybe it’s really the only way we can tell a story. what do you guys think?

Comment on Drugstore by Josh Bell by tymassey

tymassey — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 06:53:04 +0000

gah. i forgot how to log in. annoying

Comment on Diatribes and Simon & Garfunkel by inherentlysillysquirrels

inherentlysillysquirrels — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 02:13:19 +0000

orsbon, awesome song. I love s and g and ive never heard of this. this is pretty obvious, but its funny how this song sort of leads into “sound of silence”, the duo’s smash hit. “and the sign flashed out its warning, in the words that it was forming, and the signs said the ‘words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenement halls’”. “sound of silence” was released first, so its almost as if paul simon wrote “sound of silence” and then decided the graffiti on the subway walls needed further explanation.

Interestingly enough, my poem for tomorrow (as well as my last dialogue poem) derives its title from the lyrics of “sound of silence”: People Talking Without Speaking. My first dialogue poem was titled “In the Naked Light”, so I have a s and g theme going on right now in my dialogue poems.

Its fitting though cause so many of their songs deal with communication (or the lack thereof), and thats kind of what i have been trying to comment on with my dialogue poems.

Comment on “it’s like a picture I’ve painted/ it’s so perfect/ Open ya eyes”-Beanie Sigel by wongkarwai

wongkarwai — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:55:00 +0000

I love Albert Frenchtoastcrepeeiffel.

I think the “unfolding” you talk about in poetry is actually what makes it great. I agree that painting and music are more immediate. I used to be jealous of that as well. But I’ve learned over the years that the slowness of poetry is its chief virtue–especially in American culture, where everything is accelerated. American culture can’t consume and spit out poetry in the way it can even visual art and music.

Comment on knee painting by davidden

davidden — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:15:10 +0000

Maybe my dilemma with music is merely a Hip-Hop/Pop sort of problem in that the beat sometimes takes precedence moreso than in a choir, where the voice is the star with not much competition. As I perform, I am expressing my own “poetry.” Because of this, performing enhances the importance of poetry for me. Though probably half the audience will not hear a single word I say.
This is interesting to me, the idea of performance and its impact on the word..hmmm

Comment on knee painting by Sara

Sara — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:07:00 +0000

Also, he said “quickest.” And then he said– not necessarily “better.”

Comment on more slang by Sara

Sara — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:00:43 +0000

This really isn’t a response to slang, but for Tiffany:

I wake up in your bed. I know I have been dreaming.
Much earlier, the alarm broke us from each other,
You’ve been at your desk for hours. I know what I dreamed:
our friend the poet comes into my room
where I’ve been writing for days,
drafts, carbons, poems are scattered everywhere,
and I want to show her one poem
which is the poem of my life. But I hesitate,
and wake. You’ve kissed my hair
to wake me. I dreamed you were a poem,
I say, a poem I wanted to show someone…
and I laugh and fall dreaming again
of the desire to show you to everyone I love,
to move openly together
in the pull of gravity, which is not simple,
which carries the feathered grass a long way down the upbreathing air.

–Adrienne Rich, 21 Love Poems.
I’m usually wary of poems about poems, poem metaphors, and etc, but that last “which carries the feathered grass a long way down the upbreathing air” is so wonderful. I’d said I’d share this dream poem with you, and lookie, it has grass too–