Lol Poetry

[Ibun]

You play to win the game. D:<

"Winning isn't everything. Trying to win is."

"Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing."

[simon]

where is video..

[Baconsticks]

where is video..

agreed. Let's see it.

[Hanging Tree]

All poems are songs lacking music, but I do like a good reading.

Also, I find that poems to me are better heard allowed than read from some internet page...post a recording

I tend to hate poems but I love good lyrics in a song. I think thats weird.

[Arloest]

You aren't allowed to film performances. =(

[rabid_fox]

I love the Timon avatar.

Poetry performances are odd things. I've never been lucky enough to see a good one - the last one I went to was at University when I was getting my first degree, in Belfast. Someone read out a poem to rapturous applause and laughter that ran:

"Strobe on the eggs
Try not to shit"

He read that line about twenty times, took a bow and left the stage. I was actually angry that he was being applauded.

Anyway, I found out later (about three weeks later) that the week before, a new poet, on his first performance, had misheard the instruction, "Stand on the X and try not to shout" (from the stage manager, presumably) and had repeated this back in his confusion.

So my last experience of poetry performance is retrospective mockery through the medium of insular, pretentious in-jokes geared towards protecting an elitist sense of self-aggrandising creative exclusivity.

I'd like to have that changed someday, I really would.

[Baconsticks]

I love the Timon avatar.

Poetry performances are odd things. I've never been lucky enough to see a good one - the last one I went to was at University when I was getting my first degree, in Belfast. Someone read out a poem to rapturous applause and laughter that ran:

"Strobe on the eggs
Try not to shit"

He read that line about twenty times, took a bow and left the stage. I was actually angry that he was being applauded.

Anyway, I found out later (about three weeks later) that the week before, a new poet, on his first performance, had misheard the instruction, "Stand on the X and try not to shout" (from the stage manager, presumably) and had repeated this back in his confusion.

So my last experience of poetry performance is retrospective mockery through the medium of insular, pretentious in-jokes geared towards protecting an elitist sense of self-aggrandising creative exclusivity.

I'd like to have that changed someday, I really would.

You have no respect for avant-garde.

[Tom Flapwell]

You have no respect for avant-garde.

Incidentally, I'd been thinking of posting this theory on these forums:

I've heard that the minimalist art movement is boring on purpose, but I didn't get the explanation that followed. My best guess is that minimalists do not want to be popular, on the grounds that only pulp is popular. People who claim to like minimalist art only say so in order to qualify as connoisseurs in the minds of a minority of art patrons. In other words, minimalism is but a fraudulent elitism.

Hey, this is Define Cynical.

[rabid_fox]

Yeah, but condemning minimalism is counterfeit surrealism.

Ooo, things just went meta, babby.

[CameronCN]

Depends on what kind of minimalism you mean.

[Baconsticks]

Incidentally, I'd been thinking of posting this theory on these forums:

I've heard that the minimalist art movement is boring on purpose, but I didn't get the explanation that followed. My best guess is that minimalists do not want to be popular, on the grounds that only pulp is popular. People who claim to like minimalist art only say so in order to qualify as connoisseurs in the minds of a minority of art patrons. In other words, minimalism is but a fraudulent elitism.

Hey, this is Define Cynical.

You would be right, expect that's a kind of Nihilism/Anti-realism thing your describing. Minimalism is Very direct in its views and Its art.

/stuffy art critic

[Muninn]

I like good poetry. I'm not going to expound further on the issue.

[rabid_fox]

I'm a huge* poetry fan.

Metrophobia is the fear of poetry.

*injoke, but on a different forum.