Rain and Poetry

Sat, 09 Feb 2013 20:46:55 GMT

i have not fallen of the planet. I'm just in my regular February funk.

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Music meme!

Sat, 26 Jan 2013 18:21:03 GMT

day 01 - your favorite song

Hmmm my favorite song of all time has to be the grumpy old mans Famous blue raincoat. I love the way he sings it, I love the sparseness of the musical accompaniment. I love the backing vocals , I love the lyrics and I love the ambiguity of the narrative

however if I was only allowed to listen to one song for the rest of my life it would be this one

I love the way it's layered, I love the lyrics and it reminds me of a really exciting time in my life

day 02 - your least favorite song
day 03 - a song that makes you happy
day 04 - a song that makes you sad
day 05 - a song that reminds you of someone
day 06 - a song that reminds of you of somewhere
day 07 - a song that reminds you of a certain event
day 08 - a song that you know all the words to
day 09 - a song that you can dance to
day 10 - a song that makes you fall asleep
day 11 - a song from your favorite band
day 12 - a song from a band you hate
day 13 - a song that is a guilty pleasure
day 14 - a song that no one would expect you to love
day 15 - a song that describes you
day 16 - a song that you used to love but now hate
day 17 - a song that you hear often on the radio
day 18 - a song that you wish you heard on the radio
day 19 - a song from your favorite album
day 20 - a song that you listen to when you’re angry
day 21 - a song that you listen to when you’re happy
day 22 - a song that you listen to when you’re sad
day 23 - a song that you want to play at your wedding
day 24 - a song that you want to play at your funeral
day 25 - a song that makes you laugh
day 26 - a song that you can play on an instrument
day 27 - a song that you wish you could play
day 28 - a song that makes you feel guilty
day 29 - a song from your childhood
day 30 - your favorite song at this time last year

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Andy Burrows: Hometown

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 18:18:30 GMT

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My poetry/poetics blog

Tue, 15 Jan 2013 14:42:46 GMT

Rain and Poetry

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Lisel Miller:The End of science fiction

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 12:26:44 GMT

This is not fantasy, this is our life.
We are the characters
who have invaded the moon,
who cannot stop their computers.
We are the gods who can unmake
the world in seven days.

Both hands are stopped at noon.
We are beginning to live forever,
in lightweight, aluminum bodies
with numbers stamped on our backs.
We dial our words like Muzak.
We hear each other through water.

The genre is dead. Invent something new.
Invent a man and a woman
naked in a garden,
invent a child that will save the world,
a man who carries his father
out of a burning city.
Invent a spool of thread
that leads a hero to safety,
invent an island on which he abandons
the woman who saved his life
with no loss of sleep over his betrayal.

Invent us as we were
before our bodies glittered
and we stopped bleeding:
invent a shepherd who kills a giant,
a girl who grows into a tree,
a woman who refuses to turn
her back on the past and is changed to salt,
a boy who steals his brother’s birthright
and becomes the head of a nation.
Invent real tears, hard love,
slow-spoken, ancient words,
difficult as a child’s
first steps across a room.

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Disability book list

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 07:44:16 GMT

Part of my plan for the year is to accept that I am living in an increasingly disabled body. Part of a way to do this is to read books about disability and by disabled people.

This is my book plan so far

Beauty is a verb: The New Poetry of Disability
The Other within: The Genius of Deformity in Myth, Culture, and Psyche
Unruly Bodies:Life writing by women with disabilities
Exile and Pride:Disability, Queerness, & Liberation (I've read this before but its amazing so I want to read it again
Spirit and the politics of disablement

I also really want to read this: Oedipus Borealis: The Aberrant Body in Old Icelandic Myth and Saga" but it's crazy expensive so I'm waiting/hoping for it to go down in price

I'm looking for recommendations. I am especially interested in disabled poets, disability in relation to mythology/fairy tales/folktales/storytelling and stuff about the intersections of disability with class/gender/queerness/feminism

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Turns out I really love cover versions

Sun, 06 Jan 2013 10:31:28 GMT

(really like this version in and of itself but also reminds me of a conversation I had once with the mother of my then girlfriend)

(I always have time for the boss and his music tends to lend itself really well to good cover versions)

This is one of my favorite songs of all time partly just because it's so beautiful with an interesting narrative but also because its the first song I ever heard where a woman was singing about loving another woman "Remember me to my love, I'll know I'll miss her" I didn't know then that it was a cover or that it was originally written and sung by a man. I was thirteen when I first heard it and fell in love with it and I forgot the name of the band and the name of the song. I just remembered forever snatches of the lyrics and when the internet became a place that made searches with such scant info possible I refound and completely fell in love with the Cowboy junkies.

( More music this way )

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lera Lynn: Bobby Baby

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 21:29:03 GMT

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The Killers: Be Still

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 17:09:27 GMT

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Sarah Kay: forest Fires

Fri, 26 Oct 2012 20:39:18 GMT

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