Man. . . That voice? Yeah. He should be reading me stories every night.
(beat.) Send a noteboard - 11/11/2010 11:57:02 AM
1. Second chance in as many days to link to Tom Waits, this time reading Bukowski. Love this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=va1t6a0zCkQ
I already have that one added to my favourites! What was the other Waits video?
Dos. If you love Bukowski, they have this DVD of the last poetry reading he ever did, I saw it a couple of months ago and it's cool. When I read his "Should I get Married?" (or whatever the title is) poem, I said to myself: this is a man who could understand me. It's on Netflix, I think, but I'm not sure if you have Netflix over in Finsweenetherway.
Hm, if we don't have Netflix, we've got something similar. I prefer to steal stuff, though. What's it called? I want it! I have this thing called 90 Minutes in Hell (I think) but that sounds very old and is only audio. I like listening to him stumble drunkenly through his own poetry.
(Finsweenetherwayan is officially my new nationality.)
they say he slept in the bushes. I guess that's where he
died. he's not around any
more.
there was the big fat blond whore
who kept touching him for luck, and
laughing.
nobody had any luck. the whore is gone
too.
I guess nothing ever works for us. we're fools, of course -
bucking the inside plus a 15 percent take,
but how are you going to tell a dreamer
there's a 15 percent take on the
dream? he'll just laugh and say,
is that all?
I miss those
sparks.
(i hang my head against the white
refrigerator and want to scream like
the last weeping of man forever
but I AM BIGGER THAN THE MOUNTAINS)
"All the worlds are in the sky
and some of them keep me from falling."
-- Charlie Mystery, age 5
and some of them keep me from falling."
-- Charlie Mystery, age 5
Poetry:
- 08/11/2010 02:07:39 AM
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Re: Poetry:
- 08/11/2010 04:13:38 AM
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This is why people dislike you.
- 09/11/2010 07:03:17 PM
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Umm...I care?
- 09/11/2010 08:42:55 PM
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Because you should care about being intelligent, rather than appearing to be intelligent.
- 09/11/2010 10:32:04 PM
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Again, why would I care?
- 09/11/2010 10:38:21 PM
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No one can make you care about being decent, or intelligent, or a viable member of the community.
- 09/11/2010 10:41:34 PM
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I think it's rather pointless, to be honest.
- 09/11/2010 10:54:17 PM
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Then why are you even here?
- 09/11/2010 10:59:49 PM
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I don't know. I thought I'd see how long I could string you along.
- 09/11/2010 11:00:37 PM
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You're the one who doesn't care.
- 09/11/2010 11:02:11 PM
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I care only as much as I care. What others think is irrelevant to that.
- 09/11/2010 11:04:15 PM
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But you're still responding to me.
- 09/11/2010 11:05:37 PM
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Because I'm stringing you out until you quit.
- 09/11/2010 11:10:18 PM
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I'm not going to. I find this entertaining.
- 09/11/2010 11:12:27 PM
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I do as well. It's fun pretending to be an asshole, I'll admit.
- 09/11/2010 11:17:34 PM
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Come now, who's pretending?
- 09/11/2010 11:22:18 PM
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That is officially the last one before I start editing and making them NM. 
*NM*
- 09/11/2010 11:24:12 PM
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*NM*
- 09/11/2010 11:24:12 PM
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Me, most of the time
- 09/11/2010 11:40:26 PM
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Keep telling yourself that. *NM*
- 09/11/2010 11:46:34 PM
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Why would I? It's not something I think much about these days. Again, what others think is trivial. *NM*
- 10/11/2010 12:01:03 AM
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Are you 5?
- 09/11/2010 11:14:26 PM
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Nah
- 09/11/2010 11:15:48 PM
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But you were asked about it originally. That was my point.
- 09/11/2010 11:23:25 PM
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And I was evasive about it at the time. When pressed, I answered more fully.
- 09/11/2010 11:48:27 PM
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Why be evasive?
- 10/11/2010 12:16:19 AM
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Because I didn't want to spend an hour pulling out a few dozen books.
- 10/11/2010 12:19:55 AM
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Ye gods. Could you people at the very, very least make your messages NM?
- 09/11/2010 11:17:25 PM
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*NM*
I must say, I'm glad you all decided to play up when I was having an evening off. 
*NM*
- 10/11/2010 12:08:59 PM
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*NM*
- 10/11/2010 12:08:59 PM
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I disagree with your claim that there can be no value in translations.
- 09/11/2010 08:51:20 PM
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Not "no value", but "different value" is what I would argue
- 09/11/2010 09:55:54 PM
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I don't disagree, but you can't possibly learn all languages, yet you can read translations of all.
- 09/11/2010 10:56:58 PM
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My choice, hands down, is to ignore the poetry in languages I don't read.
- 10/11/2010 01:44:32 AM
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An English translation of The Divine Comedy was pivotal to my conversion to Christianity.
- 10/11/2010 11:04:57 AM
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Ooh, good survey. I've been thinking for a while we needed more poetry discussion.
- 08/11/2010 10:58:24 AM
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I think you underestimate the number of translations of the Bible.
- 09/11/2010 01:20:30 AM
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Did they just translate logos as... life-light?
- 09/11/2010 07:14:28 PM
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Yes. Yes, they did. *NM*
- 09/11/2010 09:56:09 PM
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I think poetry is largely overrated.
- 08/11/2010 06:12:59 PM
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the problem is most good poets are dead and dead people tend to fail at marketing
- 08/11/2010 06:44:18 PM
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I like some poetry, but by no means all.
- 09/11/2010 12:28:41 AM
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Now that you mention it, The Imperfect Enjoyment might rank among my favourite poems. *NM*
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*NM*
- 09/11/2010 12:46:56 AM
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It is excellent
- 09/11/2010 08:16:01 PM
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*NM*
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Re: Nice
- 11/11/2010 01:39:48 AM
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Man. . . That voice? Yeah. He should be reading me stories every night.
- 11/11/2010 11:57:02 AM
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Re: Man. . . That voice? Yeah. He should be reading me stories every night.
- 12/11/2010 04:36:22 AM
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