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[gothikduck]

One of the things I've come to realize, recently, is that I'm still not a very trusting person. Part of me would love to blame this on some catastrophic event or series thereof in my past. I certainly have plenty I could attribute it to; probably more than most people who lean on their past as some sort of excuse-making for their own faults. The

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[duskofhallows98]

Armed with an army of ass-kissing lesser hacks, tag-alongs, pathetic self-esteem pity cases, and trendies, it's amazing what the truly terrible photographer or graphic artist can actually accomplish in terms of "status" - which still remains a completely arbitrary and meaningless term....

Sounds like the so-called "deathrock" scene. Also sounds like the Poetry world. The "everybody's a muthafuckin' poet" attitude and the slam poetry craze have virtually destroyed Poetry. The internet played a huge role in its demise.

[gothikduck]

No, not forfeit-your-copyright Poetry.com, and the "slam" poetryprose scene destroying poetry?! ;-) I always despised the history of that movement -- anything based on audience reaction is always going to end in a gladiator fight, not an art display. With it being so college-based it was amusing/disturbing to watch wave after wave of mediocre "poets" playing A.W. Guy and A.B. Bitch to self-amused audiences, over and over again. My partner in our poetry group actually had a piece mocking the fact that it seemed like every other girl had a man-hating "strong woman" "poem," but it was, of course, only the ones who were naive enough to get stuck with these losers in the first place! I could rant about idiotic nuances in the poetry circuit forever, though... it's amazing what people will do to convince you that ego is an adequate substitute for knowledge

[duskofhallows98]

In the library profession, everyone rants about Slam poetry like it's the end-all-be-all, but as a Young Adult Librarian, I refuse to do it. This usually stuns the PC'brarians into gaping silence

[gothikduck]

It's kind of sad that your fellow librarians would have such a love for "slam" poetry... my experience with it, and I have years of it, has always been that it is intellectually repetitive, persona based, and grammatically inept. The only reason it seems to procreate its embracing of self-expression through character creation, which is to say it's more like a bad comedy night than true self-expression. (I should mention, I've had a hand in facilitating a good comedy series as well... but "slam" was not on the menu

[duskofhallows98]

That's true. I, too, do not particularly like to be in the limelight. I have always preferred to be in supporting role. That's why I was never entirely comfortable DJ'ing in the Goth scene, too much egotism and sychophants. I loved my stint as a Reggae DJ back in the day, though, when it was simply about spinning the music