I've been listening to rap music for the past day or so (specifically, Aesop Rock, check "None Shall Pass" out on YouTube, they're pretty good with the attention to assonance and rhythm in use of lyrics, which is what I look for in rap. If it doesn't pay attention to poetic devices I don't muchsee the point.) because it is cathartic and soothes my ( Read more... )

Geoffrey Tennant and Ellen Fanshaw, legends of the stage who always know their lines and have fifteen ways to interpret each of them. But off the stage, the script is unclear, and they fumble their lines as they try again and again to make their story come out right. But when Prospero calls up his tempests, when Hamlet really does go mad, when ( Read more... )

Happy Shakespeare's birthday everyone! We had a party at school and got people to read all the sonnets and there was  a madrigal group and I read sonnet 146. I tried to do 130, hoping I would have the balls to read it like a total chav, but alas it was not to be.

I am posting the sketch in question for those who don't know the potential hiliarity ( Read more... )