Why am I miserable at NUPIC every year? Because it starts about 3 hours after I want to read poetry...and I read poetry for 24 hours straight, so you do the math
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2) It was fun rocking against you that night. I definitely felt like we had the best pairing of the first round.
3) The poets leaving thing kind of threw me too. I understand audience bouncing as the night goes on, it is the middle of the night. But the competing poets is another matter.
4) My poem is about the brain surgery I had in 2005, I've never had cancer. I just want to make sure I don't confuse that for others that might hear the poem moving forward.
Re: A few thingsscottwoodsAugust 10 2010, 12:11:41 UTC
#4) Man, I'm glad you cleared that up! Have amended post accordingly. Please don't take it as a problem with the poem, considering how prevalent cancer as a subject matter was that week.
After Rudy Francisco got knocked out in the first round, a small chunk of people just straight walked out, other poets wholly unseen at that point. I'm glad they left. It's clear who they would have been clapping for all night anyway, yeah? But dropped competitors shouldn't leave too. If you had advanced you'd have stayed. Losing must make you sleepy. I guess if you don't have a shot, what's the point of watching all those other weak cats, right?
that shit is mad clownish. I used to heckle the shit out of people who did that in my venue.
I love Oz, and I loved his poems that night. That said, by the end of the night, I was beginning to think he was a one-trick pony. His poems stand extremely well on their own, but they were all very similar in the imagery used and the places they took me.
I actually didn't make noise for either poet in the final round, because I can't fairly judge work I'm hearing for the first time (Oz) with work I've heard many time (Eboni), but if Oz has a weakness, it's lack of range.
This was my initial feeling about Oz's work too-but I was told he is in the middle of a writing cycle and using the poems from said cycle. I am very intrigued to hear more of his work.
a- rudy wasn't the only one, just one of a few and maybe more surprising than others. no one was surprised when Alvin left after his round with Oz for example.
b- had to be the best (however many) hours of poetry i heard all week... and it was at the end of a long (looooong) day/week of poetry too.
c- you make one reconsider the whole not memorizing thing, i dig your steezo mr. presidente and may just bite that little chunk of it.
d- everyone knows you drum your support up -before- the show if that's what you're gonna do.
e- love eboni! she's hella dope. Oz makes me feel stuff though. damn i wish i could do what he does to a room. his nupic/undies set gave me chills and i really think he'd've won if he could have finished his last piece. still satisfied with the outcome though.
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2) It was fun rocking against you that night. I definitely felt like we had the best pairing of the first round.
3) The poets leaving thing kind of threw me too. I understand audience bouncing as the night goes on, it is the middle of the night. But the competing poets is another matter.
4) My poem is about the brain surgery I had in 2005, I've never had cancer. I just want to make sure I don't confuse that for others that might hear the poem moving forward.
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Please don't take it as a problem with the poem, considering how prevalent cancer as a subject matter was that week.
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that shit is mad clownish. I used to heckle the shit out of people who did that in my venue.
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I actually didn't make noise for either poet in the final round, because I can't fairly judge work I'm hearing for the first time (Oz) with work I've heard many time (Eboni), but if Oz has a weakness, it's lack of range.
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b- had to be the best (however many) hours of poetry i heard all week... and it was at the end of a long (looooong) day/week of poetry too.
c- you make one reconsider the whole not memorizing thing, i dig your steezo mr. presidente and may just bite that little chunk of it.
d- everyone knows you drum your support up -before- the show if that's what you're gonna do.
e- love eboni! she's hella dope. Oz makes me feel stuff though. damn i wish i could do what he does to a room. his nupic/undies set gave me chills and i really think he'd've won if he could have finished his last piece. still satisfied with the outcome though.
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