It would have been a good time to head to the lobby for a pint. Or two. Reminds me of Gary Larson's display in some museum(I thought the Smithsonian but when I googled to see I can't find it) titled "Cartoonist" or some such and it's basically Mr. Larson sitting in a chair reading a newspaper or maybe drawing or sipping coffee or soda or whatever behind plexi-glass while visitors watched him. The way I remember it he did this all day for a week or more. Perfect Far Side; live action style.
dj On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 6:10 PM, ornamentalmind <[email protected]> wrote: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUJagb7hL0E > > http://www.wordjazz.com/ > > Two offerings. > > On Feb 11, 8:37 am, nominal9 <[email protected]> wrote: >> Descriptive poetry of music, Don? >> I don't know of any off the top of my head...There have been attempts >> at "sound" poems, Ive read about the Futurist Movement, I''m most >> familiar with the Italian branch, around WWII usually associated with >> Fascism.... these futurists liked fascism and fascism liked them. >> Anyway, Futurist poetry was very, "sounds-like" oriented.. the authors >> would fill their written "poems" with all sorts of sound evocations... >> sort of like the "Wham" , "Biff", "Pow", of some campy comic book >> renditions... like the old Batman TV show... if you go back that far. >> But these Futurist sound effects (and type effects as well, such as >> different type scripts and capitalizations) more often than not >> related to sounds of war or... fireworks.... they had a thing about >> fireworks, even as displays in and of themselves. Anyway, the Futurist >> Movement is usually attributed to Marinetti... here's a You-Tube link >> to some of his "poetry" performed... the language is Italian, but just >> listen for the sound effects.... explosions and tank sounds, >> mostly.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn0dkz9Polg >> The "book" is titled "Zang Tumb Tumb"... Futurism did go a ways as an >> artistic movement... it's still around... probably had something to do >> with the birth of Heavy Metal Music and other sorts of.... >> commonplace... popular >> artforms.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filippo_Tommaso_Marinetti >> I get a kick of some of those things....onomatopaiec written sound >> effects.... especially of fireworks displays.... who would have >> thought.... >> nominal9 >> >> On Feb 11, 12:49 am, Don Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> > I just read ''Howl." "Hap" has been usurped. I've never read >> > anything so famous that was this bad. In my opinion. I guess it >> > comes down to how something moves you(or doesn't). Also I can't make >> > any connection between myself and the poet. Except maybe that we both >> > like jazz. >> >> > Speaking of music; does anyone know any poems offhand that describe >> > music? I read a review recently on different wines and was amazed at >> > the choice of adjectives and metaphors used. It would be interesting >> > to read a well written poem describing a sonata or jazz performance. >> >> > dj >> >> > On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 9:43 AM, ornamentalmind >> >> > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > > I concur w/Ian on those two. "...T.S. Eliot's *The Wasteland and Allen >> > > Ginsburg's *Howl ...". >> >> > > Oh, I did like a few of Ferlinghetti's works in "A Coney Island of the >> > > Mind". >> > > My guess is that some here who haven't read him may enjoy it. For a >> > > quick taste: >> > >http://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=7233 >> >> > > On Feb 10, 7:28 am, Ian Pollard <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> I forgot to say, my two favourite poems -- based on the number of times >> > >> I >> > >> read them -- are T.S. Eliot's *The >> > >> Wasteland<http://www.bartleby.com/201/1.html> >> > >> * and Allen Ginsburg's *Howl <http://www.wussu.com/poems/agh.htm>*. >> >> > >> Ian- Hide quoted text - >> >> > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - >> >> - Show quoted text - > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
