How To Be A Poet, by Wendell Berry
(to remind myself)
i
Make a place to sit down.
Sit down. Be quiet.
You must depend upon
affection, reading, knowledge,
skill—more of each
than you have—inspiration,
work, growing older, patience,
for patience joins time
to eternity. Any readers
who like your poems,
doubt their judgment.
ii
Breathe with unconditional breath
the unconditioned air.
Shun electric wire.
Communicate slowly. Live
a three-dimensioned life;
stay away from screens.
Stay away from anything
that obscures the place it is in.
There are no unsacred places;
there are only sacred places
and desecrated places.
iii
Accept what comes from silence.
Make the best you can of it.
Of the little words that come
out of the silence, like prayers
prayed back to the one who prays,
make a poem that does not disturb
the silence from which it came.
(HT Rabbit Room)
Drifting along with a tumbling tumbleweed
So I decided to start a tumblelog to have a place to put random youtube videos and quotes and flickr photos and such that I find, and I don’t want to crowd this blog with stuff like that either.
Say what again!
Pulp Fiction is probably the best movie made in the 90s, and it made Tarantino a household name, no longer to be confused with big spiders. Here are two videos, one an awesome parody of the movie inserting Jim Henson’s Muppet’s heads onto the actors (except, of course, for Eric Stoltz. And also, HT to cavness for this one), and the other making use of typography in the famous “What does Marcellus Wallace look like?!” scene. They’re both pretty awesome.
Enjoy
P.S. – I still maintain that Rowlf would make a way better Jules than Fozzie Bear.
P.S.S – Sorry if this post gave you complete pop culture/hyperlink overload
Free music that you probably want to check out…
Here’s some new free music that I’ve found and am currently enjoying…
The Cold War Kids are a band that I’ve really been enjoying as of late, even though the only song I’ve been able to listen to all of until today was “Hang Me Up To Dry,” which was the free single on Itunes a couple of weeks ago (GREAT track, by the way). Well, like I said…that was the only one I could listen to UNTIL TODAY. I just found on their website that Cold War Kids has released an online live EP (the sound quality isn’t all that great, but it’s fun) of some REALLY random and fun cover tunes, including Elvis Costello’s “Indoor Fireworks,” Fiona Apple’s “Fast As You Can,” a Tom Waits tune, and there’s even a Lawrence Welk cover (yes, I’m serious). Check out the Benefit at the District EP here. Up next we have a band that I had honestly never heard of…and I’m pretty sad about that. Maximo Park is an English indie-rock band that is releasing a new album in April of this year…the free track I am speaking of is “Apply Some Pressure”, and it can be found here. This song is WAY too fun. And finally, we have The Good, The Bad, and The Queen. The latest in English supergroupdom, the new band consists of Blur/Gorillaz frontfella Damon Albarn, the bassist from The Clash, a former guitarist for The Verve, and Afrobeat pioneer Tony Allen. The first single from the album, “Herculean” is the Itunes free single of the week. Enjoy.
The ladder theory
So, for some unknown reason, I didn’t have my .net buddy Adam Omelianchuk’s blog in my RSS aggregator…translation? I’ve been missing out on some wonderful posts…ones much like this exploration of the ladder theory, complete with visual aid!