more found poetry

Welp, I finally revised that found poetry we attempted a couple weeks back wherein a scientific management book or whatever was thrown at me. I really do quite enjoy the scientific management slang, but contrasting it with dictionary definitions did not work out as I had hoped that it would. So, I pulled out Volume One of The Umbrella Academy: Apocalypse Suite and I pulled out some choice selections. WUAHAHAHAHAHA.

Management Suite

researchers developed the method

Sir Reginald set out with his bodyguard Abhijat

supervised and enforced by governmental agencies

it came from an atomic flying elbow

some distance from customers, highly automated and capital intensive

she could play the violin

next, we deseasonalize the data

Father's really dead, isn't he, Pogo?

to succeed beyond the year 2000

Godspeed, Spaceboy, sir

optimal solutions in the graphical solution method lie at intersections

every time I close my eyes I see centipedes

changing long-range capacity needs of organizations

The Kraken made a vague reference to ice cream

closeness ratings are used to reflect the desirability

you've wanted to kiss me since you were eight years old

in a plumbing supply company

Isn't your sister a violinist? The crazy one?

order point = expected demand during lead time + safety stock

TANTRUM?! YOU'RE CALLING THIS A TANTRUM?!

researchers developed the methods and philosophy called scientific management

Can I interest you in destroying the world?

happy thorsday!

Hello all! Get ready for a slew of poetry for I am posting as much as possible today so I don't have to do it all in one hour the day of our class. WHOOP WHOOP.

I wanted to do a parody of Friday, but write it as Thorsday. Unfortunately, that's already been done and it's not really that cool so I went and made those Ed Sanders gifs instead because they are a million times cooler.

FIRST OFF, THE VIDEO FIRST IN CASE YOU FORGOT HOW AWESOME IT IIIIIISSSSS

SECOND, I GIFT YOU WITH THESE GIFS

Class Sick Silly Ables

Here's my take on the experiment we did during bpNichol week! 

Oracular Delirium

i ard n h d
            ily
ww ve I r ren
                       ere
You Doll i u nly W
       wrath o t u ly ear

You ild altars
                    all enough
You an ve i o gh
      o ook f u or hind

W son kons u
                   to ause
gh a ay a y ow b
But t ii u ow u eep
as
    dark
            as
                ingots
innn a est

U gh a swer We r ng!
         O
            eave u ow, a l u g
o ing ow m m of this
WILL TIME FATE

a few
         comp
                   lace
         nt ye-ars
A m y p of y p
ink U hat u r t g o
For eve r p and u



O Death

DEATH d a ll t
     bia w h s
     S the dark, -- sently
v b i narrow

U m m a s rain
d t sh l
n the I tt p t l t hand
Is n annnnotation

Af all m e w d r
M no I ch ish
     eeee y t a ot I
j e at
          perished?





EDIT: the first poem is based on "Cassandra" by Edwin Arlington Robinson and the second is from "Passer Mortuus Est" by Edna St. Vincent Millay.

more to inspire my empire: Camilla d'Errico

WARNING: I don't have too much longer before I have to go so I won't be writing a poem based on this shindig, but I did want to put this up. Poem draft will probably be tomorrow!

Camilla d'Errico

Remember when people put those gel skin things on all their electronic devices? I totally do. Anywhozzles, there I was browsing through the website when I stumbled onto Camilla d'Errico's work.

Gelaskins page for Camilla d'Errico

I sort of hate the bio on her page because it states that her start as being an artist was "unusual" seeing as she started in comics. WTF?! No! Comics are definitely art, you buttheads! But, that is another discussion.

At the time, she only had two pieces up and thus I went down the Google rabbit hole to find more of her pieces. I have a whole folder of images from years and two computers ago. It seems she has several new pieces since the last time I went on there judging by that Gelaskins page.

I've always enjoyed her work because it has this Disney Princess quality to it and then taking that and twisting it around whether it be through the expression on the girl's face or by the absurd creatures resting on her head. They intrigue me and ask me to tell a story about each of these girls. Do they have their own fairy tale? I have not yet thought of an interesting way to put this concept into poetry, but perhaps the next reading will give me some inspirations on how to go about this!

Camilla d'Errico's Website

gaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

Many apologies for my lack of posting. My usual days off were STOLEN and I haven't had much blog-a-logging time. This is about all the time I have before I have to whisk myself off to work again. Sorry, sorry, sorry!

This is technically just an apology/intro to this post in which I reveal that I totally didn't have time to go buy that other book of ours about that apothecary mumbo jumbo. WHOOPS.

To make up for my egregious error, here is a video of Christopher Walken preforming Poker Face by Lady Gaga:

that book thing we were supposed to read (don't worry I did read it)

I thought I would post about this shindig before we went to class.

I don't get it.

I don't want to say it's not poetry just because I don't understand it because art is subjective (lol lol cliche), but I am just lost on this. Hopefully our discussion tonight will shed some light on this thingy and I can get it and enjoy it. To be honest, I didn't sit down and read it word for word because I was so lost. Boop, my fault. Maybe someone who likes it can tell me why they like it and show me the beauty in it? I don't know.



BTW I'm playing Injustice now with Adrian until class starts so... excuse for why I don't comment on other stuff or look to see if anyone else has put up a blog??

inspiration: pocketmaster (poem response)

But Our Princess Is In Another Castle!

save mankind against impossible odds
to his sinister reign
wage intense shooter combat with
vile henchmen
they call it a suicide mission
from the 1985 classic!
activate the Cerberus network
just save a Princess
entire human colonies
brick-smashin'
the galaxy's deadliest team
pipe-warpin'
tech attacks, and biotic powers
turtle-stompin'
PROVE THEM WRONG

Apologies for I could not think of an appropriate gif =(

DYNAMIC DUO!

Adrian made a blog too! Holy inspired-by-free-classes, Batman!

http://milkgravy.tumblr.com/

I like to call him the Dick Grayson to my Bruce Wayne.

That's from Holy Musical B@man! It's awesome to the max.

IT'S OUR SONG!!

inspiration: pocketmaster

OK! One more before I head off to the dream realm.

What inspires me? Music inspires me! I always have some tunes on when I'm at the laptop getting all creative. Sometimes a soundtrack will do the trick and sometimes I have to listen to a song until I get sick of it because it's the only thing that's lighting my creative fire.

Now, at risk of sounding hipster-tastic, I thought I would treat you to some music that is totally not mainstream.

POCKETMASTER

http://www.pocketmaster.ch/

I found these guys last year when I was looking up cool remixes for the IT Crowd theme song (long, British story) and I ended up downloading the whole mix because I was too lazy to download just the one song. It seemed complicated at the time! The group is made up of Cube-C and Emiglio Laser and they use sound bites from old school gaming systems and what not to make really awesome techno music.

Gah, I love it! I love the mix of the quotes, techno and vintage gaming. It has a sci-fi feel to it while feeling a little dated in the best possible way ever. I'm not sure how one would achieve this through poetry, but a mix of the old and new while adding a quirky twist sounds totally rad. That's sort of the feel I got from Carbonated Bippies! in the way that Colin Smith used quotes that had a dated feel to them, but mashed them all up together to give the poem an overall modern twist to it in a way that doesn't feel goofy, but different.

Three of Pocketmaster's 4 releases are for free on the website and I recommend you check them out! It's cool beans.

In other news, I do have an idea of how to translate this into poetry, but I'm going to have to attempt that tomorrow when my brain is less on the melting side.

In other other news, if you're bored tomorrow WATCH THIS!!

And then when you're done watching the intro and wondering where this has been all your life, watch the whole series which is only 6 episodes. You will not be disappointed and then you can make cool jokes that no one will understand except us. HA HA HA.

LOOK I'M EVEN ADDING THE PLAYLIST TO THIS POST. 

Memory Test

I liked the idea of creating a poem based on something you remembered + I haven't seen Star Trek: Into Darkness since it was in theaters = a long stream of consciousness poem that gradually deteriorates as I attempt to sift through my memories. Beam me up, Scotty!


USS SASSAFRAS

Disguised figure running

Natives running after him

OH GOD! A TAUN-TAUN! (wrong series)

"That was our ride!"

More running

Inside shuttlecraft

Vulcan in a nifty suit

"Are you sure you don't want me to go?"

"That would be illogical."

We all laugh at his expense

More running, Kirk ditches the scroll

"I HATE THIS!" "I KNOW YOU DO!"

Into the deep blue

Exterior shot of the USS Enterprise

"You cannae hide a ship under water."

There is drama

"We must follow the Prime Directive."

"What would he do if it were me?"

"He'd let you die."

They don't follow the Prime Directive.

Title Screen?

London! Bleak, sad piano music

It's Mickey from Doctor Who

Big dog, go to hospital, sick girl

It's all very sad

"I can help you."

OH MY SEXY ACCENT IT'S SHERLOCK HOLMES

Lab time with Sherlock/Khan (but we don't know that yet)

Mickey cures his girl and then does something with a ring

BOOM! Evil Benedict Cumberbatch smirk!

Maybe this is where the title screen is?

Kirk is having sexy times, but RING RING

Spock is sassy, as per usual

"We aren't going to get the five year assignment."

Spock handed in his report, as per usual

"You disobeyed the Prime Directive. What do you have to say?"

"Never trust a Vulcan."

"Are you giving me attitude, Spock?"

"I am expressing several attitudes. To which are you referring?"

"You're going back to the academy, Kirk."

Enter Kirk, bar, flirting

Remember when he was going back to the academy?

Well, now he gets to be first officer

Lesson = failed

Big, fancy meeting

"Hey, Captain."

"I'm not Captain anymore."

Backstabbing! Oh my!

Meeting, Kirk says something brilliant

Then Khan ruins it all (John Harrison?)

Pike dies, Spock almost cries

Kirk definitely cries

There is sadness

"Scotty found something."

"He transported to the Klingon home planet." -- but it sounds Scottish

Kirk and Spock report it in a huff

They request to go hunt down Khan

Remember when Kirk was demoted to first officer?

Well, now he's Captain again

WHY DO THEY BOTHER TRYING TO TEACH HIM LESSONS?!

Some blonde lady shows up

Spock is clearly suspicious (to be read as jealous)

Bones does some medical type stuff

What an old curmudgeon!

Starfleet put torpedoes on the Enterprise

So much for a peacekeeping operation

Scotty resigns

=( =( =( =( =(

Some drama is happening between Spock and Uhura

Who cares?

Chekov goes down to Engineering!

The gang goes down to the Klingon planet in a shuttlecraft

Which is a clever reference to a Star Trek: TOS episode

(omg this is a really long mooooviiiiieeeee)

There's a fight or something

The Klingons are pretty sweet

Sulu says "If you test me, you will fail"

Because he's asian! Amiright?!

Khan shows up and helps them all out, then surrenders

(this is starting to become a blur)

UHHHH Kirk phones Scotty? There's sass?

Khan tells them to look inside the torpedoes

There are tears!!! <3

The blonde lady is the Admiral's daughter (NOBODY CARES)

There are frozen popsicle people in the torpedoes (Khan's crew)

They're like super duper solider type people

SO THE ADMIRAL IS EVIL

There's a battle thing

Khan works with them and then he's like "Screw that"

But Scotty shows up again before that

Anyways the warp core is misaligned and science type stuff

So, Kirk tries to fix it and then he dies

(it's just like the scene in the other Star Trek movie)

"KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!!"

Spock chases Khan through town!

(it looks hilarious)

Spock tries to murder Khan but then the old curmudgeon is like

"DAMNIT, JIM, I'M A DOCTOR AND I NEED KHAN ALIVE"

So, they keep Benedict Cumberbatch alive

Kirk lives! Yay!

They freeze Khan again

There was probably more sass somewhere in there

There is always sass with these people

And then they go on the five year mission

How Quaint

introoooductioooons, I guess?

Yo, yo, yo!

This is my blog for Poetry. It's pretty banging, I guess? I'll be posting poetry, posting awesome stuff, posting random stuff. Posting all the time! I got to fight for my right to post.

(That is from the awesome Channel 4 series Peep Show! You're welcome. I hate when people link pictures or gifs to shows and don't say where they are from. Grr.)

Anyways, more to come! As in I will be posting my first piece as soon as I'm done writing this intro.

If you're curious about the name of the blog, be curious no more!

That might have raised more questions.