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2002-11-23 12:48 AM
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So... I don't really have too much to say right now...

I am just getting close to curling up with Extreme Exposure.

Sounds kinky, don't it? Well actually it is an anthology of texts from performance artists ranging from Bogosian to Moms Mabley to Diamanda Galas to Rachel Rosenthal. It is pretty neato. I can't think of a better word.

I wasn't feeling well... and because of that I didn't go out Thursday Night to the slam or to the Beckett Festival. Poooh!

On Wednesday I went to Anna Rabinowitz... she wrote a series of poems based on the holocaust. Very good writer. I let my comp students go for extra credit... but I think it flew over their heads... I think they'd get her text... just not a thing that one digs listening to. Phil West is coming here in a week and a half... and I will give them extra credit for that. I think they'll like Phil better.

I went to the Jitters tonight, but we were bumped outside by a bluegrass trio that had rented the space. So we did a little roundtable outside... and I read my Neruda poem... I guess... I may slam it.

I am debating what to do at Urbana...

If someone lets me borrow their guitar there... I will do Sea of Vomit... but if not... then I will just do 5 or 6 poems. I think I will probably do all slam poems... but I may not have everything memorized. I would like to get Froggy memorized... I will have 3 weeks of quality rehearsal time for my 15-20 minute set... so I am sure I can come up with something kosher.

I read a couple of my poems to my students today before going over sample research papers... and I decided I am going to bring more poetry into the mix next semester. I felt very inadequate this semester. I think I can engage my students better... Our textbook has a Byronn Bain essay on Racial Profiling... I could probably fit lots of political poetry into the fold. Maybe I will show some Michael Moore movies... and turn my class into a left wing propaganda machine.

Damnit... somebody has to be a commie... why not me?

Well... I have to drift really soon. Currently listening to some Grateful Dead. I spent the last week listening to Deep Purple Live. A 12 CD- 6 concert box set... of their recent tour. These are my brother's CDs. I hardly buy any anymore.

Actually, I buy lots of poetry cds.

It's not that I have lost interest in music... It is just I am more selective...
Like I didn't go see Beck and the Flaming Lips tonight. I would have died 3 years ago to go see them... but now... I am a lazy old fart. I just bought some Beef Chow Fun and pigged out. But it was fun. If I can't eat out a nice decent girl... I will eat out the remnants of a cow mixed with black beans and rice noodles and soy sauce.

It's the only sane thing to do!

Well... I decided that the day after Urbana... I will probably go see Def Poets on Broadway. I've seen Poetri, Beau Sia and Mayda Del Valle read at Nationals, and read Steve Colman; but the other poets will be all new to me.

I will spend 40 or 70 bucks depending on what they have available... but I figure... I will be able to say... I have seen it on broadway... and after witinessing the Urbana Slam on Thursday Night... The Def Poets could only be a fitting end for my little vacation. I plan to go to the Guggenheim and the Metropolitan Museum also... If I can only do one... I will do Guggenheim... because I did the Met when I was 12. I get excited about this shit... cause I live in Vegas... where the only art we usually see is a broken beer bottle and a cherry on a slot machine. Okay... I exagerate... Christensens Dolphins... Now That's Art Mofo! Agghhh... I am dissing on Vegas... I better shut up.

I turned my mom on to Seinfeld. I got 22 papers to grade by Monday and 68 more to grade by Dec 2nd.

I am rambling... rambling... incoherently... You can't understand me... no one understands me... It's society.... the system man.... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

nighty night.

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