Haiku Captions

proud and angular;
reflective, industrial
she reaches toward sky.

I like my friend Drew. He is a photographer that takes pretty sweet photographs all the time. I just put a link to his picture blog. Ignore the ones of weddings or babies and only look at the random shots.

I've been wanting to write poems inspired by his stuff for a while. I decided to do Haiku Captions because I think this form fits his style. Not that he's Asian, because he isn't.


Check out his Flicker

Or if you need pictures of your weddings and babies and random stuff go to his business website Van Horn Visuals

Colbert Talks Poetry

The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c

Elizabeth Alexander

Colbert at Christmas
Colbert Christmas DVD

Green Screen
Bill O'Reilly Interview

I freaking love this man!!!

I read an essay by Bruce Ellis Benson today at one of my favorite sites The Matthew's House Project. The piece is titled How Not to be an Artistic Whore. It is a basic discussion of how one's philosophy of art interacts with faith. I haven't spent much time with this question since college. I used to spend hours fashioning my ideas about myself, my God and my art. I used to be quite opinonated on such ideas as "Christian Art" versus "Art which happened to made by people who are Christians."

I find very little of this semantic nonsense useful in my current life as an educational whore. But these ideas still fascinate me. Benson breaks down a character from Chaim Potok’s novel My Name is Asher Lev. Asher Lev is a Hasidic Jew who a young age shows himself to be a gifted artist. Art is forbidden by his community and is seen as creating false idols. The book is a story of that tension. I put this book on my reading list and look forward to wrestling with these bygone ideas.

Recklessly innocent; He stayed, fearless
Eternity embodied in Immaturity
A boy with business
Pulled into the presence of priesthood
Melchizedek in miniature.

Three days later.
Three worrisome wisdom filled days.
Three timeless tomb-less questioning days after.

Caught in the act of defiant worship
Can a mother reprimand her Savior?
Where else would he be?
Being Human fully at the feet of forever.

Then He obeyed.

I came across a poet that I find totally awesome today while pretentiously reading The New Yorker online. He is perfectly weird: exquisitely eccentric and intelligently silly. And apparently he happens to teach at Columbia College Chicago. If you like it check out 5 more of his poems.

Alien vs. Predator

by Michael Robbins January 12, 2009 issue of The New Yorker

Praise this world, Rilke says, the jerk.
We’d stay up all night. Every angel’s
berserk. Hell, if you slit monkeys
for a living, you’d pray to me, too.
I’m not so forgiving. I’m rubber, you’re glue.

That elk is such a dick. He’s a space tree
making a ski and a little foam chiropractor.
I set the controls, I pioneer
the seeding of the ionosphere.
I translate the Bible into velociraptor.

In front of Best Buy, the Tibetans are released,
but where’s the whale on stilts that we were promised?
I fight the comets, lick the moon,
pave its lonely streets.
The sandhill cranes make brains look easy.

I go by many names: Buju Banton,
Camel Light, the New York Times.
Point being, rickshaws in Scranton.
I have few legs. I sleep on meat.
I’d eat your bra—point being—in a heartbeat.

I freaking love the line "I translate the Bible into velociraptor." Man I wish I could have taken some poetry while I was wasting all that money on a theater degree.

This is the full episode of FOTC Season 2. I love that they put it online!!!

Season 2 Online Premiere - Flight of the Conchords (US Only) - watch more funny videos

This is the greatest show on Television. I'm glad my friend Anni has HBO so I can catch all of the goodness.

Since I am too busy to write as of late I give you poems of a different, far more talented poet named Billy



Billy Collins is awesome!!!

There is another Klangs show coming up on Friday. It is all ages and will be excellent. The theatrics are only getting bigger. Plus we are playing with two excellent bands. Here is the info.

The Klangs
The Abracadabras
Queen's Club

Youthfront Auditorium
4715 Rainbow Blvd
Mission, KS 66205
Friday, October 24th @ 7:00 PM
$6 at the door
All Ages

The Pitch did a story on the show at the Crosstown Station. There is also a pretty good review of the album that was in INK a couple weeks ago.


For those of you who came out to the last two Klangs shows thanks a lot here is a link to more pics from that weekend.

9.19.08
the klangs official cd release and debut performance with namelessnumberheadman
the brick
1727 mcgee
kansas city, mo 64108
$7 at the door
10 pm
21+

9.20.08
the klangs with the khrusty brothers
crosstown station
1522 mcgee
kansas city, mo 64108
$8 at the door
8 pm
21+

Read more about the band here

Or about my involvement here

Watch this epic YouTube video prologue

So the wife and I went to First Fridays tonight with our good buddies Danny and Ashley. They have some friends Nicholas and Angela Snyder who make these awesome found art robots called Nerdbots. They are amazingly adorable.



They are in a contest this month and I want them to win so go here and vote. It takes a little bit because you have to create a Login but it is so worth it.