Tihmmnmmish's Cuddle-Friendly Fireside Threadcast

I'm feeling better today. Gradually over the last couple days, I have felt better than I have in a long time. I even went to the store last night with one of my friends. She told me she was proud of me because I waited for her outside for a minute or two while she was on the way to my house to pick me up. Geez, I feel pathetic. lol

Anyway, I been working on a villanelle for weeks now and it is kicking my ass. I am determined to dance with it today.

Have a good one!
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Wow that's really great lots of hugs n stuff :rose:

I've just created what I hope and think is a new poetry form similar to a Sestina which I have put on Chipbutty's challenge page ..... thinking of calling it an Annikey
 
I've been thinking a lot about art and literature movements. Ya know, ever since Dali used film to create repulsive images..like the woman's eye being cut by a razorblade, it seems like the goal of many artists has been to generate and explore the human reaction to things that disgust us. Then, we have the abstract expressionists, like Jonas Gerard who I adore. People who paint music as I like to do sometimes.

In literature, do we have any unifying characteristics of this Post Modern era? I love Ray Bradbury and his descriptions. Honestly, I tend to read the classics and not much current nonfiction other than Ray Bradbury. I haven't recognized any common characteristics among new poetry except modern language itself.

What I'm getting at is that it just seems that the current time in the Post Modern era is marked by everyone doing their own thing. Am I missing something here? I probably am. I just don't see a movement of any sorts. Do you know what I mean? Where do you think we are going? Do you see any sort of direction?
 
Well music's gone kinda that way. It's sometimes difficult to grasp the reality of the independence one now enjoys thanks to the internet. DIY all the way baby. Bye Bye Record Label Execs. You can make your own thing your way and choose among numerous avenues of presentation. You can give some away, you can sell others... if you can find those who enjoy your stuff you can build a fan base. It's you sharing your soul with a willing listener. Now, there probably won't be the huge albums anymore. And the listener might have to do a lot of hunting to find stuff they like from names they might be totally unfamiliar with, but on the other hand, the choices are potentially innumerable. Seems like it's all switched around: once upon a time it was the dream to get signed to a major label and start shopping for a jet. Now it's like, who in their right mind would want to sign to a major when you can just do whatever you want the way you want, and the jet's too much hassle anyway.

I wonder if literature is not far behind, except a little slower, because literature attracts more tweed-dressed pedants than the music world, so they have the heavier hand of influence, but it's a grasp they're apparently losing. I mean, I just recently discovered scribd. You can write whatever you want, put it out there, for free or for sale... for just one example. And yeah, I do like the real book and the magazine and the newspaper. I mean just can't picture reading Proust on that kindle thingamajig. But nothing's perfect.

Something like that.
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Well, I think the equivalent to that in literature is the print-on-demand and Kindle of Amazon. Poets and writers can now self-publish anything without paying any costs at all if they choose. The downside is that the publishing companies have acted as a sort of quality control.. however, their version of quality control is often based on the dollar and what they think will sell.

So, is that what you think this movement (upcoming, building movement) is about? Independence? It really could be. Everyone is free to do their own thing now.

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yeah, and I'm not too keen on that Kindle thing either..that's why their print-on-demand is so attractive to me.
 
Ha! I signed back in just to say what you just said. Yeah, that's probably the movement: Dear BigShot So and So, fuck off, we don't need you anymore. Lit could be considered a pioneer in this regard. And how long will it last? Who knows? The potentials are available here and now. Might as well check 'em out. Hm?
 
If you had to give this upcoming movement a name, would you call it Individualism?
 
Hm. Don't know. Shall think on it. I'm still attempting to understand these possibilities are really available, and find it hard to get to work because of trying to decide which route to take, you know, the usual. Mostly been in the music mind lately, but when I discovered scribd, I became attracted to picking a fiction and working on it, putting it up there, just see what happens. Or a magazine. That's very appealing. Some kind of magazine. Ah, see...?
 
Oysterism-- as in oysterisation? which to us Americans would probably be "oysterization." As in the movement from paper tickets to cards.. new format.. brilliant..

If you just made that up, you must have some bizarre psychic connection to our dear Annie..

:)

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Of course, if you meant it as a metaphor for how individual the art is-- it's doubly brilliant and works on both levels
 
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Well, it was the first word that came to mind, so any brilliance is pure coincidence, unless juices of wondrous funkiness truly be afoot. A bit exciting, to tell ya the truth. More than a bit.
 
I think we make a great team-- you find the most luscious words and phrases and I applaud their brilliance and show the meaning.. let's take this act on the road. lol

oysterism.. oysterisation of postmodernism
something to that effect is going in my poem

:kiss:
 
Oysterization ain't bad.

And really, just thought of this, but there really is meaning in it, because oysters would be plentiful, and the artist might produce many, or the hunter might crack many open, and find few that please the appetite. But the artist or seeker could also make or find an oyster with a pearl inside.
 
Ha. Don't know about that. Maybe everyone gets their own bucket of oysters?

Well, I stumbled onto some stern warnings about publishing 'adult' content. Apparently they decided to 'clean up' the community. Yet I could still find works that, from my admittedly limited perspective, seemed to qualify for 'adult' content. For some you had to click a button that said you promised you were at least 18. So I don't know how stringent their 'adult content policy really is or if there is arbitrary enforcement. So Lit's still about the best bet for the aspirant writer who may feel drawn to attempt 'adult' content. I've said many times, Lit is really very writer-type friendly, but some districts and alleys certain types of makeups will do well to be aware of, and avoid them somehow. Sometimes you can really od on Lit, and you wake one day and realize you've not really accomplished anything, and you're addicted to discussion areas with tones that might be poisonous to some certain delicate systems, and they get coursing through the veins and polluting the brain, and no real writing is made. That's when it's time to back off, take a break, purge the poisons, go on a journey to a different place, even if it's only imaginary. Come back and see the good parts, the mood starts to come back, the juicy stuff, find an old story or poem that promises great pleasures, think of some new stuff, start getting interested again, excited again, determine to just write, write, write, all kinds of stuff, put it here, put it there, be aware that no matter what you do, someone or several someones will think it sucks and won't be shy about telling you they think it sucks, which they have as much right to do as the writer has to write whatever comes along, a small price to pay really, for the joy in giving any texture or color to anything the imagination spits up. Sumpm like dat...
 
my latest Alma Mater made it into the NCAA men's basketball tournament!
They had to win 4 games in 4 days to get there.
Doubt they'll get past the first round, but maybe they're hot at the right time.
 
I had a doctor appointment today. I got off the med that was making it difficult to concentrate (Seroquel), and he put me on trazodone. I went to pick up the prescription and couldn't, cuz my doc didn't put it on a special script. The pharmacist explained that it needs to be on special paper because it's a narcotic. It's a narcotic. It's a fuckin narcotic.

Did I just jump out of the frying pan and into the fire here?
 
I had a doctor appointment today. I got off the med that was making it difficult to concentrate (Seroquel), and he put me on trazodone. I went to pick up the prescription and couldn't, cuz my doc didn't put it on a special script. The pharmacist explained that it needs to be on special paper because it's a narcotic. It's a narcotic. It's a fuckin narcotic.

Did I just jump out of the frying pan and into the fire here?

Well it depends ......... some drugs have different uses than you would think of, when I sprained my sacro iliac the doctor put me on dimazipam(sp?) which I always thought of as an antidepressant but apparently stopped my muscles going into excruciating spasms
 
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I had a doctor appointment today. I got off the med that was making it difficult to concentrate (Seroquel), and he put me on trazodone. I went to pick up the prescription and couldn't, cuz my doc didn't put it on a special script. The pharmacist explained that it needs to be on special paper because it's a narcotic. It's a narcotic. It's a fuckin narcotic.

Did I just jump out of the frying pan and into the fire here?

There are different degrees of narcotics, too.
I'm not particularly knowledgeable - go ask your doctor about the risks.
 
can I have a cuddle please? only 4 people tried my made up form showing just how crappy it is
Dear Annie,

Don't judge the way we all feel about you by looking at the challenge. Sure it's a hard poem to write, but that's more a mark for you. Your invention of a tough challenge and the mastery of your own stringent form, means you're on a much higher level than most. That's all. It's a good thing to have the trick of, and there's the reward. We were challenged and only a few managed to answer it.

I still love you. <hugs>

BTW, it may not be a good week for a challenge. You know how we ebb and flow around here, maybe a weekly glove slap is too much to start?... leave it up and keep bumping the thread, eventually the lazy buggers round here will try it.
 
Dear Annie,

Don't judge the way we all feel about you by looking at the challenge. Sure it's a hard poem to write, but that's more a mark for you. Your invention of a tough challenge and the mastery of your own stringent form, means you're on a much higher level than most. That's all. It's a good thing to have the trick of, and there's the reward. We were challenged and only a few managed to answer it.

I still love you. <hugs>

BTW, it may not be a good week for a challenge. You know how we ebb and flow around here, maybe a weekly glove slap is too much to start?... leave it up and keep bumping the thread, eventually the lazy buggers round here will try it.

Thats an idea - leave it up a little longer.
No one else has volunteered for next week or expressed interest in drawing names from a hat (using my little program, for example).
 
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