Wednesday, December 08, 2004
slammin..
Last night I went to another Hammer and Tongue poetry slam at the zodiac.
Much recommended! Hugely entertaining, cultural, community, beer, all that!
I was a judge ( cool huh? ... ok, selected randomly from the audience.. )
Anyway, guest star Buddy Wakefield rocked, as a stand-up commedian as well as a poet. I particularly liked his one about the truck-stop-shop-woman. He asks her "is this it, for you?", and she says she's off any minute, but just might not get to drive. I thougt it was a bit like that chapter about the truck stop diner in the Grapes of Wrath.
Oxford's finest Steve Larkin also rocked. When I find a copy of his "Live in Leeds" online, i'll post it. (These poets don't seem very keen on posting their material online - maybe they worry it wouldn't work properly just printed?) Anyway, it's about students living in designer poverty in northern university towns, and being young and classless and free - and when they leave, getting jobs with the MOD. :)
Much recommended! Hugely entertaining, cultural, community, beer, all that!
I was a judge ( cool huh? ... ok, selected randomly from the audience.. )
Anyway, guest star Buddy Wakefield rocked, as a stand-up commedian as well as a poet. I particularly liked his one about the truck-stop-shop-woman. He asks her "is this it, for you?", and she says she's off any minute, but just might not get to drive. I thougt it was a bit like that chapter about the truck stop diner in the Grapes of Wrath.
Oxford's finest Steve Larkin also rocked. When I find a copy of his "Live in Leeds" online, i'll post it. (These poets don't seem very keen on posting their material online - maybe they worry it wouldn't work properly just printed?) Anyway, it's about students living in designer poverty in northern university towns, and being young and classless and free - and when they leave, getting jobs with the MOD. :)
