Comments on: Gorgeous means six bars on your cellphone, always.

Gorgeous means six bars on your cellphone, always.

dobbs — Sun, 24 Dec 2006 10:17:58 -0800

Gorgeous - a spoken word poem by Rives. {via TED Talks}

By: languagehat

languagehat — Sun, 24 Dec 2006 11:17:21 -0800

I love his phrasing and the way he uses his voice in general. Thanks for that.

By: luckypozzo

luckypozzo — Sun, 24 Dec 2006 14:52:37 -0800

Wow, that's real close to almost being poetry.

By: RokkitNite

RokkitNite — Sun, 24 Dec 2006 18:28:10 -0800

Gnngh. I wanted to hate it. I did not hate it. He's not exactly mediocre but, well, it's just a list poem with perhaps three genuinely striking metaphors that doesn't build towards anything. You could swap the lines around with little or no fall off in meaning. List poems are lazy, lazy, lazy. If you're going to do them, either make them hilarious (this isn't) or make them tell a story (this doesn't). But (as a performance poet myself) I'm being deliberately tough, even bitchy perhaps. IMHO this is definitely in the upper bracket of performance poetry.

By: katillathehun

katillathehun — Sun, 24 Dec 2006 23:40:07 -0800

For a minute there, I was questioning my comprehensive skills. I liked his performance, but I couldn't make heads or tails of what his poem was actually telling me.

By: srboisvert

srboisvert — Mon, 25 Dec 2006 06:23:41 -0800

I am beginning to find this place a counter indicator. If the first few comments poop on something then I know it will be good. Even when I am one of the poopers. If there are not a bunch of comment turds then it is probably a an Apple product placement. Youtube Video of gorgeous