My submission for this week’s www.RedRoom.com themed blog competition on “What is your favorite pop song?”
My submission for this week’s www.RedRoom.com themed blog competition on “What is your favorite pop song?”
The first in a series of reflections on the incredible Dialogue 2010, curated by Rose Deniz and on the topic of hybrid identities and location.
A found poem made up of song lyrics for this week’s www.redroom.com blog competition. My blog from last week, “The Sneeze”, was noted on their website as an honourable mention. Yeah!
Written on a pink postcard with your angel tattoo embossed in relief: I get a crush,I mean kickout of you. Where a rose-shaped stamp could go:PragueJune 11, 2009Watching your Europe tour DVD and thinking, “Damn, girl. You are crazy hot.”
Written on a postcard made out of the “Me & Bobby McGee” sheet music: P!nk cries on stageJust like you,Weeping, wailingHer pretty heart out. Where a Jack Daniels stamp could go it says:PragueJune 11, 2009I wrote this watching P!nk’s concert, and immediately afterwards she dedicated a bunch of songs to you. How weird is that?…
Written on a postcard-shaped mirror: Shapeshiftersof the WorldUNITE! Where a stamp could go but it’s your eye reflected:PragueJune 11, 2009I don’t know what I look like either.
Written on the buffalo hide Shaman’s rattle that is your voice: This is the slow painful rasp of healing incomplete. Where tobacco smoke will take this: October 24, 2008 Memory Lane I need more of you.
I bought this album on the 6-year “anniversary” of Wendy Soltero’s death because, well, sometimes you just need something fun and light to mark a somber occasion. It was the first CD that I had bought in more than a year and in being fun and light, it was money incredibly well spent. Music is…
written on a postcard shaped like the final disc of the ‘one tree hill’ season finale on the flip side it is written: you remind me of someone i love so muchthat in my longing and missing of him i almost forgotthat now i know there is youwhere the stamp should go:november 2, 2006istanbul, turkey…
‘the rose’ and the three people in the world for whom i can sing after years of wanting to see ‘the rose,’ i stayed up till almost the crack of dawn the other night and watched it. what a beautiful film, and bette midler has one of the most powerful voices in the history of…