Tag Archive: Music

Intertextuality and Irony in Lady Gaga’s PAPARAZZI

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My submission for this week’s www.RedRoom.com themed blog competition on “What is your favorite pop song?”

Intimate Strangers

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.

Songs Of Freedom: A Found Poem

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!

A Love Letter to P!nk

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.”

A Love Letter to Janis Joplin

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?…

A Love Letter to P!nk

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.

A Love Letter to Soma Witt

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.

Pink, “I’m Not Dead!” 2006

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…

a love letter to The Singer/Guitarist of Jimmy Eat World

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, what next?, and the brenda chenowith syndrome

‘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…