| my 24 hour recape.... the East Lansing version |
[Apr. 10th, 2008|01:42 pm] |
got started late. Couldn't get my laptop hooked up right... and THEN couldn't get the web cam working..not a good start. but i had a couple people there... 5 or six in the beginning, so i decided to start. Opened with poetry by me. Started with a lot of my earlier pieces. I did it because i think it's important to see where you writing has come, how it has grown. And though i groaned through some of the work, it was interesting to see my own growth.
the first couple of hours were not problem. breezed through them like a hot knife through butter. Mostly because i work nights and i'm used to being up till 7:30am anyway. So everyone who thought i had some superhuman reserve... alas...twas just my midnight shift kicking in. One of my frat brothers came in around 2am with a new WEBCAM so i finally got hooked into the Matrix and got my internet audience watching. Had people in and out all night long. My boy Mark form back in Md styayed hooked in the entire 24 hours, popping in and out at various times.
big shout outs to ZOD for telling me about the chloroseptic throat spray, wouldn't of made it through with out it. There comes a certain time, around the 7 oclock am when you've been spitting for 10 hours.... and you realize that you still have 14 hours to go,and you start thinks... WHOS FUCKING IDEA WAS THIS!!!!
i started off with themed hours.
1st hours was my stuff,
2nd hours was nerd/funny
3rd hours was political
4th hours was african-amercian
after that it was a free for all. no holds barred, all cation thrown to the wind, as i started doing whatever i felt like. i had all my poems color coordinated so i had a general idea of what was where, and so if i felt like grabbing a funny poem ,i'd grab a book with a orange tab sticking out of it. wen pretty well
10am Sunday morning..i figured was church time, so i read religious themed poetry. i read Carl Sandsburg - to a contemporary bunk shooter, james weldon johnson's Creation, Prodical Son, and Prayer. Then after that i embarked on my longest reading of the entire 24 hour reading. I read the Song of Solomon out of the bible. the entire book.
8 chapters, 117 verses.
now granted its not the biggest book of the bible, and granted i know Howl, and Leaves of Grass ,Beowulf, Illiad and the oddessy both dwarf the Song of Solomon, but its probably the longest poem i ever had to read out load. Especially after having already done 14 hours of poetry.
it was fun SOS is pretty erotic and graphic at times..... at the end this guy asked me what peom it was, i told him song of solomon. he was like from where, i said the bible... his face... PRICELESS... he was like THE HOLY BIBLE!?>!!?!??!?!?!?! i was like.. uhh yeah..... he was flabbergasted.... i either made him convert ot Christianity, or made him leave the church... he had no idea anything like that wa sin there... that was fun
at noon a guy came with William Shakespeare sonnets... i had people call out numbers and i read the corresponding sonnet.. that was fun. did that for about 30 minutes....
after that there was the hard period.... from 12noon till 5pm i started struggling.. my hardest part came around 3:30pm where i just was HURTING... i took a 30min break went downstairs and crashed in basement of the Cafe. came back @ 4pm ready to rock again, not totally into it, but ok.
5pm... doing much better ..started seeing the end in sight
my crowd started to come back around this time
i had big crowd at the very beginning, then again around 3am ...then again from 5pm-until
last 2 hours were great. i was a bit jealous of everyone else at 7pm cause i knew it was their last hour.. i had started at 9pm ..instead of 8pm..and briefly thought about cheating, but was like FUCK IT , no one would know.. but me, and i'd be fucking pissed if i couldnt just knock off that last hour. so 8pm came, and it flew by. i did some of my pieces, and at the very end, in honor of one of my poetry mentors Professor Taz Yamaguchi i read haiku for the last 5 minutes to end off the set... i ended a 24hour 300+ poems poetry set... with 17 syllables.... there was something simply beatiful about that.
HIGHLIGHTS
- watching
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) scottwoods on my comp at the same time - getting to spit i, nightmare so the Columbus people could hear it during one of thier breaks
- getting love form the angels over the net
- my friends coming in @ 3am to support
- it was the same night as cederfest... so counting the ambulances, and firetrucks, and police cars go by was fun
- at the end of every set i read a song ..as if it were a peom, i did johnny cash, hank williams, common, notorious BIG, and some others.. it was my way of saying there is poetry in everything and everywhere, even i you dont know it
- the fabulous turkey chili that the cafe gave me through out the night! it kept me going!!!!!!
- my co-worker who was just going to "pop in" with her boyfriend ,and ended up staying for 4 hours
- webcasting poetry
- all the nerd poetry that i had , it was some of the crowds favorite stuff, and i owe the nerds big time... will be thinking of an appropriate gift to give them at this years nationals.
- My poetry coach Deb Marsh and Steve Marsh watching online! that was great!!!!
- finishing the job
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