April 2010
66 posts
its time.
for those of you who cant be there.
516-446-8493
text some love.
im gonna go try to make this thing real.
love you all.
im going to actually burst into flames.
halfsister:
you are a secret keeper and I am a jellyfish, splayed open and translucent. I didn’t have anything to hide so I made it all up, wrote some secrets on the places you never look anymore. I trace them with my fingers, feel the way they’re raised like scars, pink and white like valentines.
one of the best new poets ive heard/met this year. frankie is going to make money off of...
Not Much Left To Say
tommorrow. its an odd thing. im aware that beating Jaamal St. John IN the nuyo is practically impossible. At the same time, this is a chance i’ve worked, literally, nine years for. Ive lost so many more slams than i’ve won. Ive been to runoff finals for four straight years, coming in second place every single year. Ive never ever attended a grand slam at the nuyo. For basically the...
SO AWESOME →
Play the original Mario as Link, Samus, Mega Man, the dude from Contra, the dude from Castlevania…and not like the stupid bullshit ones where they just do the same shit normal mario does. You can use Links Boomerag, MegaMans arm gun thing. Contra dude can do somesault jumps and shoot in every direction. ITS FUCKING AWESOME.
Fucking Facebook Is Sentient
Theres something really creepy about Facebook Ads. You know for goddamn sure that the reason half the shit they show there are appealing to you for a reason. They know…They know goddamnit.
everything you “like”. everything you “fan”. everything you search for. facebook fucking knows.
For instance last night i was told to click to sign a petition against allowing...
Awwww Shit. →
Part of the prize for winning semis last night was a ticket to the Annual Hollywood Does Poetry Benefit for Bowery Arts & Science on sunday. Its an important fundraisr for the BPC and its also fuckign ridiculously expensive. tickets range from $150-300, and its $1000 for a table of four. But theyre letting my mangy ass in there. Besides being at a cool show to help support an amazing NYC...
Urbana Semifinals Review For The Slam Geeks
I was in the quarter three semifinal and lost by .1 to Rico Steele. That was gutwrenching. Last night was equally insane and brutal, though fortunately this time i managed to win the slam.
For the slam geeks:
After Round 1:
(in order read)
a) Amaya - 23.4
b) Jon Sands - 24.6
c) Me - 25.4
d) Joanna Hoffman 25.7
e) Megan Falley 25.0
Super tight at this point. All the poets were coming out...
Off and running
Headed to Urbana finals….
and so it begins...
that phrase is one of my favorite arrangements of words ever. its like, very LOTR/Potter/Star Wars/Trek. and i love all of those things. but since i have neither wand nor lightsabre nor Narsil, i can only get so epically amped about my own life when it comes to slam.
and so…(tonight) it (the slam playoff season) begins…
April 27th - Urbana Semifinals. If i win this I move to the...
new shit
say it with me.
too early for this
there is a butterly orgy in my stomach.
“There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each...”
– Anaïs Nin (via fatalistichues) (via quote-book) (via youpopquizkid)
brian, i feel like you’d dig this.
(via meganfalley)
dug!
“Slam poets have infiltrated MFA programs. They are teaching in
universities....”
– Felice Belle (via poeticartifacts)
urbana season finale
last night wrapped up the 09-10 urbana regular season. and the following are the poets who will be competing in the fourth semifinal of the season (where one poet goes to the grand slam), and then the MegaQuasi Semifinal, in which four poets of the eight go to semifinals.
URBANA SEMIFINAL #4. April 27th, 2010.
Brian Omni Dillon (me)
Megan Falley
Joanna Hoffman
Jon Sands
Amaya Dimyea
URBAMA...
Real TV Drama
While the rest of the world has their panties in a twist about Lost, im dealing with a far more important television moment. a fourteen-year long mystery has been unearthed in South Park, Colorado. And tommorrow night, presumably, we will have some answers.
To review:
Fourteen years ago, the finale of the first season of South Park, we were presented with the debate of who the father of Eric...
burkeland:
Bistro feat. me, jimmy the loch and...
Mujer, Interrumpida...: Beef and Broccoli →
Beef and Broccoli
Look, let me make something abundantly clear for people who are sober after activities, they feel like they gotta comment on mine. First of all being a vegetarian should never be associated with being a revolutionary or being open-minded. That’s a dietary choice. If someone wants to proliferate the type of ignorance we’re supposed to be fighting by thinking that, you’re just...
“This is how life works Kyle. If you wanna find some good friends you gotta wade...”
– Eric Cartman (talking about Chat Roulette)
HOLY. FUCKING. SHIT. →
ive waited all my life for this. literally all of it. and he’s doing it at MSG, two days before my birthday.
CUPSI 2010 Redux: Cognac & Cookies
Typically i rehash my tour/tournament experiences in a stream of conscious style ramble. but this cupsi was very different. it wasnt like five seperate days. It was one day and one night (in my brain). Daytime was alot of practice and cookies and water and competitions and yelling and math and suny chants and winning and losing. Speaking of losing, our team never won a bout, but lost our bouts by...
Hey. Help Me Out Ovah Here
Do you know NYU Students? NYU Students who might be interested in taking a performance poetry class taught by me?
Heres the course description:
Spoken Word & Performance Poetry: Theory and Practice
FALL 2011
This class will examine the history and craft of spoken word poetry. Classes will be two hours in length. One hour dedicated to the study of either the history of the form or an...
