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[labellementeuse]

the audience

so two guys are in a room,
and they're standing pretty close together.
maybe a little too close, perhaps they're lovers,
or maybe they're brothers, anyway,
there they are, take a good long look.

behind the men is a table,
a small thing,
an incidental detail,
and the vase is on this table.

there's a vase on the table
and the vase is filled with flowers
and the flowers are daisies
and the flowers are sunflowers
and the men can't even see the flowers
and the men don't even notice the table
and the men are just looking at each other.

you ought to wonder who put the vase there,
and who chose the flowers, cheap bright shocking things,
things picked out of someone else's garden,
who decided to put them in this vase,
on this table,
in this room,
behind the two men
who are standing
a little bit
too close
to each other,
and who don't
even
notice.


Hey, if I keep posting poetry outside a cut-tag -- because I don't really like to cut-tag poetry, for various reasons -- at this rate, will some of you get frustrated with it taking up too much space on your flists? if it does start to annoy, use the comment button and tell me and I'll start cutting them.

In other news, it's nearly 3 pm and I had this whole list of things to do today, which included doing the dishes, tidying my room, doing my Ethics reading and my Poetry reading, revising Gaussian elimination, figuring out what cosh and sinh are, and doing my tute homework for both my math classes - these are in ascending order of importance, so the least important stuff is first on the list. Obviously, I've cleaned and I've tidied and I've done about two pages of Ethics reading (before I got sick of reading about the death penalty, because all the other civilised nations gave up on it already and I can only read people quoting the same passage of Kant so many times before I throw up --) but every time I think about doing some Calculus I make a face and watch another episode of Grey's Anatomy, or rewatch this multifannish vid and try to match yet another fandom. I've got X-Files (which I recognise purely by osmosis - I'm sure there are a lot of really momentous moments that I just don't get), Firefly, POTC, SGA, the Matrix, Angel, LOTR, Lost, comics, New and Old Who, Buffy, (by going frame-by-frame through the section with book and DVD spines) and Jenkins (ditto!) and obviously Trek. (Going frame by frame through some of it was actually really fun - like I recognised the bit where Angel is falling through the ocean, which I hadn't previously picked up on, only the Angel/Spike bit at the end; or the clip riiiight at the beginning with Mal and Jayne slinging a trunk into one of Serenity's smuggling holes, which I recognised when I saw it but couldn't identify til I slowed it down. Also, the Mona Lisas.) There's also a whoooole bunch of clips that I haven't got a fucking clue about.

I am particularly fond of Batman staring at the copyright symbol.

Comments

[bad-mushroom.livejournal.com]

This is my favorite thing you've written. Lovely.

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, thank you. :)

[bad-mushroom.livejournal.com]

Very welcome.

[kheha.livejournal.com]

I really, really like the poem. (And I don't really mind that it's uncut, because it's actually your work -- *sidelong glances at those who post pop song lyrics* -- though if they get much longer than that, it might be better to cut just for length? Anyway.)

I love that vid. I must have watched it at least 50 times (seriously) in the past 24 hours. Must figure out how to click through it frame-by-frame, though, as well, because I'm sure I'm missing many references (like the X-Files clips, even though I actually know what those characters look like (as opposed to, say, any Jossverse characters)).... But yes. It's amazing. I want to shout it from the rooftops. It also makes me want to get into all these other fandoms (especially with SGA I feel like I'm missing so very much), just so I can recognize them from the vid. If only I had the time. *sigh*

You found Jenkins?? Where? I have the Star Treks, Ninth and Fourth Doctors, Matrix, Pirates, Batman, LoTR, comics, Boston Legal, and V for Vendetta (though I haven't actually seen that movie yet...) I think that means the only one I have that you haven't is Boston Legal.... Hmm.

Okay, will now stop rambling in your journal! :-)

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :)

I actually got it from your rec *g* And you're right, it's totally awesome. The way I'm doing it frame by frame is I'm watching it in Media Player Classic, and in MPC you can go forward and backward by frame if you pause it and then use left and right arrows. VERY convenient. No idea how you'd do it in WMP or VLC; VLC almost certainly has a function for that kind of thing, though.

I didn't think there was that much SGA content - I haven't seen anything beyond S1, but I think I'd at least recognise them all - obviously Atlantis rising is pretty iconic.

Ah-hah, you know the bit that has... a character I don't recognise, there's a hand on his face and he's turning and there's green text over it, and on the right there's a whole bunch of book covers flickering past? Textual Poachers is one of them, along with Stories of JRR Tolkien and a bunch of other Tolkien, Jorge someone, lots of le Guin, Douglas Adams, the Neverending Story, a whole bunch of Patrick O'Brian, PG Wodehouse, the Once and Future King, Jean M Auel (I think - I can't read the text but I think I recognise the spines), THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE, a whole bunch of things I don't recognise but lots of people out there probably would, lots of Trek noevelisations including The Trouble with Tribbles, Gene Wolfe, About Writing, Stars In My Pocket Like Grains of Sand, something I am 79% sure is naomi Novik's Black Powder War, Moby Dick, and about eight zillion other things I can't read.

... Okay, I may be obsessing a little more than is healthy, but this is fun, and one of my favourite games. :P

Boston Legal! Ah-hah, I totally recognise that now! (um, from ads on TV. Its the shot, all in grey, where the plump guy pans to the guy in the funny tie? right? right?)

[kheha.livejournal.com]

"The plump guy"! *sporfles* = William Shatner. =D Yeah, that's where I was seeing the Boston Legal.... :-)

Bwahaha! Yay for frame-by-frame! This reveals that dots in the beginning make up fractals of never-ending detail (!) and that the green text during the mind-meld (and later) is *fannish* computer screen writing (was assuming Matrix clips, but that it's fannish writing that looks like Matrix clips is so. much. better.) and that the book titles are, indeed, love.... (There's one of Bury's Cyberspaces of their Own, too, which I read earlier this year, right under Textual Poachers -- academic writing in addition to the texts themselves! Eee!)

You mentioned Jenkins, and I googled for his face -- now I think there's also an actual clip of him right at the beginning, in addition to that image of his book (before the Ninth Doctor in the chair that shatters into photographs). This is layers on layers; I love it.

(Okay, not so much for the SGA in this one, I suppose, though I did actually miss the entire Atlantis rising bit until someone else mentioned it and I figured that's what the water had to be from.... The series seems to be coming up a lot in various paths recently, though, and this brought it home again. ;-))

Yay!

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

Oh, so sue me, I've never seen the show. :P

Dude, I wondered who that guy was - I assumed a creator of some kind, but that's actually pretty cool.

(Yeah, Atlantis sure is everywhere.)

:D

[nzlemming.livejournal.com]

There's a shot of Walter Koenig in amongst some of the trek ones that I'll swear is Bester from Babylon 5 and it melds into a bunch of lightspots that says "Grey Council" to me.

Very cool vid, and I like the song too

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I miss all the old SF shows, I guess. It is really cool!

[never-evil.livejournal.com]

OMG is that poem by YOU? I was all wow such a great poem, must be famous, I wonder who the poet is XD

Anyhow great poem! I love that I can tell so vividly how "the audience" is trying so hard not to recognise anything and instead are utterly determined to stare anywhere but there (and yet can't ha!)

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

oh, you're sweet! thank you!

[deutscheami.livejournal.com]

There was a clip of Blakes7! And I think that was the only one that I caught that you didn't have already.

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

Hey, cool! My mother used to watch that show, haha - actually, I made her watch Firefly, and she just sat there all, this is just like Blakes7. I dunno if I believed her, but it was funny.

[kitsunerei88]

It is a good poem ^^

Gaussian elimination. . . hehehee. . . I remember coming across that term and being like "WHAT IS THAT?" and then. . . i realized soon after that it was the fancy name of what I called "row reduction to echelon form of a matrix." --'' Maaan, I wish my teacher would use the same terms as the textbook. Just like the "Eigenspace" thing. "What is that. . .? Ohhh, it's what we were doing in class. . . o.O"

Calculus is scary. I'm pretty good at calculus, it just scares me anyway.

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

thanks doll!

haha, yeah. mr gauss is freaking EVERYWHERE, though. my calc teacher, in the middle of a class, suddenly stopped, chucked a pickture of him up on the OHP, and told us an apocryphal anecdote about him as a child before going back to the problem. It was totally bizarre, actually, she was just like - "so that's how you differentiate that vector, and by the way, have a story about gauss, and now we're going to look at the speed and velocity of this vector and blah blah blah". crazy. calculus gives me fucking nightmares, this course is going to kill me.

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

*picture. PICTURE. I'm losing my mind.

[kitsunerei88]

Calculus IS nightmare fodder, yes it is. . . for some reason, I'm relatively good at it, relatively being it gives me a headache and I go nuts trying to understand it, but eventually I do and end up acing exams and stuff. . . o.O

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

I'm okay at it, I just find that I only do well if I work and review very very consistently... it's now been a year since I've even dealt with calculus so it's a little shock to the system, you know?

[kitsunerei88]

Ahh, yeah. . . work consistently is a rule for everything. xD. At least, I don't need to take calculus past second year. . .

[disturbed-kiwi.livejournal.com]

Poem = teh wickedness

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :)

[blademistress.livejournal.com]

Your poem is very cool, and I would have enjoyed studying it about a billion times more than I did studying anything in modern poetry. :)

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

Thank you! *blush*

[miriamus.livejournal.com]

Poerty outside cuts is a very good thing :)

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

Aw, glad you think so, sweetie!