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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

[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!