Comments on: Decade Wrap-Up: Top Twelve Spoken Word Pieces of the 00s http://www.gilesli.com/blog/2009/12/30/decade-wrap-up-top-twelve-spoken-word-pieces-of-the-00s/ Fri, 13 Aug 2010 18:29:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: stephen http://www.gilesli.com/blog/2009/12/30/decade-wrap-up-top-twelve-spoken-word-pieces-of-the-00s/comment-page-1/#comment-396 stephen Sun, 24 Jan 2010 03:22:32 +0000 http://gilesli.com/blog/?p=451#comment-396 man, i remember listening to the feedback cd for the first time after watching beau, ishle, you and leah, and yellowrage at ecasu duke 2002. that's when i first decided i gotta do this spoken word thing, because for the first time i heard people putting into words the things that i felt and thought for such a long time, with a vocabulary i didn't know was available to me. but when acid trip tango came on man, that- the way tim/malaya captured through his voice the story behind the words- that kind of craftsmanship- purely on a performance level, he could have been reading out of a telephone book and it would've been profound. of all the pieces by other poets that i've memorized, like your piece "woman," that was the first one i committed to memory. it was the one i learned the craft of performance off of. when malaya performs, his words have arms, and they gesture. you see it, hear it, feel it. or some poems stand out in context- like when bao read "you bring out the vietnamese in me" to a texas audience of mainly viet students- who've never been part of the east coast circuit, and experiencing the surge of energy as they fed off the piece- man, it's the ones, though the artist themselves may get tired of, the ones that stand the test of time- man, i remember listening to the feedback cd for the first time after watching beau, ishle, you and leah, and yellowrage at ecasu duke 2002. that’s when i first decided i gotta do this spoken word thing, because for the first time i heard people putting into words the things that i felt and thought for such a long time, with a vocabulary i didn’t know was available to me.

but when acid trip tango came on man, that- the way tim/malaya captured through his voice the story behind the words- that kind of craftsmanship- purely on a performance level, he could have been reading out of a telephone book and it would’ve been profound. of all the pieces by other poets that i’ve memorized, like your piece “woman,” that was the first one i committed to memory. it was the one i learned the craft of performance off of. when malaya performs, his words have arms, and they gesture. you see it, hear it, feel it.

or some poems stand out in context- like when bao read “you bring out the vietnamese in me” to a texas audience of mainly viet students- who’ve never been part of the east coast circuit, and experiencing the surge of energy as they fed off the piece- man, it’s the ones, though the artist themselves may get tired of, the ones that stand the test of time-

]]> By: Bao http://www.gilesli.com/blog/2009/12/30/decade-wrap-up-top-twelve-spoken-word-pieces-of-the-00s/comment-page-1/#comment-395 Bao Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:15:05 +0000 http://gilesli.com/blog/?p=451#comment-395 Bao Phi owes me $5! Bao Phi owes me $5!

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