Nothing like getting into a soft, comfortable bed.
From the gotpoetry forum, reposted from the slamlist by Sage Francis:
“I am pleased to announce that St. Louis has forged a partnership with Clearchannel Communications. This deal is a great opportunity to grow the NPS from year to year. Clearchannel has suggested that they possibly would be interested in a national partnership from year to year.
The deal breaks down with three radio stations like this;
Z107 Fm, The Beat and Magic will each run three ads per day for three weeks…. with 63 ads per station which gives us 189 produced spots. Each spot will be sixty seconds.
Each station will also provide one live remote during the event.
This package is valued at $106,000.00. I cannot tell you how important this deal is for the national movement. I hope you will embrace the need for media partners as you grow this event forward.
I can understand the reluctance to have certain sponsors branded to this event, however, there is no bigger media partner than Clearchannel out there…and they were the only media company that could offer this package.
Additionally we have purchased radio spots to solely promote finals night. This again was partly in-kind. We will pay $1500.00 cash for the extra radio coverage for finals night. $106,000.00 coverage for only $1500.00 is a great and awesome deal folks. Clearchannel has been most gracious and one of the best contacts to date.”
Not sure how to react? Some other stuff about ClearChannel to think about:
Dark Matter 
July 8th, 2004 at 4:05 pm
Re: we need a new word for yikes!!!
withdraw?! not when there is a carton of smokes in the tote bag.
July 8th, 2004 at 4:05 pm
Re: we need a new word for yikes!!!
withdraw?! not when there is a carton of smokes in the tote bag.
July 8th, 2004 at 4:05 pm
Re: we need a new word for yikes!!!
withdraw?! not when there is a carton of smokes in the tote bag.
July 8th, 2004 at 4:05 pm
Re: we need a new word for yikes!!!
withdraw?! not when there is a carton of smokes in the tote bag.
July 8th, 2004 at 1:00 pm
Re: Mexico City?
Margarita, on the rocks, no salt. 🙂
July 8th, 2004 at 1:00 pm
Re: Mexico City?
Margarita, on the rocks, no salt. 🙂
July 8th, 2004 at 1:00 pm
Re: Mexico City?
Margarita, on the rocks, no salt. 🙂
July 8th, 2004 at 1:00 pm
Re: Mexico City?
Margarita, on the rocks, no salt. 🙂
July 8th, 2004 at 12:55 pm
lets gather all the information we can…..then…..
boycott this motherfucker!!!!
if this is for real – then i’m going to encourage my team/venue to withdraw – i feel tainted by my participation in the Def Poetry Slamoff in Boston, last winter – I want to feel clean again – why can’t i get clean!!!!!!!!!!
July 8th, 2004 at 12:55 pm
lets gather all the information we can…..then…..
boycott this motherfucker!!!!
if this is for real – then i’m going to encourage my team/venue to withdraw – i feel tainted by my participation in the Def Poetry Slamoff in Boston, last winter – I want to feel clean again – why can’t i get clean!!!!!!!!!!
July 8th, 2004 at 12:55 pm
lets gather all the information we can…..then…..
boycott this motherfucker!!!!
if this is for real – then i’m going to encourage my team/venue to withdraw – i feel tainted by my participation in the Def Poetry Slamoff in Boston, last winter – I want to feel clean again – why can’t i get clean!!!!!!!!!!
July 8th, 2004 at 12:55 pm
lets gather all the information we can…..then…..
boycott this motherfucker!!!!
if this is for real – then i’m going to encourage my team/venue to withdraw – i feel tainted by my participation in the Def Poetry Slamoff in Boston, last winter – I want to feel clean again – why can’t i get clean!!!!!!!!!!
July 8th, 2004 at 12:46 pm
Mexico City?
LOL! I’m already here! Come on down and I’ll buy you a drink.
July 8th, 2004 at 12:46 pm
Mexico City?
LOL! I’m already here! Come on down and I’ll buy you a drink.
July 8th, 2004 at 12:46 pm
Mexico City?
LOL! I’m already here! Come on down and I’ll buy you a drink.
July 8th, 2004 at 12:46 pm
Mexico City?
LOL! I’m already here! Come on down and I’ll buy you a drink.
July 8th, 2004 at 12:27 pm
Re: depends on how you look at it
It opens up a lot of potential opportunities that, handled properly, could make NPS relevant as a star-making vehicle…
Change “NPS” and “star making vehicle” to “the Soviet Union” and “worker’s paradise”.
See you in Mexico City. I’ll give Frida your regards.
July 8th, 2004 at 12:27 pm
Re: depends on how you look at it
It opens up a lot of potential opportunities that, handled properly, could make NPS relevant as a star-making vehicle…
Change “NPS” and “star making vehicle” to “the Soviet Union” and “worker’s paradise”.
See you in Mexico City. I’ll give Frida your regards.
July 8th, 2004 at 12:27 pm
Re: depends on how you look at it
It opens up a lot of potential opportunities that, handled properly, could make NPS relevant as a star-making vehicle…
Change “NPS” and “star making vehicle” to “the Soviet Union” and “worker’s paradise”.
See you in Mexico City. I’ll give Frida your regards.
July 8th, 2004 at 12:27 pm
Re: depends on how you look at it
It opens up a lot of potential opportunities that, handled properly, could make NPS relevant as a star-making vehicle…
Change “NPS” and “star making vehicle” to “the Soviet Union” and “worker’s paradise”.
See you in Mexico City. I’ll give Frida your regards.
July 8th, 2004 at 12:20 pm
Re: It’s pathetic to pay for coverage
At least Cthulhu would eat our souls faster.
July 8th, 2004 at 12:20 pm
Re: It’s pathetic to pay for coverage
At least Cthulhu would eat our souls faster.
July 8th, 2004 at 12:20 pm
Re: It’s pathetic to pay for coverage
At least Cthulhu would eat our souls faster.
July 8th, 2004 at 12:20 pm
Re: It’s pathetic to pay for coverage
At least Cthulhu would eat our souls faster.
July 8th, 2004 at 12:19 pm
I can understand the reluctance to have certain sponsors branded to this event, however, there is no bigger media partner than Clearchannel out there…and they were the only media company that could offer this package.
No, Satan could have assisted us, and I believe he offers a better ancillary rights package.
Fuck this – a snippet from my journal:
Clear Channel – a company that had one of the largest hands in homogenization of music. A huge sponsor of the Republican Party in general, and the Bush Administration in particular. A company that tried (with the assistance of Michael Powell’s FCC) to further monopolize the radio industry in the US. That banned Howard Stern. That forbade the playing of specific songs and bands after 9/11. They’re going to be the sponsor?
By all means, let’s give artistic legitimacy to corporation that is bent on appealing the blandest common denominator.
I believe this ranks right up there with Langston Hughes’ ad for Boraxo, or Sylvia Plath’s Jell-O Recipe Book.
Oh wait, those things didn’t fucking happen.
July 8th, 2004 at 12:19 pm
I can understand the reluctance to have certain sponsors branded to this event, however, there is no bigger media partner than Clearchannel out there…and they were the only media company that could offer this package.
No, Satan could have assisted us, and I believe he offers a better ancillary rights package.
Fuck this – a snippet from my journal:
Clear Channel – a company that had one of the largest hands in homogenization of music. A huge sponsor of the Republican Party in general, and the Bush Administration in particular. A company that tried (with the assistance of Michael Powell’s FCC) to further monopolize the radio industry in the US. That banned Howard Stern. That forbade the playing of specific songs and bands after 9/11. They’re going to be the sponsor?
By all means, let’s give artistic legitimacy to corporation that is bent on appealing the blandest common denominator.
I believe this ranks right up there with Langston Hughes’ ad for Boraxo, or Sylvia Plath’s Jell-O Recipe Book.
Oh wait, those things didn’t fucking happen.
July 8th, 2004 at 12:19 pm
I can understand the reluctance to have certain sponsors branded to this event, however, there is no bigger media partner than Clearchannel out there…and they were the only media company that could offer this package.
No, Satan could have assisted us, and I believe he offers a better ancillary rights package.
Fuck this – a snippet from my journal:
Clear Channel – a company that had one of the largest hands in homogenization of music. A huge sponsor of the Republican Party in general, and the Bush Administration in particular. A company that tried (with the assistance of Michael Powell’s FCC) to further monopolize the radio industry in the US. That banned Howard Stern. That forbade the playing of specific songs and bands after 9/11. They’re going to be the sponsor?
By all means, let’s give artistic legitimacy to corporation that is bent on appealing the blandest common denominator.
I believe this ranks right up there with Langston Hughes’ ad for Boraxo, or Sylvia Plath’s Jell-O Recipe Book.
Oh wait, those things didn’t fucking happen.
July 8th, 2004 at 12:19 pm
I can understand the reluctance to have certain sponsors branded to this event, however, there is no bigger media partner than Clearchannel out there…and they were the only media company that could offer this package.
No, Satan could have assisted us, and I believe he offers a better ancillary rights package.
Fuck this – a snippet from my journal:
Clear Channel – a company that had one of the largest hands in homogenization of music. A huge sponsor of the Republican Party in general, and the Bush Administration in particular. A company that tried (with the assistance of Michael Powell’s FCC) to further monopolize the radio industry in the US. That banned Howard Stern. That forbade the playing of specific songs and bands after 9/11. They’re going to be the sponsor?
By all means, let’s give artistic legitimacy to corporation that is bent on appealing the blandest common denominator.
I believe this ranks right up there with Langston Hughes’ ad for Boraxo, or Sylvia Plath’s Jell-O Recipe Book.
Oh wait, those things didn’t fucking happen.
July 8th, 2004 at 12:17 pm
It’s pathetic to pay for coverage
I’m at work where I can’t access it, but the poetryslam forum must be going off like a fireworks factory disaster.
I’m from Chicago, where the local press is eager to publicize NPS and this alone can draw a big audience. As far as I know most NPS organizers spend little, if any cash on PR beyond posters (I may be wrong).
So I don’t get why spending cash and credibility on commercial radio is necessary. Are St. Louis slam fans so hard to reach? Did St. Louis exhaust options for free publicty? Wouldn’t a print ads in certain publications be more likely to reach the potential slam audience?
From my experience with cash-strapped idiosyncratic cultural organizatons, the reputations of donors can make a difference with the core support. And as far as I know it’s unusual for nonprofit arts groups to buy radio ads. They use PSAs.
Clear Channel is getting the better deal: a big tax write off plus $1500 and prime (perhaps exclusive) access to an largely untapped marketing tool.
Dudes it’s Clear Channel. They sponsored Bush rallies and pulled the Dixie Chicks off their stations. Could there be a more impolitic deal? “PSI annouces a new pact with Cthulu!”
There’s more than a few unaddressed issues with ongoing national relationship with Clear Channel. How would this affect relationships with independent, college and public radio? Would Clear Channel’s concert promotion business result in venue problems?
Given all the alleged values of slam, isn’t it wiser to get sponsors who are at least politically neutral? Why not persue more local, independent media partners? How else might that $1500 been spent? Where is it coming from?
Questions, questions. I expect a lot of poets (especially on teams who know they’re not winning) are going to bring “fuck clear channel” poems. In fact, I’d encourage it.
July 8th, 2004 at 12:17 pm
It’s pathetic to pay for coverage
I’m at work where I can’t access it, but the poetryslam forum must be going off like a fireworks factory disaster.
I’m from Chicago, where the local press is eager to publicize NPS and this alone can draw a big audience. As far as I know most NPS organizers spend little, if any cash on PR beyond posters (I may be wrong).
So I don’t get why spending cash and credibility on commercial radio is necessary. Are St. Louis slam fans so hard to reach? Did St. Louis exhaust options for free publicty? Wouldn’t a print ads in certain publications be more likely to reach the potential slam audience?
From my experience with cash-strapped idiosyncratic cultural organizatons, the reputations of donors can make a difference with the core support. And as far as I know it’s unusual for nonprofit arts groups to buy radio ads. They use PSAs.
Clear Channel is getting the better deal: a big tax write off plus $1500 and prime (perhaps exclusive) access to an largely untapped marketing tool.
Dudes it’s Clear Channel. They sponsored Bush rallies and pulled the Dixie Chicks off their stations. Could there be a more impolitic deal? “PSI annouces a new pact with Cthulu!”
There’s more than a few unaddressed issues with ongoing national relationship with Clear Channel. How would this affect relationships with independent, college and public radio? Would Clear Channel’s concert promotion business result in venue problems?
Given all the alleged values of slam, isn’t it wiser to get sponsors who are at least politically neutral? Why not persue more local, independent media partners? How else might that $1500 been spent? Where is it coming from?
Questions, questions. I expect a lot of poets (especially on teams who know they’re not winning) are going to bring “fuck clear channel” poems. In fact, I’d encourage it.
July 8th, 2004 at 12:17 pm
It’s pathetic to pay for coverage
I’m at work where I can’t access it, but the poetryslam forum must be going off like a fireworks factory disaster.
I’m from Chicago, where the local press is eager to publicize NPS and this alone can draw a big audience. As far as I know most NPS organizers spend little, if any cash on PR beyond posters (I may be wrong).
So I don’t get why spending cash and credibility on commercial radio is necessary. Are St. Louis slam fans so hard to reach? Did St. Louis exhaust options for free publicty? Wouldn’t a print ads in certain publications be more likely to reach the potential slam audience?
From my experience with cash-strapped idiosyncratic cultural organizatons, the reputations of donors can make a difference with the core support. And as far as I know it’s unusual for nonprofit arts groups to buy radio ads. They use PSAs.
Clear Channel is getting the better deal: a big tax write off plus $1500 and prime (perhaps exclusive) access to an largely untapped marketing tool.
Dudes it’s Clear Channel. They sponsored Bush rallies and pulled the Dixie Chicks off their stations. Could there be a more impolitic deal? “PSI annouces a new pact with Cthulu!”
There’s more than a few unaddressed issues with ongoing national relationship with Clear Channel. How would this affect relationships with independent, college and public radio? Would Clear Channel’s concert promotion business result in venue problems?
Given all the alleged values of slam, isn’t it wiser to get sponsors who are at least politically neutral? Why not persue more local, independent media partners? How else might that $1500 been spent? Where is it coming from?
Questions, questions. I expect a lot of poets (especially on teams who know they’re not winning) are going to bring “fuck clear channel” poems. In fact, I’d encourage it.
July 8th, 2004 at 12:17 pm
It’s pathetic to pay for coverage
I’m at work where I can’t access it, but the poetryslam forum must be going off like a fireworks factory disaster.
I’m from Chicago, where the local press is eager to publicize NPS and this alone can draw a big audience. As far as I know most NPS organizers spend little, if any cash on PR beyond posters (I may be wrong).
So I don’t get why spending cash and credibility on commercial radio is necessary. Are St. Louis slam fans so hard to reach? Did St. Louis exhaust options for free publicty? Wouldn’t a print ads in certain publications be more likely to reach the potential slam audience?
From my experience with cash-strapped idiosyncratic cultural organizatons, the reputations of donors can make a difference with the core support. And as far as I know it’s unusual for nonprofit arts groups to buy radio ads. They use PSAs.
Clear Channel is getting the better deal: a big tax write off plus $1500 and prime (perhaps exclusive) access to an largely untapped marketing tool.
Dudes it’s Clear Channel. They sponsored Bush rallies and pulled the Dixie Chicks off their stations. Could there be a more impolitic deal? “PSI annouces a new pact with Cthulu!”
There’s more than a few unaddressed issues with ongoing national relationship with Clear Channel. How would this affect relationships with independent, college and public radio? Would Clear Channel’s concert promotion business result in venue problems?
Given all the alleged values of slam, isn’t it wiser to get sponsors who are at least politically neutral? Why not persue more local, independent media partners? How else might that $1500 been spent? Where is it coming from?
Questions, questions. I expect a lot of poets (especially on teams who know they’re not winning) are going to bring “fuck clear channel” poems. In fact, I’d encourage it.
July 8th, 2004 at 11:49 am
Re: we need a new word for yikes!!!
Maybe it can start with a well placed column that’s read by some influential folks in the slam community.
July 8th, 2004 at 11:49 am
Re: we need a new word for yikes!!!
Maybe it can start with a well placed column that’s read by some influential folks in the slam community.
July 8th, 2004 at 11:49 am
Re: we need a new word for yikes!!!
Maybe it can start with a well placed column that’s read by some influential folks in the slam community.
July 8th, 2004 at 11:49 am
Re: we need a new word for yikes!!!
Maybe it can start with a well placed column that’s read by some influential folks in the slam community.
July 8th, 2004 at 11:11 am
does anyone know if this is a PSI or St. Louis group that’s engineered this deal?
July 8th, 2004 at 11:11 am
does anyone know if this is a PSI or St. Louis group that’s engineered this deal?
July 8th, 2004 at 11:11 am
does anyone know if this is a PSI or St. Louis group that’s engineered this deal?
July 8th, 2004 at 11:11 am
does anyone know if this is a PSI or St. Louis group that’s engineered this deal?
July 8th, 2004 at 10:05 am
Re: we need a new word for yikes!!!
It sounds like a St. Louis press release.
July 8th, 2004 at 10:05 am
Re: we need a new word for yikes!!!
It sounds like a St. Louis press release.
July 8th, 2004 at 10:05 am
Re: we need a new word for yikes!!!
It sounds like a St. Louis press release.
July 8th, 2004 at 10:05 am
Re: we need a new word for yikes!!!
It sounds like a St. Louis press release.
July 8th, 2004 at 10:00 am
Re: we need a new word for yikes!!!
DJ Brewer of Pittsburg (real good kid) posted it there, in the same sense of incredulity– he also didn’t cite the original author, but said it came from the slammaster list.
July 8th, 2004 at 10:00 am
Re: we need a new word for yikes!!!
DJ Brewer of Pittsburg (real good kid) posted it there, in the same sense of incredulity– he also didn’t cite the original author, but said it came from the slammaster list.
July 8th, 2004 at 10:00 am
Re: we need a new word for yikes!!!
DJ Brewer of Pittsburg (real good kid) posted it there, in the same sense of incredulity– he also didn’t cite the original author, but said it came from the slammaster list.
July 8th, 2004 at 10:00 am
Re: we need a new word for yikes!!!
DJ Brewer of Pittsburg (real good kid) posted it there, in the same sense of incredulity– he also didn’t cite the original author, but said it came from the slammaster list.
July 8th, 2004 at 9:52 am
Re: we need a new word for yikes!!!
Eh, I can see the logic. It would take a pretty massive press campaign to make it worth anything, though.
July 8th, 2004 at 9:52 am
Re: we need a new word for yikes!!!
Eh, I can see the logic. It would take a pretty massive press campaign to make it worth anything, though.
July 8th, 2004 at 9:52 am
Re: we need a new word for yikes!!!
Eh, I can see the logic. It would take a pretty massive press campaign to make it worth anything, though.
July 8th, 2004 at 9:52 am
Re: we need a new word for yikes!!!
Eh, I can see the logic. It would take a pretty massive press campaign to make it worth anything, though.
July 8th, 2004 at 9:49 am
Re: we need a new word for yikes!!!
Yes.
I think a mass withdrawal, well publicized, would gain more media attention overall, and some credibility as well.
But more important: I want to see who will walk their talk. Who will walk away.
I don’t think we bite hard enough to make the Costello option viable. But a publicized boycott…
July 8th, 2004 at 9:49 am
Re: we need a new word for yikes!!!
Yes.
I think a mass withdrawal, well publicized, would gain more media attention overall, and some credibility as well.
But more important: I want to see who will walk their talk. Who will walk away.
I don’t think we bite hard enough to make the Costello option viable. But a publicized boycott…
July 8th, 2004 at 9:49 am
Re: we need a new word for yikes!!!
Yes.
I think a mass withdrawal, well publicized, would gain more media attention overall, and some credibility as well.
But more important: I want to see who will walk their talk. Who will walk away.
I don’t think we bite hard enough to make the Costello option viable. But a publicized boycott…
July 8th, 2004 at 9:49 am
Re: we need a new word for yikes!!!
Yes.
I think a mass withdrawal, well publicized, would gain more media attention overall, and some credibility as well.
But more important: I want to see who will walk their talk. Who will walk away.
I don’t think we bite hard enough to make the Costello option viable. But a publicized boycott…
July 8th, 2004 at 9:42 am
Re: we need a new word for yikes!!!
>Let’s see how many of our poetic revolutionaries do the right thing and withdraw from the NPS.
Do you honestly think that’s the best option?
July 8th, 2004 at 9:42 am
Re: we need a new word for yikes!!!
>Let’s see how many of our poetic revolutionaries do the right thing and withdraw from the NPS.
Do you honestly think that’s the best option?
July 8th, 2004 at 9:42 am
Re: we need a new word for yikes!!!
>Let’s see how many of our poetic revolutionaries do the right thing and withdraw from the NPS.
Do you honestly think that’s the best option?
July 8th, 2004 at 9:42 am
Re: we need a new word for yikes!!!
>Let’s see how many of our poetic revolutionaries do the right thing and withdraw from the NPS.
Do you honestly think that’s the best option?
July 8th, 2004 at 9:34 am
Re: we need a new word for yikes!!!
No, that occurred to me too. Call me irresponsible.
Nonetheless, NPS is now officially in bed with an organization that has censored speech/music, worked to homogenize the radio world, supports conservative causes, and in general acts like the worst of the corporate assholes.
It certainly puts the whole anti-war statement debacle into a new light…good thing we didn’t come out against the war, whew!
Adding RJ Reynolds into the list (you’ve got to be kidding) as a sponsor is even more fun.
Let’s see how many of our poetic revolutionaries do the right thing and withdraw from the NPS.
July 8th, 2004 at 9:34 am
Re: we need a new word for yikes!!!
No, that occurred to me too. Call me irresponsible.
Nonetheless, NPS is now officially in bed with an organization that has censored speech/music, worked to homogenize the radio world, supports conservative causes, and in general acts like the worst of the corporate assholes.
It certainly puts the whole anti-war statement debacle into a new light…good thing we didn’t come out against the war, whew!
Adding RJ Reynolds into the list (you’ve got to be kidding) as a sponsor is even more fun.
Let’s see how many of our poetic revolutionaries do the right thing and withdraw from the NPS.
July 8th, 2004 at 9:34 am
Re: we need a new word for yikes!!!
No, that occurred to me too. Call me irresponsible.
Nonetheless, NPS is now officially in bed with an organization that has censored speech/music, worked to homogenize the radio world, supports conservative causes, and in general acts like the worst of the corporate assholes.
It certainly puts the whole anti-war statement debacle into a new light…good thing we didn’t come out against the war, whew!
Adding RJ Reynolds into the list (you’ve got to be kidding) as a sponsor is even more fun.
Let’s see how many of our poetic revolutionaries do the right thing and withdraw from the NPS.
July 8th, 2004 at 9:34 am
Re: we need a new word for yikes!!!
No, that occurred to me too. Call me irresponsible.
Nonetheless, NPS is now officially in bed with an organization that has censored speech/music, worked to homogenize the radio world, supports conservative causes, and in general acts like the worst of the corporate assholes.
It certainly puts the whole anti-war statement debacle into a new light…good thing we didn’t come out against the war, whew!
Adding RJ Reynolds into the list (you’ve got to be kidding) as a sponsor is even more fun.
Let’s see how many of our poetic revolutionaries do the right thing and withdraw from the NPS.
July 8th, 2004 at 9:26 am
Re: we need a new word for yikes!!!
hooray for lester bangs. You couldn’t have said it better, and i’m far too young to be nostalgic.
but, the selling out already happened a few years ago when slam became less of a movement and more of a genre.
July 8th, 2004 at 9:26 am
Re: we need a new word for yikes!!!
hooray for lester bangs. You couldn’t have said it better, and i’m far too young to be nostalgic.
but, the selling out already happened a few years ago when slam became less of a movement and more of a genre.
July 8th, 2004 at 9:26 am
Re: we need a new word for yikes!!!
hooray for lester bangs. You couldn’t have said it better, and i’m far too young to be nostalgic.
but, the selling out already happened a few years ago when slam became less of a movement and more of a genre.
July 8th, 2004 at 9:26 am
Re: we need a new word for yikes!!!
hooray for lester bangs. You couldn’t have said it better, and i’m far too young to be nostalgic.
but, the selling out already happened a few years ago when slam became less of a movement and more of a genre.
July 8th, 2004 at 9:23 am
Re: we need a new word for yikes!!!
Sage reposted it from the slam list. I think Gabrielle posted it there.
July 8th, 2004 at 9:23 am
Re: we need a new word for yikes!!!
Sage reposted it from the slam list. I think Gabrielle posted it there.
July 8th, 2004 at 9:23 am
Re: we need a new word for yikes!!!
Sage reposted it from the slam list. I think Gabrielle posted it there.
July 8th, 2004 at 9:23 am
Re: we need a new word for yikes!!!
Sage reposted it from the slam list. I think Gabrielle posted it there.
July 8th, 2004 at 8:56 am
Re: we need a new word for yikes!!!
Tony,
For clarification, Sage simply reposted this message from the slam list, right? It’s not him representing this as a great opportunity? For the record, who did?
July 8th, 2004 at 8:56 am
Re: we need a new word for yikes!!!
Tony,
For clarification, Sage simply reposted this message from the slam list, right? It’s not him representing this as a great opportunity? For the record, who did?
July 8th, 2004 at 8:56 am
Re: we need a new word for yikes!!!
Tony,
For clarification, Sage simply reposted this message from the slam list, right? It’s not him representing this as a great opportunity? For the record, who did?
July 8th, 2004 at 8:56 am
Re: we need a new word for yikes!!!
Tony,
For clarification, Sage simply reposted this message from the slam list, right? It’s not him representing this as a great opportunity? For the record, who did?
July 8th, 2004 at 8:50 am
Re: we need a new word for yikes!!!
>”you got real talent kid, its just a shame you missed out on rock n’ roll – its over” – “oh you’re just in time for the death rattle”
That would be one of my favorite figures in rock and roll, the great Lester Bangs.
>god bless Sage’s “Fuck Clear Channel Tour”
Am I the only one that wants Fuck Clear Channel”poems on their own dime?
July 8th, 2004 at 8:50 am
Re: we need a new word for yikes!!!
>”you got real talent kid, its just a shame you missed out on rock n’ roll – its over” – “oh you’re just in time for the death rattle”
That would be one of my favorite figures in rock and roll, the great Lester Bangs.
>god bless Sage’s “Fuck Clear Channel Tour”
Am I the only one that wants Fuck Clear Channel”poems on their own dime?
July 8th, 2004 at 8:50 am
Re: we need a new word for yikes!!!
>”you got real talent kid, its just a shame you missed out on rock n’ roll – its over” – “oh you’re just in time for the death rattle”
That would be one of my favorite figures in rock and roll, the great Lester Bangs.
>god bless Sage’s “Fuck Clear Channel Tour”
Am I the only one that wants Fuck Clear Channel”poems on their own dime?
July 8th, 2004 at 8:50 am
Re: we need a new word for yikes!!!
>”you got real talent kid, its just a shame you missed out on rock n’ roll – its over” – “oh you’re just in time for the death rattle”
That would be one of my favorite figures in rock and roll, the great Lester Bangs.
>god bless Sage’s “Fuck Clear Channel Tour”
Am I the only one that wants Fuck Clear Channel”poems on their own dime?
July 8th, 2004 at 8:37 am
i’m mixed about this. yay for selling out but boo to the fact it’s clear channel. i remember when clear channel used to be called SFX. i also remember when radio was actually good. i miss those days.
July 8th, 2004 at 8:37 am
i’m mixed about this. yay for selling out but boo to the fact it’s clear channel. i remember when clear channel used to be called SFX. i also remember when radio was actually good. i miss those days.
July 8th, 2004 at 8:37 am
i’m mixed about this. yay for selling out but boo to the fact it’s clear channel. i remember when clear channel used to be called SFX. i also remember when radio was actually good. i miss those days.
July 8th, 2004 at 8:37 am
i’m mixed about this. yay for selling out but boo to the fact it’s clear channel. i remember when clear channel used to be called SFX. i also remember when radio was actually good. i miss those days.
July 8th, 2004 at 8:04 am
Everyone performing at Nats, be sure to read very carefully every release you are asked to sign.
July 8th, 2004 at 8:04 am
Everyone performing at Nats, be sure to read very carefully every release you are asked to sign.
July 8th, 2004 at 8:04 am
Everyone performing at Nats, be sure to read very carefully every release you are asked to sign.
July 8th, 2004 at 8:04 am
Everyone performing at Nats, be sure to read very carefully every release you are asked to sign.
July 8th, 2004 at 7:57 am
we need a new word for yikes!!!
i keep thinking about Philip Seymour Hoffman’s character in “Almost Famous” – “you got real talent kid, its just a shame you missed out on rock n’ roll – its over” – “oh you’re just in time for the death rattle”
“swill merchants” – “industry of cool” “coming along at an important time in rock…”
god bless Sage’s “Fuck Clear Channel Tour”
July 8th, 2004 at 7:57 am
we need a new word for yikes!!!
i keep thinking about Philip Seymour Hoffman’s character in “Almost Famous” – “you got real talent kid, its just a shame you missed out on rock n’ roll – its over” – “oh you’re just in time for the death rattle”
“swill merchants” – “industry of cool” “coming along at an important time in rock…”
god bless Sage’s “Fuck Clear Channel Tour”
July 8th, 2004 at 7:57 am
we need a new word for yikes!!!
i keep thinking about Philip Seymour Hoffman’s character in “Almost Famous” – “you got real talent kid, its just a shame you missed out on rock n’ roll – its over” – “oh you’re just in time for the death rattle”
“swill merchants” – “industry of cool” “coming along at an important time in rock…”
god bless Sage’s “Fuck Clear Channel Tour”
July 8th, 2004 at 7:57 am
we need a new word for yikes!!!
i keep thinking about Philip Seymour Hoffman’s character in “Almost Famous” – “you got real talent kid, its just a shame you missed out on rock n’ roll – its over” – “oh you’re just in time for the death rattle”
“swill merchants” – “industry of cool” “coming along at an important time in rock…”
god bless Sage’s “Fuck Clear Channel Tour”
July 8th, 2004 at 7:44 am
I’m guessing
that they won’t like urbana’s “Love Letter to a Dead Iraqi” poem.
July 8th, 2004 at 7:44 am
I’m guessing
that they won’t like urbana’s “Love Letter to a Dead Iraqi” poem.
July 8th, 2004 at 7:44 am
I’m guessing
that they won’t like urbana’s “Love Letter to a Dead Iraqi” poem.
July 8th, 2004 at 7:44 am
I’m guessing
that they won’t like urbana’s “Love Letter to a Dead Iraqi” poem.
July 8th, 2004 at 7:03 am
Eek. You slammers better start PG-ifying all your poems and stop criticising the Bush administration. ClearChannel is the FCC’s bitch. Remember what they did to Howard Stern?
July 8th, 2004 at 7:03 am
Eek. You slammers better start PG-ifying all your poems and stop criticising the Bush administration. ClearChannel is the FCC’s bitch. Remember what they did to Howard Stern?
July 8th, 2004 at 7:03 am
Eek. You slammers better start PG-ifying all your poems and stop criticising the Bush administration. ClearChannel is the FCC’s bitch. Remember what they did to Howard Stern?
July 8th, 2004 at 7:03 am
Eek. You slammers better start PG-ifying all your poems and stop criticising the Bush administration. ClearChannel is the FCC’s bitch. Remember what they did to Howard Stern?
July 8th, 2004 at 6:48 am
depends on how you look at it
…but it at least suggests they’re getting off the fence and embracing the competition side over the community. It opens up a lot of potential opportunities that, handled properly, could make NPS relevant as a star-making vehicle, a la Def Poetry. Not what many people want it to be but I believe more and more, we’re in the minority.
C’est la vie. A fork in the road is a choice, not a dead end, and I believe there’s a significant group of “slam” poets that would welcome a festival/community-oriented event. Time to put on the thinking cap.
July 8th, 2004 at 6:48 am
depends on how you look at it
…but it at least suggests they’re getting off the fence and embracing the competition side over the community. It opens up a lot of potential opportunities that, handled properly, could make NPS relevant as a star-making vehicle, a la Def Poetry. Not what many people want it to be but I believe more and more, we’re in the minority.
C’est la vie. A fork in the road is a choice, not a dead end, and I believe there’s a significant group of “slam” poets that would welcome a festival/community-oriented event. Time to put on the thinking cap.
July 8th, 2004 at 6:48 am
depends on how you look at it
…but it at least suggests they’re getting off the fence and embracing the competition side over the community. It opens up a lot of potential opportunities that, handled properly, could make NPS relevant as a star-making vehicle, a la Def Poetry. Not what many people want it to be but I believe more and more, we’re in the minority.
C’est la vie. A fork in the road is a choice, not a dead end, and I believe there’s a significant group of “slam” poets that would welcome a festival/community-oriented event. Time to put on the thinking cap.
July 8th, 2004 at 6:48 am
depends on how you look at it
…but it at least suggests they’re getting off the fence and embracing the competition side over the community. It opens up a lot of potential opportunities that, handled properly, could make NPS relevant as a star-making vehicle, a la Def Poetry. Not what many people want it to be but I believe more and more, we’re in the minority.
C’est la vie. A fork in the road is a choice, not a dead end, and I believe there’s a significant group of “slam” poets that would welcome a festival/community-oriented event. Time to put on the thinking cap.
July 8th, 2004 at 6:26 am
ClearChannel. Remember all that talk about selling out? I though Poetry Slam for Dummies was sold out, but this is as sold out as you can get. Who do you think will buy commercial airtime? Nike or The Gap?
Not that selling out is always bad. And this will certainly open a lot of doors for a lot of talented poets.
But, man. Man oh man.
July 8th, 2004 at 6:26 am
ClearChannel. Remember all that talk about selling out? I though Poetry Slam for Dummies was sold out, but this is as sold out as you can get. Who do you think will buy commercial airtime? Nike or The Gap?
Not that selling out is always bad. And this will certainly open a lot of doors for a lot of talented poets.
But, man. Man oh man.
July 8th, 2004 at 6:26 am
ClearChannel. Remember all that talk about selling out? I though Poetry Slam for Dummies was sold out, but this is as sold out as you can get. Who do you think will buy commercial airtime? Nike or The Gap?
Not that selling out is always bad. And this will certainly open a lot of doors for a lot of talented poets.
But, man. Man oh man.
July 8th, 2004 at 6:26 am
ClearChannel. Remember all that talk about selling out? I though Poetry Slam for Dummies was sold out, but this is as sold out as you can get. Who do you think will buy commercial airtime? Nike or The Gap?
Not that selling out is always bad. And this will certainly open a lot of doors for a lot of talented poets.
But, man. Man oh man.
July 8th, 2004 at 5:21 am
whao…
July 8th, 2004 at 5:21 am
whao…
July 8th, 2004 at 5:21 am
whao…
July 8th, 2004 at 5:21 am
whao…