Lyrical Sanctuary

So i went to this slam poetry thing a while ago and forgot to post about it. It was in a small theater on oakland on a weekday. There were about twenty poets who performed and it was amazing. Some were very animated while reading their poems and some were pretty quiet. This one guy did a poem about "real poets" who scream and act really dramatic but actually have nothing to say. It was really interesting to look around at the audience because there were all kinds of people there, many people you would never expect to see there. Another thing that was interesting was how the space on stage changed right before the speaker went on. Usually they played music in between people but it stopped as the speaker went on. The speaker would usually stand there in silence for a couple seconds and when that happened the room was thick with this energy. Everybody looked right at the speaker as they absorbed this energy and then burst into poem. All in all it was really powerful and interesting and i'm definitely going to go again.

George Kuchar

I thought George Kuchar was great. From his films, especially "Hold Me While I'm Naked", you could feel his love of melodramatic movies. His sense of humor was so funny. He used over the top techniques in acting, colors, and music but together they produced a sincere, warm tone in the movies. Maybe i liked the films because they were pretty simple. They were about the love of movies and that's pretty much it. After "Hold Me While I'm Naked" i totally felt that emotional release thing you get after you read a good book or watch a good narrative film. Also the film had a set of defined characters and a plot which was easy to follow so you weren't lost trying to piece a story together, you could just sit back and enjoy Kuchar's humor and style.