Porkers. N.d. Image. The BlazeWeb. 16 Dec 2012. <http://www.theblaze.com/stories/congress-has-still-found-ways-to-pass-earmarks-despite-ban-heres-how-and-a-list/>.
I have wiped the slate clean, No more reminders from the past. Memories of what I have been, Have vanished at long last. I look forward to my future new, Where all is territory strange. Soon I will be among the few, That plans their life at long range. I see my life laid out at my feet, New friends shall rally at my call. They will be the first I will greet, At this my welcoming ball. Soon all memories will depart, Of a past left well behind. I will get off to a new start, With the best of mankind.
I was reading about K. Silem Mohammed's Sonnagrams book, and I have to say, what I've found is hilarious.
(Whatcha talkin bout Willis)
... you may ask. Well, what Silem does is make anagrams of Shakespeare's sonnets. The anagram he does has to use all the letters, with whatever extra letters becoming letters for the title. According to reviews, the result is another sonnet. It's very.... modern, all that. No fancy words to look up, just plain old basic words. Here's an example of his I got from another blog:
The the the the the the the the the the Death (Hey Hey)
Hell yeah, this is an English sonnet, bitch:
Three quatrains and a couplet, motherfucker.
I write that yummy shit to get me rich:
My iambs got more drive than Preston Tucker.
I also got that English rhyme shit straight,
That alternating shit the verses do.
Word: every foxy mama that I date
Feels how my goddam prosody is true.
And I don’t mess with no Italian shit;
I only blow your mind the one way, ho.
I line it up four-four-four-two, that’s it:
That’s how I do my sonnet bidness, yo.
My mad Shakespearean moves are “phat,” or “def”:
They weave my pet eel Lenny—what the eff?
Well, my example has a lot of swear words, but as you can see it's... well, funny and a work of metafiction (since it does discuss how a sonnet works. You know. In a bragging way. Bragging swearing way. Kinda like how people brag online.)
Anyway. The last line? Basically that's how his OTHER works go, hence the "what the eff?" (although, let's be honest, that's exactly how we react to any sonnet.) I haven't read his work, but I'm definitely going to look for it.
Kakepare, Ukarau, dir. Whatcha talkin bout Willis. 2007. Web. 16 Dec 2012. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qw9oX-kZ_9k>.
Case, Sarah. "Songs and Sonnets." Songs and sonnets: A review of Peter Gizzi's 'Threshold Songs' and K. Silem Mohammad's 'Sonnagrams 1–20'. Jacket2, 9 2012. Web. 16 Dec 2012.
Siamond, Sarah. "The Year in Review: Shouldn't the Sonnet? [by Sandra Simonds, August 15, 2012]."The Best American Poetry. The Best American Poetry, 2 2012. Web. 16 Dec 2012. <http://blog.bestamericanpoetry.com/the_best_american_poetry/2012/12/the-year-in-review-shouldnt-the-sonnet-by-sandra-simonds-august-15-2012.html>.
This song is "Threw it on the Ground" by Lonely Island. I chose this song because I am a big fan of Lonely Island and listening to this always cheers me up.
That song is by Queen, titled "Don't Stop Me Now". Why is this my anthem? Simple: this song pretty much captures how my Saturdays go. My Saturdays are energetic, fun, and since I love playing online, Saturday mornings are the times when I'm extremely lucky. Even when I was I kid, Saturdays are when I struck gold: Looney Tunes. Dexter's Lab. Best cartoons, right in the morning. Saturday mornings have been one of the best recurring moments of my life, and this song helps me make it seem like it's Saturday, because the way the song is for me, it makes me happy. I use it as a mood lifter on weekdays. Except Monday. It does NOT work on Mondays.
But why Queen? It's because I like Queen a lot. They're also the best band ever, and I love listening to them even while they're still alive.
