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scc have you heard of hollie mcnish? http://holliemcnish.bandcamp.com/album/wow
I don't like it when people make videos of someone saying something, when text would work as well.
Do you hate the film industry for not all being books?
text of the poem
I don't hate the film industry because a film isn't simply someone reading a book aloud.
Besides the point above, I do agree with everything she said. It's really sad when people focus so much on their appearance that they make themselves ill (physically or mentally, accidentally or willingly).
Still, there wasn't anything new there. I've been reading about people saying that society is too focused on people's appearance, particularly women's, since I was old enough to read articles on magazines and the internet. And still nothing has changed, except perhaps for the worst.
Feminism seemed to gain ground in the 70s, but in retrospect I suspect that was instead austerity reducing spending on appearance and pushing women into the workforce.
"for the worse"
Thanks
Thanks for sharing
That was fucking epic. Thank you SCC
Yes, shes blind.
Im glad people found it as powerful and amazing as I did.
I liked spoken word performances when I first came across them, but having watched too many of them since they're in vogue at the moment... I've really been turned off it as a medium. Like people trying too hard to be dramatic or something. Though I understand that might be an unpopular and perhaps inflammatory opinion, especially given the subject matter at hand.
She makes the raging feminist in me want to sing!
I don't think she is: wearing (not terribly strong) glasses in 2011
I'm guessing it comes from an interpretation of "and now I've not been able to see my own face for ten years" - because of the "own" I didn't interpret it that way. This was I think the most powerful line for me, even more so now it has been updated to twenty, and it would lose a lot of its power (for me) if it was "merely" referring to her being blind.
I'd guess my own habit of closing my eyes when doing presentations also led me not to consider it.
I know where you're coming from - there are quite a few mega egos on the circuit. I guess the more the medium grows, the more balance will appear - in the same way as with rock acts, for example, there are millions of terrible ones, but we don't knock the genre because of the chaff.
I guess it does just come down to taste too - I Kate Tempest, but some of the other performers I know don't think she's very good at all.
My personal favourite is Tshaka Campbell.
I'd hardly say that me being turned off by spoken word as a medium is 'pulling it apart'.
However it's a shame that your only observation on that is my gender and sexuality.
Call it people watching if you will, doesn't necessarily mean anything - but it can be interesting to draw dotty lines between things.
I didnt say your reaction was "wrong". Your reaction is your reaction. I do find it rather interesting though.
The three strongest emotional connects for me were the gut-twisting ache of the loss of ones face; the stomach sinking moment of recognising ones child is coming under the same pressures that caused oneself such dificulty; and the heart raising rejection of the issue at the end.
I was responding to *helen* about really loving spoken word performances.
Perhaps if there was a threaded comment option it would have been more obvious.
However people don't use this forum like that (AFAIK) so it won't make any sense. I click "quick reply" on the last message, unless I'm replying to a specific post in which case I quote it.