stardustonsable | What are we all living for, if nothing's worth dying for tonight?

akire_yta assosciates me with these things and wants me to talk about them :*.

1. What do you love about poetry?
I love the versitility of poetry. With prose you're following some sort of formula, be it a set of rules, or Freytag's triangle. You're employing some sort of something, in order to make a point, or speak to the human condition (unless you're working WAY out in post-modernism). With poetry you can communicate some of those same ideas or opinions (unless you're an Imagist in which case, whatever) without following any sort of rules. You can just throw a bunch of words on the pages and its going to make sense to someone, even its just you. One could argue that you could do the same with fiction but honestly? Fiction doesn't lie as heavily on single words, not the way poetry does. There's too much power in the associative of words that fiction loses because you're working towards a much larger point. (And then there are prose poems which.....) I think my thesis may have changed in a matter of sentences >.>

2. Public perceptions of emo
Ahaha, Aki just wants to see me rant. Here is my opinion/and standing on emo. I refuse to acknowledge its popular connotations. You can call me on that particular bulshit at any time, because ya'll know that I use emo to mean negatively emotional, and if I stopped and thought about it I'd be angry at myself for helping the continuation of the term, but well, I dont. Emo, to me, is emotive hardcore. The shitty poetry, shitty pictures, heavy makeup particular clothes? All that stuff is scene. And that word that journalists use to describe bands from Forever the Sickest Kids to Coheed & Cambria (because they sound SO MUCH ALIKE) is bullshit. I think the word has come to mean to much, and that it's subsequently made the people that should always use words as their tools, writers and journalists, it's made those people lazy. Because you can slap the word emo on it and everybody'll know what it means right? Except not. Forever the Sickest Kids is power-pop/pop-punk. Coheed & Cambria are a progressive rock band. And the people that call them emo, and just emo, are killing all of those ridiculous subsets of rock music that really are important. I regularly delete the "emo" tag from my genres on my iTunes because its such a fucking blanket term. I'd like to know what my music actually sounds like, not what a bunch of people who don't like said music (or the people that DO like the music but listen to the previous people WAY too much) say it sounds like. As far as the scene goes. I think "emo" boys are pretty, because some of them screw around with androdyny, and depending on the boy, sexuality. I think "emo" girls are a prime example of how far we haven't come in gender equality because well, how much do you hear about emo girls? I can't think of an emo girl thats been brought to my attention that isn't a "scene queen" and well, they're scene queens. And I think people that try and "ban" emo need to get a. their facts straight and b. a life, in that order. *exhales* Yes. That's how I feel about that.

3. Weirdest memory of growing up.
Well, I broke my cousin's wrist once.
I've been more or less in a hostage situation.
I spend highschool football games walking up and down the side of the field, making fun of the team and making references to anime/rock music.
I...went/go to an art school...they're all a bunch of freaks, I love most of them to death.
I....am not answering this question well.whoops.

4. Biggest realization I've had about myself.
That I'm not Christian. The whole not!straight bit was....less than surprising (god, I had some obvious girl!crushes now that I look back on it though) but, I was raised Southern Baptist. And I'm black. You're....its pretty much a huge deal to not be Southern Baptist in that type of enviornment. And I struggled with it. I, I realized this for the first time in 9th grade (I'd been struggling with my faith for a while but that was the first time that I realized, definitely, that I wasn't that person) and I had some serious identity crises over it because, well. Its strange to leave a place where you "belong", and it hurt. I still go to church, my mother makes me and its good productive time for writing, and I still love gospel songs, because I love music. But organized religion in general makes me uncomfortable.

5. I like the intawebz because...
it likes me. :3. I'm not good with the verbal conversation. People that are buried quite firmly in my heart, like t_usual_suspect for example, have probably never heard my voice, or had a conversation with me. But written word? I am the ballsiest, most verbose motherfucker when it comes to the written word. I'm not shy, because there's nothing anyone can do to me on the internet, and if I get embarassed well, avoid the person or comm for a few days (or get a new LJ handle *cough* have I ever told anyone that story? >.>) and its over. So yes, I love the internet because it loves me back *nomnominternets*

So yes, thats that. And now I'm gonna read my flist and maybe comment on some entries >.> then I'm gonna get off my ath and do some math : D :

How's your day been, love?