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Memories of Oxford

Never thought of looking for Slam Poets on YouTube, but here are two videos of what are, in my opinion, Taylor Mali's two best poems. I saw Taylor perform at the first slam I ever went to and he is fantastic. Rich has even had him over for supper I believe!

WTF?

Pardon me, but this is fucking ridiculous.

A 3am Thought

Human beings are designed with great redundancy. We have two eyes so that if one is damaged, we still have the ability to see. We have two arms so that we can still function if one is incapacitated. And yet, we only have one set of reproductive organs. Surely this is the part of the body which is most intrinsic to our survival as a species, so why not two each? Or 4?

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Us Kids Know

I've been listening to No Cars Go by Arcade Fire a lot lately. It was originally released on their debut EP, but they retooled it for Neon Bible and it sounds incredible. I'm not entirely sure what attracts me to the song so much...I'm sure part of it is that they closed their set at Coachella with this song, during which the band visibly poured their heart and soul into it. Chanting the end part along with 50,000 (or so) other people was pretty amazing too. But then I realized tonight, I think that a large part of my attraction is a lyric that is repeated toward the end of the song:

"Between the click of the light and the start of the dream."

I guess I kinda feel like that's where I am these days. I'm in that liminal state again - I'm not quite awake and I'm not quite asleep. Not that it's a horrible thing. In fact, in many ways it's quite comforting to actually KNOW what I'll be doing for the next 2 years of my life. And it's exciting to think that I'll be a student again, living abroad and learning a whole new language/people/culture. And it's not like I'm in a bad place right now either - it's summertime and Guelph is a great place to live. I've got friends here and I'm making new ones. Life is actually pretty sweet, but I guess it's just that sense of not wanting to invest myself entirely, knowing that I'll be taking off in 2 months time, and the anticipation of starting another 'new life.'



By the by, for those not on Facebook, my Coachella pictures can be seen here.