Friday, January 25, 2008

A Former Marine



Here's a poem that I actually wrote! In about 20 minutes! It's based around a phrase that I overheard while sitting in a bar watching tennis. I set it to the same music as my last video because I absolutely love that song, and because I wanted to play with some rhythmic stuff that cropped up in the Goldsmith piece. "Rhythmic" would be a good word in Hangman,

Sunday, January 20, 2008

Kenneth Goldsmith - VI (an excerpt)



Here it is! The dramatic return of Daggled Mermaids! I did the video, but I'm not in much of a mood to talk about it. Which isn't to say that I don't love this video with all my heart--in fact, I think I'd love anything that includes that song.

Also, here's the text I was reading from. I love this too: http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/goldsmith/111/contents.html

Hi!

And expect a musical treat later this week.

Wednesday, January 9, 2008

Me - The Cops Plan a Party



Here's another thing (song? poem?) I've made using ambient audio from the internet. All the material here was recorded over the course of a single day. I really developed an affection for these people while compiling my rather irreverent mix. The photos were lying around on my hard drive anyway, and I figured that I should prove accompaniment.

Vital statistics -

Video duration: 2:03

Best line/phrase: "I have to go back to the yard for a minute to get a probe."

Worst line/phrase: "That's apparently where our victim was supposed to be."

Most apt piece of punctuation: n/a

Poetic school: Middle-American Terseism

Friday, January 4, 2008

Me (with help)- Just an Audio Collage



I love this British radio comedy show called Just a Minute. I also love Happily Ever After, a startlingly cool work by Randy Hostetler. Therefore, I took four episodes of Just a Minute and mixed together snippets to make a little poem or something. I want to use the word "polyvocal." It's my favorite thing I've done for Daggled Mermaids, besting the entire Grammarian series.

The unwitting participants:

Barry Cryer
Clement Freud
Stephen Fry
Jeremy Hardy
Tony Hawkes
Paul Merton
Ross Noble
Graham Norton
Nicholas Parsons
Sue Perkins
Linda Smith

I tried setting images to it, but the sound is as enough of a handful, as it were.