copyright chatter on the cbc today

got me ready to dig around this topic next?

http://www.musiccreators.ca/1. Suing Our Fans is Destructive and HypocriticalArtists do not want to sue music fans. The labels have been suing our fans against our will, and laws enabling these suits cannot be justified in our names.i think this was andrew cash said this?

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SOCAN Community Forum: Copyright Copywrong
Lakeside TerraceSunday August 27, 2pmJoin the debate about fair use, downloading and ownership with special guests from music industry.Panelists: Jason Collette, Arts and Crafts, Broken Social Scene, Paul Spurgeon, Vice President Legal Services and General Counsel, SOCAN, Marcus Bornfreund, Co-director Creative Commons CanadaModerator: Charlie Angus - Federal MP, NDP Timons-James Bay, Grievous Angels

Kensington Harvest Festival

September 21 11am-11pm

Toronto's bohemian corner of cool

19 act bill featured Kurt Swinghammer, John Borra, Scott B and my faves of the day Steve Singh and Clare Jenkins.

Toronto Public Library

FREEDOM TO READ WEEK

COMIX AND GRAPHIC NOVELS
stigma or art?

meet comic artist
matthew blackett

using images from the museum of caroon art to examine censorship (ages 16 and up)

Wednesday February 25, 2004

2:00 pm

teachers: pls call ahead to book your class.

Bloor Gladstone Branch

1100 Bloor St W

Toronto, ON

M6H 1M7

Community Room

wide collar crimes

m@b issues

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what i remember most was his pie chart of why it makes sense to be indie. and how i've passed him on the street a few times since then.

collage clippings

1) my apartment weekly profile of torontonians and their rented spaces. if you know of someone or someplace you'd like to see featured here, let us know at barcher@eye.net

mike belitsky, 37, drummer for the sadies
damian rogers, 31, eye intern and freelance editor (intern's SALARY)
+ the schoo their cat

one bedroom 11,000 sq ft with office den laundry yard and garage $1400
moved from east village, nyc

2) Hearing Henry, Bruce MacDonald, Toronto
after reading sarah liss's review of joe henry's performance at the elmo i have to conclued that her inability to appreciate the man's music have had to do with the fact that she talked through almost every song he sang. it was clear to more than a few of us unfortunately in her promximity that Liss had no intention of giving henry a fair hearing. oh well, her loss. about the only thing i'd rather hear right now, other than some songs by a consummate artist and performer like Joe Henry would be the resounding pop! of Liss deciding to pull her head out of her ass.

(god retyping that i can't believe he WROTE that!)

thursday january 26, 2006

What the poets are doingrob mclennan is excited to report a new edition of the poetry-anthology Ottawater is now available. Not that you'll find the compilation of recent works by award-winning local poets such as Karen Massey, Shane Rhodes and Rhonda Douglas in your favourite bookstore. Nor wherever you buy 'zines. Nor, for that matter, at the Mercury Lounge tonight. Ottawater No. 2 can be read only at www.ottawater.com.

mclennan's enthusiasm, however, is understandable. For one thing, the arrival of a sequel to the first online edition, compiled in order to shine a light on locals during Ottawa's 150th anniversary, makes Ottawater legitimately an 'annual' publication. For another, it enables the man responsible for hundreds of published works during the past 15 years to cross one more task off his list. Mclennan should be used to promoting things perceived to be non-existent. He has for 14 years earned a living primarily through poetry in a city where such a full-time occupation seems unimaginable.

Throughout, mclennan has worked tirelessly to promote a vibrant local scene that remains well under the radar, helping to get readings series such as Dusty Owl and TREE off the ground. "Part of the reason for doing it online is to be able to hit people on more than one front," he explains. "People around the world will happen upon the site and go, 'Wow, Ottawa is pretty cool!' That's part of the reason I like to include people who used to live here as well, in order to make people aware of what we've produced."
Ottawa Sun Posted on Thursday, January 26, 2006

Dear Maple Music

Dark HOLLOW? More like Dark AGES! I would like to download Bob Egan's new release too. Are you really only offering CDs for sale instead of digital formats???

1) I have att'd an mp3 of a speech I hope will convince you to "i-Pod it." Have you considered creating Maple Music internet radio? Or podcasts?? I've written to you before, since I'd like to be spin doctor for you. How about meeting the market need??? I am sure I can help... Is providing technical assistance to shoppers in the Maple's future? Is welcoming feedback? I am also capable of helping with those bios which are in need of continual revision to sustain interest...

2) In the industry today, the new model is the old model. TOURING. Since 1998 annual concert tour revenue has more than doubled while sales of pre-recorded music at best have remained flat. I am willing to take initiative and arrange new opportunities for events. I would be willing to distribute promo materials BEFORE shows. Especially with innovative target marketing for new listener groups! I also offer a willingness and ability to promote the bands and the Web site by talking to people during shows or handling promotional exercises such as contests; in order to distribute promotional materials at the shows ...

I will send a more professional collection of my work samples eventually, in the hopes of working with the company in future. But I couldn't resist getting in touch again now, in case you wanted to direct my enthusiasm and energies toward mutual benefit. An e-mail reply would do it....

Zunior

Q. what challenges are ahead?
Q. what skills are in demand?
Q. what developments are on the horizon that affect future zunior employment opportunities?
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i even like zname of znews
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now, THAT is a nicely formated brand of newsletter.WHEN is the next podcast?do i GET anything if my friends sign up for your newsletter?and, what good is the free (forwardable? to my friends) music anyway? just a one time only listen?? do you want us to submit reviews or comment in the forum or anything?
signed
Queen of Discussion Topics (=Queen of Marketing Ideas)
p.s. would you like to see my resume???



songlifting
"While the music companies continue to innovate and develop new digital ways to offer music to fans, they also do their part to hold illegal downloaders accountable. "It's against the law, and breaking the law must carry consequences.”


Thinking Zunior
How do they get nominated? Don’t you think Dave Ullrich should get the 2007? I should ask him for their fancy stats.from 200 titles tohow many SONGS is that?* *The Walt Grealis Special Achievement Award. The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS) honous individuals who have contributed to the growth and development of the Canadian music industry.With over 35 years in the Canadian music industry, True North Records founder Bernie Finkelstein has been chosen as the 2006 recipient Finkelstein began his career managing two of Canada's earliest internationally known groups, The Paupers and Kensington Market. In 1969, he undertook the project of starting a Canadian recording company -- True North Records. His mandate was to find lasting Canadian recording artists, make records and sell them around the world. Since its inception, True North Records has had over 400 releases, 38 JUNO Awards and 39 gold and platinum records to its credit, and today stands as Canada's oldest independent record company. True North's current roster includes such great Canadian artists as: Bruce Cockburn and Blackie & The Rodeo Kings

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Neko Case on CBC said "you don't tell Garth Hudson what to play."Did you know you can buy her music on zunior?Did you hear Jill Barber the other day? Now she really made me want to go z-shopping!I'm almost glad my stereo won't get CBC since I moved, I'm so modern now, an on-line listener...
to zunior, the steps say:
Click the DOWNLOAD button and save the file to your computer. Open and enjoy the music. This reminds me of the Ikea furniture building instruction page where they show you the steps as 1) a diagram of all the parts, and then 2) a diagram of the finished product. thanks a lot eh?
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can someone draw me a map of my own technology please? or put on note on there for first timers with bad instincts not to choose OPEN, choose save and then give them the lesson i already had before.it bugs me how the song clips sit in my i-tunes forever breaking up the shuffle all the time, but my supposedly free downloads just tease me for current, on the site playing only. are they really not downloadable?
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not very many chicks on that podcast now where there? too bad i wasn't keeping notes. too bad i've listened twice and still think i can buy a selina martin cd and get an inbreds or mike o or egger for free, eh?signed,testing customer servicegot available credit?take your card for a spin at the on-line store of a 2 yr old music label.
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buy one get one free, my *$$ buy one and get ME free, more like.
dear zunior president,
don't you have the confidence to let me have ANY zunior catalogue liberties and see if i'd buy you anyway?zun4390 indeed.
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al tuck on zunior radio. nice to know who i'm enjoying at the moment... who's that chick singing with luc doucet? yeehaw later i heard selina martin. i have GOT to buy that.
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was it monday july 3 i blogged that an audio magazine should come with a free download?you know like cmj and uncut magazines come with a (good) free cd. but, so then, do they have to BUY the podcast, or what???
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i still want to work for zunior. why don't they RETURN my ^%$# call. i'm a good employee. i should convince them. i'll be my own reference and everything!!
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i really liked the song about the guy with the always ringing phone and believe me i laughed OUT LOUD like a moron in my own backyard while gardening I MEAN WEEDING this afternoon and listening to "i quit my job" before coming in to make rice and potatoes for supper.
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smart and fun:another thing on the cbc today wasthe webcast from the living roomas a way to avoid touringbut yet garner cheap exposure700 ppl watched10 ppl in the room
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i have ANOTHER complainti had to stop the podcast to go see who's lovely voice i recognized , not having noticed the name in the list of detailed podcast track info...if one follows links far enough into zunior catalogue one can confirm that jill barber is the vocal treasure to whom i am referring. i think full credits on future podcasts might be nice. is it too much work?btw, when i'm travelling, is the info track by track more easily accessible than i know? because for sure i am losing track...and p.s.now, where will the podcast pick up again? AT THE BEGINNING??? boy, barber MUST sound awesome for a listener to risk THAT! she really was great at hillside, i can tell you that.

i remember when we saw her at the corporate gig.

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that's a good idea!
"That's a good idea!"
is one of my favourite expressions!when i went to hear daniel richler speak at the reference library about pop culture, he basically did a big commercial for his just launched book tv. i remember hearing that they were short staffed, and with not enough finances to hire more staff so at the end of his chat i walked up to him and held out my business card saying "i would intern."he took my card, smiling "now, That is a good idea." and not long afterwards i ended up swing dancing with a dan jnr -lookalike type at a poetry party and it turned out he was a new book tv intern.i remember when i interupted zunior dave, who was kindly answering about a thousand questions for me, to randomly suggest he use more coupon offers, so as to measure the success of each marketing initative. a lot of my other then-bosses were getting annoyed at me for just that sort of unsolicted comment, so you can imagine my delight when, in the beat that followed dave ullrich said "That's a good idea!"

i'm finally finding stats

http://www.riaa.com/news/marketingdata/pdf/2005consumerprofile.pdf

The RIAA® Gold® and Platinum® Awards program was launched in 1958 in an effort to create a standard by which to measure sales of a sound recording. In the beginning, there was only a Gold® album award for the sale of 500,000 copies. As the industry grew, other awards were developed. The Platinum® award (1,000,000 sold) was created in 1976 and with the advent of the compact disc and the subsequent increase in sales, the Multi-Platinum™ award was created in 1984. On March 16, 1999, the RIAA® launched the Diamond® Awards, honoring sales of 10 million copies or more of an album or single.
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"Elvis Presley, quite simply, is an American icon," said RIAA Chairman Bainwol. "As such an important musical, historical and cultural figure, we're thrilled to be able to make this announcement - his overall album sales total climbed to 117.5 million as announced Jan 2004.

on aug 20th 1977 Elvis Presley's funeral was held at his Graceland estate in Memphis, and more than 75,000 fans gathered outside.

so as i recall

music is sold without profit in itself, in order to sell the players and devices.
music is the marketing method for the technology sales profit.
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EMI Group Plc said on Thursday Aug. 17), it had signed a deal to provide preloaded music videos on Microsoft Corp.'s soon-to-launch Zune digital media player.
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i admit i DOOOO want to buy a new computer. and other gadgets. my sis just got one that takes pics and video, and my friend has a blackberry phone that is also a camera/video camera.

i think i see the future, and i feel borg

billboard reviews cdn:

http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/reviews/album_review_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003019295

i saw her this summer at hillside.

random facts

George Jones' wife was the t-shirt seller girl at some concert where he invited her on stage.

but was the audience pleased?

Not many musicians would go out on tour a month after releasing a double album of new material and proceed to play a 26-song set with only one track representing the latest record. But nobody ever said Frank Black was an average musician.

satisfaction vs sales.
do ppl really want to hear songs they know over new material??

i remember the day

ray laid the famous quote on us about what we were actually learning to do in novel school was BUILD a helicopter WHILE flying it.
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i piped up enthusiastically with the just-realized-fact that whatever problems you experience in your project, no matter what the jam is, you can just INVENT your way out of it.

there's a TREE in there for god's sake

i drew a picture of it, along with some exposed brick and streetlamps visible through the window frames, while i wrote
no one cares?
1. grandpa was a carpenter
2. show me how
3. lake huron
4. broken down dream
5. half about a dog and half about a girl
6. lover don't leave

what about truth

aug 14 1985

Michael Jackson outbids Paul McCartney and Yoko Ono, at $47.5 million, to obtain catalog rights to 250 songs written by John Lennon and McCartney.

its only an hourish...

danny michel is a guelphite, but i didn't know that when i was sitting beside him upstairs at the riv when the maple lounge was running.

so, does that mean toronto is a guelph gig market?

i have sponsor sponsor sponsor thoughts.
what is my next step??? ( i do love a dance craze)

what i wish i could do next time list:
make sure it shows in the echo calendar
make sure it is mentioned the show before (also at buddy shows?)
make sure it is posted on the site
hand out handbills to the international students at the cult, and some place else i can't remember that i'd wished for a way to relay the info... the card tucked in my windsheild might not be such a bad idea. they could also be used as posters, in order to poster more. t'was the poster that got me the first time. was it in the music shops?

and now then, let's check Maple Music...

i should make a don't pull the plug

just re-start the program plea. why not get a sponsor?


i found kokanee fest wednesdays card on my windsheild when i came out of the acoustic series show. i said i feel like i own that bar, and i think it is time to stop keep the shows a secret!!!

what else can i tell ya?

i'd like to show

a new view of your business. it isn't pretty.

i'd like to help you use people, processes
and technology more efficiently than ever -

the right talent, right when you need it
effective creative function:
marketing strategy, corporate identity and brand. at EVERY touchpoint

fearless experimentation
creative problem solving
perpetual shared learning

"the canadian music industry's reluctance

(points i stole from matt galloway)
to wade into the digital music world"

sales song by song, of virus free, burnable downloads
the reality is consumers consume song by song (even me. i can't believe it.)
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the more industry focuses on intiatives like this instead of filing lawsuits the better off we'll be.

high profile lawsuits

DID curtail on-line American music sharing habits

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national post YELLOW clipping:

29% to 14%

The Candian recording industry is hoping its December statment that it would begin uding Canadians who have uploaded thousands of songs through free services will have chilling effect on people trading music illegally north of the US border.

country chart comment

The first fruit of Alan Jackson's collaboration with Alison Krauss, "Like Red on a Rose," has already found success on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart, where it is No. 23 in its fourth week. Now, the album of the same name has been confirmed for a Sept. 26 release via Arista

songwriting and winterson

some guy took every 3rd word from a letter his wife wrote him and made a song out of it.
i've heard a good one where a guys lists a bunch of types of conversations:
arguement, agreement, etc.
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jeanette winterson on pamela wallin live said

1) she feels the author and the author's life is IRRELEVANT to the work
if the work is any good it will on after the writer so it doesn't matter who that person is...
she sends back a pre-printed card that says consider me dead when students write her to learn more about her in order to more fully comprehend her work.

2) she feels adultery is "crashingly bad manners"

3) she burns her rough notes and manuscripts because they weren't good enough to publish and she wants to stand by her published version

(she is sooooo cooooool)

how to make gravy

is a good song topic. and it mentions christmas! should i put it on the holiday fodder list?
i meant to review a paul kelly with greg quill show i saw at lee's palace. he was so good!

"his songs combine the widescreen sweep of real life with the intimate foucs of poignant, often painful detail..." -- rolling stone

"the best storyteller this side of dylan" -- brent raynor

straight ahead acoustic numbers with so much impact. memorable melodies with exquisite lyrics...

it sounds so easy...

Last year The 'diggers --Maize, guitarist Josh Finlayson, bassist Ron Macey, guitarist Paul MacLeod and drummer Joel Anderson -- started jamming again every Monday, working on new material, listening to music together and playing cards

extra facts

barrett was a reclusive, bedridden unmarried poet when browning began a correspondence with her, a series of love letters which led to an elopement (italy, a year later). they were married 15 years until she died in his arms and he went on to become famous...

i never knew that mary shelley eloped with percy bysshe. after he and his first wife moved into the house with godwin and his 16 yr old daughter, bride to be... how's THAT for gossip

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yes and yes

The history of the Flying Burrito Brothers is long and checkered. The definitive line-up began with two ex-Byrds, Gram Parsons and Chris Hillman, and soon added a third, Michael Clarke. Both Gene Clark and David Crosby guested on recordings by the Burritos. Gene Parsons and Skip Battin would play with subsequent incarnations of the group. Indeed, the band went through a ridiculous number of iterations over the years, many of which had only the most tenuous of connections to the definitive Parsons-Hillman line-up. Ironically, even Gram Parsons had a fairly flimsy claim on the name when he took it over from a group of his former bandmates in 1968.

Was Gram in The Byrds?

After David Crosby left The Byrds, they performed as a trio for a while but felt they needed another player to round out their sound. Chris Hillman asked Gram to join The Byrds shortly after meeting him in a bank. Their next album was all country and they recorded in Nashville. The album, Sweetheart Of The Rodeo, was a breakthrough in pop music. Now more than 25 years later it is considered a classic. Gram quit working for the Byrds in London only six months after Chris and Roger had hired him following Gram's decision not to tour with the Byrds in South Africa.

The Members Section will ultimately contain eleven Chapters, one for each member of the Byrds who ever appeared on an official Byrds album. Additional Chapters will be added as they are completed in coming months.

Heart of Gold

is running today in my office as i work. about the fourth time now i'd guess... what a beautiful concert. what a beautiful sound. what beautiful f-ing songs. i think i've cried about four separate times now.

review to follow...

apolgize for the bad times
if you follow every dream you might get lost
listening to the birds on the roof instead of the news. and i'll hold you if you have a bad dream. and i'll hope that it doesn't come true.
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i liked the stories from the guys that have been in the band for 35 years.
brain anyerism truths
chicken farmer ukele boy story
father's dementia and death mention

cashing in and out

Dylan Teams With iTunes For Pre-order Deal

Bob Dylan has teamed with Apple's iTunes Music Store to
offer fans that pre-order his new album through the
retailer first crack at tickets for shows on his fall tour

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Nokia Buys Loudeye For $60M

Finnish mobile technology giant Nokia has struck a deal to
buy digital music technology vendor Loudeye Corp for about
$60 million.

meeting kate

was after i had been singing my fool head off at doppel's for days, as the housesitter, thinking the walls there WEREN'T paperthin, when, in fact, they were.

she is the next door loft neighbour at doppel's and we met in the hall both on our way places at the same time and chatted for a few seconds, connecting, and she shocked and delighted me saying "want to come in for a second?" and showing me around the art works in her space. then the next issue of scarlett showed up in my mail box just days later and those exact same walls were featured, with kate sitting in front of them on a yoga ball.

and not a few weeks after that MY walls showed up in a local paper and looked the exact same colour as her had.

talk about your imaginary mentors!

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just before one of her shows, i came across a call for submissions fo the iloveyougalleries. i wrote sharon harris an e-mail telling her about kate and she said she had actually just made contact with her and there was to be a show.

ken babstock

I grew up, like every other young person, loving music -- pop music, indie rock and whatnot -- and finding out that some of these bands that you're listening to are reading your poetry is fantastic. It's wonderful. Leonard Cohen pallbearer at Layton's funeral. It appears that the link between musicians and poets is becoming nearly as strong as it was in the 1960s.

While he says, "I'm tone deaf and could never write a song if I had a gun to my head," he has appeared in more than one set of liner notes.

Babstock appears on the Rheostatics' last studio album, 2067, reading his poem "The Expected" in the track "Try to Praise This Mutilated World." "They plunked it down right inside the song, and it sounds gorgeous," says Babstock, who recognized all the potential problems inherent in mixing spoken word and music. "I was even wary of the idea, but they did a great job and it sounds lovely."

And there's more to come, so keep your eye out for the growing Babstock section at record stores near you. "Jim Bryson used one of my poems to kind of structure a song around," he says. "That's coming out on his new record."

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babstock's mean
made me cry on the bus to brampton
and i carried
his letter for a sister wherever
wadded up like a tissue in my pocket.

don't i have a poem where his scars rubbed against the sheets?

once i said
in bitterness against bush
"i bet if women were in charge
we would fix the current problems
of the world" with kindness, and empathy
and without the violence you know
and my v. clever man friend said
"okay, i'll grant you that.
but i think then, we'd have
an entirely NEW set of problems."

remember when i impressed
my poetry school teacher
by defining synethesia?
well, wasn't i happy to read
of a character's experience of it
in his friend's moody food
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POP QUIZ:

antonomasia
id of person by epithet or other term that is not name; the use of a proper name for a common noun.
i.e. kleenix = tissue great lover = don juan

synesthesia
: a concomitant sensation
: a subjective sensation or image of a sense (i.e. colour) other than the one being stimulated (i.e. sound)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ken Babstock is a Canadian poet. He was born in Newfoundland and raised in the Ottawa Valley. He began publishing his poems in journals and anthologies, winning gold at the 1997 Canadian National Magazine Awards.

His first collection, Mean (1999), won him the Milton Acorn Award and the Atlantic Poetry Prize. He has since published a second collection, Days into Flatspin, which has also come in for high critical praise.

Ken Babstock worked as Poetry Faculty at the Banff Centre for the Arts and currently lives in Toronto. He is currently the poetry editor for the Toronto-based press House of Anansi
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http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5388

early years
career
major works
awards and honours

including The Malahat Review, The Fiddlehead, PRISM International, and Canadian Literature

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Any report on Ken Babstock should open with music. There was a Wilco dedication in his first book. 'Mean,' the title, came from the three meanings of the word: nasty; to intend something; and to be a midway-point between two extremes. Using these meanings would allow Babstock to work several metaphors, sometimes simultaneously.

in his u of t class, we discussed
metaphors
sylvia plath, 1932-1963

i'm a riddle in nine syllables,
an elephant, a ponderous house,
a melon strolling on two tendrils.
o red fruit; ivory, fine timbers!
this loaf's big with its yeasty rising
money's new minted in this fat purse.
i'm a means, a stage, a cow in calf.
i've eaten a bag of green apples,
boarded the train there's no getting off.

-- a poem of 9 lines of 9 sylables each. isn't she clever?


we workshopped two of my poems in ken's poetry school

room mate love letter was salvaged from my scrap heap because he introduced us to jory graham (sp). and he said he thought it was lovely but that i was making stylistic choices with it that i needed to be prepared to then follow thru on.

we did the southern aphorisms poem too, because i couldn't imagine one would be allowed to do such things, with being charged with Plagerism. he also said there is No Rule against adding in your own words and if it's MOSTLY found calling it a found poem.

(so, if i get arrested, blame ken).

he thought it was cheeky and you COULD see an author at work.

"-- onward!" he signed.

how to make a policy poem

1) gather a bunch of images/scraps that speak to you
2) put them together in a way that suits your fancy
3) list the most important words, phrases or messages
(tinker with the order as you feel you must)
4) post your latest collage poem on your blog


i couldn't tell if ray was impressed or disdainful, asking me the question.

then he said "a poet then?"

and i still couldn't tell.

have i ever told the story of the mutton birds packet? ray wrote back and he was honest and direct and encouraging with his suggestions (for once i included a SASE) but from his comments i could tell he hadn't LISTENED to the cd so i was a little bit disappointed in him. he turned out to be a good teacher though. just like his friend ken?
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In his brilliant and long-awaited third collection, award-winning, critically acclaimed poet Ken Babstock finds momentary stays against our gathering darknesses in the irrepressible, acrobatic, free play of the mind. Poems of conscience collide with the problems of consciousness, the concrete and the conceptual find equal footing, and formal beauty mixes with imagistic brinksmanship.

Like Babstock's earlier work, Airstream Land Yacht testifies to the harrowing beauty of everyday experience while introducing an expansiveness of inquiry with linguistic bravado and a quiet grace. itself a love song to the wordless world.

"Babstock's ear remains finely attuned. Always adept at capturing speech cadences, in these new poems he plumbs as much from the jumpy rhythms of thought, and what gets sacrificed in accessibility is more than made up for in surprise. . . . one of the country's finest poets."
- Quill & Quire

" there's almost a tactile pleasure in how words sound, and a multitude of striking phrases vivid to both the ear and the eye . . . poetry that hums."
- Toronto Star

u of g newspaper

wrote me back.
"Hi Kim
We have received both your Letters to the Editor. Our next issue is September 14th, and your letters will be published then."

and, i got to invite a faculty member out for coffee out the deal too. i really hope she says yes!

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The second letter read:
the recent article in the ontarion sure made the university library sound like a wonderful resource, but it didn't clarify who qualifies for access. if i take an open learning on-line course from equine guelph, can i get a card???

one of the faculty members at u of GUELPH has won the governor general's award TWICE and been made an officer of the Order of Canada, among other prestigious awards. yet, would you believe that the entire Guelph Public Library system has not one single copy of any of her works???? i have put in a "purchase suggestion" but in the meantime, i want to do my homework! who is eligible for a university library card??? here is a list of works i'd like to read:

The Crackwalker 1980
White Biting Dog 1984
I Am Yours 1987
Lion in the Streets 1990
Sled 1997
Perfect Pie 2000
Habitat 2001
Lost and Delirious 2001
Capture Me 2004
Enoch Arden, by Alfred Lord Jabber and his catatonic songstress 2005

so will the echo

provide a REVIEW of their recommended show?

and, p.s. at least they have the decency to publish an ad citing calendar girl needs while they let their calendar run amuk.

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the link from matt's site to echo reads:

Ok folks, the Hillside Festival is here once again, and, as
per usual, the line-up for the weekend is stellar. So, I’ll
spare you my pontificating on the musical/cultural
importance of such a brilliant festival and get right down
to it. Here are your top ten reasons to get out to Guelph
Lake this weekend:

1.Matt Mays & El Torpedo
Matt Mays & El Torpedo released the best, (that’s right:
the BEST), Canadian album of 2005. I was already in
love with the album when I first saw them live, and I was
floored. A note perfect performance, ugly with
nonchalance and SKRREEE-ing guitars, and the
deepest grooves allowable in rock ‘n’ roll. Mays’ drawl
betrays his young age and you believe every word he
says and every yarn he spins. If Crazy Horse was a
genre, then Matt Mays & El Torpedo would win that
Grammy every year. The best thing about the band
though, is that they’re actually getting mainstream
success. A lot! This could be the band that changes the
landscape of Canadian rock. Let’s hope so. These
dudes will be on the Main Stage on Saturday, 8:25pm.
(PF)