i'm honoured to have had this poem read, deconstructed and i hope, appreciated! but way more interested in what you had to say about rose and magnetic, and also someone at substack better get the cheque book out and find a way to get rose's lovely voice to read all of our posts instead of that weird AI they have.
i can't say i ever remember saying that i'm like if sylvia plath and pac had a child but it does sound like something i'd say i suppose. if i had to pick i'd go with carolyn kizer and sean price.
i haven't re-read that poem since posting it, it doesn't connect or excite me as much as i wish it did, but hearing it again, there are some nice lines dotted around in there!
i also think you've somehow picked out more meaning from it than i ever could, who knows what happens at the end?? whenever hopeonsundays returns from whatever mountain top they're on i'll try and ask! and we are two different people by the way! i'm just the silly note and comment writing intern!
anyway, thank you thank you, this was great, i'll love the future ones even more when my deepest darkest secrets aren't being picked apart word by word!
oh and yeah, don't bother counting the syllables or worrying about dissonace and all that stuff guys, i don't care and i don't care, and i also don't know, but i can go villanelle for villanelle with anybody if it really came to it i promise, but no one wants to read all that technical shit.
and i'm expecting my 200-500 new subscribers from this too i'm serious!! and they better be paying, and i'm upping the price after this, it's already extortionate but i'm doubling it!!
This was so good. It was also *hilarious*. Enjoyed the part where you made me (somewhat subtly) the villain and the hero. Because dammit when your wife interrupted you, you seemed on the way to a really deep thought. We will never get that back. Assassin of epiphanies, you could say. Needless to say, being in a hope(less) and Magnetic sandwich was an honor.
lol you never the villain im just making subtle lame married man jokes behind the bones of the podcast. i know what i was gonna say. There's a whole other group of people who think even what I am doing here on Substack is inherently less valuable, but those aren't my people. My people respect the hustle. Thanks for blessing the podcast with your words and your voice. Looking forward to one back and forth together soon.
For real, so many podcasts these days all sounding the same but, I dunno, something about you saying that made me go, "Alright, I wanna settle in with this rawness and enjoy the existence of these people for a bit."
Okay, I'm on lunch and got time to go deeper. First, thanks for turning me on to these pieces and offering up your takes to help get me thinking, ARC.
Kicking myself for missing the first two when they dropped in SF V1, so I hope y'all don't mind if I gush about the work a few weeks past the sell-by. I guess I can't tag in a comment, so I hope you'll all see this.
Hope: I absolutely loved this. Poetry is tough for me to access sometimes, but this had me the whole way through, especially the color imagery. I've never seen someone re-contextualize the color pink into something mysterious and almost frightening. And, if I read it right, I felt it created such an emotionally resonant dread about killing your shot with someone after a dumb move.
Rose: I'm happy you made the call to read this one yourself. Not that Andrew doesn't have a nice voice, but it's the kind of piece that hits hardest from the mouth of the one who wrote it. It speaks to the strength of the whole work that I could picture every woman in my life nodding along and humming mm-hmms, but this line got me the most: "Protect us from what, I ask back, almost flatly." Could just feel that stress of constant obligation to ask a question that a man should good and goddamn well already have the answer for pushing past rage and sadness into exhaustion.
Magnetic: Man, what can I say? So glad you hit my radar, cuz I could honestly listen to you wax lyrical over a track for hours. I love the push and pull on this one between caution and confidence building up and building up to self-assurance just to deflate on the last line and leave a listener empty. Like good empty. Like "think about this" empty.
Ok I was finally able to take it all in. Shoutouts to all the talent that contributed — each poetic prose had me on my toes. Delicious details and nutritious nouns. The visuals were popping like fish grease. The commentary was captivating — my AuDHD never strayed too far away from everything you had to say — I was entertained.
My only critique would be that I felt you lowkey butchered the reading of the first poem. Or should I say — the way you chose to read that first poem was a disservice to the impactful and dramatic nuances of the text. I had to read it back in text form to give the poem a better chance of me digesting it to its full potential. But Im more critical than others cuz VoiceOver work is one of my professions.
I’m happy to volunteer doing readings for you in the future. I Hope you take no offense.
Yo, thanks so much for your watching and listening, Tabitha. Yeah i think you're right that i butchered the reading. Not something i would do again. I learned a lot of lessons on this one.
i'm honoured to have had this poem read, deconstructed and i hope, appreciated! but way more interested in what you had to say about rose and magnetic, and also someone at substack better get the cheque book out and find a way to get rose's lovely voice to read all of our posts instead of that weird AI they have.
i can't say i ever remember saying that i'm like if sylvia plath and pac had a child but it does sound like something i'd say i suppose. if i had to pick i'd go with carolyn kizer and sean price.
i haven't re-read that poem since posting it, it doesn't connect or excite me as much as i wish it did, but hearing it again, there are some nice lines dotted around in there!
i also think you've somehow picked out more meaning from it than i ever could, who knows what happens at the end?? whenever hopeonsundays returns from whatever mountain top they're on i'll try and ask! and we are two different people by the way! i'm just the silly note and comment writing intern!
anyway, thank you thank you, this was great, i'll love the future ones even more when my deepest darkest secrets aren't being picked apart word by word!
oh and yeah, don't bother counting the syllables or worrying about dissonace and all that stuff guys, i don't care and i don't care, and i also don't know, but i can go villanelle for villanelle with anybody if it really came to it i promise, but no one wants to read all that technical shit.
and i'm expecting my 200-500 new subscribers from this too i'm serious!! and they better be paying, and i'm upping the price after this, it's already extortionate but i'm doubling it!!
I look forward to Sunday.
This was so good. It was also *hilarious*. Enjoyed the part where you made me (somewhat subtly) the villain and the hero. Because dammit when your wife interrupted you, you seemed on the way to a really deep thought. We will never get that back. Assassin of epiphanies, you could say. Needless to say, being in a hope(less) and Magnetic sandwich was an honor.
lol you never the villain im just making subtle lame married man jokes behind the bones of the podcast. i know what i was gonna say. There's a whole other group of people who think even what I am doing here on Substack is inherently less valuable, but those aren't my people. My people respect the hustle. Thanks for blessing the podcast with your words and your voice. Looking forward to one back and forth together soon.
Magnetics I like that. And I looked it up that is a Mo Town band shoutout Detroit
You are fly like they style was. Great to put another one the board together.
Fuck I gotta listen to this. Wait, when was #2? Have I been asleep? Can't wait to listen.
“Here I am. I exist.” I feel like all podcasts should start that way.
exactly...cuz many be sounding like clones.
For real, so many podcasts these days all sounding the same but, I dunno, something about you saying that made me go, "Alright, I wanna settle in with this rawness and enjoy the existence of these people for a bit."
i can't wait to hear what you think by the end.
Okay, I'm on lunch and got time to go deeper. First, thanks for turning me on to these pieces and offering up your takes to help get me thinking, ARC.
Kicking myself for missing the first two when they dropped in SF V1, so I hope y'all don't mind if I gush about the work a few weeks past the sell-by. I guess I can't tag in a comment, so I hope you'll all see this.
Hope: I absolutely loved this. Poetry is tough for me to access sometimes, but this had me the whole way through, especially the color imagery. I've never seen someone re-contextualize the color pink into something mysterious and almost frightening. And, if I read it right, I felt it created such an emotionally resonant dread about killing your shot with someone after a dumb move.
Rose: I'm happy you made the call to read this one yourself. Not that Andrew doesn't have a nice voice, but it's the kind of piece that hits hardest from the mouth of the one who wrote it. It speaks to the strength of the whole work that I could picture every woman in my life nodding along and humming mm-hmms, but this line got me the most: "Protect us from what, I ask back, almost flatly." Could just feel that stress of constant obligation to ask a question that a man should good and goddamn well already have the answer for pushing past rage and sadness into exhaustion.
Magnetic: Man, what can I say? So glad you hit my radar, cuz I could honestly listen to you wax lyrical over a track for hours. I love the push and pull on this one between caution and confidence building up and building up to self-assurance just to deflate on the last line and leave a listener empty. Like good empty. Like "think about this" empty.
This is an amazing comment. I appreciate it so much. Thank you so much for taking the time to leave it.
🤙Any time, my dude.
This is dope, no fluff. I enjoyed the three pieces and the commentary with it.
Thanks so much for giving it your attention. I really appreciate it.
Ok I was finally able to take it all in. Shoutouts to all the talent that contributed — each poetic prose had me on my toes. Delicious details and nutritious nouns. The visuals were popping like fish grease. The commentary was captivating — my AuDHD never strayed too far away from everything you had to say — I was entertained.
My only critique would be that I felt you lowkey butchered the reading of the first poem. Or should I say — the way you chose to read that first poem was a disservice to the impactful and dramatic nuances of the text. I had to read it back in text form to give the poem a better chance of me digesting it to its full potential. But Im more critical than others cuz VoiceOver work is one of my professions.
I’m happy to volunteer doing readings for you in the future. I Hope you take no offense.
Great job!
Yo, thanks so much for your watching and listening, Tabitha. Yeah i think you're right that i butchered the reading. Not something i would do again. I learned a lot of lessons on this one.