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unlearn me

January 2011

64 posts

Anonymous asked: You know what would be AWESOME? A "Say Yes" Movement where the young whipper snappers get together and do random acts of kindness around the community. Or bigger stuff.... DREAM BIG!

Anonymous asked: Have you read Three cups of Tea?

“The guards look me over like a poorly delivered joke.”

– Andrea Gibson, “Prison-Industrial”

worsethanqueer asked: thanks for the response. I'm out to her, she just doesn't understand what it means to be gay or anything like that. it's frustrating because I really want her to understand but it's a slow process.

“We’re hunched spines smashed between tiled floor and phone calls we...”

– Carrie Rudzinski, “Jupiter”

“I come in too many flavours for one fucking spoon.”

– Stayceyann Chin (via red-mess)

red-mess-deactivated20111219 asked: So I tumblr'd (as is the tumblr translation of "google") Slam Poetry and your posts came up.
I've recently fallen in utter love with Slam Poetry and thought I would jump in and recommend a few.
Anis Mojgani, Katie Makkai, Stayceyann Chin and Taylor Mali are all favourites :)
xo

serenityisbroken asked: Do you have any videos of your own performances? Just wanted to say thankyou for your blog... I'm also a huge Andrea fan and wish I had the talent/ confidence to do my own slam.

I am so sick. I might nap…for the rest of the night. Urgh.

closing-the-lid-deactivated2011 asked: Ahhhhhhh that's amazing! you should ask her if she knows Danielle ate the sandwich =) MAYBE IT'S HER! lol jk but that'd be so cool! X3

“Flowers don’t survive long in the hands of thieves.”

– Andrea Gibson, “Sleeping”

“I don’t want the best. I just need what can pull me out of the worst so we...”

– Carrie Rudzinski, “Dear Stranger”

closing-the-lid-deactivated2011 asked: I have no idea why but the piano cover kept reminding me of Kingdom Hearts lol I feel like whipping out my car keys and having a duel with my brother... but he's asleep. lol

“I resorted to creating new memories with you by looking at old photographs and...”

– Carrie Rudzinski, “Elbows”

“I’m not Jesus Christ, but I can turn water into Kool-Aid.”

– George Watsky, “Drunk Text Message To God”

“There’s a show on television called “Hip Hop Abs.” I think the slam community...”

– Andrea Gibson (via markatch)

From "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" by Gil...

… The revolution will not go better with Coke. The revolution will not fight the germs that may cause bad breath. The revolution will put you in the driver’s seat. The revolution will not be televised, will not be televised, will not be televised, will not be televised. The revolution will be no re-run, brothers; The revolution will be live.

“I sleep alone now. Even when I don’t, I sleep backbone to floorboards...”

– Andrea Gibson, “Yarn”

lipslikewasabi-deactivated20110 asked: Those sound so great. I want an Andrea related tattoo, but there are so many poems I like. I can't decide on one. any ideas?

loverofstories asked: You're from Illinois? Me toooooooo! Where abouts?

Also, is your name Amelia? If so, extra strange because my given name is Emelia, and I rarely ever hear of someone with the same name (even if it is spelled differently).

lipslikewasabi-deactivated20110 asked: That's so awesome. We don't have a huge following at my school, or at least we didn't until she came to The National Women's Studies Association Conference in November. I have a lot of friends who go to the university of colorado, boulder though and since she lives in boulder she does shows there quite a bit. I love it, the drive is so worth the inspiration.

talkwithoutwords asked: Ok, so I know you started a novel for NaNo'10.

1. Did you finish it? (if yes, skip 2)
2. Do you intend to finish it?
3. Are you going to try again this year?

lipslikewasabi-deactivated20110 asked: So I'm a huge Andrea Gibson fan and I live in Denver, so tons of people know about her. Where are you from and how did you hear about Andrea? just curious.

closing-the-lid-deactivated2011 asked: ARGH I remember this one line from one of Buddy Wakefield's poems but I can't remember which one. I think the line went something like
"we all spend too much money on things that break too easily, like people."
Would you happen to know which poem that line is from??????

closing-the-lid-deactivated2011 asked: Where did your love of writing and poetry come from? Was it something that was just always there or did someone have to ignite it for you?

“I want feel you like lifelines on the palms of Jesus when the nails went...”

– Andrea Gibson, “Wasabi”

“I want your goodbye to feel like explosives.”

– Andrea Gibson, “Wasabi”

“You are quite the beauty. If no one has ever told you that before, know that...”

– Anis Mojgani, “Come Closer”

“Welcome Home” by Radical Face

“We can stick anything into the fog and make it look like a ghost. But tonight...”

– Buddy Wakefield-We Were Emergencies (via spookeasy)

“There is nothing for me to learn from winning. It is losing that has yielded all...”

– Derrick Brown, “Victory Explosions”

“We don’t sleep on nights like these, wrapped up in the shadows of all the...”

– Carrie Rudzinski, “Train Conductors”

“Rock out like you get paid to disturb the peace.”

– Anis Mojgani, “Direct Orders”

Electricity bowing to nature, mind bowing to heart...

gypaseee: Bowing to I love you. I still love you. -AG Andrea, I would like to borrow your verbs, please.

Anonymous asked: "Tell me what the word home means to you."

“I’m more than sure that you’re all wrong for me, but all right would...”

– Andrea Gibson, “Slip Your Mind”

Anonymous asked: What's your biggest pet peeve?

closing-the-lid-deactivated2011 asked: What's the most awkward conversation you've ever had?

closing-the-lid-deactivated2011 asked: What was your best coming out experience?

“Do not flashlight heart. Do not risk what you cannot promise on me. Do not wear...”

– Carrie Rudzinski, “Elbows”

“When the bicycles wake up, we don’t remember how we got here. Couch-shaped...”

– Carrie Rudzinski, “Carburetors”