Beastly tuesday on 10/14
A lot of people have strong feelings about things that they would like to pass off as a certainty for the future. Some political forces are so certain in the "end of days" that they feel ecological legislation is a waste of time, some sports prognosticators can predict the outcome of a game before the season has started. I am none of these wise men, I woke up today nervous and sick in my gut but not like call out of work and barf all day sick, i'm talking about first date i wonder if I get tongue with that kiss nervous. It's for the slam coming up on 10/14.
We have a lot of hungry poets out there trying to make a point and they want to do it next tuesday, Sean just came back from taking 6th out of 64 poets at the individual slam tournament so he is hungry like JAWS hungry. The kid always gets robbed on slam scores(in my opinion) but has been getting better and better by the second and at some point will not be held back anymore, he will be the man.
Dudley is an ex-factor he's such a natuaral fun loving kid that its hard to see if he's ready to be as ferociously egomanical as a top poet needs to be(TAYLOR MALI) but he's hit a stride that could take him right into the top tier of talent we have. He's been working on seperating his singsongy stuff from his verse and he's GOOD. Jazzy and Olivia and that whole group is so talented that on a good day they can beat you with their least favorite poem, they are natural performers. I don't even want to imagine how good they will be when they are reading their favorite pieces on their best day.
Wil wins these slams a lot, i mean a lot. He's already got a spot locked in to contend FOR a spot on the 2009 slam team BUT this is what he does. He sits around and writes and writes till its perfect and then memorizes it until its flawless, he told me he was going to slam with all new pieces that he has choreographed. Secretly Wil wants someone to beat him at a slam REALLY badly so that he has even more motivation to dominate that next time.
There are always X factors in a slam and you can never fully know until you see that list who is going to participate but I feel like its big. So many people try so hard to win this thing and the prize is sweet, the winner and 2nd place member get the chance to compete for one of five slots(including the sub or backup guy) on the 2009 national slam team. Its an opportunity to flex your artistic components for the countries best, to meet and beat people that you admire or lose to them either way is better then not going.
I forgot to mention....I'm going to compete as well. I'm not competing to test who I am or how good I am at this point. I'm going for that spot.
We have a lot of hungry poets out there trying to make a point and they want to do it next tuesday, Sean just came back from taking 6th out of 64 poets at the individual slam tournament so he is hungry like JAWS hungry. The kid always gets robbed on slam scores(in my opinion) but has been getting better and better by the second and at some point will not be held back anymore, he will be the man.
Dudley is an ex-factor he's such a natuaral fun loving kid that its hard to see if he's ready to be as ferociously egomanical as a top poet needs to be(TAYLOR MALI) but he's hit a stride that could take him right into the top tier of talent we have. He's been working on seperating his singsongy stuff from his verse and he's GOOD. Jazzy and Olivia and that whole group is so talented that on a good day they can beat you with their least favorite poem, they are natural performers. I don't even want to imagine how good they will be when they are reading their favorite pieces on their best day.
Wil wins these slams a lot, i mean a lot. He's already got a spot locked in to contend FOR a spot on the 2009 slam team BUT this is what he does. He sits around and writes and writes till its perfect and then memorizes it until its flawless, he told me he was going to slam with all new pieces that he has choreographed. Secretly Wil wants someone to beat him at a slam REALLY badly so that he has even more motivation to dominate that next time.
There are always X factors in a slam and you can never fully know until you see that list who is going to participate but I feel like its big. So many people try so hard to win this thing and the prize is sweet, the winner and 2nd place member get the chance to compete for one of five slots(including the sub or backup guy) on the 2009 national slam team. Its an opportunity to flex your artistic components for the countries best, to meet and beat people that you admire or lose to them either way is better then not going.
I forgot to mention....I'm going to compete as well. I'm not competing to test who I am or how good I am at this point. I'm going for that spot.
posted by veritas2 at
9:26 AM
1 Comments:
Damn it all to heck Dan-O... You did it... taking second place in what memory serves correctly as your 3rd offical slam... Well Done
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