the great diction of nick fox
Last night we had the last slam we will have that is an actual slam before the big and all important national slam competition. This next month we will indeed have a slam but it will be a song slam that features the competitors performing their favorite tunes in spoken word form so that really can't too well prepare you for the demands of nationals. A bunch of important things transpired last night in the immense build up to nationals.
The members of the portland slam team are going through the frantic process of looking over everything they have with a fine tooth comb and deciding if they like it, love it, or will fight to make it work. A few of them decided to slam and test the material they had. It's a good deal better then testing out an anti-catholic piece in an all catholic area(as a hypothetical example).
Nick Fox came up to feature and we were very pleased to have him, I hadn't heard of him until Wil came back from Nationals last year and had met him and come back wide eyed and inspired. He would relay to me the functional practical and poetic advice that had been given to him in all kinds of situations each time referring back to the wise Nick Fox. By the time he came I had in my mind that this was Yoda I was meeting. Nick turned out to be a tall buy in a goofy hat who is soft spoken and savagely intelligent.
Nick has perfect execution. Amazing diction and his words are so powerful he doesn't need elaborate hand motions or funny dances he can just say it and you'll listen. The people their listened and gave a standing ovation for the first time in the history of our organization. We've managed to bring in some unbelivable folks but none of them had gotten a standing ovation, it was the process of getting to know his humor, and then his seriousness and heart and then learning all over again until you really liked him. I was already standing.
I hope the Slam team took it in the same way the audience did, sometimes its better to just be a reader, a viewer, a listener and later on once you've absorbed everything and your face to face with a blank pad of paper...be an artist again.
The members of the portland slam team are going through the frantic process of looking over everything they have with a fine tooth comb and deciding if they like it, love it, or will fight to make it work. A few of them decided to slam and test the material they had. It's a good deal better then testing out an anti-catholic piece in an all catholic area(as a hypothetical example).
Nick Fox came up to feature and we were very pleased to have him, I hadn't heard of him until Wil came back from Nationals last year and had met him and come back wide eyed and inspired. He would relay to me the functional practical and poetic advice that had been given to him in all kinds of situations each time referring back to the wise Nick Fox. By the time he came I had in my mind that this was Yoda I was meeting. Nick turned out to be a tall buy in a goofy hat who is soft spoken and savagely intelligent.
Nick has perfect execution. Amazing diction and his words are so powerful he doesn't need elaborate hand motions or funny dances he can just say it and you'll listen. The people their listened and gave a standing ovation for the first time in the history of our organization. We've managed to bring in some unbelivable folks but none of them had gotten a standing ovation, it was the process of getting to know his humor, and then his seriousness and heart and then learning all over again until you really liked him. I was already standing.
I hope the Slam team took it in the same way the audience did, sometimes its better to just be a reader, a viewer, a listener and later on once you've absorbed everything and your face to face with a blank pad of paper...be an artist again.
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