December 27th, 2009 / 4:05 am
 Behind the Scenes & Film

other countries **Updated**

what the hell is this?

I like it.

**Update**
Oops, I drunk posted. Watching the video again this morning, I just realized that if it was in English it would be the sort of “Adult Swim” crap that I really hate. Since I don’t understand it, though, I am more inclined to like it.

Which is a thought that I think can be extended to writing this way: sometimes I get the feeling that bad poets are taking a marginal idea and, unable to make it better with vivid language (or a better idea), they make do with making it unintelligible.

Unlike that video, though, I don’t like poetry to be unintelligible. Why not? I guess the difference is that it’s a lot of work to read a poem, and I don’t trust poets. (That said, sometimes I want a poem to be oblique and abstruse, ridiculous, meaningless, unintelligible, even.) (Ha.) **End Update**

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14 Comments

  1. December 27th, 2009 / 12:42 pm shaun—

      The yellow one shows his dick in one of the other videos.

  2. December 27th, 2009 / 8:42 am shaun—

      The yellow one shows his dick in one of the other videos.

  3. December 27th, 2009 / 4:12 pm Christopher Higgs—

      This kinda reminds me of Peter Jackson’s Meet the Feebles.

  4. December 27th, 2009 / 12:12 pm Christopher Higgs—

      This kinda reminds me of Peter Jackson’s Meet the Feebles.

  5. December 27th, 2009 / 4:48 pm Paul—
  6. December 27th, 2009 / 12:48 pm Paul—
  7. December 27th, 2009 / 8:25 pm dan—

      which one?

  8. December 27th, 2009 / 4:25 pm dan—

      which one?

  9. December 27th, 2009 / 10:44 pm drew kalbach—

      i like poems that ride the line between absurd and unintelligible.

  10. December 27th, 2009 / 6:44 pm drew kalbach—

      i like poems that ride the line between absurd and unintelligible.

  11. December 27th, 2009 / 10:56 pm shaun—
  12. December 27th, 2009 / 6:56 pm shaun—
  13. December 28th, 2009 / 12:26 am Tadd—

      I hate to ask for names, but what poets (let’s say well-established poets) write what you’d consider to be “unintelligible”? Why I’m asking is because I’m not entirely clear on how the term’s being used here. Is there a difference between bad-unintelligible and good-unintelligible?

  14. December 27th, 2009 / 8:26 pm Tadd—

      I hate to ask for names, but what poets (let’s say well-established poets) write what you’d consider to be “unintelligible”? Why I’m asking is because I’m not entirely clear on how the term’s being used here. Is there a difference between bad-unintelligible and good-unintelligible?