June 13th, 2011 / 10:57 pm
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Dierks & Roggenbuck initiate new poetic movement: Bromanticism

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[Poem from I LOVE MUSIC]

44 Comments

  1. June 14th, 2011 / 7:02 am richard chiem—

      brothers for lief

  2. June 14th, 2011 / 7:15 am Janey Smith—

      Christopher? I’m throwing my neighbor off a building.

  3. June 14th, 2011 / 2:38 pm Michael Inscoe—

      :)

  4. June 14th, 2011 / 4:01 pm DJ Berndt—

      Brobrow for lief.

  5. June 14th, 2011 / 4:11 pm Cassandra Troyan—

      HIGHLY BRANDABLE.

  6. June 14th, 2011 / 4:15 pm steve roggenbuck—

      thanks christopher. it wasnt easy but we’re trying to forge the way

  7. June 14th, 2011 / 4:26 pm stephen—
  8. June 14th, 2011 / 4:37 pm deadgod—

      bro bro bro your broat
      gently down the stream
      merrily verily, verily merrily
      brolife is but a dream

  9. June 14th, 2011 / 5:52 pm inBOIL—

      you guys have fun with yr iDEATH i will continue rummaging around in the forgotten works and we’ll just see what time tells

  10. June 14th, 2011 / 6:45 pm stephen—

      Thank you, Christopher =)

  11. June 14th, 2011 / 6:48 pm Adam Robinson—

      Is Roggenbuck even a broet anymore?

  12. June 14th, 2011 / 8:01 pm Whatisinevidence—

      Okay, how about twenty people write “sweet, bro…” in the comments and then the authors can complain/argue if someone criticizes anything they or their friends do on the internet.

  13. June 14th, 2011 / 9:04 pm MFBomb—

      What kind of unambitious, immature shit is this? Jesus Christ, some of the stuff you people hold up/promote…grow up and stop navel-gazing all the time. 

  14. June 14th, 2011 / 9:13 pm M. Kitchell—

      SURPRISE GUYS MFBOMB HATES SOMETHING AND HE WANTS YOU TO KNOW IT

  15. June 14th, 2011 / 9:13 pm Shane Anderson—

      another great bromance. right up there with keats and shelley fo sho

  16. June 14th, 2011 / 9:18 pm MFBomb—

      Hate? What is there to actually “hate.” I’m honesty baffled that someone other than a 15 year old emo kid would write and publish this. 

  17. June 14th, 2011 / 9:20 pm Brian McElmurry—

      nice bros! nice

  18. June 14th, 2011 / 9:39 pm BRO—

      Is that not who wrote and published this?

  19. June 14th, 2011 / 9:42 pm JAMES JOYCE IS HIGH—

      WITF

  20. June 14th, 2011 / 9:53 pm JAMES JOYCE IS HIGH—

      THOSE ARE GIRL NAMES

  21. June 14th, 2011 / 10:56 pm Frank Hinton—

      seems like a bromantic movement is a good way to confront experience. feels like it came from the chest to me. not sure if ambition needs to factor in really. doesn’t seem like it’s dealing with reason or logic but instead love, so. love isn’t really ambitious because ambition always seeks an end and love doesn’t seek anything but itself. blah blah. feels like these bros are looking for themselves via touching their hearts together and making a pseudo-sexual-non-sexual poetics. i think they have enough respect for literary heritage to be considered good humans. i have no complaints on their expression. 

  22. June 15th, 2011 / 1:17 am deadgod—

      JOYCE IS A GIRL NAME FOR A WHOLE FAMILY

  23. June 15th, 2011 / 2:18 am Tummler—

      Boykitten Bromanticism: Get into the effing game.

  24. June 15th, 2011 / 4:53 am benba57—

      I read I LOVE MUSIC last night. It was silly and predictable and obvious. And I loved it. Roggenbuck played a great Woody Allen. Dierks, a truly hateful soon-to-be wife. But their story is really just a vehicle to get the actual narrative rolling. When Roggenbuck’s character, Gil, a hack screenwriter trying to be a novelist, starts going back in time  on some freak Cinderella-story midnight stroll and meets up with the Fitzgeralds, Hemingway, Picasso, Stein, Dali, Man Ray, Cole Porter, TS Eliot–there are many more–I couldn’t help but be giddy. I’ve always wanted to see these people in action–and there they were. Hemingway talking in HTML, Zelda Fitzgerald’s bzzng mn, Dli rmblng nchrntly bot rhinos, Picasso a little bald, Stein the gentle Justin Beeebr.  Sure, Steev’s depiction was as Disney as it gets. Sure, Steev was indulging in pure fantasy, and I fell hard. I left the webpage…dancing. This is not a poetry review. I’m not generally a Roggenbuck fan, even. This is a note about surprise. I read I LOVE MUSIC because there was nothing else worth reading, and I wanted to sit in the PC bang with a very full glass of Pinot Noir, some Dots, and a handsome date. I’m surprised that make- believe can still give me joy. I’m happy that I haven’t totally given up on the fairytale. And it’s cute to see dudes playing Cinderella.

  25. June 15th, 2011 / 4:55 am guest—

      ahh, the red zone http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvMbW8rrSUQ

  26. June 15th, 2011 / 4:56 am guest—

      i would like to complain about their expression via the medium of blogs

      and furthermore,

  27. June 15th, 2011 / 6:09 am JAMES JOYCE IS HIGH—

      I’M SO HIGH RIGHT NOW THIS ACTUALLY SEEMS PRETTY GOOD, WAIT OH THIS ISN’T THE POEM, WEHRE IS THE PEOM, FMFL

  28. June 15th, 2011 / 7:42 am steve roggenbuck—

      whats wrong with emo kids there awesome bro :)

  29. June 15th, 2011 / 1:11 pm Jeje Lin—

      mcaf.ee/b5e0c

  30. June 15th, 2011 / 1:43 pm M. Kitchell—

      ilu james joyce is high

  31. June 15th, 2011 / 1:43 pm M. Kitchell—

      ilu james joyce is high

  32. June 15th, 2011 / 3:24 pm shaun gannon—

      I HATE THIS POEM BECAUSE I HATE HUMOR AND BEING AMUSED

  33. June 15th, 2011 / 3:24 pm shaun gannon—

      I HATE THIS POEM BECAUSE I HATE HUMOR AND BEING AMUSED

  34. June 15th, 2011 / 3:57 pm MFBomb—

      I love poetry and humor.

      But a) this isn’t poetry or anything that aspires to be art and b) it’s not gut-splitting funny because it feels like something that’s already been done before–the world doesn’t need another poem or story on this most over-examined of cohorts, Hipster Dude Bros.

      “Being amused” is an apt way to put it, I guess…

      I will admit that the language is sort of fun…kind of like word candy.  But like candy, it just passes through the system and into the toilet that will soon be flushed and replaced by future delicious turds.

  35. June 15th, 2011 / 5:20 pm luigi—

      as opposed to other forms of food which don’t translate into poop..? if you admit it is amusing and fun what is wrong with publishing it… “the world doesn’t need” anything, clearly ppl like to eat candy and have fun tho

  36. June 15th, 2011 / 5:31 pm MFBomb—

      Yes–other forms of food that stick to the proverbial ribs for at least a little while.

      I do like to eat candy though; too bad these muumuuuuu house-type kids actually think what they’re doing is more than producing candy. I think if they were just more honest about their low ambition and the low stakes of their work, people like me would have more “fun” with it…but there is almost always a tinge of pseudo-serious irony in the work that is affected and trite.

  37. June 15th, 2011 / 6:12 pm mimi—

      ‘at’ christopher  – brofessor
      ‘at’ richard – sweet
      ‘at’ Janey – damn
      ‘at’ DJ – sweet
      ‘at’ Cassandra – sweet/damn
      ‘at’ stephen – sweet
      ‘at’ steve roggenbuck – sweet
      ‘at’ deadgod – can you elaborate?
      ‘at’ inBOIL – damn
      ‘at’ Adam – damn
      ‘at’ whatisinevidence – damn
      ‘at’ MFBomb – damn
      ‘at’ steve roggenbuck – sweet
      ‘at’ Shane Anderson – sweet/damn
      ‘at’ JAMES JOYCE IS HIGH – sweet/damn
      ‘at’ Frank Hinton – sweet
      ‘at’ Tummler – sweet/can you elaborate
      ‘at’ benba57 – sweet/damn
      ‘at’ guest – sweet/damn
      ‘at’ JAMES JOYCE IS HIGH – sweet/damn
      ‘at’ M. Kitchell – sweet
      ‘at’ shaun gannon – damn
      ‘at’ MFBomb – damn
      ‘at’ luigi – sweet
      ‘at’ MFBomb – sweet/damn/can you elaborate?
      ‘at’ Tao – brooooooooo

  38. June 15th, 2011 / 6:17 pm luigi—

      the thing is, you think candy is somehow a form of food that is of lower value than other forms of food. 

      the vast majority of food critics would agree with you that expensive cuts of steak cooked in expensive restaurants are inherently of a higher value than candy.

      personally, and i know a lot of people feel the same way, there are many types of candy i would prefer to eat than expensive gourmet meals. the candy satisfies me on a deeper level, affects me and reaches a part of me that more expensive savory foods are often not able to.

      so if the candy succeeds in producing the response in me that the expensive meal had attempted to produce in me, but failed, i would call the candy a more successful piece of literature. i dont know how ambitious dierks and roggenbuck were in creating this poem, but that seems irrelevant since it succeeds in a way that ‘highly ambitious’ poetry often does not. 

  39. June 15th, 2011 / 6:29 pm MFBomb—

      Candy is definitely a lower value of food than [many] other forms of food.

      Coming from a guy who comes from a place where people wake up at 3 AM to cook meat over wood coals for eight hours, yes, I feel confident in my claim that, say, pit-cooked pork shoulder is of a higher value than a processed jolly rancher.

  40. June 15th, 2011 / 6:50 pm arnie—

      br0luv 4 lief

  41. June 15th, 2011 / 7:51 pm Cassandra Troyan—

      Adam he is but Roggenbro is just on some next level shit NBD.

  42. June 17th, 2011 / 1:20 am shaun gannon—

       lol u think turds are delicious

  43. June 18th, 2011 / 7:11 pm Daniel Lichtenberg—

      Bromanticism has been around for years. http://wewhoareabouttodie.com/2011/02/26/the-bromance-polestar-poetry-series-tomorrow/

  44. October 1st, 2011 / 3:51 am stephen—