match stick box: a relevant vintage youtube video

Monday, May 18, 2009

a relevant vintage youtube video

It was a pervasive but fleeting fad, once upon a time, to produce parodies of the Brokeback Mountain trailer as it applied to films or TV shows with similar plots to that of the BBM--though with less direct outcomes--using the underscoring and voice-over of the original trailer as a template. I found the youtube phenomenon astute and illuminative of how films inadvertently code homoerotic/homosexual tensions for an ignorant audience. This clip I found especially germane given my last post.

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originally intended be strictly be a poetry blog for unrefined ramblings, i've expanded msb in attempt to further assimilate into the blogging community by creating a space for personal commentary on general literature, visual art and miscellaneous cultural contribution. i do not pose as an impartial spectator nor an academic critic. i am merely a man-boy who participates in the act of looking at art and generating ideas. and i write poetry. the name of the blog is derived from a faux manuscript made for a poetry workshop given by a mentor, lyn hejinian. the manuscript, though eventually becoming a glorified chapbook, was--in its formative stages--a series of boxes with poems printed on each face of the cube. i ran with the idea of poems as objects and wanted to concretize verse in the most literal way, matching boxes that were stuck inside of each other. cutting and construction of nesting boxes proved unnecessarily taxing, so i settled for naming the book match[ing] box[ing] stick[ing]. this blog attempts, at the digital level, to view cultural artifacts as physical objects with the agency to crush like an anvil or tickle like a feather. i guess we'll see.

Monday, May 18, 2009

a relevant vintage youtube video

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