"Fighter's Plea" by Jon Sands & Rachel Mckibbens
Producing Poetry, Being a student of the game not just a player, Love Ultimate frisbee, live artistic expression, fierce friends, Athens Ohio, parks on nice days, actual wilderness on nice days, speakin' Spanish, listening to people talk about rims, outside (granola blood pumped through concrete streets), farmers markets, I've never met the burrito I didn't fall for.
Music
Andrew Bird, OutKast, Black Star, Atmosphere, The Avett Brothers, Southeast Engine, The Snails, Cee-lo, My man D Jones, Joanna Newsome, The Beta Band, Lauryn Hill, Brother Ali, Aesop Rock, The freakin' Beatles, The Makebelieves, Ryan Adams, Zero 7, A Tribe Called Quest, Talking Heads, And Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings
Movies
High Fidelity
, SLC Punk
,
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind(Don't watch if you haven't seen the movie yet),
Keystone Classic documentary and pretty much anything else by Angie Vargos
Television
Television is the devil, just one more thing out of hand preventing us from doing things that are actually cool while brainwashing hours of commercials...but crap, i always watch the Bengals, and I'll be damned if the 30 Rock i've seen isn't piss pants funny
Books
being human being, ,the sixth Harry Potter, Morning Constitutional by Michael Magee, Atlas Shrugged, Just a Couple of Days by my main man Tony Vigorito (never hesitate and always wear a bike helmet), Different Hours by Stephen Dunn, Autobiography of Malcom X, I & Apocalypse by Erin Wiles, The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll by Alvaro Mutis, Pallbearers Envying the One Who Rides by Stephen Dobyns, Black Unicorn by Audre Lord, and A New Hunger by Laure Anne Basolar
Heroes
My folks, Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Groucho Marx, and Clementine
searching through fingertips to find a better world, not quite able to make out the shape, but i swear, it's on the front of our tongues right now, escaping in the form of noisemakers, shaking ourselves vulnerable, smacking chips on tables without fully understanding the card in our hands. I am a generation attempting to conceive a living and a difference in the same breath. Cracked pots, forever glued back together, wearing inexperience in a nametag that someday, if we're lucky, might say... "solution"
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From First Thursdays in Honolulu
When I speak of myself well, and in the third person, it tends to sound a bit like this...Jon Sands' poetry is a genuine look into the mind of a moment wrapped up neatly into an anvil, then dropped from a sixty story building. A Cincinnati native, Sands now resides in New York City's legendary poetry scene where in his first year of slam competition he captured a slot on the LouderARTS New York City poetry slam team; then, upshot through the nation as a finalist at the National Poetry Slam in Austin, TX. A leader in the next generation of poetic voices, Sands has toured throughout North America performing and conducting workshops from university theatres, to dimly lit pubs, to Manhattan needle exchange centers. Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz, author of "Words In Your Face: A Guided Tour Through Twenty Years of the New York City Poetry Slam" said, “To witness the poetry of Jon Sands is to come face-to-face with a force of nature. He is a baby-faced cyclone, a wild twister of poet who isn't afraid to use everything he's got to move an audience, to absolutely blow them away.” Blending youthful idealism with forceful passion and a drop of fire, Sands probes society and self to discover what makes the sloppy muscle inside our ribs tick into such a beautiful mess.
oh yeah...i'm also kinda like this
Who I'd like to meet: Andre Benjamin, Mahatma Gandhi, Benjamin Franklin, John Lennon, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Paul, Fozzie Bear, Malcom X, You, Gertrude Stein, Thomas Paine, Stewie Griffin, all relatives that died before my birth, Cee-lo, The Marx Brothers, Lex Luther, Martin Luther King Jr., Moses, Allen Ginsberg, Teddy Roosevelt, Dinosaurs (both the 90s tv show and the real thing), Plato, Timothy Leary, Marvin Lewis, Tom Jackson, Amelia Bedilia, Trey Anastasio, Roald Dahl, Muhammad Ali, Pele, Kris Kros, Dizzy Rascle, Frank O'hara, and the funniest person alive
i see your goin to ann arbor.. nice town in michigan.. good for you that you are creating. .. are we ever gonna have a minute to play some pool and catch up?..times are a changin, i would like to enjoy your company, if only for a hot minute.. working in chelsea now.. maybe we can run into eachother..
so you wouldn't believe me if i told you fam. nyc police dep. + credit card tracking + lots of shady porn websites = my computer sitting back on my lap. right now. breathing easier.
...likewise son. since the "clearing of the smoke," been meaning to reach out to you. thanks for beating me to it. lets get up, toss a couple back, talk shop for real.
