Mos Def, John Keats, William Shakespear, Jill Scott, Gil Scott Heron, Saul Williams, Ainsely Burrows, Doze Green, Kinsey, Quest, West-ish,
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Imagine trailer trash.
Imagine the essence that formed trailer trash...
Now, take the piece of ice that tips it, tap it 3 times on a bamboo stick made of moonlight, marshmallows and mellanin. Make a raft with it and launch into the unkown where it will get lost. Scrape the underside of baboon, steal the tusk of a pink elephant, make it hollow, and bellow through it. This will cause a techno-dolphin to find that raft and ride it back your way.
give the dolphin yellow jello
Take all the images you have just seen,
stick it in a blender, add a dictonary, gravel, three blank scrolls, 4 elements and the insides of a black hole. Turn the blender on for 360 seconds,
shake, and pour the entire contents into a Microphone.
let the backdrop be silence caked in quite.
My sound, is the noise.
My first full length, award winning show, 'The 14th Tale' will be touring the country from the 1st of October till mid November, Stcokton, Manchester, Maidenhead, Bath, London, Birmingham, Deptford, Croyrdon and Frome. It is a funny mellifluous narrative about the exploits of a natural born mischief, the shhhtupidness I got up to as a kid, moving from Nigeria to Dublin and to London.
At 4 years old, I short-circuited my home with a silver spoon and a Betamax Video player. At 5 stopped a 700-student strong assembly with a tantrum, 11, was chased through a jungle by a frustrated, crazed French teacher called 'Monsieur Batcock'. After a little family history research, I saw a pattern of mischief reaching back to my grandfather; the story begins...
“I'm from a long line of trouble makers, of ash skinned Africans, born with clenched fists and a natural thirst for battle only quenched by breast milk. They’d suckle as if the white silk sliding between gums were liquid peace treaties written from mums...”
I adapted the poster I created for the show to a computer desktop image - download from here: www.phaze05.com/The14thTale.zip and you can watch a rough cut excerpt of the show on Youtube.
Hope to see you at one of the shows.
Inua Ellams x
erm... yeah,
I was totally like born in 1984, think that '1984' is a good book, loving that bleak sh*t Orwell has going on, I am the brown-skinned blue prince to re-rinse reality outta rainpuddles, like forefathers before me.
Find me there,
humping the right legs of the muses, I be the tail tapper strapped to the glue like thought that fuses hearts to the present present bought from God, (call it the moment,) mine is to rock ink rods and show it.
The is how we do:
black rings, navy satchels, silver bracelet, wooden wones as well, long bus rides, night rider /ray rocker, pixel pusher, silence shusher, candle craver, brown bread, chicken, black pads in back pockets, No Oyster Cards, sketchpads, Graphic Design, SpokenWord, Written Word, Word (2003), Photshop, Illustrator, Canon, Nokia, Melanin, Milk, Maidens, Chocolate Chip cookies, Apple Juice, Noodles, Nectar, NO FISH, Nairobi, Neo, Never-Never land, theories proving the none existence of love, Love, oak bullets, pieces of tea-stained paper, purple dust, mud crystals, terry pratchett, swahillian ginger bread men, gangsters, geishas and goat herds men, the mark making process, progress,
This is how we do NOT do:
police brutality, FiSH, Ice Rap- (50 this means you), Nike (it is written in the book of phaze, chapter eleventeen, verse 23 and a third, "thou shalt rock Nike not", these are the words of phaze, let his will be done), Starbucks, Glocks, 9mmm, mono syllabic rhyme schemes, schemes, Love, constant reality, full fiction,......
i'll update with more stuff and ting,
safe den Bloods.
oh yeah, My Book: Thirteen Fiary Negro Tales came out in '05,
It is a bit GOOD.
Go here, type in my name and buy one...
Jus needed2 tell u- 'candy coated unicorns and converse all stars' is the shit baby. That poem is the reason i love poetry. Is there any way I can upload it on2 my computer so i can put it on my ipod?
I did see that! Josh posted some funny pictures of his snowman...haha. Crazy! You know, it's kind of funny because during WWI and II, when bombs were going off all over London, the buses still ran. Shows how different our generation is, when a little bit of snow stops Big Ben. LOL Texas was the same way. But here in New York, the snow just piles on and people keep on going...
Please do let me know when you post new material! I can't wait to see what you've recorded/written!
I'll let you know how it goes...def. ready for the change to happen! It's going to be so cold tomorrow for all the people standing outside, but it sure will be witnessing history!!!
I read your book again the other day. It just floors me. When I showed it to a fellow classmate back in August at the Brooklyn Book fair, she said, quote: "Why don't more people write like this?" And I said "They are scared."
Hey Inua, Really enjoyed your book, thanks man!. If you're around on the 1st of February, got a big gig comin' up at The Crypt, Hastings. I can put you on the guest list. Should be worth the journey. See ya. J.
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