Request a Automatic-Poem?

Okay, one more entry then I’m done for the day.

I found a blog that has a “automatic-poem-machine” in it I guess the machine in fact is a human. Probably a man since “it” doesn’t hesitate to call itself a machine and not (hu)man.  Oh well a funy idea and the blog has been around for a while so “it” gets some hits actually. More then I can say about me. It’s late and I’m getting grumpy. Haha!

This post was more like a redirect to http://automatic-poem-machine.blogspot.com/ I’ll categories it  under “blabber”.

/nighty, penis enlarger.

Flarf poetry, close to spoem?

 Extract from Wikipedia:

“Flarf Poetry can be characterized as an avant garde poetry movement of the late 20th century and the early 21st century. Its first practitioners practiced an aesthetic dedicated to the exploration of “the inappropriate” in all of its guises. Their method was to mine the Internet with odd search terms then distill the results into often hilarious and sometimes disturbing poems, plays, and other texts.”

Sorry to say, I’m to tired to write something more. Words dont always come  easy you know! Oh well over and out. Tomorrow means a new week means a new fresh start… right? Ps. Barrett Watten seems to some what like Flarf. So I’ll remember to check him out later. He’s part of the Language movement I wrote about a few days ago.

/See you then, sexy pills.

“Spam in Swedish Poems”, a google research – part 1.

Since I started out. From the very beginning. Googled “spam is poetry”. Found more then 500 hits. I’d thought I should do the same but in Swedish. “Spam i poesi” gave no results. spam + poesi gave me some results. The very first result was from a Swedish blog called “Esbastis kommentarer“. If you understand and can read Swedish I highly recommend the comments that followed the post about Spam as poetry. He, Esbastis, only comments this with the headline saying “capitalism is spam”.

Esbastis had found the Poem on this blog. That blog in return has even more comments about spam-ku, flarf (I’ll get to flarf later on i guess) and such. Gosh! It’s a never ending story…

“L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E”

On the web page of Neil M Hennessy http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/hennessey/data/essays/sugarplum.htm you can read how he actually discovered what seems to be a word that a spam poisoning program evidently produced and the output greatly resembled “language” or poetry if you want…

While working on a lipogrammatic project, I needed to look up the meaning of the i-only word ‘bilinigrin’, which was found by a PERL script looking through a word list. I could not find a reference to ‘bilinigrin’ in the online Oxford English Dictionary or the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. I entered the word in the Lycos search engine, and several of the links it returned had highly unusual descriptions.

Wikipedia says the following about “The Language poets”:

(or L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poets, after the magazine that bears that name) are an avant garde group or tendency in United States poetry that emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In developing their poetics, members of the Language school took as their starting point the emphasis( on method evident in the modernist tradition, particularly as represented by Gertrude Stein and Louis Zukofsky. Language poetry is also an example of poetic postmodernism. Its immediate postmodern precursors were the New American poets, a rubric which includes the New York School, the Black Mountain School, the Beat poets, and the San Francisco Renaissance.

“Spam and Haiku”, a google research – part 2

I have found what seems to be the SPAM Haiku Archive. In my last research post I talked some about this “John Cho”, who I think came up with the idea about SPAM-ku, spam in haiku. Check out this page for more information…

SPAM, that mysterious food product, has spawned a post-modern, cross-cultural literary form: the SPAM haiku, or SPAM-ku. (Technically, most of the work contained in this archive is SPAM zappai, or SPAM-pai, although the definition of haiku has been broadened by the Matsuyama Declaration. Besides, “ku” means “verse” in Japanese, so SPAM-ku is not at all a misnomer.) This WWW site was created so that anyone who comes under the influence of this enigmatic porcine muse can share his/her poetic epiphany with the rest of the world. Even if you are not inspired to contribute to the archive, you can browse through and marvel at the works of genius that SPAM has motivated in others.

There is even a book, madness that is reall madness!

Politics and spam as poems

I just copy and paste large chunks, be it quotes or just a portion of a larger text. This quote is from a text published on-line sometime in 2006. At least that’s what I think. The text is no longer available for us to read so I don’t think any one will mind even though I cant give credits to some person in particular.

“The recycling of spam e-mail into postmodern lyric is, from one angle, a symptom of this ‘extremist’ curtailment of negativity. The raw material comes from black-marketeers and fraudsters in countries that the US bombs or enslaves through financial debt; it ends up reinforcing the orthodox aesthetic ideology of the US avant-garde. It is negated by means of a strictly ironic détournement, which amounts to positive inclusion in a dominant poetic culture whose creed is Anti-Author. The interface is violent and preposterous. What western theoreticians of aesthetics are keen to be seen avoiding with sophisticated zeal – the rights of an author, authority for the English language in western society – is almost certainly something that the African ‘businessmen’ sitting in front of their keyboards in their IMF colonies are highly anxious to take for themselves. Spam is not there to be reordered magically into poetry. It is evidence of the desire of people to cheat capitalism and screw money out of gullible and greedy English-speakers. And for anyone unconcerned with the consumer rights of westerners and the parapolitical ideologies that make up their pedestal, that is poetry enough.”

Monty Python’s SPAM Sketch

This is just a excerpt from the SPAM sketch.

Well, there’s egg and bacon; egg, sausage, and bacon; egg and SPAM; egg, bacon, and SPAM; egg, bacon, sausage and SPAM; SPAM, bacon, sausage, and SPAM; SPAM, egg, SPAM, SPAM, bacon, and SPAM; SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, egg, and SPAM; SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, baked beans, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, and SPAM; or lobster thermidor aux crevettes with a mornay sauce garnished with truffle pate, brandy, and a fried egg on top and SPAM.

It sure is…

Others alike (poemsmadeofspam .blogspot.com)

I just found a blog titled “Anthology of Spam Poetry“. The blog has been up and running for more then a year and seem to have extensive amounts of information about Spam as Poetry.

Welcome to the Anthology of Spam Poetry Internet page ~ also known as the Collection of Spam Bards document.My name is Morton Hurley and I maintain this site as a means of preserving and promoting the art of poetry developed from spam messages.

The author himself, Morton Hurley, also seem to have written a book on the subject.

Do you find this sort of thing interesting? Can you believe a publishing company has published a book collecting the first sixty spoems from this site along with original photography from readers and essays from K. Silem Mohammad and me?

The publisher, also running a blog, can be found here. The description of the publisher reads as follows:

Vértice 1925 will publish books of experimental literature and poetry. Our first two publications will explore literary aspects of the spam email movement.

I think I’ll add both of those links to my blogroll!

/J.LA.E

“Spam and Haiku”, a google research – part 1

” Spamku – Spam Haiku Archive – SPAM, that mysterious food product, has spawned a post-modern, cross-cultural literary form: SPAM-ku http://pemtropics.mit.edu/~jcho/spam/”

There, I have quoted from haiku.com, a page that obviously is in need of a update since more then half of all the links are bad. Like the one above, it saddens me to say. But there is still information to be found about Spam-ku. Mr. John Cho launched a website as early as 1995. The one above that is.

SPAM-ku

The Internet has also brought the noise as well as the content, unleashing a
torrent of humor, satire and zaniness all labeled haiku.

The biggest brand name is SPAM-ku (pemtropics.mit.edu/=jcho/spam). MIT
researcher John Cho launched the site in praise of the processed-pork meat
in 1995; to date, it has spawned more than 17,000 verses by more than 40
contributors, as well as a greatest-hits book, “SPAM-ku:

Tranquil Reflections on Luncheon Loaf” (Harperperennial paperback, $7.95).

The above quote was taken from a text about Haiku named “Haiku casts big Net; An old and clever form of Japanese poetry is making a global splash“. Don’t read it. It’s to long. There was once a a historical spam museum and archive. The remainings of that “museum” which from the beginning was created to preserve all spam’s for future net archaeologists can be found at this location.

“Spam is Poetry”, a google research

The truth, didn’t that many had came up with this idea about Spam as poetry. Even though it truly is brilliant! My first hit on the world wide web was “Andrei Codrescu”. Read a biography. I just had to google “spam is poetry” to see what could possibly show. There is a 3 min audio clip with him where he tells something (yada yada yada) about Spam and Poetry. Listen to it!

“Commentator Andrei Codrescu sees a way for the much-hated computer nuisance “spam” — unsolicited emails — to redeem itself.”

There is another link about this specific audio clip. Right here! Codrescu is really on to something. Hopefully I wont spoil the whole idea about this blog, my intentions with it or for arts sake my goal just because I write about him in my first post on my first day, on the Internet? Nah? There is a short text written by Codrescu with the following quote:

“And the strange thing is that it works. Everything from porn to nonexistent W.M.D.’s can be sold to us because we are perfect receptors for Dada poetry, made pliable by a relentless history of nonsense and nonstop pitching.”

You find the whole text right here! The text was published in 2004, that’s like ages ago. I’m way behind… Of course there are more written about Codrescu, you can read some over at “Marketing VOX“.

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