WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:07.030 align:middle line:90% 00:00:07.030 --> 00:00:08.260 align:middle line:90% Thank you so much Meagan. 00:00:08.260 --> 00:00:09.920 align:middle line:90% That was amazing. 00:00:09.920 --> 00:00:11.890 align:middle line:84% I think you should read my poems. 00:00:11.890 --> 00:00:14.470 align:middle line:84% I should just sit down and see you because it's really 00:00:14.470 --> 00:00:15.430 align:middle line:90% something special. 00:00:15.430 --> 00:00:16.900 align:middle line:84% Thank you really, really very much. 00:00:16.900 --> 00:00:19.900 align:middle line:84% And thank you so much for the Poetry Center. 00:00:19.900 --> 00:00:23.290 align:middle line:84% To Cybele, Renee and Gail, this is an amazing place. 00:00:23.290 --> 00:00:25.330 align:middle line:84% I'm really, really thrilled to be here. 00:00:25.330 --> 00:00:27.280 align:middle line:84% And also I'm thrilled to be sharing 00:00:27.280 --> 00:00:32.860 align:middle line:84% the bill with Bhanu and Ben, two poets who I deeply respect. 00:00:32.860 --> 00:00:36.730 align:middle line:84% I will read tonight from the book Public Domain. 00:00:36.730 --> 00:00:39.250 align:middle line:84% And I'm just going to read you two pieces. 00:00:39.250 --> 00:00:42.880 align:middle line:84% One I thought was very apropos because I 00:00:42.880 --> 00:00:44.680 align:middle line:84% happened to be in Arizona and you'll 00:00:44.680 --> 00:00:46.780 align:middle line:90% see what's happened about it. 00:00:46.780 --> 00:00:50.860 align:middle line:84% And also I just wanted to start by saying that sometimes I 00:00:50.860 --> 00:00:53.620 align:middle line:84% think that when poets introduce the poems that they're 00:00:53.620 --> 00:00:58.292 align:middle line:84% about to read they reach an artistic level that sometimes 00:00:58.292 --> 00:01:00.250 align:middle line:84% they don't reach with the poems that they read. 00:01:00.250 --> 00:01:03.290 align:middle line:84% It's like a genre in itself like the introduction to the poem. 00:01:03.290 --> 00:01:05.530 align:middle line:84% So in a way this book for me it's 00:01:05.530 --> 00:01:09.310 align:middle line:84% really about striving for a space where poetry can happen 00:01:09.310 --> 00:01:13.390 align:middle line:84% amidst the barrage of information and text 00:01:13.390 --> 00:01:15.730 align:middle line:90% and language that surrounds us. 00:01:15.730 --> 00:01:19.520 align:middle line:84% So it's really like striving for poetry and searching for it. 00:01:19.520 --> 00:01:22.870 align:middle line:84% But maybe doesn't necessarily find it you know. 00:01:22.870 --> 00:01:24.400 align:middle line:90% It's about that search. 00:01:24.400 --> 00:01:29.470 align:middle line:84% So that said I will begin with this first poem called 00:01:29.470 --> 00:01:34.900 align:middle line:84% "Is to Travel Getting to or Being in a Destination." 00:01:34.900 --> 00:01:36.430 align:middle line:90% One. 00:01:36.430 --> 00:01:38.710 align:middle line:84% The next poem was inspired by something 00:01:38.710 --> 00:01:42.370 align:middle line:84% I overheard at the Buffalo Bill Grave and museum and lookout 00:01:42.370 --> 00:01:45.190 align:middle line:90% point in Golden, Colorado. 00:01:45.190 --> 00:01:47.770 align:middle line:84% My partner and I were on a road trip to the Grand Canyon 00:01:47.770 --> 00:01:50.320 align:middle line:84% and came across a sign for the exit to the grave 00:01:50.320 --> 00:01:52.720 align:middle line:90% so we decided to check it out. 00:01:52.720 --> 00:01:56.310 align:middle line:84% All I knew about Buffalo Bill came from the Beatles song. 00:01:56.310 --> 00:01:58.630 align:middle line:90% ShowBiz wasn't off the mark. 00:01:58.630 --> 00:02:01.090 align:middle line:84% On display at the museum were films and posters 00:02:01.090 --> 00:02:05.260 align:middle line:84% advertising Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Congress Rough 00:02:05.260 --> 00:02:08.620 align:middle line:84% Riders of the World featuring Cowboys and Indians, 00:02:08.620 --> 00:02:12.460 align:middle line:84% Mexican vaqueros, Arabian riders, Japanese soldiers, 00:02:12.460 --> 00:02:16.480 align:middle line:84% Irish Lancers, South American Gauchos, and Russian Cossacks 00:02:16.480 --> 00:02:20.950 align:middle line:84% engaging in marvelous feats, sports, and pastimes. 00:02:20.950 --> 00:02:23.680 align:middle line:84% A group of tourists was standing next to me. 00:02:23.680 --> 00:02:28.480 align:middle line:84% Miran hijos, nuestros paisanos, the father said to his kids. 00:02:28.480 --> 00:02:31.960 align:middle line:84% He was happy to show them pictures of his countrymen. 00:02:31.960 --> 00:02:35.080 align:middle line:90% Buffalo Bill died in 1917. 00:02:35.080 --> 00:02:38.350 align:middle line:84% The poem called "The Hand Man Game" 00:02:38.350 --> 00:02:41.170 align:middle line:84% is a couple made of 19 letters in the first line 00:02:41.170 --> 00:02:42.775 align:middle line:90% and 17 in the second. 00:02:42.775 --> 00:02:48.140 align:middle line:90% 00:02:48.140 --> 00:02:52.280 align:middle line:84% The next poem is called "A Place is a Container of Places." 00:02:52.280 --> 00:02:54.660 align:middle line:84% For this road trip I was telling you about, 00:02:54.660 --> 00:02:56.390 align:middle line:84% we had a very good map of Colorado 00:02:56.390 --> 00:02:58.970 align:middle line:84% that ended right at the four corners. 00:02:58.970 --> 00:03:01.070 align:middle line:84% I looked up driving directions from Durango 00:03:01.070 --> 00:03:02.570 align:middle line:84% to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon 00:03:02.570 --> 00:03:06.650 align:middle line:84% online instead of buying them from Arizona. 00:03:06.650 --> 00:03:08.720 align:middle line:84% When we actually got to the Canyon 00:03:08.720 --> 00:03:12.230 align:middle line:84% we had to get off at Arizona 67 and take 00:03:12.230 --> 00:03:17.840 align:middle line:84% road 212 portions unpaved for about a mile and a half. 00:03:17.840 --> 00:03:19.970 align:middle line:84% At the end of the road, we were to turn left 00:03:19.970 --> 00:03:23.360 align:middle line:90% on road 282 portions unpaved. 00:03:23.360 --> 00:03:27.110 align:middle line:90% We never saw any numbered roads. 00:03:27.110 --> 00:03:29.660 align:middle line:84% We'd been on the gravel road for over 20 minutes when 00:03:29.660 --> 00:03:33.350 align:middle line:84% we realized that the area's majestic woodlands were 00:03:33.350 --> 00:03:37.190 align:middle line:84% completely charred from a recent wildfire. 00:03:37.190 --> 00:03:42.140 align:middle line:84% What had I typed on MapQuest, my traveling partner asked. 00:03:42.140 --> 00:03:45.650 align:middle line:90% The North Rim, I replied. 00:03:45.650 --> 00:03:49.580 align:middle line:84% A place is a container of places, a monument, 00:03:49.580 --> 00:03:53.420 align:middle line:90% a landscape, a rock, a gorge. 00:03:53.420 --> 00:03:56.030 align:middle line:84% A point of interest is a chamber of echoes. 00:03:56.030 --> 00:03:59.300 align:middle line:90% 00:03:59.300 --> 00:04:04.070 align:middle line:84% Three, I overheard a guy at the Grand Canyon lodge say, 00:04:04.070 --> 00:04:07.940 align:middle line:84% I figured out this trip is all about erosion, 00:04:07.940 --> 00:04:10.530 align:middle line:90% who likes to overhear things. 00:04:10.530 --> 00:04:12.260 align:middle line:84% This next poem is about overhearing. 00:04:12.260 --> 00:04:16.899 align:middle line:90% 00:04:16.899 --> 00:04:19.570 align:middle line:84% Four, I was at the corner deli one night 00:04:19.570 --> 00:04:23.740 align:middle line:84% when I noticed that one of the legal workers was hurt. 00:04:23.740 --> 00:04:26.210 align:middle line:84% I asked what happened to him and the guy at the cashier 00:04:26.210 --> 00:04:28.900 align:middle line:90% shrugged and said, nothing. 00:04:28.900 --> 00:04:31.330 align:middle line:84% Another Mexican worker came running from across the street 00:04:31.330 --> 00:04:34.870 align:middle line:84% and tried to punch the worker whose eye was bleeding again. 00:04:34.870 --> 00:04:38.650 align:middle line:84% I left the store empty handed as an ambulance and a police car 00:04:38.650 --> 00:04:40.540 align:middle line:90% were arriving on the scene. 00:04:40.540 --> 00:04:43.180 align:middle line:84% Someone in the street oblivious to what was going on 00:04:43.180 --> 00:04:46.000 align:middle line:84% was asking his friends what's the best place we've 00:04:46.000 --> 00:04:48.970 align:middle line:90% ever been in your answer here. 00:04:48.970 --> 00:04:54.910 align:middle line:90% 00:04:54.910 --> 00:04:57.900 align:middle line:84% So now I will read you an abridged version 00:04:57.900 --> 00:05:00.570 align:middle line:84% of this long piece called "The crush". 00:05:00.570 --> 00:05:05.070 align:middle line:84% It begins with an epigraph taken from a Werner Herzog film 00:05:05.070 --> 00:05:08.070 align:middle line:84% that I really like it's called The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser. 00:05:08.070 --> 00:05:13.260 align:middle line:84% And the epigraph is the music feels strong in my heart. 00:05:13.260 --> 00:05:15.460 align:middle line:90% The first. 00:05:15.460 --> 00:05:18.270 align:middle line:90% This piece is therapeutic. 00:05:18.270 --> 00:05:20.430 align:middle line:84% I was told by a number of people my therapist 00:05:20.430 --> 00:05:23.130 align:middle line:84% included that if I could only put my obsession 00:05:23.130 --> 00:05:27.270 align:middle line:84% into my own work I'd be a much happier and productive person. 00:05:27.270 --> 00:05:29.940 align:middle line:84% This piece might not seem transformed enough to you, 00:05:29.940 --> 00:05:33.570 align:middle line:84% but I intended to be transformative for me. 00:05:33.570 --> 00:05:36.750 align:middle line:84% This is a piece about reconciliation. 00:05:36.750 --> 00:05:39.870 align:middle line:90% This is a piece about air. 00:05:39.870 --> 00:05:42.000 align:middle line:84% This is the type of thing I gave up 00:05:42.000 --> 00:05:45.630 align:middle line:90% when I decided I was a realist. 00:05:45.630 --> 00:05:48.210 align:middle line:84% I'm trying to rescue my imagination, which I've 00:05:48.210 --> 00:05:51.570 align:middle line:90% neglected since I was about 13. 00:05:51.570 --> 00:05:56.190 align:middle line:84% If this piece seems adolescent to you, there you go. 00:05:56.190 --> 00:05:59.490 align:middle line:84% It's the return of the repressed. 00:05:59.490 --> 00:06:00.990 align:middle line:84% When you grow up in Mexico City it's 00:06:00.990 --> 00:06:02.880 align:middle line:84% not OK to live in your head unless there's 00:06:02.880 --> 00:06:05.220 align:middle line:90% no padding in it. 00:06:05.220 --> 00:06:08.760 align:middle line:84% The same could be said of many other places. 00:06:08.760 --> 00:06:11.550 align:middle line:84% This won't sound like music to you. 00:06:11.550 --> 00:06:14.340 align:middle line:84% This won't sound like music to me either. 00:06:14.340 --> 00:06:18.030 align:middle line:84% There in lies this project's quandary. 00:06:18.030 --> 00:06:22.020 align:middle line:84% Lists are a form of problem solving. 00:06:22.020 --> 00:06:24.420 align:middle line:90% This is no beautiful music. 00:06:24.420 --> 00:06:27.090 align:middle line:90% This is no calm music either. 00:06:27.090 --> 00:06:31.110 align:middle line:84% No danger music, no discrete music, no drip music, 00:06:31.110 --> 00:06:35.280 align:middle line:84% no driving music, no elastics music, no incidental music. 00:06:35.280 --> 00:06:38.700 align:middle line:84% No living room music, no music for a revolution. 00:06:38.700 --> 00:06:41.640 align:middle line:84% No music for airports, no music in Union. 00:06:41.640 --> 00:06:43.560 align:middle line:90% No music for changes. 00:06:43.560 --> 00:06:45.360 align:middle line:90% No music with changing parts. 00:06:45.360 --> 00:06:48.000 align:middle line:90% No Musica Elettronica Viva. 00:06:48.000 --> 00:06:49.110 align:middle line:90% No musicircus. 00:06:49.110 --> 00:06:52.440 align:middle line:84% No noise music, no pendulum music, no theater music, 00:06:52.440 --> 00:06:54.090 align:middle line:90% no water music. 00:06:54.090 --> 00:06:57.630 align:middle line:84% Therein lies this project's quandary. 00:06:57.630 --> 00:06:59.623 align:middle line:84% Lists are what you write when you 00:06:59.623 --> 00:07:01.290 align:middle line:84% think you've got everything in your head 00:07:01.290 --> 00:07:03.510 align:middle line:84% but you've started to become suspicious of what 00:07:03.510 --> 00:07:06.540 align:middle line:90% that could possibly mean. 00:07:06.540 --> 00:07:08.610 align:middle line:90% More facts. 00:07:08.610 --> 00:07:12.780 align:middle line:84% I have a crush on a musician or is it his music, go figure. 00:07:12.780 --> 00:07:16.920 align:middle line:84% I'll call him Blank to protect him from stalkers. 00:07:16.920 --> 00:07:18.780 align:middle line:84% Blank seems like a real nice guy. 00:07:18.780 --> 00:07:20.880 align:middle line:84% He seems the type of person who you encounter 00:07:20.880 --> 00:07:23.010 align:middle line:84% at the dog run doing his groceries 00:07:23.010 --> 00:07:27.120 align:middle line:84% or on an insanely crowded subway train any day of the week. 00:07:27.120 --> 00:07:29.610 align:middle line:84% I've never fallen for the unapproachable Antonio Banderas 00:07:29.610 --> 00:07:31.200 align:middle line:84% type although I did dream once that he 00:07:31.200 --> 00:07:35.590 align:middle line:84% was in my living room trying to kiss me behind the couch. 00:07:35.590 --> 00:07:37.440 align:middle line:84% Whether or not Blank is a rock star 00:07:37.440 --> 00:07:39.570 align:middle line:84% has been the topic of an ongoing discussion 00:07:39.570 --> 00:07:41.370 align:middle line:90% between me and my partner. 00:07:41.370 --> 00:07:43.660 align:middle line:84% I argue that if that were the case, 00:07:43.660 --> 00:07:46.200 align:middle line:84% I would have known him a long time ago. 00:07:46.200 --> 00:07:49.680 align:middle line:84% The basis of my argument is Blank's usual geeky posture. 00:07:49.680 --> 00:07:52.560 align:middle line:84% Except for when he's performing, he's always hunched. 00:07:52.560 --> 00:07:55.440 align:middle line:84% He never seems comfortable with attention. 00:07:55.440 --> 00:07:57.090 align:middle line:84% A few weeks after seeing him play live 00:07:57.090 --> 00:07:58.980 align:middle line:84% for a second time I couldn't stand him 00:07:58.980 --> 00:08:01.800 align:middle line:84% the first I heard his solo music in my living room 00:08:01.800 --> 00:08:04.650 align:middle line:84% as my family was visiting for the holidays. 00:08:04.650 --> 00:08:07.050 align:middle line:90% I felt a psychic connection. 00:08:07.050 --> 00:08:10.290 align:middle line:84% Lines like my memories stored in Zip lock bags 00:08:10.290 --> 00:08:12.252 align:middle line:90% must have done it. 00:08:12.252 --> 00:08:13.710 align:middle line:84% Once I established this connection, 00:08:13.710 --> 00:08:16.350 align:middle line:84% I returned to the images of him performing and latched 00:08:16.350 --> 00:08:18.060 align:middle line:90% onto them. 00:08:18.060 --> 00:08:21.687 align:middle line:84% Otherwise, I hear riffs and drums. 00:08:21.687 --> 00:08:23.520 align:middle line:84% The connection is so intense that often when 00:08:23.520 --> 00:08:28.230 align:middle line:84% I check my emails I expect there to be one from him in my inbox. 00:08:28.230 --> 00:08:31.110 align:middle line:84% I am worried that there's an online girls only worship 00:08:31.110 --> 00:08:33.600 align:middle line:90% center devoted to Blank. 00:08:33.600 --> 00:08:36.940 align:middle line:90% I must be a walking cliche. 00:08:36.940 --> 00:08:41.520 align:middle line:84% Lists are what you need when your thoughts are scattered. 00:08:41.520 --> 00:08:44.310 align:middle line:90% Letters are what is in a name. 00:08:44.310 --> 00:08:50.240 align:middle line:84% Tea yes, meat plus yams plus yeast yum. 00:08:50.240 --> 00:08:51.870 align:middle line:90% Sake más yum. 00:08:51.870 --> 00:08:53.640 align:middle line:90% My eye yé-yé. 00:08:53.640 --> 00:08:54.870 align:middle line:90% My key task. 00:08:54.870 --> 00:08:55.710 align:middle line:90% Say Sky. 00:08:55.710 --> 00:08:57.180 align:middle line:90% Maya skate team yay! 00:08:57.180 --> 00:08:59.055 align:middle line:90% Ey, amas? ¿Y tu kama? 00:08:59.055 --> 00:09:01.251 align:middle line:90% Me matas, me atas. 00:09:01.251 --> 00:09:02.300 align:middle line:90% Súmate. 00:09:02.300 --> 00:09:03.545 align:middle line:90% Tu suma, tema y meta. 00:09:03.545 --> 00:09:05.790 align:middle line:90% My yute tee, me yuky. 00:09:05.790 --> 00:09:06.500 align:middle line:90% Muy musky. 00:09:06.500 --> 00:09:07.937 align:middle line:90% Sema. 00:09:07.937 --> 00:09:09.520 align:middle line:90% Tame yaks meet meek tusks. 00:09:10.210 --> 00:09:11.940 align:middle line:90% Eye will meat my tusk. 00:09:11.940 --> 00:09:13.710 align:middle line:90% Eye may meet my task. 00:09:13.710 --> 00:09:17.968 align:middle line:90% Ask AKA mask ay. 00:09:17.968 --> 00:09:20.010 align:middle line:84% Lists are what they tell you to begin with if you 00:09:20.010 --> 00:09:23.040 align:middle line:90% want to be on top of things. 00:09:23.040 --> 00:09:25.290 align:middle line:90% 10 steps to follow the sound. 00:09:25.290 --> 00:09:27.755 align:middle line:84% One, to one of our mutual friends 00:09:27.755 --> 00:09:29.130 align:middle line:84% and an acquaintance of mine wants 00:09:29.130 --> 00:09:31.130 align:middle line:84% to do an interview with Blank to the publication 00:09:31.130 --> 00:09:32.280 align:middle line:90% that I work with-- 00:09:32.280 --> 00:09:35.520 align:middle line:84% that I work for sorry and needs to contact him. 00:09:35.520 --> 00:09:37.230 align:middle line:84% Once I have his contact info write 00:09:37.230 --> 00:09:38.910 align:middle line:84% him a letter for every piece of music 00:09:38.910 --> 00:09:41.070 align:middle line:84% that he's ever composed, performed, 00:09:41.070 --> 00:09:45.630 align:middle line:84% or produced each one revolving around the idea of air. 00:09:45.630 --> 00:09:48.600 align:middle line:84% Write it on a surface on which it will disintegrate, 00:09:48.600 --> 00:09:52.740 align:middle line:84% a block of ice, sand, on the sidewalk with a watering can. 00:09:52.740 --> 00:09:56.120 align:middle line:84% Take a picture and fax it to him. 00:09:56.120 --> 00:09:57.860 align:middle line:90% Two. 00:09:57.860 --> 00:10:00.650 align:middle line:84% Go to MapQuest and get driving directions from my address 00:10:00.650 --> 00:10:01.970 align:middle line:90% to his. 00:10:01.970 --> 00:10:05.310 align:middle line:84% For 24 days drive there at a different hour of the day, 00:10:05.310 --> 00:10:08.660 align:middle line:84% leaving at 12 AM the first day and 12 PM the last 00:10:08.660 --> 00:10:12.200 align:middle line:84% so as to catch him at some point by chance. 00:10:12.200 --> 00:10:14.270 align:middle line:84% If this doesn't work, rotate the schedule 00:10:14.270 --> 00:10:18.080 align:middle line:90% until I catch him by chance. 00:10:18.080 --> 00:10:20.570 align:middle line:84% Three, write him a mesostic combining 00:10:20.570 --> 00:10:23.210 align:middle line:84% Werner Herzog's idea on ecstatic truth 00:10:23.210 --> 00:10:25.490 align:middle line:84% and the passage where the following quote by Blank 00:10:25.490 --> 00:10:29.720 align:middle line:84% appears, to get somewhere you have to take a car. 00:10:29.720 --> 00:10:31.490 align:middle line:84% But the journey isn't about the car, 00:10:31.490 --> 00:10:34.320 align:middle line:90% it's about the destination. 00:10:34.320 --> 00:10:36.350 align:middle line:84% Give my friend Rocco to set it to music 00:10:36.350 --> 00:10:40.980 align:middle line:84% and ask DJ Acapulco to play it on his radio show. 00:10:40.980 --> 00:10:41.480 align:middle line:90% Four. 00:10:41.480 --> 00:10:43.670 align:middle line:84% Write a poem called "Have a Happy Day" 00:10:43.670 --> 00:10:46.460 align:middle line:84% where every line contains the word drone. 00:10:46.460 --> 00:10:49.790 align:middle line:84% Search the word and string the results. 00:10:49.790 --> 00:10:52.580 align:middle line:84% Back in the Tulsa drone there was a daily drone 00:10:52.580 --> 00:10:55.340 align:middle line:84% under the drone one heard a Tokyo drone above it 00:10:55.340 --> 00:10:56.570 align:middle line:90% a nebula drone. 00:10:56.570 --> 00:11:00.560 align:middle line:84% An artful drone generated by bagpipe drone reeds 00:11:00.560 --> 00:11:02.840 align:middle line:90% in the drone boot room. 00:11:02.840 --> 00:11:06.620 align:middle line:84% Take the photo drone, dismantle the feared drone project. 00:11:06.620 --> 00:11:11.150 align:middle line:84% Flicker: Rogue drone turns into exdrone dragon drone. 00:11:11.150 --> 00:11:12.840 align:middle line:90% What if a drone virus? 00:11:12.840 --> 00:11:14.900 align:middle line:84% What if the drone armies are coming? 00:11:14.900 --> 00:11:17.060 align:middle line:84% What if drones start border duty? 00:11:17.060 --> 00:11:20.600 align:middle line:84% If Iraqi drones could have dropped chemicals dismantle 00:11:20.600 --> 00:11:24.020 align:middle line:84% defense tech, toughest drone ever to enter the drone zone 00:11:24.020 --> 00:11:27.800 align:middle line:84% generates a dull drone escape, the drone scape. 00:11:27.800 --> 00:11:29.990 align:middle line:84% Go to the drone forest where drone raising 00:11:29.990 --> 00:11:34.310 align:middle line:84% and the association drone seems born to drone. 00:11:34.310 --> 00:11:36.050 align:middle line:90% Dismantle defense tech. 00:11:36.050 --> 00:11:40.220 align:middle line:84% Whirl- a- drone begins to spin, listen to the drone music. 00:11:40.220 --> 00:11:43.130 align:middle line:90% Listen to the daily drone. 00:11:43.130 --> 00:11:47.420 align:middle line:84% Call him and leave the poem on his answering machine. 00:11:47.420 --> 00:11:50.300 align:middle line:84% Five, use Levi Lehto's Google a poem 00:11:50.300 --> 00:11:53.030 align:middle line:84% program to come up with a poem based on the words country 00:11:53.030 --> 00:11:53.780 align:middle line:90% ass-- 00:11:53.780 --> 00:11:55.670 align:middle line:84% what Blank's last name means according 00:11:55.670 --> 00:12:00.170 align:middle line:84% to the blog of who knows who, and email it to him. 00:12:00.170 --> 00:12:01.625 align:middle line:90% Skeleton of a country ass. 00:12:01.625 --> 00:12:04.850 align:middle line:90% 00:12:04.850 --> 00:12:07.070 align:middle line:84% Does anyone have or know where I can 00:12:07.070 --> 00:12:10.700 align:middle line:84% get the lyrics to Rhett Akins Kiss my country ass. 00:12:10.700 --> 00:12:13.190 align:middle line:90% I can't find them anywhere. 00:12:13.190 --> 00:12:17.630 align:middle line:84% Wolf country, myth and stories, the ass and the wolf. 00:12:17.630 --> 00:12:20.390 align:middle line:84% Irregular goods for progressive resistance. 00:12:20.390 --> 00:12:22.730 align:middle line:84% Country girl Democrat bumper sticker. 00:12:22.730 --> 00:12:24.950 align:middle line:84% Those of us who live out in the country know that 00:12:24.950 --> 00:12:27.200 align:middle line:90% Bush's so-called-- 00:12:27.200 --> 00:12:29.780 align:middle line:84% irregular votes for progressive resistance, country boy 00:12:29.780 --> 00:12:31.610 align:middle line:90% Democrat bumper sticker. 00:12:31.610 --> 00:12:34.550 align:middle line:84% Too long the Republicans have taken rural America 00:12:34.550 --> 00:12:36.350 align:middle line:90% for granted. 00:12:36.350 --> 00:12:40.160 align:middle line:84% In the meantime, I'll have my trashy simple minded country 00:12:40.160 --> 00:12:43.640 align:middle line:90% ass at the county club. 00:12:43.640 --> 00:12:44.780 align:middle line:90% Six. 00:12:44.780 --> 00:12:47.220 align:middle line:84% Compose a fake interview of him lifting questions asked 00:12:47.220 --> 00:12:49.160 align:middle line:84% to John Cage in different interviews 00:12:49.160 --> 00:12:52.700 align:middle line:84% and answering the questions with quotes of John Fahey. 00:12:52.700 --> 00:12:58.520 align:middle line:84% Put it online email him the link and fax him a printout. 00:12:58.520 --> 00:12:59.630 align:middle line:90% Seven. 00:12:59.630 --> 00:13:02.270 align:middle line:84% Since meeting him on his own show seems almost impossible, 00:13:02.270 --> 00:13:04.160 align:middle line:90% go to others where he might be. 00:13:04.160 --> 00:13:06.650 align:middle line:84% Go see everyone who is from his hometown, anyone 00:13:06.650 --> 00:13:08.810 align:middle line:84% who has recorted with the same labels as he, 00:13:08.810 --> 00:13:11.450 align:middle line:84% anyone he has ever played with or produced. 00:13:11.450 --> 00:13:15.590 align:middle line:84% Text message him short comments on the performances. 00:13:15.590 --> 00:13:18.200 align:middle line:84% Eight, ask the audiences at shows 00:13:18.200 --> 00:13:21.050 align:middle line:84% if they've ever seen him around, what they know about him, 00:13:21.050 --> 00:13:22.880 align:middle line:84% what they think of him, et cetera. 00:13:22.880 --> 00:13:27.140 align:middle line:84% Record the interviews and put them up on YouTube. 00:13:27.140 --> 00:13:28.220 align:middle line:90% Nine. 00:13:28.220 --> 00:13:30.112 align:middle line:84% Come up with movie plots and send them to him 00:13:30.112 --> 00:13:31.820 align:middle line:84% so he can come up with a few ideas on how 00:13:31.820 --> 00:13:33.350 align:middle line:90% they could be scored. 00:13:33.350 --> 00:13:35.640 align:middle line:84% Possible pitch, a woman in her mid-thirties 00:13:35.640 --> 00:13:37.940 align:middle line:84% and listening to music on her iPad 00:13:37.940 --> 00:13:40.130 align:middle line:90% as she runs to catch a train. 00:13:40.130 --> 00:13:42.650 align:middle line:84% The heel of her shoe comes off and she tumbles down 00:13:42.650 --> 00:13:43.460 align:middle line:90% the stairs. 00:13:43.460 --> 00:13:46.940 align:middle line:84% She suffers a brain concussion that causes her amnesia. 00:13:46.940 --> 00:13:48.890 align:middle line:84% The film chronicles her odd interaction 00:13:48.890 --> 00:13:51.950 align:middle line:84% with people with whom she had close relationships, how 00:13:51.950 --> 00:13:55.110 align:middle line:84% she gets reacquainted with family members and friends. 00:13:55.110 --> 00:13:57.440 align:middle line:84% One day she walks into a local record store 00:13:57.440 --> 00:14:00.020 align:middle line:84% where they are playing one of Blank's songs 00:14:00.020 --> 00:14:02.540 align:middle line:90% and recovers her memory. 00:14:02.540 --> 00:14:07.190 align:middle line:84% Titled the film, If I Could Only Remember my Name. 00:14:07.190 --> 00:14:08.000 align:middle line:90% 10. 00:14:08.000 --> 00:14:10.175 align:middle line:84% When I'm around him pretend I haven't recognized him 00:14:10.175 --> 00:14:13.040 align:middle line:84% and casually start singing one of the songs then 00:14:13.040 --> 00:14:15.485 align:middle line:84% he'll surely want to come off my way out 00:14:15.485 --> 00:14:18.400 align:middle line:90% of outrage or camaraderie.