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Tag: Poetry

Illuminated Chronicles: O Pioneers! (Levi’s Commercial)

Posted on March 11, 2016 By Sammy Younan
Illuminated Chronicles: O Pioneers! (Levi’s Commercial)

Sammy Younan

Girth Radio Presents…

This 2009 Levi’s commercial stays with me…I’m always on the hunt for creative and visual ways to communicate poetry. I’m a poet as much as I am a prophet…the free verse poem is my weapon of choice to confront a cold calculating culture. Yet in this modern society of guns and rough violence it’s almost like I am walking around with a sword. En Garde isn’t Avant-garde. Or is it?

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022 | Paul Vermeersch (The Holy Order of the Sasquatch)

Posted on March 1, 2016March 31, 2024 By Sammy Younan No Comments on 022 | Paul Vermeersch (The Holy Order of the Sasquatch)
022 | Paul Vermeersch (The Holy Order of the Sasquatch)

My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan talks to Paul Vermeersch poet, artist & creator of a cryptoreligion called the Holy Order of the Sasquatch.

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Hidden Gem: Fools “Run”

Posted on July 27, 2015March 9, 2023 By Sammy Younan No Comments on Hidden Gem: Fools “Run”
Hidden Gem: Fools “Run”

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Girth Radio Presents…

Smoother than Voltron coming together Nikki Ashworth (The Jilted Lovers Club) and multi-instrumentalist Neil Gray (A Quiet End) have joined forces to become Fools.

Run is the startlingly Portishead like first song from this dynamic project: this song lingers like an unacknowledged ghost. I’m so in..I wanna see what other sounds they sculpt.

A few listens inspired the following stream of consciousnesses…

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Illuminated Chronicles: Words by Rakim

Posted on July 17, 2015 By Sammy Younan No Comments on Illuminated Chronicles: Words by Rakim
Illuminated Chronicles: Words by Rakim

There’s a great irony in rap music. The lyrics in rap are supposed to spring forth as a kind of rough street poetry. Poetry by any standard demands proficient articulation, profound thought and pleasurable connection. Yet despite the surge of rappers and rap music many of these specific elements are missing, either in action or…

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Hidden Gem: Milk & Bone “Pressure”

Posted on July 6, 2015March 9, 2023 By Sammy Younan No Comments on Hidden Gem: Milk & Bone “Pressure”
Hidden Gem: Milk & Bone “Pressure”

Sammy Younan

Girth Radio Presents…

Pressure inspired the following stream of consciousnesses…

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Hidden Gem: Tom West “Easy, Love”

Posted on May 11, 2015March 9, 2023 By Sammy Younan No Comments on Hidden Gem: Tom West “Easy, Love”
Hidden Gem: Tom West “Easy, Love”

Sammy Younan

Girth Radio Presents…

From the recent In Session With Girth…Tom West there’s something…sublime, easy about this song. Plus its connection to surfing instantly sparked many formidable images.

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Illuminated Chronicles: Visualing Poetry With 1960s Computer Graphics

Posted on April 3, 2015 By Sammy Younan No Comments on Illuminated Chronicles: Visualing Poetry With 1960s Computer Graphics
Illuminated Chronicles: Visualing Poetry With 1960s Computer Graphics

Sammy Younan

Girth Radio Presents…

So April is National Poetry Month! The goal of course is to increase awareness and deepen appreciate of poetry. As such here is visualing poetry with 1960s computer graphics…yup.

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