Comments on: ICE http://adrianglynn.com/site/2010/01/ice/ Tue, 10 Aug 2010 23:59:16 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Christina http://adrianglynn.com/site/2010/01/ice/comment-page-1/#comment-22 Christina Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:11:50 +0000 http://adrianglynn.com/site/?p=141#comment-22 Pop songs are shifty, jigsaw-things, indeed. They can be elevated into something cool if you use their inadequacies (e.g. the reductive language, copious repetition) as writing limitations. Like distilling your thoughts from blank verse to haiku; condensing the experience into a minimalist gem. Would you ever write one again? And I agree that we float, 90% submerged and crystal-icy. I also think most of us are secretly hoping for something to strike hard, & shatter that paralysis ;) Pop songs are shifty, jigsaw-things, indeed. They can be elevated into something cool if you use their inadequacies (e.g. the reductive language, copious repetition) as writing limitations. Like distilling your thoughts from blank verse to haiku; condensing the experience into a minimalist gem.
Would you ever write one again?

And I agree that we float, 90% submerged and crystal-icy. I also think most of us are secretly hoping for something to strike hard, & shatter that paralysis ;)

]]> By: Christina http://adrianglynn.com/site/2010/01/ice/comment-page-1/#comment-21 Christina Wed, 03 Feb 2010 08:24:29 +0000 http://adrianglynn.com/site/?p=141#comment-21 You've piqued me into trying it too: "Wooooooolllff..." Eeeee! Felt scary... sorta good. You’ve piqued me into trying it too: “Wooooooolllff…”
Eeeee! Felt scary… sorta good.

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