TAO LIN

3/07/2008

poetry reading at a gallery april 3rd, 7 p.m.

it is at max protetch which seems very professional and it is with joshua beckman whose poetry i think is very professional (read a joshua beckman poem), i feel like this will be a very professional reading

i feel like i can apply the word 'professional' to anything and have it be true; an obese homeless man passed out drunk in front of mcdonald's on broadway is very professional, i honestly think that is true; i also 'feel' professional at almost all times, i think; i'm not sure if that is at all true, that i feel professional most of the time, i don't know; i feel 'desperate' urges to keep typing statements about professionalism, what is and what is not professional; i think professionalism is very strange in a way that is 'troubling' somehow and it is making me feel worried and insane

it feels like professionalism is 'the secret of the universe,' like if this was a science fiction conspiracy movie will smith would go through a lot of obstacles and then open a door 100 miles below the earth's crust and see aliens manipulating tom hank's level of professionalism, by changing his clothing or hairstyle or the lighting of his surroundings, in order to distort the quantum and physical laws of the atoms in the universe; will smith would crush the aliens in a short action sequence and then restore tom hank's original level of professionalism in a 'light-hearted' montage and then gravity would go back to normal levels, i think it would be a comedy more than a science fiction conspiracy

11 Comments:

Blogger Brandi said...

I like the poem on juked

7:16 PM  
Blogger Mazie Louise Montgomery said...

I went on a coffee date with a man last week. I had to explain to him what 'emo' meant. My birthday is in April. I also had to explain to him what it means when teenagers cut themselves, and why they might want to do that. I am thinking of going to the movies tomorrow, but the movie theater makes me somewhat uneasy. Maybe like you are feeling about your reading. This man and I decided to go on no more coffee dates. I made a movie about it. Maybe you have seen it.

7:17 PM  
Blogger Mazie Louise Montgomery said...

I felt very professional at work today. I walked into the office and said, "I've given this a lot of thought..." and she said, "Oh, no..."

7:26 PM  
Blogger Tao Lin said...

i like it too brandi

mazie, you should type what you said to the man about 'emo'

8:02 PM  
Blogger Gene said...

jenny says max protetch is very professional.

i like joshua beckman. he reads very professionally.

i still think the orange cover with no title for your first book would have been very professional.

8:26 PM  
Blogger AAKI said...

sometimes i don't feel too professional. when i think i might be, i start to think about it and then i go to bed and i don't think of anything.

2:47 AM  
Blogger Mike Bushnell said...

It would definately be a will smith comedy. What you described is only the opening sequence. In the rest of the movie he teaches Tom Hanks to date, and eventually to love. Call it IAmHitchBigIndependenceDayLegend

4:08 AM  
Blogger Tao Lin said...

mike, gene, and intern, those were funny comments

11:15 AM  
Blogger Esme (I have a title) said...

i am going to make my sister go to your reading as my birthday present. it's the least she could do.

12:38 PM  
Blogger Ignacio said...

i am being very professional lately but i didn't have a word to define it. now i will, or do.

see my novel which is in the new pindeldyboz. (it's very professional of me to include an advertisement. or "professional." no, that's gets me in deep water.)

3:41 PM  
Blogger Ignacio said...

oh yeah, my real name is not ignacio. it's i. fontana.

oh, and innocente. bye.

3:43 PM  

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