Ep 23: Rhymes Without Beats, ft. James Nguyen
NB: In a week or two, Brian Platzer and I will be discussing I’m Thinking of Ending Things, the novel and the movie. Read/Watch it now to pre-empt spoilers!
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– James Nguyen’s spoken-word poetry
– My conversation with Austin Allen
– Some very popular very Christian very bad spoken-word poetry on YouTube
– Harry Baker’s spoken-word poetry
– Danez Smith’s poetry, spoken-word and otherwise
– Nate Marshall’s poetry, spoken-word and otherwise
– Dave Pizarro’s Beats Without Rhymes
– David Brooks’ book The Second Mountain
– Mark Manson’s book The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck
– Will Smith, actor, philosopher
– Plato’s Gorgias
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Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
