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Cake Bake Betty appeared to Water and Vegetables compadre Puffy Shoe via some Bloglines Vlog trolling and he sent me a one-liner email containing only some http, namely the http that reads http://www.unitedvloggers.com/2007/04/26/64-little-white-things/.
Lyrically, the chick resembles a cross between stream-of-convo undergrad poetry workshop kids who just read howl and are mad excited that DISJUNCTIVE IMAGES GO TOGETHER IN INTERESTING WAYS and Craig Finn from The Hold Steady when he's big-upping Rhymesayers.
Example of the former, from the "Bio/Love" (I know I know stay with me) section of her homepage:
She hears, upon that water without sou[n]d,
A voice that cries: "The tomb in Palestine,
Is not the porch of spirits lingering;
It is the grave of Jesus, where He lay."
We live in an old chaos of the sun,
Or old dependency of day and night,
Or island solitude, unsponsored, free,
Of that wide water, inescapable.
Pretty Elizabeth Bishop, right? But don't worry it gets better (although it doesn't have to by much because Bishop:poetry contests::Eminem:Rap Olympics); all of this is tempered by some Big Daddy Kane shit, but instead of "birthday" with "first place" it's "ate me," "hate me" and "tasty." Elementary by rap syllable standards, maybe, but the thing is the chick is singing in a Lil' Orphan Annie style, which brings up a new contention [of mine] that if diction-wise everyone just tried to sing like rappers and/or Craig Finn, I'd be a lot more up on a lot of the melodic, sparse, hip, grip-and-rip soft rock going down the YouTubes of late.
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