Rad Wednesday Video from Dan Hoy & Dorothea Lasky

How about connecting your eyeballs to some great video? First up is a new reading for Poeteevee, featuring the one and only Dorothea Lasky, reading from her new manuscript Thunderbird. If you watch this at work, plug in your headphones (but sure, watch it at work!); her first poem is called "Two A**holes." It's sensible. "I write better when I am on my period / but I don't mean that I am a feminist." She then reads "The Enemy": "I want everyone to like me. / It is because I am the enemy."

DOROTHEA LASKY FOR POETEEVEE from Alex Abelson on Vimeo.

Another video is from poet Dan Hoy, who has made for us "Dan Hoy's Stanley Kubrick's 2001," which he explains on Montevidayo:

I’ve been silent on Montevidayo for several weeks while attending to the coming apocalypse. Now that the apocalypse is finally coming all over our faces, I’m free to re-dematerialize and offer up some digital artifacts for the world we love to hate on. One of the projects I’ve been working on is a remake of Kubrick’s 2001. By ‘remake’ I mean I’m swapping out all the non-diegetic tracks with tracks that bore me less but still attain the kind of non-diegetic heights that Kubrick was going for (or that I would go for, whatever). I decided to do this after I realized I rip off Kubrick all the time anyway, specifically his use of text as interruption (see his terrifying use of banal title cards like ‘WEDNESDAY’ in The Shining) and his tonal approach, which I would characterize as a kind of patient impatience.

Enjoy the stellar remake by clicking here.