All right boys and girls, question time!
When you stop and consider your artistic style, who comes to mind as an influence upon it?
Poets, writers, artist, every one is free to answer!
I'll start.
This one is kind of tricky for me, since my style in everything seems to be constantly mutating -- see my poetry from 10 years ago compared to now -- but there are some odd influences for me.
William Blake, Dante -- I'd give my left arm to have a 1/100th of talent those two had.
Haikus -- I love the way they can take a single image and make it mean a million things in 17 syllables.
Marilyn Manson, David Bowie, Billy Corgan, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Jim Morrison -- These guys are the real poets of today. Like I've said before, somewhere else here on UM, poetry died about the time time Lennon and McCartney put pen to paper.
And as far as my prose garbage, I can't really say. I know when I was younger, I used to try and write like Stephen King, but that's kind of gone by the boards. Now, I don't try and emulate anyone, I just go with what the voices say to do. What comes out it is a hodgepodge of what I have already mentioned, with a little Anne Rice (pre-Jesus obsessed senility), Guy Gavriel Kay, Stephen King, Aldous Huxley and trace amounts of other elements, mixed with my own weirdness.
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QUOTE(Never_Hit_Nirvana @ Jun 30 2007, 01:57 PM) 
All right boys and girls, question time!
When you stop and consider your artistic style, who comes to mind as an influence upon it?
Poets, writers, artist, every one is free to answer!
I'll start.
This one is kind of tricky for me, since my style in everything seems to be constantly mutating -- see my poetry from 10 years ago compared to now -- but there are some odd influences for me.
William Blake, Dante -- I'd give my left arm to have a 1/100th of talent those two had.
Haikus -- I love the way they can take a single image and make it mean a million things in 17 syllables.
Marilyn Manson, David Bowie, Billy Corgan, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Jim Morrison -- These guys are the real poets of today. Like I've said before, somewhere else here on UM, poetry died about the time time Lennon and McCartney put pen to paper.
And as far as my prose garbage, I can't really say. I know when I was younger, I used to try and write like Stephen King, but that's kind of gone by the boards. Now, I don't try and emulate anyone, I just go with what the voices say to do. What comes out it is a hodgepodge of what I have already mentioned, with a little Anne Rice (pre-Jesus obsessed senility), Guy Gavriel Kay, Stephen King, Aldous Huxley and trace amounts of other elements, mixed with my own weirdness.
When you stop and consider your artistic style, who comes to mind as an influence upon it?
Poets, writers, artist, every one is free to answer!
I'll start.
This one is kind of tricky for me, since my style in everything seems to be constantly mutating -- see my poetry from 10 years ago compared to now -- but there are some odd influences for me.
William Blake, Dante -- I'd give my left arm to have a 1/100th of talent those two had.
Haikus -- I love the way they can take a single image and make it mean a million things in 17 syllables.
Marilyn Manson, David Bowie, Billy Corgan, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Jim Morrison -- These guys are the real poets of today. Like I've said before, somewhere else here on UM, poetry died about the time time Lennon and McCartney put pen to paper.
And as far as my prose garbage, I can't really say. I know when I was younger, I used to try and write like Stephen King, but that's kind of gone by the boards. Now, I don't try and emulate anyone, I just go with what the voices say to do. What comes out it is a hodgepodge of what I have already mentioned, with a little Anne Rice (pre-Jesus obsessed senility), Guy Gavriel Kay, Stephen King, Aldous Huxley and trace amounts of other elements, mixed with my own weirdness.
In my writing style I have never tried to emulate anyone. I have always been about my own style and way of expressing my thoughts and ideas. The same with my visual arts. I just do it. When it looks right to my eye, I stop. BUT, there are many artists, both visual and literary that I greatly admire and enjoy experiencing their works.
Edgar Allen Poe was the first poet that I ever really read and I've always been so amazed by his cadence, how the tempo almost gets you dizzy trying to follow along with the rhythm.
Anne Rice always slays me with her lyrical style, sometimes you just read one of her lines and you kinda have to put the book down and just let it soak in. I really love how she paints the image for you. You feel it.
And like you, NHN, I love the style of Corgan and Manson in the way that they both like to use the aspect of a play on words with double entendres and inside jokes. A lot of the poetry on my site contain some of that, and anyone who knows me knows that I always offer a lot of hidden meanings in the words that I write.
Anne Rice always slays me with her lyrical style, sometimes you just read one of her lines and you kinda have to put the book down and just let it soak in. I really love how she paints the image for you. You feel it.
And like you, NHN, I love the style of Corgan and Manson in the way that they both like to use the aspect of a play on words with double entendres and inside jokes. A lot of the poetry on my site contain some of that, and anyone who knows me knows that I always offer a lot of hidden meanings in the words that I write.
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