Buried in the comments...
Tony is saying something important lately...
When the New Sincerity movement began to begin, I thought it was a joke. I generally think movements mean to be jokes... because it's hard to take yourself (or anything) seriously enough to call your thoughts and actions "a movement." I'm not used to poets putting themselves out there like that, meaning things right out loud.
That what italics are for.
When people are willing to do so, they generally remind me of my ex (briefly) boyfriend john johnson, who spelled his name in lowercase because he "didn't believe in capitalism." Laugh if you want, but john is/was amazing, someone who really did what he said he'd do, moved off the grid, ate things he grew and gathered, got arrested A LOT.
I was a snarky college student at the time, and so I was a little embarassed by john's sincerity. I loved his passion, lifestyle, choices, but couldn't handle his style, his lack of self-awareness. I'm older now. And while I shave my legs these days, and have no plans to go solar... I admire him from a distance of years.
I've rambled now, but the point is that we could all use a dose of that... honesty, meaning, sincerity. We could all use some passion, some tears. We all get our hearts stamped on. We all want to be friends with the cool kids. We all hope we'll go somewhere nice when we die. To pretend otherwise is to waste time on pretending... in a way that isn't worth it.
Says me. There are so many GOOD ways to pretend.
Anyway, The New Sincerity, whatever it is, seems to be a move towards the real, a push away from encoding and hiding. But a push mediated to some degree by an awareness of the abstract, a need for intelligence, a hunger for style, a willingness to test emotions, accept our own silliness, cop to the smallness of one person's needs.
But also the bigness. My feelings are big. And I'm willing to say that too.
I'm a big fan of Tony right now. He's putting it out there, smartly and carefully, with thought and feeling. He's putting it out there. I just want to ride in his carpool.
When the New Sincerity movement began to begin, I thought it was a joke. I generally think movements mean to be jokes... because it's hard to take yourself (or anything) seriously enough to call your thoughts and actions "a movement." I'm not used to poets putting themselves out there like that, meaning things right out loud.
That what italics are for.
When people are willing to do so, they generally remind me of my ex (briefly) boyfriend john johnson, who spelled his name in lowercase because he "didn't believe in capitalism." Laugh if you want, but john is/was amazing, someone who really did what he said he'd do, moved off the grid, ate things he grew and gathered, got arrested A LOT.
I was a snarky college student at the time, and so I was a little embarassed by john's sincerity. I loved his passion, lifestyle, choices, but couldn't handle his style, his lack of self-awareness. I'm older now. And while I shave my legs these days, and have no plans to go solar... I admire him from a distance of years.
I've rambled now, but the point is that we could all use a dose of that... honesty, meaning, sincerity. We could all use some passion, some tears. We all get our hearts stamped on. We all want to be friends with the cool kids. We all hope we'll go somewhere nice when we die. To pretend otherwise is to waste time on pretending... in a way that isn't worth it.
Says me. There are so many GOOD ways to pretend.
Anyway, The New Sincerity, whatever it is, seems to be a move towards the real, a push away from encoding and hiding. But a push mediated to some degree by an awareness of the abstract, a need for intelligence, a hunger for style, a willingness to test emotions, accept our own silliness, cop to the smallness of one person's needs.
But also the bigness. My feelings are big. And I'm willing to say that too.
I'm a big fan of Tony right now. He's putting it out there, smartly and carefully, with thought and feeling. He's putting it out there. I just want to ride in his carpool.
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