Rives

I'm a huge fan of this guy. He blends his thoughts and musings on life with pop culture (homer-homer simpson) very well. I love the speed at which he speaks, he is moving almost as fast as i can think, which is considerably slower than I can speak. I'm going to give my comments on each one as i re-watch them for the 2nd or third time.

Mockingbird:
"The Johnny Appleseed of Sound" - Rives says he's going to plant sounds everywhere and to a slight extent thats what i see rap and hip hop music doing. 3 years ago (i think) tim mcgraw and nelly teamed up to make a song (which was WAY overplayed on my local radio station), but anyway they mix 2 sounds together to make a 'beautiful' song, and if it hadn't been so over played i would agree.

OP Talk:
He's not even telling a full story, its small little stories telling the story of 'OP' talk, but you still get this feeling, this deep understanding, of his relationship with his sister. Ha i love the inclusion of Prince's 'When Dove's Cry'. The ending is so sentimental without any real explanation of his sister, but just their way of interacting. I'm amazed at the level of emotion he can elicit from me with so little background info.

(I really liked Kite even though it wasn't on our list).

DPJ:
I never thought of poets being deaf, of course they can be poets, it just never crossed my mind. I loved the end line. The connotations in his voice, the motions of his body the way he finally pulls 'voice' out of his throat. wow. it was good stuff.

Gorgeous:
"Gorgeous is an extra special helping of appropriate" - that is an awesome way of phrasing things.
I just got his little joke about 'Gorgeous is not charismatic, i know because i shave me" - I like his level of self understanding and a bit of self-deprecation
"people put the ow in shallow" - my guess at this is that there is something reasonable in 'face value' logic, but people basing all their judgments on face value assumptions hurts others.
I like how at the end, after spending all this time saying how he and we arn't usually gorgeous, he turns it around and claims he is, and by association, all of us are.

Sell out:
He is a pretty good harmonica player. I like his little joke "i don't even know whatever the hell that means" and "if talk is cheep why are they charging 10 bucks to get in"? I like people who can see the humor in their own lives/lifestyle
"all i know is my life is like a poem" If he is really asking if he is a sell out, my answer is no. He, according to his own defense, is just telling his life in a way he is skilled at and enjoys, and people pay to hear these. So no, he's not a sellout.

He uses poetry in our modern words and our modern situations, but makes it lyric and finds some kind of meaning within it. Most of the time i can't even figure out the meaning, but i know its there. Like seeing a car through fog, i know its there, but i can only see the headlights.