- At August 08, 2006
- By Jeannine Gailey
- In Blog
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Watched the Gen-Y friendly (pop cultural references to the Animatrix, Van Halen, Evangelion, and South Park, anyone?) anime series Fooly Cooly (Furi Curi? FLCL?) this weekend, and now I can’t get this song, “I Think I Can” by The Pillows, out of my head. Here’s a link to a video (which includes clips of the anime) so this song can be in your head too. Don’t say I didn’t warn you!
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7821642967984690264
I ended up doing a full eight-hour day of real (non-volunteer, non-homework, non-poetry) work yesterday. Ah, the drives of capitalism.
I Think I Can!
PS – All anime viewing can be considered homework, since my thesis revolves around Japanese pop and mythological culture.
Jeannine Hall Gailey served as the second Poet Laureate of Redmond, Washington and the author of Becoming the Villainess, She Returns to the Floating World, Unexplained Fevers, The Robot Scientist’s Daughter, and winner of the Moon City Press Book Prize and SFPA’s Elgin Award, Field Guide to the End of the World. Her latest, Flare, Corona from BOA Editions, was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. She’s also the author of PR for Poets, a Guidebook to Publicity and Marketing. Her work has been featured on NPR’s The Writer’s Almanac, Verse Daily and The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror. Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Poetry, and JAMA.
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I bought 4 sheets of super hero stamps today at Le Poste and while I was there I told the postal person about your book. She looked at me like I was speaking a strang language and I may have been, but she smiled gave me my stamps anyway.