A story on MetaFilter turned me to the spoken-word recordings of Ernie Cline. They’re apparently of the poetry-slam genre, where participants are given 3 minutes to give a spoken performance, which is then judged by the audience.
At any rate, I quite enjoyed Ernie’s performances. If you’ve watched the show Airwolf, for instance, I’d quite recommend at least listening to that one.
In the MetaFilter comments, I asked whether this type of performance was representative of something that I’d find at a poetry slam (because, if that was the case, I’d certainly like to attend one). However, further comments haven’t definitively answered that one :-/.
I rather preferred the ‘Tech Support’ performance, myself. :)