http://www.imomus.com/morgus.jpeg
vs.
http://www.thegreatcornholio.com/images/cornholio/corn4.gif
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 05:28 (nineteen years ago) link
Momus:
Captain Feathersword:
http://www.thewiggles.com.au/store/motifs/finals/cf.gif
― the music mole (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 05:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― the music mole (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 05:34 (nineteen years ago) link
Bruce Spence (Australian actor):
http://ampimages.homestead.com/files/bruce_spence_mini.gif
― the music mole (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 05:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― ex-jeremy (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 05:48 (nineteen years ago) link
http://ent.tom.com/img/assets/200403/040316112305qunxing6.jpg
― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 06:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― the music mole (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 08:58 (nineteen years ago) link
oddly, this is true. I mentioned Momus once on a rival internet forum, and next thing there he was.
I wonder will it work if I say Momus' name outloud?
― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― the bellefox, Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:40 (nineteen years ago) link
The geezer, Momus, has almost never acknowledged my posts; I have not always acknowledged his. But on one occasion he did: on the T.S. Eliot thread, I think, when engagingly he was defending TSE - and he typed, out of the blue, a parody of TSE addressed to me, a marvellous squib about, I think, fire engines. (Or am I projecting that image on to him?) It demonstrated wit, erudition, intelligence and charm. I should be sure not to forget that post, when I think about the geezer Momus.
― the bellefox, Wednesday, 15 September 2004 12:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 12:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 13:04 (nineteen years ago) link
has anyone else ever tried and failed to meet Momus?
― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 13:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― the music mole (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 20:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 21:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hanna (Hanna), Monday, 10 January 2005 13:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hanna (Hanna), Monday, 10 January 2005 13:24 (nineteen years ago) link
I WANT A MOMUS HOT WATER BOTTLE HOLDER!
― Johnney B (Johnney B), Monday, 10 January 2005 13:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― j.lu (j.lu), Monday, 10 January 2005 14:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Charles Dexter (Holey), Monday, 10 January 2005 15:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Monday, 10 January 2005 16:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Monday, 10 January 2005 16:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― I Am Curious (George) (Rock Hardy), Monday, 10 January 2005 16:15 (nineteen years ago) link
Will there be a collector's set, where each month you can buy a new ilx doll? It would be like a twee version of the Franklin Mint.
― Leon the Fatboy (Ex Leon), Monday, 10 January 2005 16:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Monday, 10 January 2005 16:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 10 January 2005 16:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― k3rry (dymaxia), Monday, 10 January 2005 16:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Aimless (Aimless), Monday, 10 January 2005 19:08 (nineteen years ago) link
Does that Momus doll have some Shinto purpose, like one of those right-on cats, the Maneki Neko? If you put one on the memorial for a dear departed one, does it insure witty ribaldry in the afterlife?
― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 10 January 2005 19:40 (nineteen years ago) link
To quote Ann Magnuson -- and then alter it a bit:
"They have Momus dolls now? I WANT ONNNNNNNNNNNNE..."
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 January 2005 20:15 (nineteen years ago) link
maria and i are driving thru northampton mass today - we had dropped the kids off at her sister's house - and my brother calls on the cell-phone and says, hey, are you going to the iron horse tonight? he didn't know that we were driving thru northampton. and then he said, my friend so and so is opening up for momus tonight. and i said, who? and he said MOMUS. and as soon as he said that on the phone momus was walking straight toward our car in the street! so maria yelled, Hey, it's momus! and i yelled at him, hey, momus! it was the weirdest syncronistic event ever. he waved and said something and i popped my head out the car window and said, hey, momus, it's me scott seward from ilx! and he smiled and shook my hand and said i should go to the show at ten and he would put me on the guest list. isn't that nice? sadly, maria and i have way too much to do at home and at the store to go. but it was honestly nice to see him! he looked good. and i forget why he doesn't come to ilx anymore, but i miss his craziness sometimes.
again, it was very bizarre. i had no idea he was in the state today, let alone in our neck of the woods. and to have someone on the telephone yell MOMUS and have him magically appear in front of you on the street!!!! too funny...
― scott seward, Sunday, 24 May 2009 01:48 (fifteen years ago) link
:D that's an awesome tale! this dude quit ilx within about 3 weeks of me joining :(
― Local Gouda (country matters), Sunday, 24 May 2009 01:52 (fifteen years ago) link
passin' the torch
― Vokuhila (latebloomer), Sunday, 24 May 2009 02:22 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah, louis' post about japanese girl bukake was classic
― 'entertainment purposes' ONLY! (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 24 May 2009 02:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Momus was challopian and slightly scary but tbh lots of interesting shit came out his stupid/insane eastcoaster brain.
― languid samuel l. jackson (jim), Sunday, 24 May 2009 02:27 (fifteen years ago) link
i'd say he was certainly intelligent, extravagantly so, and i am always biased in favour of folk like that
― Local Gouda (country matters), Sunday, 24 May 2009 02:27 (fifteen years ago) link
tbf lj sometimes he did write, not in a way like yourself where people are hating on the style or whatever, but in a style where he professed quite insane and stupid opinions. I remember reading a post on his blog after he left ILX where he talks about some artists going to North Korea and mentions only positive things about North Korea and mentions that one of the artists was mocked for his pink suit in South Korea. Also remember him praising the 1 child rule in China as a genius of social-engineering. Real willful Pollyanna shit.
― languid samuel l. jackson (jim), Sunday, 24 May 2009 02:30 (fifteen years ago) link
extravagantly intelligent?
― 'entertainment purposes' ONLY! (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 24 May 2009 02:31 (fifteen years ago) link
There's nothing wrong with the one child policy in China. Dude prefers Japanese chicks, you see.
― "too worldly to compete on /b/" (King Boy Pato), Sunday, 24 May 2009 02:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Esteban that wasn't even funny.
― languid samuel l. jackson (jim), Sunday, 24 May 2009 02:34 (fifteen years ago) link
I also believe Momus was a believer in the Japanese occupation of Manchuria.
― "too worldly to compete on /b/" (King Boy Pato), Sunday, 24 May 2009 02:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Manchukuo.
― languid samuel l. jackson (jim), Sunday, 24 May 2009 02:40 (fifteen years ago) link
He sounds like someone who enjoys pushing logic to its limits. All fine on a rhetorical or theoretical level; if he actually lived some of his reality-smashing fantasies then I'd mark him down as a troubled man at odds with society.
Something to be said for the process by which ILX bashes ostentatiously bad style out of you
― Local Gouda (country matters), Sunday, 24 May 2009 02:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Another thing I remember reading about him that annoyed: a blog about "staying foreign". He believed that by not integrating where you lived you aware actually showing more respect than the imperialist who would learn the language and attempt to mingle among the adopted country. It reads as willful ignorance and an excuse for never having learned Japanese and possible German (he lived in Berlin at the time of the blog).
― languid samuel l. jackson (jim), Sunday, 24 May 2009 02:46 (fifteen years ago) link
To be honest reading the ILX archives will give you all the evidence against the man you might want to find, and these might just examples I'm garnishing you with in order to more condemn an effete Scottish artist (because I hate his type).
― languid samuel l. jackson (jim), Sunday, 24 May 2009 02:47 (fifteen years ago) link
i used aware instead of were somewhere up there!
also a missing be.
Monsieur Artois is a harsh typemaster.
― languid samuel l. jackson (jim), Sunday, 24 May 2009 02:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, well, if Momus concentrated a bit more on music and less on this moral and cultural and existentialist nonsense, then maybe he could have recorded something half as good as "Kiss This Thing Goodbye".
― "too worldly to compete on /b/" (King Boy Pato), Sunday, 24 May 2009 02:50 (fifteen years ago) link
People actually enjoy getting outraged by Momus' steez, don't they?
― f1f0 (Pashmina), Friday, 29 May 2009 07:12 (fifteen years ago) link
proof of a true artist
― autogucci cru (deej), Friday, 29 May 2009 07:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Sege Gainsbourg
― Mark G, Friday, 29 May 2009 08:06 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm not sure whether I think his acknowledging and theorising of his inherent sexism is better or worse than the many posters who are misogynistic without acknowledging it, or even realising it. I think it's probably worse. [...]
― Tits Bramble (Matt DC), Thursday, May 28, 2009 12:13 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
earns u a sarcastic slowburner gif!
― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Friday, 29 May 2009 10:35 (fifteen years ago) link
(xpost and I was so careful about spelling Gainsbourg right!)
― Mark G, Friday, 29 May 2009 10:39 (fifteen years ago) link
― f1f0 (Pashmina), Friday, May 29, 2009 3:12 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark
c'mon on, now you're just asking for the nude photos
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Friday, 29 May 2009 18:07 (fifteen years ago) link
with helpful arrows to point out momus' steez
http://www.villagevoice.com/2009-08-25/books/lit-seen-momus-joe-pernice-and-nick-cave-trade-guitar-picks-for-pens/
― velko, Wednesday, 26 August 2009 01:20 (fourteen years ago) link
Momiss?
― The Cheerfull Turtle (Latham Green), Thursday, 9 August 2012 19:47 (eleven years ago) link
when that marie calloway shit went down i was sort of relieved that momus that dude's like 55 and was still mentioned as having gotten sucked off by her or something. forget the details. do your thing dawg.
― dylannn, Thursday, 9 August 2012 20:20 (eleven years ago) link
wait what
― The Cheerfull Turtle (Latham Green), Thursday, 9 August 2012 20:27 (eleven years ago) link
Calloway " I wanna be rich" C/D ???????????
no, bipolar livejournal author marie calloway
― dylannn, Thursday, 9 August 2012 20:30 (eleven years ago) link
a delicate flower trod underfoot by the opprsive male hairy sag??
― The Cheerfull Turtle (Latham Green), Thursday, 9 August 2012 20:31 (eleven years ago) link
i never really got the ilx-hating on momus. and i say that as someone who is largely ignorant of his music, etc output
tracer way otm in this thread and also suzy
― dell (del), Thursday, 9 August 2012 20:45 (eleven years ago) link
I think it was love/hate
― The Cheerfull Turtle (Latham Green), Thursday, 9 August 2012 20:51 (eleven years ago) link
scott's '09 thread revive story is so good, though. instant momus gonna getchoo
― dell (del), Thursday, 9 August 2012 20:55 (eleven years ago) link
ne'r shall we soon forgetthe geoduck that met us yetwhen nude he photographed his partsand shared them with the bloggin arts
― The Cheerfull Turtle (Latham Green), Thursday, 9 August 2012 20:55 (eleven years ago) link
xposts def "love to hate" at least. ilx needs more "bad boys" or else it will die the way hair metal did in the nineties and posts will only be revived at strip mall venues in suburban va and downstate ny
― dell (del), Thursday, 9 August 2012 20:56 (eleven years ago) link
http://sunskier.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/geoduck3.jpg
― The Cheerfull Turtle (Latham Green), Thursday, 9 August 2012 20:58 (eleven years ago) link
threads that is. late-period ilx. coming soon to an internet cafe in east fishkill
― dell (del), Thursday, 9 August 2012 20:59 (eleven years ago) link
just flagged your post. why? image bombing before five on a weekday. have fun in ilx heaven
― dell (del), Thursday, 9 August 2012 21:00 (eleven years ago) link