Regarding Momus

http://ent.tom.com/img/assets/200403/040316112305qunxing6.jpg

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?

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.

has anyone else ever tried and failed to meet Momus?

I WANT A MOMUS HOT WATER BOTTLE HOLDER!

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.

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?

To quote Ann Magnuson -- and then alter it a bit:

"They have Momus dolls now? I WANT ONNNNNNNNNNNNE..."

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...

:D that's an awesome tale! this dude quit ilx within about 3 weeks of me joining :(

passin' the torch

yeah, louis' post about japanese girl bukake was classic

Momus was challopian and slightly scary but tbh lots of interesting shit came out his stupid/insane eastcoaster brain.

i'd say he was certainly intelligent, extravagantly so, and i am always biased in favour of folk like that

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.

extravagantly intelligent?

There's nothing wrong with the one child policy in China. Dude prefers Japanese chicks, you see.

Esteban that wasn't even funny.

I also believe Momus was a believer in the Japanese occupation of Manchuria.

Manchukuo.

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

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).

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).

i used aware instead of were somewhere up there!

also a missing be.

Monsieur Artois is a harsh typemaster.

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".

He probably still thinks I'm too earnest. Ah well. That's a great story from Scott, anyway!

Momus always played, to me at least, like the average American's cartoonish vision of what the avant garde European artist/intellectual is like.

And while we're talking about controversial Momus opinions: the fall of Communism as an ideology was unfortunate - and why? - because it represented one less option on the table. This is so silly because that could be said about every fallen ideology, from Nazism to theocracy.

But his tone is always too playfully decadent to take what he says at face value, anyway.

That's a GREAT story, Scott!!

momus always annoyed the lamers

(xpost and I was so careful about spelling Gainsbourg right!)

People actually enjoy getting outraged by Momus' steez, don't they?

― 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

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/

Momiss?

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.

wait what

Calloway " I wanna be rich" C/D ???????????

no, bipolar livejournal author marie calloway

a delicate flower trod underfoot by the opprsive male hairy sag??

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

I think it was love/hate

scott's '09 thread revive story is so good, though. instant momus gonna getchoo

ne'r shall we soon forget
the geoduck that met us yet
when nude he photographed his parts
and shared them with the bloggin arts

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

http://sunskier.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/geoduck3.jpg

threads that is. late-period ilx. coming soon to an internet cafe in east fishkill

just flagged your post. why? image bombing before five on a weekday. have fun in ilx heaven