― 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen years ago) link
passin' the torch
― Vokuhila (latebloomer), Sunday, 24 May 2009 02:22 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, louis' post about japanese girl bukake was classic
― 'entertainment purposes' ONLY! (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 24 May 2009 02:25 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen years ago) link
extravagantly intelligent?
― 'entertainment purposes' ONLY! (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 24 May 2009 02:31 (fourteen 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 (fourteen years ago) link
Esteban that wasn't even funny.
― languid samuel l. jackson (jim), Sunday, 24 May 2009 02:34 (fourteen 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 (fourteen years ago) link
Manchukuo.
― languid samuel l. jackson (jim), Sunday, 24 May 2009 02:40 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen years ago) link
He probably still thinks I'm too earnest. Ah well. That's a great story from Scott, anyway!
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 24 May 2009 02:57 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Cunga, Sunday, 24 May 2009 03:28 (fourteen years ago) link
That's a GREAT story, Scott!!
― ╓abies, Sunday, 24 May 2009 04:10 (fourteen years ago) link
momus always annoyed the lamers
― velko, Sunday, 24 May 2009 04:33 (fourteen years ago) link
^^ this
― cnn and the holograms (daria-g), Sunday, 24 May 2009 04:39 (fourteen years ago) link
anyone who, on the morning of 9/11/01, thought it would be a good idea to take a picture of himself with the burning world trade center in the background is a shit
― macaulay culkin's bukkake shocker (bug), Sunday, 24 May 2009 04:47 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.dragcity.com/catalog/records/dc222.jpg
― a short guy with a lot of power (Clay), Sunday, 24 May 2009 05:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Pic now?
― Cunga, Sunday, 24 May 2009 06:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Momus is someone I actually miss.
He talked me out of suicide once, without even realising that he had done so. (Whether my continued existence on the face of this planet is a good thing or not is up to you.)
He had his troll-like tendencies, but in the best possible way. He's one of those people who says outrageous things in order to force one to confront one's own prejudices and one's own thought patterns and beliefs. There was a great deal of playfulness to him which was lacking in other ILX "characters."
I know that he infuriated and frustrated a lot of people (myself included, before I actually met him) - but like many internet personalities, he was kind of a litmus test. One's reaction to him said as much about the reactor as it ever did about him. But hey, I come from a long line of effete Scottish intellectuals, so I have a fairly high tolerance for that sort of thing.
I've even come around to his music. "The Homosexual" is one of the greatest songs ever recorded about the male ego and its discontents.
― Germanic Street Preachers (Masonic Boom), Sunday, 24 May 2009 06:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Click Opera, the short version:
http://twitter.com/Twit_Opera
― Zelda Zonk, Sunday, 24 May 2009 07:38 (fourteen years ago) link
sub-buttez at best
― Lovely release! (sic), Sunday, 24 May 2009 08:07 (fourteen years ago) link
― velko, Sunday, 24 May 2009 04:33 (3 hours ago)
!!!! Yes!
I miss the guy, I've got to admit.
― kr0p3r0m:a9ff (Pashmina), Sunday, 24 May 2009 08:31 (fourteen years ago) link
last week a friend i'd gone to college in japan with emailed me a link to a post on clickopera - the 'i hate japan' april fools one from yearssss back (i do not think they noticed, that it was an april fool)
and so i wrote 'oh momuspaws' and hit send
and then thought: wait.
― la belle dame sans serif (c sharp major), Sunday, 24 May 2009 09:14 (fourteen years ago) link
This as the most otm thing ever posted about Momus...That said, I like reading his blog ...I just wish I liked his music more
If Momus wasn't sexually attracted to Japanese girls two decades younger than him, I doubt if he'd have bothered to work up his latter-day orientalist theorising. If it had been, say, black Americans he was into, no doubt we'd have been bombarded with posts about white American protestant work ethic vs the exotic Other of African American culture bla bla bla.― Iggy Fop, Thursday, December 30, 2004 3:17 PM (4 years ago)
― Bob Six, Sunday, 24 May 2009 10:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah but that's every white dude with an asian girl fetish that didn't study IT.
― "too worldly to compete on /b/" (King Boy Pato), Sunday, 24 May 2009 10:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Wait, you mean Momus wrote about things that mattered to him? omg etc
xpost
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 24 May 2009 10:13 (fourteen 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