Regarding Momus

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

^^ this

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

http://www.dragcity.com/catalog/records/dc222.jpg

Pic now?

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.

Click Opera, the short version:

http://twitter.com/Twit_Opera

sub-buttez at best

momus always annoyed the lamers

― velko, Sunday, 24 May 2009 04:33 (3 hours ago)

!!!! Yes!

I miss the guy, I've got to admit.

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.

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)

Yeah but that's every white dude with an asian girl fetish that didn't study IT.

Wait, you mean Momus wrote about things that mattered to him? omg etc

xpost

Have said it before and will say it again: everyone gets the Momus they deserve.

i'm almost sort of impressed dude has managed to blag living like a really "wacky" self-regarding art-foundation course fresher for the last 30-odd years without starving/being beaten to death.

Unfortunately, Wendy Carlos couldn't quite manage to cut his balls off. Which was a surprising turn of events.

The three O records he made in Berlin ("Oskar Tennis Champion", "Otto Spooky", "Ocky Milk") are pretty damn weird and beautiful because of that. He has a real talent for taking found sound/concrete audio collages and arranging them under a nice classically pleasing melody. First time I heard "The Artist Overwhelmed" I was awestruck.

If his old records are like "A Clockwork Orange" his new ones are like the end of "2001".

I'll stan for this record anytime.
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/03fb57ee6e40d8df0531d59e88d7dfe7/8201.jpg

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