Dear Morrissey . . .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J36cvLXko04

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3g9vvQhy4eE&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZnWbpamshc&feature=related

x-post - He looks really good in that vid. Damn.

lol the Divine clips set to The Smiths is a bizarre combo.

I cannot believe Morrissey looks like a 52-year-old man with his shirt off. Disgusting.

his best iggy pop is really not very good

good to see PETA finally have that big man cred

i saw him on saturday and it ruled.

he came on stage to a 7 minute version of How Soon is Now with gigantic strobe lights blasting off everywhere and it was so euphoric i almost died

also it was Boz's 50th birthday and he lost a bet of some sort so he has to perform every show of this tour in drag:
http://i.imgur.com/wTQ12.jpg

the rest of the band were wearing matching dress pants, no shirts, and Lei:
http://i.imgur.com/iQCXf.jpg

the kick drum displays the flag of the nation he's performing in on every stop, they used hawaii's state flag:
http://i.imgur.com/Oro7p.jpg

also, this was projected on to the backdrop for a good chunk of the show:
http://i.imgur.com/wpFe9.jpg

Of course Morrissey did not get lei'd.

wow!

the hawaii flag looks like something that would def catch morrissey's eye

My neighborhood gay bar is having an Unhappy Birthday party for Morrissey's bday tomorrow.

omg at Boz

grady I can't believe you didn't tell me about this!

it was a beautiful evening

http://i.imgur.com/FhIeT.jpg

That looks like the most chill Morrissey show ever.

oh! and they did Meat is Murder, which was accompanied by video from slaughterhouses being projected on the 30' wide backdrop

everyone was so uncomfortable but i was all "A+ trolling Moz XD"

xpost there was still a pretty gnarly fight between two dudes who both caught a shirt he threw in the crowd, and the surrounding people who had beer spilled on them

can't believe he's still on that oscar wilde tip

the last thing he said before leaving the stage after the encore was just "OSCAR WILDE!"

lol

November Spawned Arthritis

this person must have been right next to me-- watch at least the first 10 seconds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhuAce5S3FM

I'm sorry to hear that, Morbs xp

someone please make an animated gif of 0:03 - 0:08

http://i.imgur.com/WvrcgYW.gif

http://true-to-you.net/sites/default/files/autobiography_artwork_01.jpg

"Although Morrissey's Autobiography was set to be available throughout the UK on September 16th, a last-minute content disagreement between Penguin Books and Morrissey has caused the venture to collapse. No review copies were printed, and Morrissey is now in search of a new publisher." http://true-to-you.net/morrissey_news_130912_01

The book was due out on Monday but they hadn't printed any copies yet?

Great cover!

'a content disagreement'? what does this usually mean in publishing terms? not a phrase i've heard often before i don't think.

publishers wanted him to change the ending

they refused to remove the oval that imprisons the penguin in their logo

the excerpts that have already appeared don't bode well, tbh. And that cover's a fake, surely - it wouldn't be a Penguin Classic.

"I'd like it to go to Penguin, but only if they published it as a Classic," Morrissey told Radio 4's Front Row. "I can't see why not – a contemporary Penguin Classic. When you consider what really hits print these days and when you look at the autobiographies and how they are sold, most of it is appalling. It's a publishing event, not a literary event."

smdh

Maybe he just through a hissy fit at the prospect of it sitting next to Toni Morrison in bookshops.

oh snap

The Story of Morrissey's Autobiography Keeps Getting Weirder

Maybe he just through a hissy fit at the prospect of it sitting next to Toni Morrison in bookshops.

Ha ha. Although this could never happen, because Toni Morrison's books are fiction, and Morrissey's autobiography... er, wait, as you were.

It's odd that Penguin hasn't commented given the story that the book was three days away from release is transparently untrue. I'd assume there are discussions at some level about a book in the future but it would almost certainly have to be penciled in for 2014. It's also odd that the BBC has essentially just reprinted a rumour from a fan site as news, but w/e.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3U3Rh9mxcoU

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Okay so photos started going around of just how *long* the book is when you look at it:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BWj8D1oIIAEnaE3.jpg

Holy fuck.

Mine's being delivered tomorrow. I haven't seen any reviews (if there are any?)

Amazon says 480 pages. must be thick paper.

Then it turns out it's nothing but obsessive journalling about his breakfasts.

countdown to the first news site with a "480 pages of autobiography and Morrissey is still in the closet" headline

kinda amazed this really exists! any excerpts leaked yet?

I'd never seen the Penguin website before, it's pretty.

43;j54356u34jfoiajear23!!

https://twitter.com/ColinGPaterson/status/390617468001337344

Good grief. The first paragraph of Morrissey's Autobiography lasts four and a half pages. The book is 457 pages. There are NO chapters.

I'll be disappointed if the book is not written in the same style as these letters:

http://www.morrisseyscans.com/wordsbymorrissey

no chapters is kind of amazing