Dear Morrissey . . .

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

!

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

i suggest we all unite and shoplift some copies of this book

omg, an emo Tarantula.

Sorry, Tarantula not nearly so long and has found its audience in recent years.

from someone on the moz forum

"Now read 3/4 of it , the whole smiths story is tainted by how it ended , and there is a lot of vitriol for almost everyone ... its an interesting read from the point of view of showing the raging ego of a man who has never had to grow up and be responsible for his own actions ... the early family stuff is sweet but once the music business stuff starts its just bitching and moaning ..... dissapointing !!"

i love music business bitching and moaning. its the best kind next to hollywood bitching and moaning.

Hahah yes.

opening line reads

"My childhood is streets upon streets upon streets upon streets. Streets to define you and streets to confine you...".

In fact that's key here -- WHO WILL MAKE THE BIOPIC.

Suggest cast, director and screenwriter.

To package as a classic a book that no one except Morrissey and a handful of his fawning acolytes has read is instantly to reduce the worth of all classics. Plato, Julian of Norwich, Darwin – they must all be spinning in their graves right now. In essence, Penguin is sneering at the public. A classic is a book that is judged by posterity to be an outstanding work. How does that happen? Through people reading the book, discussing it, embracing it, recognising its artistic beauty and universal import. There is a democratic element to the idea of the classic; certainly the elevation of a work to classic status involves intellectual, public engagement, the subjection of the work to readers and audiences over a long period of time. For a couple of men in suits at Penguin's head office to decree, behind closed doors, that Morrissey's autobiography is a classic is an act of both extreme haughtiness and dumbed-down relativism – it is arrogant to believe a classic can be christened before being devoured and discussed by humanity, and it is ignorant, too, a relativistic denigration of those classics whose worth we as a species have already agreed upon.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/brendanoneill2/100241061/in-publishing-morrisseys-autobiography-as-a-classic-penguin-has-destroyed-its-own-reputation/

"Signed, Luke Haines"