Momus

I should have been here earlier. Damn that London Transport.

And, I'll side with Ally about that "going above 14th street" business. Personally, I like the smallness and snuggliness of lower Manhattan, but the people could mostly catch on fire and I wouldn't be too upset. Of course, NYC, in general, is full of pose/eurs, so it's easy enough to ignore them anywhere. But, some of the nicest parts of the city, restaurants and getaways, can be found in those big, scary numbers, too. It's also not as filthy, which is nice, too.

Anthony, if you want to live someplace better than the boonies why not just do so? MOmus tells us what he is doing in life becasue unlike most ego-strangled "music geniuses" he wants to share his life with his fans, albiet electronically. I mean realy, someone give s you such valuable insights, music and references, and you thank him with hostility? DO you really crave his love, as a father figure or something? I say, have admired cohorts, but worship no man. Just listen to his songs and enjoy his cool website .

http://www.screamadelica.co.uk/justlikehoney.htm

http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Studio/8890/

well i thrashed lauren laverne at pool intha egypt one drizzly sunday night, she looked aghast.

this talksoftheadphone sh'ite iz well 3key, your words come out sounding like a demonic-deanna-durbin

cheers to tha wrongfooted googliers - fishin' moi ?

I stopped enjoying Momus LPs a while ago, but that's my personal taste. How can he be anything but a good thing? I shouldn't say any more, because almost every time I ever met him I was extremely drunk and probably antagonistic or, at best, a bore. Also, I'm terribly jealous of anyone whose life corresponds even remotely with what they'd like their life to be, which isn't normally a problem in these sorts of places.

I don't think I ever properly answered the main question this thread posed -- seems to me he's just talking about things as they happen, and he has the chance to go to a lot of spots I don't have the chance to and reflect on the results. It makes for a good experience. And I was listening to him for moons before starting to chat with him every so often, and now he's here. Way cool, mang.

I think I was totally foolish to hero-worship Momus the way I did. But then the same applies to a lot of people I've looked up to. I work hard and concentrate on the work these days, not like back then.

: - )

I used to have sex to Momus.

Just popped in my head that insult and had to use it!

answer: no.

: - )

I like being insulted as well (is that a hint??? weell...no.....maybe....)

Ummm...believe it was "tender pervert" "the angels are voyeur"...on cassette, nonetheeless!!!!!!

Not cassingle but CASSETTE. Purchased in a help the aged. Sounded like if Felt had written porn for seniors.

This week's NME has half a page of phone sex adverts. Real ones. Is that what you meant, Nick? One of them says "MANDY - 30 SECS 'TIL U SMILE." Presumably a Labour campaign line for the Hartlepool area?

Oh, everyone's gone.

Yours, a sophisticated dandy warhol.

Ahem. The phone sex stuff the lowest ebb in the NME yet, surely?

http://www.geocities.com/sscwon/momusliv.html

Thanks so much for sharing, that was awesome to read. I was at the Lawrence Kansas show and remember really enjoying it.

He's been videos for new stuff every couple of days on youtube. Residents meets ISB vibe in most of it so far. Anyone listening?

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

I have. This is my fave from the new album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5o8VAmEQnM

One of the best opening posts in site history

Is it the one by Anthony? /zing

*Loads, scrolls, nods*

The first three posts are all great.

Between this and the Miles thread today has been Ye Olde ILX0r Wayback Wednesday.

I wish anthony still posted. There is a lot of overlap between his interests and mine, it seems

I’m a fan of momus but if he knew me he’d think i was a rube for sure you know so, preemptively, fuck you momus

Anthony helped me edit down my mom's obituary so it could fit within the required parameters to be published in the local newspaper. I'll never forget that bit of kindness extended to me.

Just like I won't forget how I used to listen to Momus's podcast episodes (back when he hosted them on his website -- I found his voice soothing, even if I disagreed with his content) and in one of them he rhapsodized about one of my top 100 favorite songs of all time (and the namesake to what was my vehicle at the time), David Sylvian's "Orpheus". Any man who loves DS can't be all that bad.

60 today!

doompatrol doing robust half-bright sock-work on the thread, i wonder how he is these days

60?!?!?

Good for him. I check in on his tumblr every once in a while and he seems to be doing well and still living by his own rules.

‘Flame Into Being’ is one of the forgotten great songs of the 80s.

I was just listening to Stars Forever today. I think it's my favorite album of his. His old ironic-misogyny stuff really grates, but some of the songs on Stars Forever have the kind of heart I wish he'd put into his poetry more often.

Yeah he has a kind of nabokovian disdain for anything sentimental. This attitude seems to be declining—probably for the worse. It’s good to have some mandarins around.

For those not in the habit of visiting the *BBC Scotland website, he's working on a Covid-LP.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-52270653

(*I'm not either, someone posted the link on Facebook).

"At that moment, I was very scared. I really thought - this is it - and started anticipating all the RIP Momus messages people would be posting."

... on ILX. They missed that bit out.

^ Ha! I liked "The Hairstyle of the Devil reached number 94 in the singles chart in 1989."

too high

... on ILX. They missed that bit out.

my man with the hustle

“My Corona” lol

So there is a book about Momus coming out from Zero Books. I’m reading the blog it’s based on, fifteenpeople.com, and revisiting some of those albums.

Timelord is a great record. Not as snotty and arch, filled with longing and despair, so more my speed than his other records. I like how he draws out the main theme of most sci fi— the fact that so much of our technology is motivated by a desire to overcome time and death. The kind of thing that sounds trite in a messageboard post but the buried longing does come out on songs like Enlightenment, which also deals with more contemporary concerns

of course it's fucking zer0

cancel culture can't go far enough

I’m discovering some personal stuff about him in the blog that isn’t so cool also.

Not trying to avoid that reality. I feel like momus is cancelled here already so discussing the music should be ok

Ah. Just came here to wonder how the book was?

I'm unable to watch his series of Open University videos because he has this possibly unconscious click in his speech which really triggers my misophonia.

Did anyone read the book?

I wrote it, if that helps?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3KwmdOYPvk