Morrissey really seriously ill?

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For some reason, I get the feeling the whole thing is a contractual obligation.

Like, Moz has to write the book so he's written something bonkers.

And now the publisher has to publish it.

Mark G, Friday, 25 September 2015 22:50 (eight years ago) link

i doubt that but it does make you wonder if he had a contractual stipulation not to have an editor because no editor worth their salt and none working for penguin main-line would let that through, surely.

Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Friday, 25 September 2015 22:58 (eight years ago) link

You know that review of 1066 and all that, "Quotation is hopeless, every sentence clamours for it" ?

Change Quotation for "Excision", ...

Mark G, Friday, 25 September 2015 23:00 (eight years ago) link

i understand what you mean, i think but:

Rare is the writer who is willing to complain that the big problem with Churchill during the war was that he was, frankly, a bit of a coward and unwilling to try to identify with the people he governed, but Morrissey is that writer. “Churchill himself would experience World War 2 safely and in a suite of rooms at Claridge’s most luxurious Mayfair hotel, with not a complicated twitch or pang to trouble his elaborate evening meal.” We’ll leave aside the fact that he makes it sound like Claridge’s is a chain, with the Mayfair branch simply its most upscale outpost – “Yeah, I was going to go stop at the Travelodge, but I got a deal on the Claridge’s at Peterborough services” – and instead note that the entire passage reads like a polemic written by a particularly single-minded street corner pamphleteer (see also Morrissey’s writing about the pernicious power of, wait for it, local television news. Damn you, Look North, with your hegemony!).

no editor would have let "a suite of rooms at Claridge’s most luxurious Mayfair hotel," slip through the net unless they were terrified of moz or a fanboy and therefore not a good editor (if there was one, as i said).

i would love one for my posts and i do need one, as you can tell.

Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Friday, 25 September 2015 23:07 (eight years ago) link

four months pass...

My drive to work is too long and I often ponder about things, sometimes to get my brain away from "work".

Anyway, partly triggered by that Daily Mail banner headline that seemed to be suggesting the deaths of David Bowie and Terry Wogan as some kind of competition and partly influenced by enjoying a Best of Morrissey ... I found myself pondering Morrissey's obituaries. How will he be described? Will he appear on the front pages of newspapers, aside from the Guardian and Independent?

(Its been a while since I played any Morrissey and I was struck by how odd/quirky/creative much of it was).

djh, Thursday, 4 February 2016 23:06 (eight years ago) link

jangle pop militant vegan crank

wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 4 February 2016 23:11 (eight years ago) link

front page of the LA Times

Οὖτις, Thursday, 4 February 2016 23:14 (eight years ago) link

Minor cult figure snuffs it

The Robustness of Captchas (Tom D.), Thursday, 4 February 2016 23:21 (eight years ago) link

'List of the Lost' Author Dies In Double-Decker Bus Incident

The Robustness of Captchas (Tom D.), Thursday, 4 February 2016 23:24 (eight years ago) link

Gay racist trampled by thankless beef cattle

we salute you, our half-inflated dark lord (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 5 February 2016 01:36 (eight years ago) link

complete twat snoozled in sleepland

calzino, Friday, 5 February 2016 02:08 (eight years ago) link

Rupert Everett dies

Followed by apology,clarification

broderik f (darraghmac), Friday, 5 February 2016 04:26 (eight years ago) link

"Now Morrissey dies"

Mark G, Friday, 5 February 2016 07:08 (eight years ago) link

Smiths reunion tour ends tragically (before it ever really began, but in my heart it was so real).

brotherlovesdub, Friday, 5 February 2016 07:25 (eight years ago) link

"Morrissey tour dates cancelled"

mahb, Friday, 5 February 2016 09:43 (eight years ago) link

don't you ever crave
to appear on the front of the Daily Mail?

niels, Friday, 5 February 2016 10:48 (eight years ago) link

Meatus Murdered

napster p2ppies (wins), Friday, 5 February 2016 11:03 (eight years ago) link

World Mourns 'You're The One for Me, Fatty' Hitmaker

Butt here is always time for the John Mayer Trio or Sting. (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 5 February 2016 11:34 (eight years ago) link

Mozz Takes Aging Badly to Next Level

tremendous crime wave and killing wave (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Friday, 5 February 2016 15:06 (eight years ago) link

The Death Of A Racist Chancer
Heaven Is Miserable Now
etc

( X '____' )/ (zappi), Friday, 5 February 2016 15:16 (eight years ago) link

Petty Mozz Makes Grave

DavidLeeRoth, Friday, 5 February 2016 15:18 (eight years ago) link

He Can Feel The Soil Falling Over His Head.

Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 5 February 2016 15:20 (eight years ago) link

He wished to be buried at seasick

Mark G, Friday, 5 February 2016 16:47 (eight years ago) link

Mozz Takes Aging Badly to Next Level

― tremendous crime wave and killing wave (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Friday, February 5, 2016 3:06 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is amazing.

pastoral fantasy (jed_), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 00:36 (eight years ago) link

i posted speedway on facebook today because it is a beautiful song but it didn't get any likes. feel worried that my fb friends think i am endorsing racism

Agent Zero (Treeship), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 01:02 (eight years ago) link

like, not that worried, but a little worried

Agent Zero (Treeship), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 01:04 (eight years ago) link

three years pass...

doing Sieg Heil salutes at his age can really throw your shoulder out

Boles to the Wolds (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 14 April 2019 10:27 (five years ago) link

“Due to a medical emergency stemming form an accident incurred while traveling in Europe,
is some real mealy-mouthed language.

☮ (peace, man), Sunday, 14 April 2019 10:43 (five years ago) link

what did Europe do now?

StanM, Sunday, 14 April 2019 10:53 (five years ago) link

Jean-Claude Juncker glassed Mozzer.

Do you like 70s hard rock with a guitar hero? (Tom D.), Sunday, 14 April 2019 10:57 (five years ago) link

the seem week yakety yak made a pissed up prick out of himself in Prague, hmm.

calzino, Sunday, 14 April 2019 11:01 (five years ago) link

I think you've cracked it... which is what "Tommy" said to Moz when he slipped on Tommy's puke and fell headfirst into the toilet bowl in that Czech hotel room.

Do you like 70s hard rock with a guitar hero? (Tom D.), Sunday, 14 April 2019 11:04 (five years ago) link


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