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.
― Dee the (Summer-Hating) Lurker (deethelurker), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 23:43 (four years ago) link
60 today!
― Luna Schlosser, Tuesday, 11 February 2020 22:06 (four years ago) link
doompatrol doing robust half-bright sock-work on the thread, i wonder how he is these days
― mark s, Tuesday, 11 February 2020 22:19 (four years ago) link
60?!?!?
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 11 February 2020 22:42 (four years ago) link
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.
― treeship., Tuesday, 11 February 2020 23:15 (four years ago) link
‘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.
― OneSecondBefore, Tuesday, 11 February 2020 23:16 (four years ago) link
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.
― treeship., Tuesday, 11 February 2020 23:25 (four years ago) link
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).
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Sunday, 19 April 2020 09:13 (four years ago) link
"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."
― Hey, let me drunkenly animate yr boats in about 25 to 60 days! (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 19 April 2020 10:10 (four years ago) link
... on ILX. They missed that bit out.
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Sunday, 19 April 2020 10:21 (four years ago) link
^ Ha! I liked "The Hairstyle of the Devil reached number 94 in the singles chart in 1989."
― djh, Sunday, 19 April 2020 10:45 (four years ago) link
too high
― mark s, Sunday, 19 April 2020 11:00 (four years ago) link
― Three Hundred Pounds of Almond Joy (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 19 April 2020 12:01 (four years ago) link
my man with the hustle
― treeship., Sunday, 19 April 2020 12:12 (four years ago) link
“My Corona” lol
― Paul, Sunday, 19 April 2020 13:33 (four years ago) link
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
― treeship., Saturday, 1 May 2021 14:09 (two years ago) link
of course it's fucking zer0
cancel culture can't go far enough
― Left, Saturday, 1 May 2021 14:13 (two years ago) link
I’m discovering some personal stuff about him in the blog that isn’t so cool also.
― treeship., Saturday, 1 May 2021 14:14 (two years ago) link
Not trying to avoid that reality. I feel like momus is cancelled here already so discussing the music should be ok
― treeship., Saturday, 1 May 2021 14:16 (two years ago) link
Ah. Just came here to wonder how the book was?
― djh, Saturday, 27 November 2021 16:49 (two years ago) link
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.
― Luna Schlosser, Saturday, 27 November 2021 20:07 (two years ago) link
Did anyone read the book?
― djh, Sunday, 30 January 2022 19:41 (two years ago) link
I wrote it, if that helps?
― thranjax, Saturday, 30 April 2022 13:05 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3KwmdOYPvk
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 6 September 2022 17:28 (one year ago) link