A day in November

[imomus]

The day begins with blogging, the rabbit sitting patiently at my feet as I tap out a few hundred words about "urban exploration". Baker's patience is rewarded when I bring him back from the Boxhagener Market a straw cat (€3, haggled down from 5), which he proceeds to tear to shreds.



Then Rusty, Hisae and I take the U-bahn out to Dahlem in West Berlin, where my favourite ethnographic museum is located. This is, in fact, my favourite place in Berlin, and my favourite part of it is the Japanese folk art collection, so hard to find (round the back and up some stairs) that it's invariably quite empty. Today the museum is milling with people—there's a Festival of Five Continents, with live music, Asian street food, and showings of Miyazaki films—but still the Japanese folk art section is deserted, as is the ethnomusicography department next door (the reason I've brought Rusty out here — I want him to hear stuff like the amazingly wobbly wax cylinder recordings from Indonesia circa 1908). A couple of people have ventured into the darkened Africa section, though, or into Oceania, with its magnificent pre-historic boat and hut reconstructions. In the evening we go to an event called Secret Garden in an apartment-shaped art gallery in Prenzlauer Berg, where we see a live performance (featuring iBook and tinkling glockenspiel) by some displaced New Yorker called Sandy. Rusty runs into some people from his hometown of Fresno, and there's much slapping of backs.

Update on the album: we now have seven finished songs, of which the last, "Permagasm" is, I think, the best. Titles, in order of completion:

1. Devil Mask, Buddha Mind
2. Enjoyable Friends
3. Moop Bears
4. Bonsai Tree
5. Pleasantness
6. 7000 BC
7. Permagasm

Comments

[rwillmsen.livejournal.com]

That...is a fucking big rabbit. Are you sure it's not a hare?

[rwillmsen.livejournal.com]

Incidentally, if you read this on the mistaken assumption that Rusty is the name of the rabbit, you get a whole different reading experience.

[imomus.livejournal.com]

I know, I think we've been swindled. It's not at all the cute little creature we bought in the shop:



I'm thinking of asking for my money back.

[glowingwhispers.livejournal.com]

While your life has come across to me as e-charming, I don't envy the rabbit turds you must have littering your home.

[benchilada.livejournal.com]

Permagasm sounds like a nice word. It reminds me of, when I was far younger, how my friends and I would muse about the simplest superpowers to save the world.

Our favorites were one fellow with the ability to create painful gas in someone and his friend, who could make people orgasm on cue.

DOCTOR DOOM: As soon as I press this button, the world will explode! Now there's nothing you can ARGH! SHIT! I CAN'T...AH, THIS REALLY GODDAMNED HURTS...AND IT TAKES FIVE MINUTES TO OPEN THE ASS-FLAP ON THIS ARMOR...MUST PRESS BUTTON...I...I...ohhhhhhh...yeah, that's Doom's spot right there...mmmmm...

And then you hit him with a giant fuckoff hammer.

[nicepimmelkarl.livejournal.com]

why hit him?

[benchilada.livejournal.com]

Because he's Doom, and he'd find some silly way to press the button if you didn't.

So...Hitting Must Commence!*

*Hitting Must Commence is registered under the Shitty Band Names Act of 1997

[nicepimmelkarl.livejournal.com]

fair enough triple chin. the who.

[benchilada.livejournal.com]

Triple Chin is my dad's name. I only get it when Smiling Like Bastard.

I hope that someday the name and all the fun spills that come with it will be truly mine.

[nicepimmelkarl.livejournal.com]

don't remind me of daddy. he reminds me of mummy. my fate: a whistle from the scaffolding. u get it all at imomus.com.

[tailchaser.livejournal.com]

but was the straw cat made to be eaten by some lucky bunny.....or was it lovingly handcrafted by some old woman and meant to sit in a livingroom on display for many years?

[(Anonymous)]

btw:
what happened to "Dr. Cat"?
the song that you mentioned last week.

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's another title for "Enjoyable Friends". Titles are still fluid.

[peripherus-max.livejournal.com]

None more fluid than "permagasm," me thinks. :) hehehe

[dehumidifier.livejournal.com]

There is a Mary Timony song with the title "Dr. Cat", so you might want to stick with "Enjoyable Friends" just to avoid any confusion. Unless you want confusion. Confusion can be fun sometimes like with subatomic particles and whatnot.

That is one cute bunny despite the hugeness.

[dehumidifier.livejournal.com]

Oh and also: "Enjoyable Bears"

just throwing that one out there.

[pirateman.livejournal.com]

Holy shit Moop Bears is the greatest name for a song.

And Now for Something Completely Different

[nomorepolitics.livejournal.com]

I was plagued by obscure and senseless dreams last night.

The first was of playing with my cousin when we were children.

The second was about my ex-girlfriend vanishing in smoke.

The third was about talking on the telephone with Momus about creating inner happiness through art. Maybe he was actually talking to someone else, because I could actually see him on the phone, a black 1960s model.

Not that any of these worry too much, but they don't make much sense either. Feel free to analyze them for posterity.

Re: And Now for Something Completely Different

[imomus.livejournal.com]

The meaning of your dreams is clear.

There will be a plague of locusts.

Then the great library of Nineveh will burn to the ground, and there will be lamentation throughout the land.

Then three fat cows will come, and the high priests of Tyre will slaughter them, distributing the meat to all the people of the world.

Then peace will reign on earth for the span of six hours, punctuated only by the sound of light snoring.

Re: And Now for Something Completely Different

[nomorepolitics.livejournal.com]

Thank you Momus. Now I can sleep in peace.

[nicepimmelkarl.livejournal.com]

[anglerfish96.livejournal.com]

I am really looking forward to hearing your new work, and especially happy to hear about the process involved.

And... awww... Hisae always looks adorable. I hope you're doing well.

:D

RU$TY

[(Anonymous)]

Fuck rusty looks rich. is he rich? put more pictures of rusty up. pretty please.

Re: RU$TY

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Rusty isn't rich, although he is well-connected. More Rustyporn, for his fans, here (http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y296/imomus/rustyvolksbuhne.jpg) and here (http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y296/imomus/rustydome.jpg).

Re: RU$TY

[petit-paradis.livejournal.com]

wow supercool shoes on the second pic!

[shanghaiagogo.livejournal.com]

the rabbit is insanely cute.
can you tell me what breed is it?

[imomus.livejournal.com]

It's a lionhead (http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=lionhead+rabbit&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8).

[shanghaiagogo.livejournal.com]

thanks for the links.

[dubow-org.livejournal.com]

Doesn't Topo rip things apart other than straw cats??
hmmm... I wonder what a day is like in the life of Topo?!?... especially with the temporary addition of Rusty to the family.

[imomus.livejournal.com]

A day in the life of Topo (or Baker, as I call him) is mostly a succession of attempts to have sex with my naked feet. I expect he'd do the same with yours... perhaps even more fervently.