Click Opera 2005

[imomus]

Use it as an index, or read it as a poem...

January
Happy new year from my niece!
An interview with my nephew
Sounds of Nauman
He gets all gushy about his favourite magazine
Keywords
Ambition and bastions
Frying tonight
End inequitable orgasm!
Port of disembarkation
Candy horrors, silly armies and a moving castle
How delightful are the snow covers!
Fuck you very much, British Airways!
The pleasures of being foreign
In the wind, on the island of Hokkaido
At the Future University
A new school of sound gardening!
My first office
Slushpodding
You will not invade Iran
Under the volcano
Blop, blop, pschit, plouf!
What goes down must go up
White orchids and bulbous black rubber tires
Otto gets thrown to the Christians
Mic check...
Please enjoy hell yes!
Homo faber sapiens sapiens
Sapporo Radio
Noboribetsu TV

February
Night questions
5 seconds of FUN
Sunk deep in the night
Culture is the new nature
Live on local TV
Graphic depictions of killers
The Japanese are almost Japanese
Honour your rambling mumble as a hidden radio programme
The hideous animal
Tam Ochiai
The Strange Commercial
It's Yoko Ono's notbirthday
Scratch a satirist, find a moralist
Fop aspic, fop lab
Beuys and ping pong
Notes on production, reproduction
Wish they all could be Cafe Soso girls
The world after 800,000,000 years
The dancing squid
Guilty pleasures
The whole play minus the plot equals the whole play
Tell me something about Otto Spooky
Goodbye Hakodate!
Your Pat Friend
For Scott Bateman
Shopping in Tokyo
Psychedelaware
Susan Ciancolo
Sumo M

March
Momus live in London and Berlin
Video postage stamp
What the internet did next
Fotolog and Flickr
Eski be frisky, grime be prime, allow it
Berlin ramble
Self-mediation could end world hunger! (It says here.)
The next 410 minutes
The Friendly Album: Stranger Than Kindness
On this typeface I will build my city!
Click Opera Interview: Rhodri Marsden
Love jam
The King of Yet-Also
Computers thinking tenderly about paper
Please enjoy past-shape future with tradicompo!
Koiklub
Websites, and other Freudian Slips
Racist robots
Uma in Seoul
Rabbitcam
Misora Hibari
Emotional communist
Relativism swings right
Employee of the month
Must we skewer the twee?
A Folktronian yarn
Advertisement for a subtle and important protest group
Rock superstar to perform in library!
I contain multitudes
Berlin textures

April
I hate Japan!
Click Opera Interview: Bjoern Karnebogen
Poznan Radio
The New York Times discovers postmodernism
Saul Bellow, 1915-2005
Japanize your ass!
National Public Radio
Art news
Copyleft authenticity
Dreamed, reviewed
Utopia Povera
Internet from the TV tower
Tarwater and Tibor
P2P Utopia
The ludic ludicrous
Bubble people in end-of-history districts
Capitalism (hearts) death
Re-titled, re-found
Sound produces space
Net Disaster
Habitus
Lovely trees
Paolozzi, titan of the postmodern
Live in Portugal and London
Abake and "the man who told the truth"
Fresh fruit in London
Paris: Donovan, Mai, Stephane

May
Paris Radio
Dechets de boulangerie
Vote with your feet
Ken Burns Effect
Get it quieter
flickrphotoflurrymassiveattack
The secret life of eating and bathing
Walk through Pink
REDESIGNDEUTSCHLAND
Teach me video presentation
The music's all that matters and love conquers all
Supermarkets and style
Unsuitable for children
Serious magazines
Design and a musical sideline
Cute alienation
A scroll through Lisbon
I am Camões!
Fashion for victims
Postcard from Alcobaca
Nick in NYC
Lisbon-Porto Radio
Winning the lottery
Girlish boy
It's a hot girl, so here's a pretty day
Click Opera guest hosts: Kaori and Hisae
Click Opera Guest Hosts: Kaori and Hisae (day 2)
Writing and no pictures
Democritus or democracy?

June
2D's a spiky fucker
I grok therefore I am
The Other Music newsletter
Nipposexual (1)
Nipposexual 2: Live your dream and stay where you are
Nipposexual 3: Damned if you do...
Wear it like you talk it!
How long has this been going on?
Evil Gini
Museums are better than clubs
A complete history of drinks
Style arena fruit shift
Repressive inclusiveness
Drawing Restraint 9
Rip it up and start again!
Love on BASF
Mix tapes and use value
I'm your fan, you're my orchestra
For whom the siren wails
London: a modest proposal
London 3: the installation
Dionysus, meet Jesus!
New York is (almost) a city in Asia
Art party in New York
A spooky shaman and a peacock
Poof Crackula #1 Bitce $$$
Why doesn't the world's richest nation have the world's richest texture?
From ghetto to ghetto
Tales from an art show

July
Policemen at the ball
Tetris for tender perverts
Radio from the freakzone
Devendra shakes the money tree
Karl Haley, comet forever
Apology to my editors
Thoughts on 7/7
No Sony for Mai
Live characters and 1000 gods & demons
Inevitable and inadmissible
Trainman: lie or copy?
Skulls or skirts?
First we take Manhattan...
Notes towards a definition of "moronic cynicism"
Avant-grandparents
Neen games
CDs and DVDs put into my hands
American Hiroshima
Cubism reaches magazine writing
Hey VJ!
Nathan's taste
Israelization
An interview with Åbäke
Why don't rock critics understand Adam Green?
So bad it's good: Koolhaas on Lagos
Flash flood
Universal flow
Milky faces and Shoboshobus
Black marks and Black Dice

August
Unspoiled Beach Syndrome
Bass culture
Let's rank the artiste plasticien contemporain!
Beauty Week 1: Tony Takitani
Beauty Week 2: Newspapers on planes
Beauty Week 3: Beauty changes
Beauty Week 4: An interlude for interfaces and inquiries
Beauty Week 5: Imagine!
Beauty Week 6: Global and local
Beauty No. 7: Nine
Fashion goth
Fashion fieldtrip
Shobus not dead!
The cult of Mac
Some thoughts about forests
Nature-in-culture, culture-in-nature
A strange emission
Tanzalarm!
Where creativity is in fashion
Edinburgh plans
Edinburgh / World
Epic rockery
At Little Sparta
The multi-tasking tribe
Sympathy for the emperor
Edinburrowing
Wannabe Asians
Vagin chantant
In Glasgow
Villain of the piece
Nieves Books, fresh as a daisy
Spokespenis for a generation

September
Rinko Kawauchi keeps a diary
Toog goes (almost) to Togo
Fashion Muslim (strategies for anti-racist actions)
Rival schools of urban communication
Cuteness and category
And God smote the pleasure zone
Getting lost
Why does it always swing on me?
Teach Me
Sumo match
Ebony and Ivory
The old-fashioned future
Allerleirauh and Sempreverde
Paul is dead
Caveat viewor
DJ Dasai
Trucs et astuces d'AirTunes
One world, one operating system
The pathos of monopoly
The man who listened to music
Bloggo blammo!
An essay on video
Sharks, skulls and coke
Basking shark
The Shepherd
Are you a lodger?
UUnited Acoustics
Venezia 1
Venice podcast

October
Which is better, art or Venice?
Fabrica: use the day™
Women are very winning
15 minutes of fun
English self-deprecation
Why I am not a Satanist
The ever-changing relationship between kunst and fabrik
And they all lived happily ever after
Thirty three and a third
Wooden horse
Mediapod
Araça Azul
Women as culture
We are the robots
Around the world in 80 biennials
Use the aged
Autumn consolations
Contemporary art: "confidence trick" or "necessary anomaly"?
Ask the rice
Linked to ghosts
View from a bridge
From Omote to Ura: the Omotesando Hills development
Raunch feminism
Seven deadly sins
A world tour of bedrooms
Rated, ranked and banked
We will, we will... well, scratch your back, actually
Kitsch sunset

November
Schadenfreude? Avoid.
Manorchestra plays Italy
Venice, November
Scotland in Venice
Whim Wanders
New ID
Pod palazzo
Dudes in the hood
Dried in the sun
Food priest
A great big bunch of stuff you'll never have time to follow up on
Bondprick
Rusty
Signature specification
Monkeying
Design magazine
Rusty live
Adieu Index
Pretending I'm Viking Moses crossed with Enzo Mari
Guilt is good
Seona Dancing: just don't call it a "guilty pleasure"
Animation as animism
Haikyo Deflation Spiral
A day in November
Bukkake St Augustine
Hell looks

December
The Whitney 2006: through a glass darkly
Trouble at the in
SCOOP: The NME Poll Scandal!
The golden age of masturbation
Emotional pornography
The black ships
Adding acid to oompah
Intelligent design
Nuclears and fossils
Fuck Fuck Revolution
Pseud's Corner
The bantam lord at last doth strike!
Paris weekend
Ironic vikings
In the loop
Fakeways: Manhattan Folk
Click Opera 2005
Steamy thermopolae
The well-made song
Boxing snow
Goodbye to Berlin
JAL girls

Comments

[cheapsurrealist.livejournal.com]

There are lots of little poems in there like:

Under the volcano
Blop, blop, pschit, plouf!

or the slightly more pretentious:

Night questions
5 seconds of FUN
Sunk deep in the night
Culture is the new nature
Live on local TV

[xinit.livejournal.com]

It's almost a poem...

Fuck you very much, British Airways!
The pleasures of being foreign
In the wind, on the island of Hokkaido
At the Future University
A new school of sound gardening!

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Actually, it would be extremely original to write a poem where each line was a hyperlink to all sorts of related thoughts, dialogues, pictures and even films (http://tinyurl.com/dr45h).

[anti-peace-riot.livejournal.com]

Wow...so many Momus memories. I'm happy for this because it brings me back to articles I missed or forgot about.

What would you say your favorite post was?

[imomus.livejournal.com]

I'm rambling back through them as well. It's impossible to say; the I hate Japan (http://www.livejournal.com/users/imomus/96349.html) April Fool's joke had me chuckling — mainly because it was so close to the bone, unlike Marxy's somewhat sarcastic synchronised entry (http://www.pliink.com/mt/marxy/archives/000458.html) (he was a bit more sincere the following day (http://www.pliink.com/mt/marxy/archives/000459.html), mainly because he'd bought a bicycle).

I dunno, when you put a year of this stuff together it's all terrifically stimulating, and really a much better guide to modern culture than many books you could buy. And I must say the comments expand and edit and educate brilliantly, they're completely integral to the whole thing, and one reason why Click Opera works so much better as a blog than it would as a book.

I suppose that comparison presents itself because I'm contemplating cutting down on the blogging a bit in 2006 because I'll be writing a work of fiction, and it feels like, while something will be gained (distance?), something will also be lost if I don't manage to keep up the blogging at this same high level.

[queersolitude.livejournal.com]

how long did it take you to compile this?

[imomus.livejournal.com]

It's not hard, LJ has a month-by-month contents list (January etc (http://www.livejournal.com/users/imomus/2005/01/)) and you can just view source, strip out the gunk, and throw it all up in a single page.

[nicepimmelkarl.livejournal.com]

i can't remember, but i've got the funny feeling that i might have complimented you on your glasses in the past. i still think they are sweet. nice glasses.

[petit-paradis.livejournal.com]

what was the entry about the history of your sex-life again?

[imomus.livejournal.com]

That was part of the Body Week at the end of 2004: The joy of sex (http://www.livejournal.com/users/imomus/69004.html).

This year

[spoombung.livejournal.com]

I've particularly enjoyed the strange synchronicity between Click Opera and Timewasting this year. That's certainly provided some memorable moments. The Nipposexual 3- parter had me scratching my head in bewilderment, the New Cross rant had me all twitchy, the Walk Away political essays made steam come out my ears...but I have to say, the defining Momus moment (for me) was your fashion shoot in the market -in that Fashion Muslim thing/feature! That had it all.

Re: This year

[imomus.livejournal.com]

The Nipposexual thing was massive: 180 comments on a Sunday! There were no Google references to Nipposexual before that went up, and now there are five pages!

The annoying thing is how LJ collapses comments threads when they go over 50. It makes reading through the debate a real chore.

[rwillmsen.livejournal.com]

That's a good idea. It would take another year to read it all again though, so please don't post anything new for the next 12 months.

[nicepimmelkarl.livejournal.com]

remember when i said 2 u: "willy. u look nuts." hilarious in retrospect. memories.

[nicepimmelkarl.livejournal.com]

more fern-zen. brian eno at dimbleby this evening. any questions?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/news/anyquestions.shtml

[cap-scaleman.livejournal.com]

Seriously, why didn't you let Kaori and Hisae feature as guests on more posts?

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Nipposexual!

[rinku.livejournal.com]

I just started reading your LJ last week, I was pointed to it by womanonfire, so this post will be helpful.

[imomus.livejournal.com]

In the spirit of the BBC's The stories that mattered to you (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4543608.stm), here are the biggest hitters on Click Opera each month (measured by comments received, not page accesses):

January
My first office (http://www.livejournal.com/users/imomus/78056.html) (82 comments)
A lot of office workers joined me in my excitement!

February
Tell me something about Otto Spooky (http://www.livejournal.com/users/imomus/87015.html) (106 comments)
Supportive album feedback beat out the more trenchant Guilty Pleasures (http://www.livejournal.com/users/imomus/86472.html) by three comments.

March
Emotional communist (http://www.livejournal.com/users/imomus/94162.html) (108 comments)
Is it okay to be Marxoistleninistosexual?

April
Japanize your ass! (http://www.livejournal.com/users/imomus/97784.html) (75 comments)
You're all very interested in toilets. So am I!

May
Democritus or democracy? (http://www.livejournal.com/users/imomus/111038.html) (102 comments)
The People had just voted down the Euro constitution, so The People were wrong. It was a big month for disillusionment with politics: Vote with your feet (http://www.livejournal.com/users/imomus/111038.html) (94 comments) was about how it's easier to leave a country than expect to change it with your vote.

June
Nipposexual 1 (http://www.livejournal.com/users/imomus/112052.html) (180 comments)
It ran and ran; Nipposexual 3 (http://www.livejournal.com/users/imomus/112462.html) also scored a respectable 149 comments. Why doesn't the world's richest nation have the world's richest texture? (http://www.livejournal.com/users/imomus/117896.html) scored 128.

July
Notes towards a definition of "moronic cynicism" (http://www.livejournal.com/users/imomus/121980.html) (124 comments)
The moronic cynicism thought came from New York, but the world's thoughts were with London; the month's other biggies were Thoughts on 7/7 (http://www.livejournal.com/users/imomus/120243.html) and the rumination on the motivations of the bombers, Inevitable and inadmissible (http://www.livejournal.com/users/imomus/120896.html).

August
Fashion Goth (http://www.livejournal.com/users/imomus/128677.html) (140 comments)
This is LiveJournal, after all.

September
Sharks, skulls and coke (http://www.livejournal.com/users/imomus/140439.html) (106 comments)
Why are models in Western fashion magazines so snarly and sharky?

October
Women as culture (http://www.livejournal.com/users/imomus/145747.html) (156 comments)
Is it okay for me to put more pictures of beautiful women on Click Opera... as cultural indicators?

November
Hell looks (http://www.livejournal.com/users/imomus/156191.html) (74 comments)
After a quiet month in which it seems people have drifted away from Click Opera, everybody bonds again as we all have a good laugh at fashion Finns.

December
Nuclears and fossils (http://www.livejournal.com/users/imomus/158583.html) (117 comments)
I manage to turn a description of my brother's wedding into a rant against a world intoxicated with fossil fuels.

[sparkligbeatnic.livejournal.com]

How about running a vote for CO Entry of the Year?

My vote is for Fashion Goth, which generated not a small amount of silly fun (http://www.livejournal.com/users/sparkligbeatnic/2005/08/15/).

Oh, and I think I can turn just about any subject into a rant against the world's fossil fuel addiction. It's pervasive.

[nicepimmelkarl.livejournal.com]

a different angle. cast your vote.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/specials/YE05-Contests/index_news.htm

[nicepimmelkarl.livejournal.com]

sorry nick. looks like another hi-jack. porn-movies waiting..i should be off soon.

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Thanks for coming!

thank you momus!

[nina-blomquist.livejournal.com]

for a year of good essays!

if click-opera was a magazine, i would subscribe to it. my new-years wish is a voluntary subscription mode on click opera. i have a subscription for my daily newspaper, why not one for the (almost) daily essay?

Re: thank you momus!

[mongoltrophies.livejournal.com]

And the amazing thing is, no trolls so far, this far down!
I'm going to go ahead and preempt them:
...a year of self-aggrandizing, effete, elitist bullshit! Momus is just an old washed-up narcissist hanging his foibles out to dry in the context of his admittedly interesting daily explorations and activities! Variations on what went wrong fifteen years ago, just like me! Humbug!
By the by, you can make an RSS subscription to Momus or any livejournal by following this format:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/imomus/data/rss (http://www.livejournal.com/users/imomus/data/rss). Just paste the link into a news aggregator like Netnewswire (http://ranchero.com/netnewswire/) (for Mac) or Mozilla Thunderbird (http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/) (for anything, I guess).
Oh, and Momus, you could get rid of trolls by disabling anonymous comments and asking that people who don't have livejournals get OpenID (http://openid.net/) to make comments with a consistent identity. It's built in to Livejournal because the same person started both things. You could make a short, sticky post that would stay at the top of Click Opera informing people about the OpenID thing, so as not to discourage, by dating it about forty-five years in the future, or however much longer you think you'll live or blog. Just a thoughtl, blabbety blah.

Thank You

[georgesdelatour.livejournal.com]

Thank you for being my favourite blog.

[imomus.livejournal.com]

By the way, an index of Click Opera in 2004 can be found here (http://www.imomus.com/clickoperaindex.html).