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imomus ([personal profile] imomus) wrote2006-02-11 12:27 am

Humpty Flip

Today is my birthday. Today I turn humpty-flip.



In the photo it's two days before my humpty-flipth birthday, though, and I'm in Kyoto, checking out Voordom Eye Yamataka's exhibition Ongaloo at ArtZone. (More images from the show here.) That's why I'm wearing the funny mask. It's designed by Eye.

I'll be celebrating my humpty-flipth birthday this weekend mostly wearing nothing at all; I'm off to Kinosaki to steep away sorrow in seven different onsens, one after the other. One for each of Shakespeare's Seven Ages of Man, perhaps. I seem to be between Age 3 and Age 4, between "the lover, sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad made to his mistress' eyebrow" and the "soldier, full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard, jealous in honour, sudden, and quick in quarrel, seeking the bubble reputation..."

Seven bubbling hot spring baths will console me for being half way through the seven ages, but not half as much as the thought that perhaps you'll still need and feed me when I'm 64.

[identity profile] tropigalia.livejournal.com 2006-02-10 03:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy Birthday, Momus!

Humpty-flipth is the most important one, you know!

[identity profile] thunderbox.livejournal.com 2006-02-10 03:54 pm (UTC)(link)
誕生日おめでとう

[identity profile] bifteck.livejournal.com 2006-02-10 03:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, well, well.. the happiest of birthdays to you!

[identity profile] tabristheangel.livejournal.com 2006-02-10 03:56 pm (UTC)(link)
hoping you have a most joyful humpty-flipth.

Happy birthday, killer!

[identity profile] kingfox.livejournal.com 2006-02-10 03:57 pm (UTC)(link)

[identity profile] museumfreak.livejournal.com 2006-02-10 04:01 pm (UTC)(link)
hey, my birthday is the eleventh too! only it's only the tenth here!

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[identity profile] awahlbom.livejournal.com 2006-02-10 04:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Hipy papy bthuthdth thuthda bthuthdy!

[identity profile] kiplet.livejournal.com 2006-02-10 04:21 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll lift one in your honor later, after work.

[identity profile] silenceinspades.livejournal.com 2006-02-10 04:26 pm (UTC)(link)
happy birthday.

[identity profile] girfan.livejournal.com 2006-02-10 04:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday!


How do they celebrate birthdays in Japan?
Do you get a cake with candles?

[identity profile] butterflyrobert.livejournal.com 2006-02-10 06:48 pm (UTC)(link)
They throw pink shuriken at you.

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[identity profile] 17x17.livejournal.com 2006-02-10 04:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy b-day!
Write more, its always interesting!

happy birthday!

(Anonymous) 2006-02-10 04:37 pm (UTC)(link)
and here's to the next humpty flip. -roddy

[identity profile] tusenoch.livejournal.com 2006-02-10 04:37 pm (UTC)(link)

happy birthday!
i hope your year ahead is just as you would like it to be

[identity profile] nomorepolitics.livejournal.com 2006-02-10 04:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Enjoy your humpty-flipth birthday at the onsen.

Don't go through the Seven Ages of Man too fast; that's what they say about the Stairway of Life in Nikko.

Shakespeare sure was a dirty facial man.

[identity profile] wrighter.livejournal.com 2006-02-10 04:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Alles Gute zum Geburtstag!

7th baf uv 'Enry D'Athe

[identity profile] instant-c.livejournal.com 2006-02-10 04:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy Birthday Nick!

[identity profile] dehumidifier.livejournal.com 2006-02-10 05:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Image

happy birthday from this drawing I found on the internet.

[identity profile] cap-scaleman.livejournal.com 2006-02-10 05:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Check your Gmail Momus! I "think" there should be some kind of birthday present there.
ALso, thank you for a nice 2005 with great essays and such a critical and individual look on things going on. We need more journalists like you Momus. Good luck in 2006 as Humpty-Flipth years old too!

[identity profile] lunarflares.livejournal.com 2006-02-10 05:20 pm (UTC)(link)
I live in a wellness (drug and alcohol free) residence, but I'll have a bit of delicious juice in your honor. Happy birthday.

[identity profile] veroniq.livejournal.com 2006-02-10 05:25 pm (UTC)(link)
happy birthday, nick!

[identity profile] angrykittens.livejournal.com 2006-02-10 05:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Merriest day of birth to you! May you stay sassy for years and years to come.

[identity profile] kojapan.livejournal.com 2006-02-10 05:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy Birthday.

[identity profile] nina-blomquist.livejournal.com 2006-02-10 06:04 pm (UTC)(link)
from me too!

happy birthday

(Anonymous) 2006-02-10 06:20 pm (UTC)(link)
死んだほうがいい。早く死ね。

[identity profile] sylvia101.livejournal.com 2006-02-10 06:41 pm (UTC)(link)
happy birthday!

[identity profile] xinit.livejournal.com 2006-02-10 06:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Wait a minute... you turned humpty-flip last year... and the year before that. What's this the bringle anniversary of your humpty-flipth birthday? For shame.

Just noticed last night that 4 Momus albums finally showed up on the Canadian iTunes.

[identity profile] kurenai-kaishin.livejournal.com 2006-02-12 04:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy Birthday!
Joeux anniversaire!
お誕生日おめでとうございます

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