Why do you come here?

[imomus]

Well, Saturday's entry -- in which I advanced the daring view that one Israeli life is equivalent to one Lebanese life -- really did seem to annoy a few Click Opera readers. "I'm arranging a Momus record burning in my yard tomorrow. Just listening to your voice makes me sick. I wish you ill you sick bastard," wrote one ex-satisfied customer with an IP address in Holland.

What puzzles me is why such right-wing people bought Momus records in the first place, or read this blog. Aren't there semantic filters, clues all over the place, political markers? Haven't my political cards always been on the table? Shouldn't right wingers have been rebuffed years ago? Shouldn't this "bigger-than-Jesus"-style record-burning have happened the moment people listened to my records? Shouldn't these people have played the stuff on headphones in Tower or Virgin, concluded "he's a radical", and just bought a Stephen Malkmus record instead?

Speaking of Malkmus, I could understand it if I'd expressed sentiments like those the pig libber shared with Index magazine last year:

"There are things about the West Coast that bug me. There is this really stupid leftism out here. It makes me mad. On September 11, I was at this health-food store on Hawthorne Boulevard called the Daily Grind. It's a ropy kind of place. These young, shiftless hippies hang out there. This one guy was like, "Those workers, man, they deserved it." At first, I wanted to collar him and put him up against a wall and get all Wolfowitzian on his ass. Then I turned into my dad, like, "This guy can hang out and play in his drum circle now, but in forty years he's just going to be a strain on our health-care system. He may be eating health food, but he doesn't know he's still part of the problem."

If I'd said that kind of thing, sure, I'd expect to have ultra-right wing commenters. But I haven't. I'm at a loss. Do these people come here just to "educate" me? Or do they think this white robe I'm wearing is KKK (in fact it's Moroccan), or that the big orange face in the poster behind me is Ayn Rand before she shaved her beard?

Come on, right wing people, enlighten me. What on earth are you doing here?

Comments

[mo-no-chrome.livejournal.com]

But it's rather ironic that the health-food-hating Malkmus should put himself in a genealogy including Morrissey.

It's like a cafe we have in Sydney called Oscillate Wildly, which isn't vegetarian. Grrrr.

[svenskasfinx.livejournal.com]

Grrr! Not Vegetarian, bah!!

and now for something completely different

..As far as Morrissey goes, although I heard that at a show in recent months in Manchester that the audiance was being rude, (and his willingness to stand against their heckling was rather strong) Morrissey's only saving grace in my oppinion is that he is a vegetarian, and he seems to admire Howard Devoto (I have a recording where he's reading Marcell Proust's part on "Mlle" with Luxuria live at "Town and Country" in London,1988)

Someone let me in on a some little known information.. it seems that Morrissey's muse shares a mutual friend with Howard. IN fact if anyone saw "24 hour party people" it wasn't supposed to be Howard in the bathroom with Linder Sterling but in fact Morrissey.. sadly someone who was curently involved had some powerful connections and said to change it or they would be sued, and the film never made.. so they changed it to Howard and then for some reason it was OK, although as Linder and Howard said, totally fictional.

I wonder how badly I could get in trouble for that one?