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imomusI don't know whether to laugh or cry at this recent exchange on alt.fan.momus:
xyzedd: The sad thing is that Momus is one of the few "pop" artists over 30 who has become yet more original and inventive as he grows older; most of them run out of ideas or run their ideas into the ground by the time they get their first gray hair.
Roshan: Sometimes when my friends are talking about how horrible it will be to be middle-aged, I usually just point to people like Momus and say that I can't wait. I mean, imagine all the books you'll have read, people you'll know!
Roshan, it is great, but sometimes I feel like when people ask my age, instead of the real answer (44, m**********r!) I should just say umpteen.
xyzedd: The sad thing is that Momus is one of the few "pop" artists over 30 who has become yet more original and inventive as he grows older; most of them run out of ideas or run their ideas into the ground by the time they get their first gray hair.
Roshan: Sometimes when my friends are talking about how horrible it will be to be middle-aged, I usually just point to people like Momus and say that I can't wait. I mean, imagine all the books you'll have read, people you'll know!
Roshan, it is great, but sometimes I feel like when people ask my age, instead of the real answer (44, m**********r!) I should just say umpteen.
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Humpteen
Date: 2004-05-07 04:59 am (UTC)`In that case we start fresh,' said Humpty Dumpty, `and it's my turn to choose a subject -- ' (`He talks about it just as if it was a game!' thought Alice.) `So here's a question for you. How old did you say you were?'
Alice made a short calculation, and said `Seven years and six months.'
`Wrong!' Humpty Dumpty exclaimed triumphantly. `You never said a word like it!'
`I though you meant "How old ARE you?"' Alice explained.
`If I'd meant that, I'd have said it,' said Humpty Dumpty.
Alice didn't want to begin another argument, so she said nothing.
`Seven years and six months!' Humpty Dumpty repeated thoughtfully. `An uncomfortable sort of age. Now if you'd asked MY advice, I'd have said "Leave off at seven" -- but it's too late now.'
`I never ask advice about growing,' Alice said Indignantly.
`Too proud?' the other inquired.
Alice felt even more indignant at this suggestion. `I mean,' she said, `that one can't help growing older.'
`ONE can't, perhaps,' said Humpty Dumpty, `but TWO can. With proper assistance, you might have left off at seven.'
Re: Humpteen
Date: 2004-05-07 05:40 am (UTC)Charles Dodgson was a very strange man...
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Date: 2004-05-07 05:43 am (UTC)whoa.
Date: 2004-05-07 05:48 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-05-07 05:53 am (UTC)i really like growing older, my priorities have changed so nicely :)
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Date: 2004-05-07 05:56 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-05-07 06:28 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-05-07 06:58 am (UTC)it is somewhat amusing to hear young people talking about "middle age". i don't even know what that is anymore. 50 seems young to me now.
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Date: 2004-05-07 07:53 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-05-07 07:57 am (UTC)ARTIST: How old are you?
OLD LADY: Too, darling, too!
ARTIST: Ah... I would have thought older than that.
spring has sprung
Date: 2004-05-07 08:29 am (UTC)http://www.nasa.gov/lb/audience/forkids/games/A_Age_on_Mars.html
Take that methuselah!
on a side note... has any thought ever gone into the idea of a downloadable ampatch sampler? being a person short on funds, any way to hear a little bit fer not that much would be a great thing. hence, the sampler. fer a small sum maybe you could offer such a thing on the website that would allow those of use a little on the poor side the chance to hear all of yer discoveries and possibley put a sound to the ampatch faces while also putting a few euros in your corduroys and maybe even pushing your releases a little further up thee darla charts, if we cotton to them that is.
thanks you much a plenty,
andi
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Date: 2004-05-07 08:42 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-05-07 08:45 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-05-07 11:02 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-05-07 02:31 pm (UTC)-Roshan
tactile fetishist vs information fetishist
Date: 2004-05-07 08:40 pm (UTC)That said, I love the way brand new books smell, too. I love the way good-quality paper has a certain weight in your hand. I love the way very old books leave a shadow of crumblings of themselves when you pick them up off a table. I love Routledge and Kodansha and Tuttle.
I dig your name, too, by the way, Roshan-the-red-lotus. I almost named a cat that once. Seriously.
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Date: 2004-05-07 09:00 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-05-07 09:20 am (UTC)Stephin Merritt- how he thinks you're great
Mike Skinner- how your songs are much better than his
Yahoo Japan- how the media doesn't accurately portray how deep and complex you are
There's the the occasional flash of Good Momus, like the info on Japanese musique concrete, but Jesus Christ on a stick, posting the inane comments people leave on your own fan board is the most patheticly self-obssesed thing I've ever seen.
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Date: 2004-05-07 10:52 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-05-07 12:31 pm (UTC)Some people's brand of self-obsession is just more interesting to me than others'.
Re: solipsistic,tic,tic
Date: 2004-05-07 03:02 pm (UTC)Ouchie!
Date: 2004-05-07 10:12 am (UTC)Re: Ouchie!
Date: 2004-05-07 11:34 am (UTC)The Love Song of Momus
Date: 2004-05-07 10:31 am (UTC)he shagged them all some time ago.
He has heard the mermaids singing, each to each,
he orders them sex on the beach.
My philosophy is that green chucks make actual age irrelevant. And I notice the bottoms of your trousers are not yet rolled...?
Re: The Love Song of Momus
Date: 2004-05-07 12:06 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-05-07 12:38 pm (UTC)One of the things I like about LJ is seeing people's photos of themselves. I find the embodiment thing rather important. I want to know what someone looks like, dresses like, how their hair is. I actually want to know that more than what they wrote in their doctoral thesis on Japanese musique concrete. (Total comments on that musique concrete entry: 9.) If anything, this is the wisdom that comes with age: what appears superficial isn't. Happiness is all wrapped up with the body.
Oh, and two words: green tea. Drink Japanese loose leaf sencha all night and all day and you'll stay young forever.
Anon and anon
Date: 2004-05-07 04:34 pm (UTC)But I'm not that "other" anonymous! I do quite like green tea, thank you...
I know how it is....
Date: 2004-05-07 01:08 pm (UTC)Re: I know how it is....
Date: 2004-05-07 01:32 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-05-07 01:41 pm (UTC)classic, not bestseller
Date: 2004-05-07 01:55 pm (UTC)erik
Superficial yet deeply felt aesthetic moment
Date: 2004-05-07 01:43 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-05-07 01:54 pm (UTC)living in a box
Date: 2004-05-07 01:58 pm (UTC)erik
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Date: 2004-05-07 02:13 pm (UTC)Not much, but...
Date: 2004-05-07 04:18 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-05-07 03:04 pm (UTC)All the women portrayed are often horrible in one way or the other...Castafiore etc.
Now Asterix was mentioned...what about Spirou !
Mimi & KLas say: Have a great weekend and we appreciate this colorful blog.
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Date: 2004-05-07 02:37 pm (UTC)-Roshan
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Date: 2004-05-07 02:41 pm (UTC)I only feel old when I remember my age, I guess; it's probably best to forget most of the time. One thing - I think it's a lot easier to have fun, and to have it with more people, as one gets older - it doesn't feel forced or pressured.
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Date: 2004-05-07 03:11 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-05-08 02:34 pm (UTC)that just kills me.
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Date: 2004-05-07 06:53 pm (UTC)Oh, I meant to mention this yesterday...Comus is great. Actually when I first heard The Gongs, I was reminded of First Utterance more than once.
ageposts
Date: 2004-05-07 06:56 pm (UTC)I don't know if you really want to be an 'inspiration' or 'role model', but guess what? You're an Interesting Musician who is also 44. Own it! Come on, you panda, what do you want, a collar and a food dish?
I don't have a livejournal, but here's a picture of me and my fiancée Sabrina (26): http://www.maudevintage.com/
In exchange, please write another website essay someday.
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Date: 2004-05-07 09:43 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-05-07 10:43 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-05-08 09:12 pm (UTC)thats why not being 44 isn't fun. especially when you're 14. (like me)