Ump-ump-umpteen

[imomus]

I 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.

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The Love Song of Momus

[febrile.livejournal.com]

In the rooms, the women come and go;
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

[swill.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed that muchly! And your philosophy on age is one of the best I've heard.

[imomus.livejournal.com]

I just came in from cavorting with my 'young' friends Anne and Xavier (today was the first day of Designmai (http://www.designmai.de), the big Berlin design event) to these comments, which made me rather cheerful, I must say, even the obligatory anonymous LJ detractor.

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

[(Anonymous)]

You've nearly shamed me into having a LiveJournal myself, but believe me, you don't want to see what I look like any more than I do when I look in the mirror. And there is room for both Japanese musique concrete and "superficial" discussions about age (after all, I brought up both subjects) n our short sweet lives. But please don't make me feel bad for wanting to be anonymous--all my life I've just wanted to be anonymous; it's more interesting to me than fame.

But I'm not that "other" anonymous! I do quite like green tea, thank you...