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[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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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...