Nod Currie, hidden hero
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imomusOn Tuesday the Berlin newspaper known affectionately as Taz, and technically as Die Tageszeitung, carried a feature on me by Timo Feldhaus. For some reason, this article reads wonderfully when fed through web translation software. Rendered thus, it's entitled "Intermediate human being on indication journey" and the first sentence is "Nod Currie is the hidden hero of Berlin".
According to Google, the intro reads: "Because of it already half Minnesota wants to pull: The English musician nod Currie alias Momus writes in his Web log with appropriate Versponnenheit over the life in Berlin". I asked the waitress in Ringo, my local café, what Versponnenheit meant and she said "Like a crazy person... but without the negative implication... Eccentricity". The bit about Minnesota is explained later: rather than making Minneapolis / St Paul residents want to attract sexual partners, I am apparently luring them to Berlin: "Because of its Blog entries already half Minnesota wants to move to Berlin."
The article concentrates on Momus as "self-facilitating media node": "Momus is not famous... But one is it once meets, begins the reference roundabout to rotate, and he is suddenly everywhere. That can happen to places medialen on in genuine Berlin, faster however, how that offers Internet her." I think what Google is trying to say here is that Momus is something of a googlestar. Interesting, because Pascal Meuwissen's feature for Currency 3 begins the same way. Editor Sico Carlier introduces the feature:
"Spotted 1: An interesting glimpse of Momus in the year 2000. I had done a curatorial crossing for Devon Dikeou's zingmagazine in New York and she threw an open bar-party for the occasion at the SoHo Grand. Not crowding at that bar but elegantly occupying a booth Momus was present with an entourage of three females of oriental origin. Spotted 2: A few years later a short film I had done was showing at a festival in Berlin, it was dreadfully cold and gloomy in that city and the opening was a near nightmare with loud Bruce Naumanesque videoworks dominating, Momus discreetly showed up for that vernissage, the eye-patch, another flock of girls, all bundled up in winter coats this time. Who was this guy who seemed to have adopted something like a queer insatiable promiscuous lifestyle I wondered, le roi du partouze?"
French-speakers amongst you (or google language toolers) will know that le roi du partouze means "king of the orgy". Here, though, the phrase takes on a queer connotation, recalling the theory that being into Asian women is the last hetero stop before arriving at full homosexuality. Well, a nod is as good as a wink... or do I mean "a node is better than a wank"?
According to Google, the intro reads: "Because of it already half Minnesota wants to pull: The English musician nod Currie alias Momus writes in his Web log with appropriate Versponnenheit over the life in Berlin". I asked the waitress in Ringo, my local café, what Versponnenheit meant and she said "Like a crazy person... but without the negative implication... Eccentricity". The bit about Minnesota is explained later: rather than making Minneapolis / St Paul residents want to attract sexual partners, I am apparently luring them to Berlin: "Because of its Blog entries already half Minnesota wants to move to Berlin."
The article concentrates on Momus as "self-facilitating media node": "Momus is not famous... But one is it once meets, begins the reference roundabout to rotate, and he is suddenly everywhere. That can happen to places medialen on in genuine Berlin, faster however, how that offers Internet her." I think what Google is trying to say here is that Momus is something of a googlestar. Interesting, because Pascal Meuwissen's feature for Currency 3 begins the same way. Editor Sico Carlier introduces the feature:
"Spotted 1: An interesting glimpse of Momus in the year 2000. I had done a curatorial crossing for Devon Dikeou's zingmagazine in New York and she threw an open bar-party for the occasion at the SoHo Grand. Not crowding at that bar but elegantly occupying a booth Momus was present with an entourage of three females of oriental origin. Spotted 2: A few years later a short film I had done was showing at a festival in Berlin, it was dreadfully cold and gloomy in that city and the opening was a near nightmare with loud Bruce Naumanesque videoworks dominating, Momus discreetly showed up for that vernissage, the eye-patch, another flock of girls, all bundled up in winter coats this time. Who was this guy who seemed to have adopted something like a queer insatiable promiscuous lifestyle I wondered, le roi du partouze?"
French-speakers amongst you (or google language toolers) will know that le roi du partouze means "king of the orgy". Here, though, the phrase takes on a queer connotation, recalling the theory that being into Asian women is the last hetero stop before arriving at full homosexuality. Well, a nod is as good as a wink... or do I mean "a node is better than a wank"?
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Date: 2006-10-31 03:19 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-31 03:21 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2006-10-31 03:37 pm (UTC)everybody wank chung tonight!
Date: 2006-10-31 04:06 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-31 04:49 pm (UTC)der.
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Date: 2006-10-31 04:52 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-31 05:47 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-31 06:28 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-31 07:44 pm (UTC)(btw, my lady, the great comic artist ulli lust (http://www.ullilust.de), was featured in the same spot in the "tageszeitung" a few months ago, for her web publishing house electrocomics (http://www.electrocomics.com) - and i still love to brag about it!)
(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-31 08:07 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-31 05:16 pm (UTC)Remember though, in this age we mock the things we look up to the most
(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-31 05:25 pm (UTC)What theory?
(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-31 11:54 pm (UTC)It does make you wonder what large, zaftig Slovak women lead to--other than Robert Crumb's house, that is.
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Date: 2006-11-01 04:10 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-11-01 04:21 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-31 06:28 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-31 06:33 pm (UTC)italian
Date: 2006-10-31 08:15 pm (UTC)Re: italian
Date: 2006-10-31 08:38 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-11-01 02:19 am (UTC)(I am thinking George Michael! Ha!)
Can you provide us with a reference for this theory?
(no subject)
Date: 2006-11-01 05:06 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-11-01 04:03 am (UTC)that's amazing.
(no subject)
Date: 2006-11-01 04:06 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-11-01 05:45 am (UTC)Momus is a meme! His meme has profligated!
Momus, one of your best strengths is your art-portfolio diversification. You have the Wired column, read by geeks and advertising moles at great length. You have your essays here on LiveJournal, that attract unknown, international readers who contribute astute commentary and criticism. Then there's the music. What next? Something graphic, with color. I look forward to it.
Biggest Fan #1
harriet
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Date: 2006-11-01 05:47 am (UTC)My favourite MC
Date: 2006-11-01 03:04 pm (UTC)I wonder if he poached it from The Little Red Songbook?
Re: My favourite MC
Date: 2006-11-01 03:23 pm (UTC)But you know this video wouldn't be so funny in Japan, where it's much more possible to mix nerdy (ie otaku) signifiers with hip hop (ie hip hop otaku) ones. For instance, the joke about having all the pens in your pocket -- well, PingMag did a feature on Japanese construction worker cool in which precisely those rows of pens were vaunted as chic, in a sort of macho way.
It has to be said, as well, that The Beastie Boys got to a lot of these jokes first. They rapped about being kings of Boggle, etc, on their Hello Nasty album. And then there's MC Paul Barman, whose whole career is based on this same joke.
Re: My favourite MC
Date: 2006-11-01 06:13 pm (UTC)Some nice references in there, though. I found myself trying to spot how many of them applied to me. Pens, certainly. I tend to be more Lapsang souchong than Earl Grey, however.
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Date: 2006-11-01 05:11 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-11-01 05:44 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-11-02 03:26 am (UTC)I'm pretty sure Momus may save the human race, but that begs the question: is saving that race a good thing? The aliens observing from abroad, as well as HAL9000, might take issue with that assertion.
Is Imomus Good?
Date: 2006-11-02 03:41 am (UTC)Re: Is Imomus Good?
Date: 2006-11-02 03:45 am (UTC)oh, no, it's this:
http://mm.dfilm.com/mm2s/mm_route.php?id=3069620
Re: Is Imomus Good?
Date: 2006-11-02 10:20 am (UTC)dear anonymous commentator:
Date: 2006-11-03 05:59 am (UTC)If I'm going to take a guy into custody, it will be one I know in person, and all of those guys are local to Oakland, Calif.
But thanks for making me think twice about whether I'm too creepy around here!
Re: Is Imomus God?
Date: 2006-11-08 07:28 am (UTC)Yes why not
:-)
TROY is GOD as well
Sorry for jumping here out of nowhere.
Just had to say that the new Momus album (downlowded for emusic.com) made me so happy this week.
Still have a lot of words to say about (this will be done later - i'm during a bussy recording of my own).
This album is a complete new generation in post modern music. Not only a genre of its own but a new way of songs and with sounds samples and sound spaces.
This is the only FRESH thing in a long time for me to hear.
I real work of a thinking mind.
well done nick
TROY
tel aviv
israel
Re: Is Imomus God?
Date: 2006-11-08 10:15 pm (UTC)