A big x to your milky hair

[imomus]

I'm hissy-fitting, pissy-ripping mad. Olivier Lamm -- yes, that O.LAMM! -- is flying to Japan very soon to promote his out-this-week new album -- an album on which I, Momus, do a totally sick rap! -- and he hasn't invited me along. In fact, the first thing I hear about it is a piece on Digiki's blog. Digiki's on the bill, so's Lullatone. But am I? No. Why? I don't think it's because of the air fare. I would've gone the Aeroflot route for you, Olivier! No, it's because I'm too old, isn't it?

Or maybe -- YES! -- it's because I'm not as beautiful or talented as Nobuko Hori, who is on the bill, and also on your monolithic album Monolith, right? Nobuko Hori, who joins the tour on 22nd November at Fourth Floor, Kitchijioji and 2nd December at Apple Store, Shibuya, right?



Okay, I'll admit that Nobuko is pretty good at what she does. I can totally see why you've done this, Olivier. Her graphics are super sweet and her music is a fucking gorgeous racket, except when it's really sick and sweet, like Midori Hirano mixed with early Lullatone. Music Related are putting out her album soon, and her artwork for North Valley Subconscious Orchestra is sweet as a nut.

Nobuko, who also plays in a sick, sick band called Groopies with a way hott model called Kyoka (they really rip it up live), has way more friends than me on her MySpace page. But that's only because I don't have a MySpace page. Never go there. Well, hardly ever.

And as for that fucktard Rupert Murdoch trying to break into the Japanese market, well, I'm counting on all sensible Japanese to stick with Mixi, the social networking system with built-in Shinto.

A big "x" to your milky hair, girls. And boys, I guess. Wish I was there, rapping about the old khaki teriyaki. Enjoy the tour, bastards!

Comments

[anti-peace-riot.livejournal.com]

Informative and angry...everything I love in a post!

[imomus.livejournal.com]

The information's real, the rage isn't.

[(Anonymous)]

http://www.musicrelated.net/

did i get a link snub? or just.. how many links does one want to fit in a post? im going to just go with the latter.. ;)


t.panda

[cityramica.livejournal.com]

aw. gosh hissy-fits don't become you. :)

i'm sorry you don't get to go to Japan.
if it's any consolation, i don't get to go to Japan either.

[imomus.livejournal.com]

I put it in -- do I get a prerelease copy of the record now?

[(Anonymous)]

its doable. there is no release date yet though. i'll try to remeber. ^_^

t.panda

[anti-peace-riot.livejournal.com]

Oh I know! Was still an entertaining way of presenting the information though. I know you aren't THAT petty!

[(Anonymous)]

oh, i am sorry, where are my manners?
thanks too!

t.panda

[(Anonymous)]

One of the shows is on a Wednesday, starting at 11pm and finishing an 5am. Do O.Lamm fans not have jobs? Or are they just more hardcore than me and can easily pull off a work/all nighter/work shift?

[(Anonymous)]

I am actually listening to Monolith at the moment and it is kind of exploding my head. In complete honesty - the Momus rap is pretty excellent. You sound tough and gruff.

(If it makes you feel any better, somebody offered me a slot opening for oLamm at the Tokyo gig and then immediately kicked me off.)

Marxy

[zzberlin.livejournal.com]

hi mmmm oooooo mmmmm uuuuuuu ssss
thinkign about you in my gentle way
you remind me, in your disillusionment with the wild west
of don mclean miss american puy

comone over to myspace walk AWAY from livejournal interface cannot kleeeepe up

iin your next wri wiiiiiiiiiiiii wireed colum you will write about blog host drift

i think it you say it they do it we will fix the world

together

[zzberlin.livejournal.com]

mmmm jere je here is my idea

we make a littel liine of educational doollls that look just like you with that charming patch of yours

they go around throwing their arms up in disbelief at the state of the world

theyy have a pulllll string on their back, you pull it, it says ridicuous but so h charmng momus things

liek "i dont have time to care about money i['m on pluto at them moment thinking about IMPORTANT MATTERS

momus when's yer bday am thinking aries

poor impulse control tht neal stephenson guy can i marry hin w him want to think like him again

OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

[zzberlin.livejournal.com]

momus has become my musee. is ahm here?

wowowowowo ooooow ow

[zzberlin.livejournal.com]

marxy is throwing compliments at me how can that be?

not at me, at momus

marxy and momus have made peace

right here right now jesus jones sed it firstsssss

[(Anonymous)]

you will be there in our hearts, Nick !

And the show on a Wednesday in Tokyo is right before a holiday (11/23) so if you are in Tokyo please come !

Hope to see you all there !

Antonin / Digiki

[imomus.livejournal.com]

You sound tough and gruff.

Yes, I'm actually "The Clint Eastwood of Twee"™ (http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y296/imomus/nickponcho.jpg).

[jammypack.livejournal.com]

I love those Groopies. And Kyoka is no musical slouch either with her solo material.

Looking forward to heaering you t'row down on da O.Lamm cut!

[akabe.livejournal.com]

it seems to be your destiny to be ignored in japan. take the new studio voice, a 90s special. although it promises a feature on the people around kahimi karie, the actual story has no reference to momus other than a very small print as collaborator on one of the albums.
maybe you've got the wrong attitude. look at marxy he's probably got it right. he'll soon be everywhere.

[akabe.livejournal.com]

btw. aeroflot is not what it used to be, it's so popular with HISers that if you don't book months and months in advance you either don't fly of you pay as much as you would for lufthansa. times are achanging

[imomus.livejournal.com]

While it is nice to get your historical due, it's also nice not to be associated in the public mind with a dead decade.

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Also, I think it's worth looking at the way Studio Voice have chosen to approach the 90s in this issue. Seeing it as an era of retro, remix and cut-up, they've asked (http://www.infaspub.co.jp/studio-voice/sv.html):

"If the 90s was all about the redefinition of all cultural territories by sampling and editing, maybe it's worth considering that there was "no there there"!?"

It was, after all, the era when people like Konishi were describing themselves as "editors" rather than musicians. I never did that, though I don't think I was immune to the trend they're describing here; most of my Shibuya-kei work for KK was just rehashed Gainsbourg.

[(Anonymous)]

the slot's still open for you to join, if you're still keen on taking a plane . i still think you should blame digiki for the lack of social behaviour, though, he's the responsible guy in the affair.

more seriously, i have a nasty flu rearing up the head, and i hope it'll get better before i leave, ahem.

i really hope to see you soon, nick!

olivier

thank you

[(Anonymous)]

for everything

Gainsbourg

[akabe.livejournal.com]

it's interesting, i just picked up the gainsbourg issue of SV and it's actually much older than i thought. 1993. so gainsbourg was already 'programmed in' before the momus/karie work (or am i getting my chronology wrong). actually, of course i jsut remembered my old cd of japanese french chansons from the mid 80s; my theory which i think i mentioned on neomarxisme is that the authentic shibuya-key actually happened in the 80s/bubble
//interestingly a review of 'the ultraconformist' in the same issue of SV describes momus as jaques brel-esque.//

however i like the way this SV doesn't go nostalgic over the 90s and the way it looks at a lot more stuff relevant in japan during the decade than just shibuya-kei.

[mini-snape.livejournal.com]

sick sick sick, sweet sweet sweet.

The reason it doesn't resemble an authentic hissy fit is that you haven't compared anyone to Hitler yet, or to 'those mean girls in high school'. Also, you haven't threatened to leave.

Although I suppose if I wanted Momus wank I could just copy-past it from the comments section...

[(Anonymous)]

blame me !
:)

j'espere que tu seras en super forme pour le tour Olivier !

et me too, I really hope to see you soon Nick !

Antonin / Digiki

[(Anonymous)]

Momus, I would like to have a serious dialog with you about blog hosts. The thing about myspace, is, well, it's kkiind of like gambling. You can skirt around and check your stats very easily. Like, I go post something I think is clever, then I bump back to my dashboard, and I can see like immediately whether anywone has read it. It's so fun. I'm like a junkie over there now, trying to get famous fast.

Momus, don't make me come back over here to read you, get over there NOW

I just made a brilliant post over there about musicla notation and how it's hard for impatient color junkies like me

What city are you in? Hard to keep track, dizzy and all

Oh am listenibng to butthole surfers over and over again

am in luv it's awful just shoot me now and get it over with

[imomus.livejournal.com]

the slot's still open for you to join, if you're still keen on taking a plane

Ah, it was just an idle fantasy, Olivier, and an excuse to put a pretty girl on my blog.

Hope your flu disappears -- you'll have to wear a mask in Japan! They look pretty hardcore, those flu masks, ne?

Off to a Peres Projects opening now, then some weird insect party. Berlin has its consolations.

[imomus.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid anything owned by Rupert Murdoch just whiffs of Satan to me.

LiveJournal now has a console too.

Plus I hate how you have to join MySpace to do just about anything on the site. It's real Jehova's Witness stuff.

I'm in Berlin.

Condolences for the love thing, love hurts.

[(Anonymous)]

Joining MySpace is like wearing an "I'm With Stupid" tattoo.

[(Anonymous)]

MySpace (between MyEars)

Re: Gainsbourg

[zzberlin.livejournal.com]

wow did someone say serge gainsborg tout pal plaisir? ilive you to your pleasure you seweet sweet thing tyou taking you to paris to see what those boys will say about you get a bike

[jasongtokyo.livejournal.com]

I'm not ashamed to say my only friend is Tom. In fact, I'm proud.

[imomus.livejournal.com]

For the few hours that I had a MySpace profile, I had just two friends, Tom and an extraordinarily beautiful London art student.

I got a personal message from Tom last month (about my Wired article). The beautiful art student no longer writes.

[cerulicante.livejournal.com]

Nobuko seems to be a prety good artist, but she still hasn't learned that putting a bunch of random noise together doesn't automatically make one a musician.

There are almost an infinite number of people around that lay claim to musicianship. A large portion of them have no business making such a claim.

what is art ?

[(Anonymous)]

mr posting above me,

you are dumb. try reading something intelligent.

nobuko rocks.

noise, sound, words they can all be music and art.
you may not like it, cool, but dont dis someone just becasue you are stupid. ha.

i think you are just jealous because we all LOVE nobuko, mr. "i have a chip on my shoulder cuz i studied music for one day in my bedroom but could not figure out how to read the book" guy.
:)


t.frog

Re: what is art ?

[(Anonymous)]

right