What's good?

[imomus]

What's good is that not only is my computer twice as big and bright this week, but so too is my favourite visual culture bookstore, ProQM, which just moved to much more lucid headquarters on Almstadtstraße, just two streets east of its old location.



What's good at ProQM is leafing through Takashi Homma's delightful photobook Tokyo and My Daughter (Nieves), or flipping through Kaugummi magazine.



What's good on the web rather than in a real place are blogs which are art pieces in their own right.



Alin Huma's journal is terrific. It makes me think two things. One, I want to buy a better digital camera and get more serious about my photography. Two, when Alin and I exchange apartments later this year (Hisae and I will spend May in his Ginza pad, he'll spend the month at our Berlin place with his partner and child) I really want Alin to meet Lina Kunimoto, our neighbour who works for Die Gestalten Verlag, because I think DGV should publish a book of Alin's work.

What's good is also Stanley Lieber's LiveJournal, which curates other people's Flickr photographs with extreme panache. I love Stanley (whose name isn't Stanley)'s eye for stripes, bubbles, stitching and colour.

What's good is this thoroughly-researched blog entry about my song Nervous Heartbeat, relating it to the work of Teresa Teng.

What's good is Steve Jobs' new campaign to get the music industry to abandon DRM-protected music files. What's bad is that the iTunes Store version of my Ocky Milk album apparently cuts off the song The Birdcatcher half way through. What's good is that I'm today giving away an mp3 of the song so that you can replace the damaged file:

Momus: The Birdcatcher

What's good is that my friend Suzy arrives from London later today for a weekend in Berlin, and will be able to catch me live at the Field Recordings Festival on Friday night as well as come along to the Yoshitomo Nara + graf opening happening between 6pm and 8pm on Saturday evening at Galerie Zink in Kreuzberg.

Comments

[dzima.livejournal.com]

stanleylieber, you've become too big for America. It's time to leave.

[dzima.livejournal.com]

And the irony of it all is that sparkligbeatnic deleted his journal because according to him LiveJournal had become too boring. Alin's journal is living proof that LJ hasn't peaked yet.

Dear Reader, The Airport Is Closed

[(Anonymous)]

Nick, check your inbox. Air Begorrah flights from Stansted being affected by temporary airport closure. Gah. Our flight not on list but situ needs to be monitored and I have to gop runn errands!

S
x

birdcatcher

[womanonfire.livejournal.com]

thank you for giving a replacement version!
gah... i was beginning to think it cut off there on purpose, i was making up very deep reasons about postmodernity and "unfinish"..... :p

More bad and good on iTunes

[(Anonymous)]

Bad: The last track on Oscar Tennis Champion is listed as "untitled" where it should be "The Ringtone Cycle by Oliver Cobol", shouldn't it?
Good: Glad to see so many Momus albums on iTunes, by the way!
Let's hope Steve has his way and we get rid of this silly DRM-business
/Peeter

[(Anonymous)]

Hey Momus, what do you consider your best song? (on Ocky Milk or otherwise)

[imomus.livejournal.com]

I don't really have a clear favourite, I'm afraid. Pop songs are not meant to be classics, they're meant to be useable, ephemeral, repeated and then abandoned and replaced by new ones. It's a flow scenario. And that's one reason why I really, really hate the Virgin FM Classic Gold sort of culture we have now, or the over-valuation of The Beatles or whoever. We need to get back to the sort of flow culture that produced those good songs in the first place -- a culture in which, remember, people knocked out an album in a week or two and made two or three a year -- rather than this stolid, self-conscious, masterpiece- and canon-venerating culture we have now, where people are paralysed and find it hard to make an album even once every five years.

Sorry, long answer to a short question!

[(Anonymous)]

I think you'll find most bands average an album a year these days

[(Anonymous)]

agreed

[(Anonymous)]

What's your favourite of your songs, though, Momus. Go on, if you had to pick.

[imomus.livejournal.com]

No, I really don't have one. I'm just not a "first amongst equals" sort of guy.

[(Anonymous)]

oh come on momus don't be a spoil sport. Tell us your favourite song of yours!

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah you dull cunt, spit it out. The kidies are waiting.

[scottbateman.livejournal.com]

Fun fact: last night on the subway, I was standing next to a man listening to The Little Red Songbook on his iPod.

[imomus.livejournal.com]

I hope you gave it back to him when you were through!

[niddrie-edge.livejournal.com]

More lucid. More ludic.
Does Mac have the ability to utilise StumbleUpon a plugin I use in Firefox?
I was fairly bored with this community aspect of Firefox browsing until...
I discovered their new version with StumbleUponVideo.
Random Youtube and Google Video.

[desant012.livejournal.com]

As cultivated as contemporary design culture is getting, I wonder if it's at a cost of other forms of expression? Check my informative Livejournal for a thoughtful essay.

[bunkadoo.livejournal.com]

Thanks! The song cuts off on the eMusic version, too, so it must be whatever file was given to all the digital services.

putland's cattery hotel

[nicepimmelkarl.livejournal.com]

[hahawhat.livejournal.com]

Stanley Leiber's journal is probably my favorite place on the entire internet for images and inspiration; texture, color, atmosphere, all so totally delicious. I'm pumped you mentioned him here.

[(Anonymous)]

what's good ?

Only a huge inflatible pair of imac balls rammed up a nonce art farts bum pop exit ? is it ? no ? maybe ?

Slightly off kilter journo smash, nice cock.

Keep up the pish talk "momi", super ball fart your way at a magazine opening party !

titflangers with gin !

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Ah, internet as toilet wall! Don't forget to flush!

[(Anonymous)]

ahhhhhh WHERE'S THE 800 NUMBER YOU VAIN, NO TALENT CUNT

[(Anonymous)]

Birdcatcher also ends short at 1:20 on eMusic's downlad (which is where I got Ocky Milk).

What else is good on the Internet? Momus and his generosity!

Thank you!

[klig.livejournal.com]

Thanks for that MP3. I thought it was just me.

[lord-whimsy.livejournal.com]

Three cheers for Stanley!

[wingedwhale.livejournal.com]

I, too, adore Stanley's livejournal. Nothing makes my friends page more joyful and full of life, color.

[nicepimmelkarl.livejournal.com]

remember that stick story?
hot stuff. i couldn't believe what i was reading.

Birdcatcher

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks for the mp3. Is the bit at the beginning and end a sample? If so, what is it?

[(Anonymous)]

Hi Nick - Thanks for the introduction to Alin. His work looks amazing and I really look forwarding to meeting him during your apartment swap. Although.. I don't think we see each other enough as neighbors. This has gotta change before you leave for Tokyo!