Retro Click: Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrabal!
Jun. 15th, 2007 04:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
imomusWhat's going on? Click Opera is in retro-minimalist mode while Momus writes a book.
What book? A full-length fictional confection called The Book of Jokes. If you have any good jokes -- or know a good literary agent -- leave details in the comments section or mail Momus.
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When does normal service resume? September 1st.
What's happening in the meantime? This page will be changing every day, with news and announcements and links to old content from the last three years of Click Opera.
What's today's old content?
June 15th 2005: Momus on the paradox at the heart of Simon Reynolds' book on the New Wave: "Rip it up and start again" is a great description of the attitude behind the music Simon's dealing with, but it certainly isn't a good slogan for the effect the book will have on today's music scene. "Frame it and let's live through the whole bloody thing again" would be more accurate. And that's exactly the problem with pop music now: we're crushed under the weight of the past, and of our excessive respect for it."
June 15th 2006: Momus calls for the pelvic thrusting in evidence during the World Cup to be trussed up in some sort of social corset: "It almost doesn't matter whether the thing being "stuck in" is a phallus or a bayonet: for the delusional prostitute-killer or the Great War soldier, the message is clear: "When he kills," said Brecht, "he comes". This terrible connection, this "thrust", is why peace is always, and should always be, tempered by socialization, repression and guilt. That equation of penis and knife is always waiting, just at the edge of every society, to be made explicit."
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Where is Momus today? In Berlin, making allusions in his book to the films Cria Cuervos and Viva La Muerte (by Arrabal!) and wishing you could embed YouTube videos in a novel.
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Next Momus appearance: With Laila France and Kumi Okamoto at the Fleche D'Or in Paris on June 29th.
Momus photos: Flickr.
What book? A full-length fictional confection called The Book of Jokes. If you have any good jokes -- or know a good literary agent -- leave details in the comments section or mail Momus.
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When does normal service resume? September 1st.
What's happening in the meantime? This page will be changing every day, with news and announcements and links to old content from the last three years of Click Opera.
What's today's old content?
June 15th 2005: Momus on the paradox at the heart of Simon Reynolds' book on the New Wave: "Rip it up and start again" is a great description of the attitude behind the music Simon's dealing with, but it certainly isn't a good slogan for the effect the book will have on today's music scene. "Frame it and let's live through the whole bloody thing again" would be more accurate. And that's exactly the problem with pop music now: we're crushed under the weight of the past, and of our excessive respect for it."
June 15th 2006: Momus calls for the pelvic thrusting in evidence during the World Cup to be trussed up in some sort of social corset: "It almost doesn't matter whether the thing being "stuck in" is a phallus or a bayonet: for the delusional prostitute-killer or the Great War soldier, the message is clear: "When he kills," said Brecht, "he comes". This terrible connection, this "thrust", is why peace is always, and should always be, tempered by socialization, repression and guilt. That equation of penis and knife is always waiting, just at the edge of every society, to be made explicit."
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Where is Momus today? In Berlin, making allusions in his book to the films Cria Cuervos and Viva La Muerte (by Arrabal!) and wishing you could embed YouTube videos in a novel.
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Next Momus appearance: With Laila France and Kumi Okamoto at the Fleche D'Or in Paris on June 29th.
Momus photos: Flickr.