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[imomus]

[Poll #313781]

Comments

off-topic but,

[caoilte.livejournal.com]

I just wanted to say that although I've not used paypal to reimburse you for the mp3s you put up in your livejournal I did like them (and your journal in general) so thought to buy one of your albums the other day when I saw it in a record shop.

Re: off-topic but,

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[femme-letale.livejournal.com]

Mr Ulysses is such an evocative title... Homer Joyce, modernism, penelope and even Fado music! I can't believe it is only me that likes it!

[imomus.livejournal.com]

'Mr Ulysses' also captures the wandering stylistic spirit of the album, which seems to alight on islands and have picaresque adventures with bizarre characters on each one.

[verlaine.livejournal.com]

...while hopefully, nostalgically, never losing sight of its own artistic Ithaca?

[rearwindow.livejournal.com]

you and me both.

it makes me think of travels, being lost, love and the sea.
and it sounds great.

[nippon.livejournal.com]

Oh, I was just going to write that Mr Ulysses sounds best, but the lady did it first :)

I`m the 2nd one to choose Mr Ulysses!

MR ULYSSES!
MR ULYSSES!!
MR ULYSSES!!!

P.S.: Greetings from Moscow. We love ya.

[(Anonymous)]

what about ‘tip-toe-tap-do and the other inside’

[yanatonage.livejournal.com]

Can you give us a brief explanation of why you chose all those titles, since some of them probably have obscure references we're not privy to? I like "The Artist Overwhelmed.." and "A new theory.." because they're pompous and overreaching and your music hasn't showed off that side of yourself in a while.

[stanleylieber.livejournal.com]

I like "The Artist Overwhelmed by the Grandeur of Ancient Ruins," basically for the reasons you already stated in your initial expalanation of the title.

Switching horses midstream?

[lord-whimsy.livejournal.com]

There's always "Micromégas":
http://eee.uci.edu/clients/bjbecker/ExploringtheCosmos/week5c.html

Like Gulliver, Voltaire's Micromégas is diminutive or gigantic, depending on the planet he's visiting.

"How long do you live?" said the Sirian.

"Oh, a very short time," replied the little man of Saturn.

"That is just as with us," said the Sirian, "we always complain how short. That must be a universal law of nature."

"Alas!" said the Saturnian, "we live for only five hundred great revolutions of the sun." (That comes to fifteen thousand years or thereabouts, counting in our way.) "You can readily see that that is dying almost at the moment we are born; our existence is a point, our duration an instant, our globe an atom. Hardly has a man begun to get a little education when death comes before he has experience. For my part I do not dare make any plans; I feel like a drop of water in an immense ocean. I am ashamed, especially in front of you, of the ridiculous figure I cut in this world."

[femme-letale.livejournal.com]

it looks like we are winning... Maybe not on numbers but certainly on argument!

liquid diamond baths

[senators.livejournal.com]

the furs one is by far the best. but perhaps there should be mention of diamonds?!

[(Anonymous)]

snwow

then and then maybe

[(Anonymous)]

at first notice i was drawn to momus in furs. then after a minute or so i felt stronger about Mr. Ulysses. in third place barleycorn, and i'll suggest
Oh Places, or
Up the Chimney,
Soggy Summer Songs, or maybe
Never a Broken Button Fixed, or
Momus Sings & Sweats,
or
Momus in a Cabin,
Momus in Cash

please tell if you enjoy any


kindly
jellybean

Re: then and then maybe

[imomus.livejournal.com]

'Momus in Cash' sounds a little nouveau riche.

[dickon-edwards.livejournal.com]

Definitely Momus In Furs. It's the wittiest one, and wit is the soul of brevity.

[dickon-edwards.livejournal.com]

Or, indeed, "Definitely Momus". Maybe that's more of a compilation title, though.

[(Anonymous)]

Call it Lodger and be done with it! You know you want to! Otherwise, Mr Ulysses is pretty good. Momus in Furs is too much of a one-note joke - a livejournal entry heading perhaps, but not an album title.

H.

[londontheory.livejournal.com]

o but Mr Ulysses verges upon pretense doesn't it? even tho conceptually i love it, something about it throws me off. i like Robin Hood - delightful!

Authorised Coprophilia

[mafism.livejournal.com]

I voted for Mr Ulysses, I believe James Joyce and his wife were both avid coprophiles. And whilst we are discussing Momus album titles what do people think of a Stars Forever 2 project in three years time so we can catch up with a few of our favourite characters from the first one ( what ? me self indulgent?). A bit like the 7 Up series that has been going on ITV since the late 60's

By the way I heard a version of Semprevrde that my friend has, its fantastic , I'm really looking forward to the new album Nick

[bifteck.livejournal.com]

I chose "Barleycorn" just for the way it sounds and rolls off the tongue, especially with your accent.

[ciaan]

I like "The Artist Overwhelmed by the Grandeur of Ancient Ruins," "Sempreverde," and "A New Theory of Everything" best, but that makes me seem like I must be feeling pretentious this afternoon.

[seanthesean.livejournal.com]

i like barleycorn the best, because it is the most evocative, while not being too specific.

[mykwud.livejournal.com]

I voted for "..Sun Mountain", although I think "Barleycorn" would look cuter alongside the High Llamas' new one. (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000CAPV3/qid=1088451404/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_2_1/026-2301177-8211625)