Oot and aboot

[imomus]

A couple of pieces of news. If you're in Berlin today, Hisae and I will be manning a little stall in front of Japanese cafe Smart Deli most of the day. Smart Deli is at Grünbergerstr. 90 in Friedrichshain, not far from Boxhagener Platz, which has a good junk market on Sundays. I'll be selling crappy old CDs from my boxes, and Hisae some necklaces she's been making.



I also want to say that I'll be playing a concert in Athens, Greece on Saturday September 15th:

15th September 2007, 20:00
LEGAL TENDER PRESENTS:
MOMUS + MATHEW SAWYER & THE GHOSTS
at BIOS
Pireos 84, Athens TK 10438
bios@bios.gr

Other live appearances include shows in New York and Brussels in October. Details on the Momus events page at LastFM.

Comments

[buddhaboxing.livejournal.com]

What a horrible salesman! "crappy old CDs". You should be billing them as astounding, amazing, and absolutely agreeable.

[imomus.livejournal.com]

I know, I know. It's just that CDs are so horrible, especially old ones that nobody wants. Old vinyl is much more charismatic -- which is why I'm not selling any of mine!

[imomus.livejournal.com]

(But what I'm really selling is my reliability as a commentator / judge / observer, and that's boosted more by me telling the truth, here, about how crappy old CDs are than me telling you they're amazing when they aren't. In that respect, I'm a good salesman!)

[buddhaboxing.livejournal.com]

It's true! The sound, the look, the feel, even the smell of vinyl is much more appreciable than any modern compact disc.

[(Anonymous)]

You will love Bios. It's a great space. I always thought that would be the perfect venue for a Momus concert. I'm sorry I'll probably be missing it.
-Orestes

[smithsimon.livejournal.com]

yeah, good luck with the "crappy old CDs" - I'm getting rid of loads at the moment and am finding it tough to even give them away! The mp3 generation.

Who'd have thought they'd become redundant technology while vinyl flourishes? And the jewel case? Clearly the WORST example of 20th century design.

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Oh, absolutely the worst. They crack, they splinter... and they reduced one of the best assets of the vinyl sleeve, the big expanse of artwork. Paving the way for music's current glib, grey immateriality, which has rendered it both priceless and worthless.

[smithsimon.livejournal.com]

i've been having consistent problems with the CD drive in my macbook, and the attitude of the guys at the Apple service centre was that, yeah, they know they aren't very reliable but that they can't see Apple putting a lot of effort into improving them because they expect the whole 5inch optical disc to be completely redundant soon ...

I do like some of the ways people have tried to design around the crap-ness of CDs. The Ghost Box CDs with no inner tray card and no spine are quite nice in a shiny way, and the Finnish label Fonal does quite fragile card packaging. I also seem to remember one of the C86 era fanzines (might have been one of the Sarah Records ones) praising the inherent "pop"-ness of those little 3 inch CDs.

[niddrie-edge.livejournal.com]

And the pre-recorded cassettetape is impossible to even recycle.
They sit there like some unfinished art project, laughing.
Thrift shops told me they could not accept them as they might have something damaging to minors on them. Apparently someone has been putting porn over Disney tapes.
Even my Yamaha cassette deck, £130 pounds at purchase is unacceptable to cash converter type trade in shops.

WRONG!

[(Anonymous)]

Uh hello, you CAN recycle cassettes!!! You just put a bit of tape over the little rectangle hole-tabs on the top corners, and voila!!! I have made 13098325 genius rerecordings onto old still-good tapes. To me it's a revival on par with vinyl!

Re: WRONG!

[kalafa.livejournal.com]

you tell 'em, comrade. i've done all my taping on recycled cassettes! my first ever piece of music was beck's debut album and various tracks of cop shoot cop pasted elegantly over a vanilla ice tape. i'll never get rid of this/these. it's/they're charming.

Re: WRONG!

[niddrie-edge.livejournal.com]

Sorry. I meant the blank tape which has been recorded on. I couldn't remember the term for it. Due to lack of storage I had cases of the stuff I needed to offload and I could not find any takers.

[lord-whimsy.livejournal.com]

You can still pick up wax cylinders for $10 a pop.

cylinders

[pay-option07.livejournal.com]

Curious about a 1910 Play lists beyond "It's a Long Way to Tipperary"

Re: cylinders

[lord-whimsy.livejournal.com]

Well, I suppose there's also "It's a Long Way Back From Tipperary"...sort of a reprise, kind of what Chubby Checker did with the twist.

HEYYY

[(Anonymous)]

Vat is vith the Canadian ethnic slur in the title of this entry!?! Why bring us into this!?!

Re: HEYYY

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Oot and aboot is pure 100% Scottish, you Newfie!

Re: HEYYY

[kalafa.livejournal.com]

zing!

Re: HEYYY

[(Anonymous)]

You just stay out of it, Washington State!!!

(altho thankz for backing me on the cassette comment)

(I'm from BC <3 <3 PAC-NOR 4EVER)

Re: HEYYY

[(Anonymous)]

Weird, so when Americans make fun of my oots and aboots, they're really mocking YOU!?!

And my great grandfather is from *NOVA SCOTIA*, MERCI BEAUCOUPPP

Re: HEYYY

[microworlds.livejournal.com]

EH? EH? EH? EH? EH? SOARY? EH? EH EH EHE EHEHEHEEHEHEEHE EH EH EH EH?

SO WHAT, BITCH, I'M RELATED TO HENRY VIII! SUCK IT!

Re: HEYYY

[microworlds.livejournal.com]

LOL REDUNDANCY

Re: HEYYY

[pay-option07.livejournal.com]

Maybe you should post a sign similar to Nalts on YouTube, instead "Stuff for Food!"

Canucks be happy ooting and abooting!

[fishwithissues.livejournal.com]

the picture of Hisae is taken from such a strange angle! it's like it's taken from the perspective of a spooky ghost for whom gravity is no longer a constant!

[kalafa.livejournal.com]

if only i could! perhaps one might order a necklace/disc via mail?

[imomus.livejournal.com]

If you see something you like in this photo (http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=1095779757&size=o) of Hisae's stuff, you can order it by mail, sure! Drop me a line (mailto:momasu@gmail.com).

Bloody Yahoo!

[intergalactim.livejournal.com]

they made me log-in just to look at that flickr picture :(

good luck for your little stall...

Re: Bloody Yahoo!

[kalafa.livejournal.com]

i ADORE the earings with green

[(Anonymous)]

Wah-Wah is a great George Harrison song.

(I AM PICKING YOU UP)

[kalafa.livejournal.com]

My favorite!

(BE HERE ALREADY, C'MON)

[ultrakurtzwelle.livejournal.com]

WOOHOO FOR NEW YORK. Seriously.

[hiljaaa.livejournal.com]

Oh for bloody hell, I just realized I skipped CD altogether! I skipped the biggest format of all times. I had some cassettes and vinyl but I just never got into buying CD's.

Though I have three CD's, all the rage against the machine albums. I tried to sell them but the guy told me that their worth ~8€, so I didn't.

beaubeau market

[(Anonymous)]

well those table look like a beaubeau market as you can see them
sometimes
in brussels - people doing their things then showing it to other people passing by, and selling because even if you're making things, you have to live and eat and sleep etc, so you're selling
and always there's lots of colours during these week-ends
(www.beaubeau.be)