Moblogging and Emogaming at Schipol

[imomus]

Does this qualify as 'moblogging'? Or even 'imoblogging' or (shudder) 'emoblogging'? I'm writing this at Schipol Airport outside Amsterdam, about to board my flight for Tokyo. Amongst my e mail is a message from Russia asking for an electronic reading of a Tchaikovsky piece for a compilation on a label from the Ural Mountains, confirmation that I will in fact be playing two shows in Hong Kong (September 2nd and 3rd), and a note from Rob from Mixel Pixel telling me that their excellent and fun cover version of 'What Are You Wearing' is now available for download from their website, free of charge:

What Are You Wearing? (9.5 MB)

Rob also recommends the anti-Bush online video game (it's an 'emogame', apparently) Bushgame, saying 'It's the best thing I've seen on the internet in maybe forever! Gotta go - my girlfriend is in the next room fighting toxic Dick Cheney with Howard Stern. This I have to see.' Ah, it's Flash! Maybe I can play this all the way to Tokyo. Or maybe instead I'll be reading every last article in The Wire, New Scientist, International Herald Tribune, Society Guardian, Architect's Association Project Review Guide, Vice and 0fr magazine (the contents of my bag). Maybe I'll make a start on the Index article I'm writing about the Paris music scene. Most likely, though, I'll be gazing down at the rock and river formations of Siberia, daydreaming at my rear window for ten hours.

Okay, off to the gate.

Comments

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

Downloaded "What are you wearing" and slapped it on the jukebox - unconvinced, I'm afraid! All the reverb just makes it seem like it's sliding all over the place - the tight rhythm of the original is part of what makes it work. And I'm not sure her voice is *quite* up to it...

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

(though I can recommend "playing MP3s downloaded from the Internet on the office jukebox without checking them out first" as a career-Russian Roulette for this century)

[darthhellokitty.livejournal.com]

Oh my, I'm going to have to check out the bushgame! The original emogame (http://emogame.com/emogamemarch/index2004.htm) is great fun (although beyond my gaming skills, so I kept getting all these poor boys killed).

Have a lovely flight defeating the powers of darkness.

[bifteck.livejournal.com]

Schiphol is such a magnificent airport. I was there for five hours once. I wanted to run up and down its halls and find all its tunnels and rooms and just live there for a week.

[(Anonymous)]

i totally second that motion!! schiphol rocks! what with the huge vertical scrolling lcd signs displaying absurdist poetry and an impeccable design that ensures you won't get lost, no matter how hard you try. and the runway viewing area is so nice too... it's the only airport in the world i look forward to reaching.
-roddy

[brandileigh.livejournal.com]

looking into moving into tokyo, you seem to have been there many times.
if it all works out, i will definitely check out a show of yours, i find it highly doubtful that you will ever be coming to texas heh.

Emotionally underdressed

[xyzedd.livejournal.com]

Coincidentally as ever, I was listening to the original "What Are You Wearing" ten minutes ago (and for the first time in ages) on my way to this computer. Can't wait to hear this cover version, as I am such a fan of covers.

I've always wanted to know exactly that song was gendered, or engendered.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm looking forward to read your piece on the parisian music scene !
I think it will be an exciting reading, as I guess I'm not part of the scene.
I always read things about my neighbors in foreign magazines.
AntoninDigiki

[bell-labs.livejournal.com]

hi, i thought i'd introduce myself - i played guest keyboards on the mixel pixel cover - and i was the one beating up on the dick cheney robeast in rob's note. we're really glad that you enjoyed the cover, there is no greater compliment! it was very fun to work on. best of luck in tokyo, hope to see you play again in nyc soon!

lindsay

[bootlickajaspeh.livejournal.com]

it's perfect that Hulk Hogan should be the hero. I remember those glory days of wrestling where he would appear in the ring draped in the american flag uniting the crowd against the likes of a shady evil doer like the iron sheik.

[(Anonymous)]

I finally bought my first Momus CD today and am thoroughly satisfied with the experience. Forbidden Software Timemachine was at a discounted price so, I must admit, that was my main criterion for purchase. When I asked for your CDs and carefully spelt out M-O-M-U-S, the guy working at FNAC Lisbon looked at me as if I were an idiot and took me straight to your stuff. Then he enthusiastically told me about when you had visited FNAC last year and how it was impossible not to notice the tall blond eccentric pirate guy and Japanese girlfriend. We checked your homepage and had a nice chat about music and I left, content with my perfect purchase. The disc is great of course, but you knew that already (and so did I, really).

Rosa VA, a happy Portuguese customer.

PS. I just came back to Europe on a 7,000+ km ride on the Transiberian from Beijing - much better than looking at the Urals through an airplane window.

[(Anonymous)]

Moblogging is the exclusive realm of those blogging via their cellphone. See Hiptop Nation () and SKHolla () for *real* mobloggin. Actually, I recant that statement. For the absolute, most real mobloggin, check out skPr0n () and its younger, more disgusting sister, poop.skPr0n.com (). Though I run the last two sites, I sincerely apologize for their content if you're easily offended.

Time Travel?

[(Anonymous)]

Interesting ... Seems that the entry titled "Tokyo Freespot"
was written after this one (from Schipol). It looks
like the blog knows your local time.

Mixel Pixel's "What are you wearing" is fun.
Lyrics as clearly audible as the Momus version but
with a slightly jaded sounding female voice. A major blast
of late 1990's nostalgia.
(Though it's unlikely I heard the original any earlier than 2001).

- M

[imomus.livejournal.com]

I'm in Tokyo, and there's a rumbly, sensual storm passing overhead! The five o'clock music just played. (That's tinkly, eerie, lovely music played at 5pm to tell people to go home. It's different in every district.)

Shades of Folktronic

[(Anonymous)]

http://www.jibjab.com/thisland.html

This is a flash movie using the Woody Guthrie "This Land" featuring the two presidential candidates. It's amusing and is worth watching when you have played the Bush whacking game...

Richard G