Kyoto Grump Radio

[imomus]

He's in Kyoto dressed in a funny eyepatch and hat, but he's not laughing. In fact he's grumping about everything. And you lucky, lucky people can listen for an hour!

Why didn't a single British person take a bath for five hundred years? Why can't you pay in cafes with used underwear? Why does blue light make girls more beautiful? What's wrong with pointing your toes at the Buddha? Why has Oscar Niemeyer got a bit boring? What'll happen if Bush gets in for another term? And where should Momus send this tape, Al Jazeera or LiveJournal?

Kyoto Grump Radio (27.59 MB mono mp3 file, 60 minutes)

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I don’t think is about being evil or being good, every person has both sides. It s about how someone is using his/her power. Bush helped to create a word of black and white, good and evil. That applies to some basic human instinct – that is fear. I really think that words can create a new reality and I feel and fear that this is what had happed the last years. We had some long distance u.s.American friends for a visit a couple of month ago. They told me they are going to vote for bush and they got really angry and aggressive about that. They started to explain their point of view with heard and soul, but they soon got deeply offended by our hmm anti bush position. Their main point was the being threatened by what so ever fear. It sounded a bit naïve to me, but on the other hand that’s what I love about them.
Anyway, after that I thought oh my god, bush is going to be re-elected.
Anna

P.S. Wer A sagt muss nicht B sagen, er kann auch erkennen dass B falsch war. (gospodin Brecht)

W is for Warmonger

[xyzedd.livejournal.com]

Borrowing from certain philosophers we admire, Momus once sang, "Nobody is good/Nobody is evil." Nevertheless, Bush is definitely not "just another American president." He makes Nixon seem downright benign and even Reagan sound somewhat reasonable. (Believe me, I am regretfully old enough to remember them both.) For a person who claims to not be "interested in America," the earlier poster seems to be expending quite a lot of energy thinking about it. The fact remains, since America is now famously the "world's sole remaining superpower," we must all be interested and act on behalf of the lesser of any evils--or else suffer the consequences.

I write this as an American who is profoundly embarrassed for our country whenever I even think of "W" and who knows that even though Democrats aren't yet different enough from Republicans, even small differences today count for enormous changes in the future. If Bush is elected again (so to speak), I will consider this the beginning of the new Dark Ages which we've been teetering on the precipice of for the last four years.

By the way, I haven't even listened to Momus's latest radio piece yet. But last week I did some more disorienteering of my own and disappeared into the wilderness while I finally listened to the "Osaka hour." I was amused to discover, upon rechecking that entry, that the "rubber tears" the bartender was wearing and which Momus found so fetching were actually "rabbit ears." So much for British and Australian accents to confuse a dumb American, but I still think rubber tears are more original.