Through struggle to the stars!
Oct. 4th, 2009 12:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
imomusIt's a matter of historical record that on my 1999 album Stars Forever I made thirty lucky people, well, stars forever, and all for the very reasonable price of $1000 per person per song. Per ardua ad astra, as they say; through struggle to the stars. What's less well known is that on the accompanying tour I reduced the prices (and, it has to be said, the amount of effort going into the songs) significantly, eventually making random people "stars for now" for the fire sale price of just $5.
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In newly-released video material from the archives of record label Le Grand Magistery, you can see me performing this feat (and explaining the commercial logic behind it: I'm undercutting my undercutters) at Reed College, Portland, Oregon on November 14th, 1999, making a girl called Kitt a star with a completely impromptu song.
Later, of course, making stuff up on the spur of the moment and putting it immediately into the public domain would come to be known as "blogging".
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In newly-released video material from the archives of record label Le Grand Magistery, you can see me performing this feat (and explaining the commercial logic behind it: I'm undercutting my undercutters) at Reed College, Portland, Oregon on November 14th, 1999, making a girl called Kitt a star with a completely impromptu song.
Later, of course, making stuff up on the spur of the moment and putting it immediately into the public domain would come to be known as "blogging".
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Date: 2009-10-03 11:01 pm (UTC)More Instant Portraits.
Date: 2009-10-04 12:11 am (UTC)Later, of course
Date: 2009-10-04 12:24 am (UTC)Your "Reckless Records" track seems a precursor to "Joemus" as well as an evolution of the cover.
On the Julian Gough blog you seem to be beside some polar celebs, like Spongebob Squarepants. Also Aristophanes and Karl Marx are separated by Japanese Otearai. It must be a metaphysical blunder of one or another.
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Date: 2009-10-04 12:43 am (UTC)A boy I'd crushed on a decade ago in Florida saw me on stage, and thought I was a huge big deal celeb in Seattle. Obviously I had just emailed the right guy, but I didn't tell Florida Boy that.
Layna
Date: 2009-10-04 01:25 am (UTC)Re: Layna
Date: 2009-10-04 01:55 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-10-04 02:08 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-10-04 03:08 am (UTC)appalachia
Date: 2009-10-04 03:26 am (UTC)9:10
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Date: 2009-10-04 03:26 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-10-04 04:45 am (UTC)WTF
Date: 2009-10-04 07:07 am (UTC)Re: WTF
Date: 2009-10-04 07:20 am (UTC)Re: WTF
Date: 2009-10-04 06:40 pm (UTC)moreover, it's bad cosmic PR for the nation as well; what japan doesn't need is more evidence of the extreme harshness with which people treat themselves when losing face, etc. there's something to be said for the conscientiousness of the culture, to a degree, but it's bullshitwhen it gets to this point, i say.
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Nicholas (I get a bit upstaged in this one):
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Date: 2009-10-04 08:23 am (UTC)that is certtainly a firbankian quote from your book of jokes there inthe spike article. were you ever influenced by ronald firbank?
erik
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Date: 2009-10-04 08:31 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-10-04 10:32 am (UTC)I am curious what happened to some of the patrons actually.
Most of all Noah Brill and Shawn Kruger.
Oh, Mai Noda's iMac ...
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Date: 2009-10-04 10:49 am (UTC)This (http://twitter.com/fbng) seems to be Shawn Krueger on Twitter, and he has a "wife and kid" and runs a graphic design business in the Minneapolis / St Paul area. I'm guessing Mai Noda's strawberry iMac is probably enjoying the bondai blue vistas in computer heaven.
Mistaken Identity
Date: 2009-10-04 01:23 pm (UTC)Re: Mistaken Identity
Date: 2009-10-04 01:35 pm (UTC)brings back memories
Date: 2009-10-04 12:51 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-10-04 03:05 pm (UTC)Stars Forever 2
Date: 2009-10-04 03:15 pm (UTC)On a book tour, you could consider narrating an impromptu lie or joke about a person in attendance.
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Date: 2009-10-04 04:59 pm (UTC)Why, you ask? Because I have arranged for a skywriter to fly over and send you a message. Isn't that cool! My original message was going to read -- DEAR MOMUS, PLEASE DON'T QUIT CLICK OPERA. YOUR DEVOTED FANS WILL BE LOST AND ALONE WITHOUT YOU AND WILL MISS YOU TERRIBLY. PLUS WE LIKE HEARING ABOUT HISAE OCCASIONALLY AND ALSO THE FREE SONG DOWNLOADS THAT YOU SOMETIMES GIVE US. PLEASE RECONSIDER!!!
But then I found out that they charge by the letter so the new message will simply read -- NO GO MO!
Remember 12:15 tomorrow. Be there.
sopwith camel
Date: 2009-10-04 08:14 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-10-04 06:15 pm (UTC)I'm Ted.
Date: 2009-10-04 10:57 pm (UTC)