Moby is a dork

Most people who make records are quite happy to take a licensing fee if someone wants to use a track for an advert or as background music, eg. sports programming. Quite a few people do licensing in the Far East to elude the cred police. In many cases this is where the artist will make their real money, as most major labels will do anything to keep artists in fake debt to them (and of course any marketing spending can be CHARGED TO THE ARTIST and WRITTEN OFF FOR THE TAXMAN simultaneously).

But his space in Tribeca...whoa, accomodation envy.

There are those on the board who dislike him, I know, but he's released some good tracks. My world would be a poorer place without "Go", "Bring Me Back My Happiness", "Next Is The E (I Feel It)", "My Love Will Never Die", "Honey", and "Run On".

Grr.

(I think I've asked this of some of you before...)

-pete

etc.

Oh, fret not. We're sure not looking for your moralizing.

The books sounds like a real exercise in narcissism. He should just shut up and go away, no one gives a f

people liked the anecdote about doing coke and putting his dick on an unsuspecting donald trump. even though it sounds like sexual assault to me in my 2019 glasses.

andy dick trying to take a shit on moby's birthday cake was another delicious detail

i don't trust the jonathan safran foer story, honestly, it was reported by aj daulerio. i think what probably happened was foer realized he was developing feelings for portman and that was a sign he wasn't in love with his wife anymore. i don't think he'd just assume natalie portman was also in love with him.

i mean, maybe. but adultery 101 teaches you to check with the object of your affection first.

I'm guessing most women will have tales of creepy dude encounters like Natalie Portman's

I don't think people liked the knob touching of Trump, seemed like everyone thought that was weird and creepy too

they liked that it was a thing to talk about

I never got the feeling that safran foer left his wife for portman, his falling in love with Portman likely didn't do his marriage much good tho.

Some of their letters to each other were published somewhere worthy and they were painful to read. "See how erudite I am , please love me"

moby seems like a self-absorbed sociopath who also earnestly wants to be a "good person"

sounds like a good premise for a novel, written in a collaborative manner with everyone on ilx having access to the same google doc

also the premise for the grinch who stole christmas iirc

similar to moby never having finished moby dick, we should never read moby's memoir, but instead rely on on whatever excerpts are easy to find online

the safran foer letters were great, a cautionary tale about becoming a modestly successful writer and abstracting yourself right out of having anything to write about even when you're self-consciously bringing your A game in an attempt to fuck natalie portman. paragraphs about nyc parking policy and the logistics of moving his car and it was midnight a minute ago but now it's 12:01 because time is inexorable. made john updike read like homage to catalonia. also he plays a game with his kids where he'll buy them ice cream or avengers tickets but only if they can first somehow cause him to experience wonder.

does anyone have that article written by the dude who toured with Moby in 1993 (?) who just mimed all his parts, I felt like that was a good glimpse into what these dudes were really like (Moby was a prima donna who insisted on flying everywhere while his crew and 'band' drove, while apparently the Hartnolls and Richard D James were pretty cool)

also he plays a game with his kids where he'll buy them ice cream or avengers tickets but only if they can first somehow cause him to experience wonder.

omg

Not really vindication here ‘cause no one’s been in his corner for a crazy long time

Even now, he gives Christianity a bad name

There is so much ongoing wrongness with that Moby still trying to convince people he dated Portman thing. I just saw his new posts. yikes.

xpost I feel like there could be so many essays about sitting in your car waiting for nyc street cleaning to be done, so that would prolly be the only thing I would want to read of his.

you should email him

Surely theres going to be a full cancellation coming for him. Probably a major creep in silver lake or williamsburg or whatever

I'm a little surprised he didn't have the common courtesy to run this by the famous people he mentions in his book.

I expected better from Moby

ooh lordy my

I don't think people liked the knob touching of Trump, seemed like everyone thought that was weird and creepy too

people liked it in 1998 or so when he first talked about it bcz it was funny

then people stopped liking Moby's new music and went "wait, wasn't it weird and gross of him and his pals to put their dicks on ppl's clothes?"

then Moby said "of course I never really did that, I made it up to see how ludicrous a claim magazines would print if you told them"

then like another 17 years later he said "hey I was totally still doing nob touch into the 21st century, for real, and I did it to Donald Trump. do you like me now?"

does anyone have that article written by the dude who toured with Moby in 1993 (?) who just mimed all his parts

that was on inthemix, which got shut down by its new corporate overlords in November

Moby also tried to convince people that he was a member of Flipper. Does anyone remember that?

Yup.

iirc he said he filled in at two gigs

archive of that Moby tour story
http://itm.junkee.com/my-1993-rave-adventure-with-moby/19934/2

xpost
wasn't that just a moby/whale filling in for flipper/dolphin joke attempt?

part 2 because the bottom link doesn't work
http://itm.junkee.com/how-i-survived-americas-first-ever-rave-tour/20112

lol at "archiving" 18 years of a publication and keeping the multi-click pagebreaks but then inserting your current comments CMS with no comments

wasn't that just a moby/whale filling in for flipper/dolphin joke attempt?

DePace: No, he did! He sort of made it out to be like he was the Flipper singer for a while, but it was one night! He got up on stage with us for one night and sang. It was in his hometown in Connecticut. He just jumped on stage and sang with us. He knew all the words, he was a big fan. I think the singer at that time was passed out or high or arrested or something.

omg but porting over the two-part link to the site you deleted

RIP M&N

There is so much ongoing wrongness with that Moby still trying to convince people he dated Portman thing. I just saw his new posts. yikes.

You'd think the rest of us could find some other way to titillate ourselves.

Jackie is a punk 
Moby is a dork
They both went down to Berlin, joined the Ice Capades 
And oh, I don't know why

He’ll probably sell some of these books now though

This is how Melville got over too iirc

Check out Moby's new neck tattoo https://t.co/ato9zWzTVw pic.twitter.com/ndSil8IZ99

— Stereogum (@stereogum) September 18, 2019

shit that looks like an onion article but isn't

You have terrible taste in fonts, Moby.

nobody listens to necks, yo

You have terrible taste in fonts, Moby.

impressive if a computer did his tattoo though

lol PK

He looks like a chicken stamped for export.

lol

Bought his book at a used book store for $2.
It’s definitely a book.