ADAM ANT IS A MENTALIST!

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...and it's not just the Sun wot says so. A nation mourns?

― Jeff W, Wednesday, 16 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i met a three-nippled psychic in covent garden at halloween who said i would marry an adam-ant like figure, so this story is a particular worry to me.

― nickie, Wednesday, 16 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Was that the same three-nippled psychic that starred in "Mallrats", perchance?

― Trevor, Wednesday, 16 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

yes if she claimed to have foreseen the commercial success of Jamiroquai... and failed to do anything about it.

what is the point in having a unique bodily power if you don't make full use of it, i ask you?

― nickie, Wednesday, 16 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It's always good to have at least one unique bodily power you don't make use of. Allows the cultivation of an enigmatic 'strong but silent' air.

― N., Wednesday, 16 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i no longer want to sit within smelling distance of you. your superpowers are making me queasy.

― nickie, Wednesday, 16 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It's not a real third nipple, by the way. It's made of gelatine.

― Trevor, Wednesday, 16 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Has word leaked out of their nature yet? Is there a speculative babble?

― N., Wednesday, 16 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

when you start arriving at work with your underpants outside of your trousers, people are bound to talk.

― nickie, Wednesday, 16 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

And are you suggesting superheroes have a special stink or do you mean you are worried my supersense will pick up on the fact that you skipped your shower this morning?

― N., Wednesday, 16 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think it was your "strong the silent" comment that led to the speculative bubble about your manscent, N.

― Edna Welthorpe, Mrs, Wednesday, 16 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

'strong BUT silent'.

BAH.

― Edna Welthorpe, Mrs, Wednesday, 16 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Back to Ant. I've thought there was something odd about him ever since I saw him interviewed via satellite by Terry Christian on the Word. He was really strange. Maybe all English popstars who go to live in LA end up freaks. Maybe everyone who goes to live in LA ends up a freak. I'm increasingly obsessed with LA.

― N., Wednesday, 16 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i always got the impression that mr. ant, apart from his persona, was rather a dull/unremarkable man. although that impression was gleaned from malcolm mcclaren and therefore not entirely trustworthy.

off-topic, but as for LA. why does it end up being the setting for so many futuristic/dystopic films and novels? bladerunner, mean streets, amis' money etc. has anyone been? does the city exist in a permanent state of misty night/twilight? are the streets paved with grease?

― nickie, Wednesday, 16 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

he was very bad at acting when I saw him in an episode oh thbe equaliser.

― chris, Wednesday, 16 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

sorry, typing while eating a baguette leads to bad spelling, of course that should have read, of the.

― chris, Wednesday, 16 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Amis's Money mostly takes place in NY and London. Main char. goes to LA once (I think) and leaves very quickly.

― Sam, Wednesday, 16 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

my bad. it's the only section i can remember properly from the book.

― nickei, Wednesday, 16 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

LA is funderful. It's everyone else projecting their fears and neuroses that causes the dank image. We need more films where the lead characters sit around in a noisy pho place for lunch and relax and tell jokes.

In the meantime, here's the official Ant word.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 16 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Adam Ant's finest moment- his hysterical laughing on the rooftop scene during 'Jubilee'. Ian Charleston starts an unconvincing monologue about the collapse of society and his high-rise flat upbringing, 'we never went outside etc'. It wasn't scripted but Ant just started p***ing himself and Derek Jarmen kept it in.

Sad to see The Sun approaching mental illness with its usual insensitivity.

― stevo, Wednesday, 16 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I've always thought he was weird since I saw him dressed up as a pirate and a highwayman with a white stripe across his face singing rubbish songs. Go figure.

― Ally C, Wednesday, 16 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mike Davis' City of Quartz will elucidate this some, following on from Ned's answer above.

Mr Ant didn't seem either terribly sane or terribly likeable in that interview in the Guardian last week, did he?

[Holding breath and wondering if first ever italics tags will work].

― Ellie, Wednesday, 16 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

[Yay!]

― Ellie, Wednesday, 16 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Adam Ant is the bomb.

― Ally, Wednesday, 16 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I love all of his early material, and I'm not going to laugh at his mental illness. Even with people I loathe, like my pop arch-nemesis Mariah, I think it's pretty sad.

― Nicole, Wednesday, 16 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

he was very bad at acting when I saw him in an episode oh thbe equaliser.

HA! That's a CLASSIC 80s prime time drama moment if there ever was one. Ahem...

In that "Equalizer" episode, Adam Ant played the CEO of Evil Pimp, Inc. There's one scene where Adam Ant is sitting quietly in his sterile white white space age office, and this big ugly hairy thug comes in grasping a startled honey in his arms. Adam Ant slowly turns to the thug and utters this classic line:

"Now remembah... No brooozes. No leeeeezhuns"

― Brian MacDonald, Wednesday, 16 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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