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I just bumped into Momus in the streets of Brussels

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Just though you should know

― baaderonixx, Monday, 22 October 2007 12:45 (nineteen years ago)

thought, even

― baaderonixx, Monday, 22 October 2007 12:46 (nineteen years ago)

was he dressed like stupid tit?

― max r, Monday, 22 October 2007 12:47 (nineteen years ago)

"a stupid tit" like people who make typos while ridiculing someone different just trying to live their life the way they see fit, like a tranny or momus.

― max r, Monday, 22 October 2007 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

wb max r

― Dom Passantino, Monday, 22 October 2007 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

stop hating on momus

― max r, Monday, 22 October 2007 12:51 (nineteen years ago)

"I just bumped into baaderonixx in the streets of Brussels"

http://imomus.livejournal.com/324343.html

― StanM, Monday, 22 October 2007 12:52 (nineteen years ago)

OMG, Momus is playing literally IN FRONT of my house tomorrow!

― baaderonixx, Monday, 22 October 2007 12:54 (nineteen years ago)

Lock up your d Cool!

― StanM, Monday, 22 October 2007 13:06 (nineteen years ago)

i like to imagine an alternative reality where momus is a middle manager working for some accountancy firm in dumfries, boring his teenage kids with stories of how he used to be in a post punk group 25 years ago. shopping for slacks in next, drinking real ale after work, taking his daughter to an artic monkeys concert, shagging his boring wife twice a week (missionary position in the dark).

― max r, Monday, 22 October 2007 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

You sure like to imagine!

― Tuomas, Monday, 22 October 2007 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

it's imagination time!

i'm sure momus would like us all to use our imaginations more.

― max r, Monday, 22 October 2007 13:18 (nineteen years ago)

i like to imagine an alternate reality in which momus carried on making good records.

(actually: his last one sounded like it wasn't bad. but "ping-pong" kinda put me off for ever.)

― grimly fiendish, Monday, 22 October 2007 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

Ping Pong, the album
Comedy cabaret
Futuristic vaudevillains
Thanks for pressing play!
Futuristic vaudevillains
Thanks for pressing play!

PING PONG! HONG KONG! KING KONG! SING SONG!

Please put on your avatar mask
Our game is underway!
Please put on your avatar mask
Our game is underway!

― max r, Monday, 22 October 2007 13:20 (nineteen years ago)

There's a decade-long stretch when I didn't keep up with whatever Momus was doing. But I think his last couple of records are interesting. Let's face it, there aren't too many people in their late forties who are still trying to do something different.

― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 22 October 2007 13:33 (nineteen years ago)

momus is my dad, btw.

a deadbeat dad.

― max r, Monday, 22 October 2007 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

I don't get what your problem is, max r

― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 22 October 2007 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

momus never hugged me enough as a child.

― max r, Monday, 22 October 2007 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

Let's face it, there aren't too many people in their late forties who are still trying to do something different

i still like momus as an idea, certainly :)

― grimly fiendish, Monday, 22 October 2007 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

I like to imagine Momus demanding cribbage from Max R.

Mmmmm.

I think I will go for a lie down now.

― The Real Dirty Vicar, Monday, 22 October 2007 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

(Should I repost the most Momusy ILE post ever here?)

― HI DERE, Monday, 22 October 2007 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

yes!

― grimly fiendish, Monday, 22 October 2007 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

the gansha one? phenomenal.

― Just got offed, Monday, 22 October 2007 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

I'll tell you a funny story. I went to dinner in Japan at the house of a famous TV comedian, Suidobashi Hakase. He's a protege of Takeshi Kitano. It was quite a gathering, with legendary author and tattooed hardman Ishmaru Gensho also present. We tucked into sushi prepared by Hakase's bald manservant.
Hakase had just published a book in which all his friends narrated their early experiences with masturbation. Kitano and Gensho had whole chapters to themselves. In the middle of supper, my girlfriend announced that I was fond of gansha, a more modestly-scaled and intimate version of bukkake. I blushed, but Hakase and Gensho seemed delighted that I had taken the trouble to learn Japanese customs, and from that moment on I felt like they'd accepted me into their club.

Hakase later married Chie, one of the two girls with whom I was living at the time. She had first introduced herself to him with a playful photo of herself dribbling condensed milk from her mouth. Apparently this is quite a common method of flirtation -- a lover I had in Japan that same year produced, on our first date in a cafe in Nakameguro, a portfolio of photos of herself, one of which featured herself in an open white National Standard zip top, with some white substance trickling down her chin onto her breasts.

-- Momus (Momus), Friday, November 7, 2003 4:10 PM (Friday, November 7, 2003 4:10 PM) Bookmark Link

― HI DERE, Monday, 22 October 2007 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

Ban Momus

― Dom Passantino, Monday, 22 October 2007 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

Hakase and Gensho seemed delighted that I had taken the trouble to learn Japanese customs

― will, Monday, 22 October 2007 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

hoo god, that's fucking wonderful. g'aun yersel', momus.

― grimly fiendish, Monday, 22 October 2007 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

So the kind of parlando he uses on his albums is actually gansha rap?

― StanM, Monday, 22 October 2007 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

"like a tranny or momus"

― mei, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 09:01 (nineteen years ago)

If I wasn't this pregnant, I might have gone to Brussels. Not really. But I like to imagine I would have.

So are you attending the gig?

― nathalie, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 09:23 (nineteen years ago)

Just don't stand in the front row in case of involuntary gansha

― Tom D., Tuesday, 23 October 2007 09:27 (nineteen years ago)

Scared by teh Gansha. Think I'll watch it from my appartment window.

― baaderonixx, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 09:54 (nineteen years ago)

and to think we wuz all bothered about Gobbing, back in the day!

― Mark G, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 10:03 (nineteen years ago)

Hi Dere, you are behind the times... that has already been reposted on the Momus Lolz blog.

― The Real Dirty Vicar, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 10:11 (nineteen years ago)

momus never hugged me enough as a child

MAN IT'S NORMALLY THE OPPOSITE PROBLEM AMIRITE

― That mong guy that's shit, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 11:08 (nineteen years ago)

Scared by teh Gansha. Think I'll watch it from my appartment window

make sure to check wind speed and direction before opening the window.

― grimly fiendish, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

WAIT, THERE'S A MOMUS LOLZ BLOG??????

― HI DERE, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

I was going to say!!! Link, please, DV (if yer not kidding, that is)

― Pashmina, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

http://community.livejournal.com/momus_lolz

― Zelda Zonk, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

ok WAU

― HI DERE, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee38/microworlds/unreliable2.jpg

― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

Momus Lolz Blog = so great.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

WE LOVE MOMUS

― Heave Ho, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

max r imagined his own future

― M@tt He1ges0n, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

I can see Momus from my window now. No sign of gansha

― baaderonixx, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

Quite a big crowd of hipsters though

― baaderonixx, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

So there's probably some gansha somewhere, then.

― HI DERE, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

baaderonixx has gone worryingly quiet. i hope there haven't been any unforeseen gansha-related incidents and he's having some kind of emergency eye surgery.

or maybe a badly timed spurt has knocked out his street's broadband.

― grimly fiendish, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 23:13 (nineteen years ago)

omg the blog

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 23:22 (nineteen years ago)

momus -_-

― sleepingbag, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 03:33 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks for the concern. Actually, from my windown I could only see Momus' legs through the front window of the shop he was playing in. Legs were twitching in front of a macbook. No music could be heard from my balcony three floors above.

― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 07:52 (nineteen years ago)

Legs were twitching in front of a macbook

hmmm. but what was twitching above those legs?

― grimly fiendish, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 11:30 (nineteen years ago)

More legs.

― Mark G, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 11:43 (nineteen years ago)

Worst trolling for momus_cock.jpg ever.

― aldo, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 11:49 (nineteen years ago)

has everyone seen the bukake sealion on the Momus Lolz blog yet?

― The Real Dirty Vicar, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 12:14 (nineteen years ago)

I can't decide whether that makes me want to go to the momus lolz blog or not.

― aldo, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 12:15 (nineteen years ago)

checking up my background info on wikipedia:

Nick Currie (born February 11, 1960 in Paisley, Scotland), more popularly known under the artist name Momus (after the Greek god of mockery), is a songwriter, blogger and a journalist for Wired. Most of his songs are self-referential or postmodern.

For more than twenty years he has been releasing, to only marginal commercial and critical success, playful and transgressive albums on labels in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Japan. In his lyrics and his other writing he makes seemingly random use of decontextualized pieces of continental (mostly French) philosophy, and has built up a personal world he says is "dominated by values like diversity, orientalism, and a respect for otherness." He is also known in certain circles outside the U.S. as a producer. He is fascinated by identity, Japan, the avant-garde, time travel and sex.

He wears a patch over his right eye because he lost the use of it after contracting acanthamoeba keratitis from a contact lens case washed with Greek tap water.

― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

from a contact lens case washed with Greek tap water.

I thought it was something to do with a thrift shop in DC, or have I been told LIES?

― Madchen, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

why does that guy momus wear an eye patch?

Check here, there's a link to his blog telling how it happened.

Look just underneath a picture of a very red eye...

― Mark G, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

i thought it was something to do with gan ... oh, sod it, i don't think anyone else is finding this semen-reated tomfoolery quite as amusing as i am.

― grimly fiendish, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 16:04 (nineteen years ago)


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