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tanaiseToday's best quote ever:
What these very helpful, very kind people forgot, however, was that the law "what's not one thing must be t'other," absolutely correct and inviolable as it is, is a law which only applies to stupid people. And journalists.
From an article on Morrissey's sexuality, or lack thereof, up on Salon.com. (it's okay, it's a flash ad for premium today, so just open it the ad and come back to it later.) I didn't listen to morrissey when he first was popular (and, by the dates on the quotes in it, I was 7 at the time, so it's not all that surprising. ;), so this is a really neat article, about stuff I didn't know or never thought about. He basically said, "I don't have sex." and people believed him. Not completely, and they tried to double check and see if he slipped up anywhere, and stuff like that, but overall, they worked from a position believing him, and the article discusses why this worked for him as a selling point. There's some interesting thoughts in it. I really like this article, to the point that it may make up for the whiny author of a few weeks ago. This one has useful quotes, it has lovely writing, and it what it says stays around, and I have this feeling I will end up thinking about it in the future.
"For such people, understandably -- commendably -- determined to get on with their lives and not acknowledge the sadness in it, Morrissey is an unappealing cross between Coleridge's albatross and A.A. Milne's Eeyore the donkey..."
Reminds me of the quote in High Fidelity that says, basically, do we love sad songs because we are sad, or does our love of sad songs make us sad.
I've got almost all of his CDs now--I think I'm missing one of the early ones, and one of the latest ones--though only two of the Smiths, which is something I'll need to correct in time as well. And I love listening to them--really listening to the songs and reducing them to their component parts. I'm not a musical person in that I can't read music or play anything other than Largo on a piano, but I am a very good listener, and one of my favorite discoveries is that if you listen to "There is a Light that Never Goes Out," every instrument in the group, including his voice, plays a different piece of music. And so when you listen very closely to it, you hear all these different songs mixing together, and the overarching beautiful song.
Kirsten, you'd probably enjoy the article not just for its discussion of his sexuality but sexuality in general and in the media. There were some interesting comments made in it. I'm not sure if they're all supported and such, but that doesn't make them less interesting.
I want to marry Morrissey. but that's always been true.
What these very helpful, very kind people forgot, however, was that the law "what's not one thing must be t'other," absolutely correct and inviolable as it is, is a law which only applies to stupid people. And journalists.
From an article on Morrissey's sexuality, or lack thereof, up on Salon.com. (it's okay, it's a flash ad for premium today, so just open it the ad and come back to it later.) I didn't listen to morrissey when he first was popular (and, by the dates on the quotes in it, I was 7 at the time, so it's not all that surprising. ;), so this is a really neat article, about stuff I didn't know or never thought about. He basically said, "I don't have sex." and people believed him. Not completely, and they tried to double check and see if he slipped up anywhere, and stuff like that, but overall, they worked from a position believing him, and the article discusses why this worked for him as a selling point. There's some interesting thoughts in it. I really like this article, to the point that it may make up for the whiny author of a few weeks ago. This one has useful quotes, it has lovely writing, and it what it says stays around, and I have this feeling I will end up thinking about it in the future.
"For such people, understandably -- commendably -- determined to get on with their lives and not acknowledge the sadness in it, Morrissey is an unappealing cross between Coleridge's albatross and A.A. Milne's Eeyore the donkey..."
Reminds me of the quote in High Fidelity that says, basically, do we love sad songs because we are sad, or does our love of sad songs make us sad.
I've got almost all of his CDs now--I think I'm missing one of the early ones, and one of the latest ones--though only two of the Smiths, which is something I'll need to correct in time as well. And I love listening to them--really listening to the songs and reducing them to their component parts. I'm not a musical person in that I can't read music or play anything other than Largo on a piano, but I am a very good listener, and one of my favorite discoveries is that if you listen to "There is a Light that Never Goes Out," every instrument in the group, including his voice, plays a different piece of music. And so when you listen very closely to it, you hear all these different songs mixing together, and the overarching beautiful song.
Kirsten, you'd probably enjoy the article not just for its discussion of his sexuality but sexuality in general and in the media. There were some interesting comments made in it. I'm not sure if they're all supported and such, but that doesn't make them less interesting.
I want to marry Morrissey. but that's always been true.
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Date: 2004-05-01 07:39 am (UTC)A boyfriend will try to hump you. You can break the dog of that habit pretty easily. The boyfriend, not so much.
Seriously, you're attracted to an espoused non-sexual person...
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Date: 2004-05-01 08:30 am (UTC)Morrissey's first solo album was terrific, maintaining that pinnacle, but I quit following after "Kill Uncle" which only had one song I liked: "Driving your Girlfriend Home" (I think). I regret selling it because occasionally I get in the mood for that song.
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Date: 2004-05-01 06:25 pm (UTC)Thanks for mentioning them a while back, 'cause that clued me in to listen for the name, and I finally put two and two together last week when I was listening to Nic Harcourt's Morning Becomes Eclectic and heard Such Great Heights... Then I found the video on Yahoo's music site. Cool!
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Date: 2004-05-01 07:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-04-26 04:38 am (UTC)