or like hungry man at smorgasbord, stuffing plate.

Valentines Day today! All teenager fans, send Mr Momus pretty bling valentine love pics! Show Yr Luv! Good for Mr Momus Ego! Less Fillers!

Quick question:

When in Tokyo, did you have a manager or did you ever manage to manage yourself ?


Alex P.

Nicks always managed himself, Alex, and he does an exceptional job. What are you trying to say here?

Judd

Happy Valentines Momus! You had some pretty girl over last night. You look so happy in that photo.

Happy Valentines Nick and Hisae. Have a little break away from the crowd and the knitting, just the two of you.

Jed

some old italian guy was just telling me what a horrible person nico was , after i explained my love for her beautiful ghost- like voice. she looks well sexy in photos, but he informed me of her haterd for dark skinned folks and a love for musolinni.shame. But artist we like and cherish dont really need to be our best friends..the best ones tend to be fuck up mentalists , its kinda more interesting..

a love for musolinni

Well, as long as she didn't love Mussolini, I'm okay with it. The important thing is that she never did anything as pretentiously awful as Madonna's new film sounds to be.

We say here first. Madonna will go down in history as being a worse filmmaker than Mussolini.

Even on Filler Day. So profound.

that maradonna film sounds ace...

"[Madonna] has made a movie so incredibly bad that Berlin festivalgoers were staggering around yesterday in a state of clinical shock, deathly pale and mewing like maltreated kittens."

http://film.guardian.co.uk/festivals/news/0,,2256320,00.html

that's bullshit...she hung around lots of Middle Eastern people and loved Miles Davis.
I'm sure plenty of people have reason to want to misremember her out of jealousy for her radiance.

Shephards Pie! POST that recipe!

Like the evening's entertainment, the evening's cuisine came from the internet. This recipe, in fact, from Cookpad, Japan's biggest recipe website.

What did we do before youtube? A long time ago (lets imagine ourselves in period drama gear), we sat around and listened, after diner, to the sweet melodies coming from a young girl playing the piano in the music room. Oh Momus you have combined the old and the new so well.

For that i salute you.

wewillbecome.com

Why dont you BECOME? Stop sitting on fence.

Not sure whether this is old news (I don't read comments here every single day)

From last Friday's Holy Moly (British, bitchy and sarcastic celebrity gossip website and e-mail) mailout:-

Justin Currie from Del Amitri (Nineties Scottish band specialising in hypnotising the world to sleep via the power of dreary folk) quite often goes to Optimo at The Arches in Glasgow. A regular loves it when Currie turns up as it gives him the opportunity to run up to him wide-eyed and excited and go "Hey! Aren't you... Momus's cousin??" (he is, apparently Momus is an oddball Scottish journalist and songwriter, although it sounds more like some sort of chemical to us). Apparently Currie falls for this every single time and gets well hacked off.

I used to feel inclined to dismiss everything I read on there as tripe, not so sure I should be so cynical now!

His narration reminds me of the narration in Trainspotting, although I didn't have to have subtitles to understand him like in the movie.

(Justin will always remain your cousin and not the other way around in my eyes. He's too whiny for me, with a look like he's always pissed off. At least you smile every once in a while!)

It interests me that Nico spent some time living in Edinburgh's New Town in the early to mid 1980s or so some of my older junkie Lou Reed loving friends used to tell me. Maybe it was when Auld Reekie was the heroin Capital of Europe.
Maybe it was someone who looked like her or had the same name. I can just imagine some dark centre roaming wraith like in and out of subdued lighting gouch flats and people saying, "Mmmm. Was that Nico?"
Just been watching Cicatrice and Le Berceau de Cristal. Her crying at the beginning of Cicatrice is quite demanding. I cannot imagine enduring it in a 1970s arthouse cinema.

Here's a nice "new" Nico song to me at least.

None of the vids work

Edited at 2008-02-14 02:55 pm (UTC)

They all work for me... maybe it's a problem with your browser's Flash capabilities? Can you normally view embedded YouTube videos?

You're right. I searched for the vids on youtube and can watch them just fine. It's only embedded. Sorry.

Yay, Nico!

Better yet, Nico and the Iggy Pop monkey run!

she probably liked scotland for its lack of dark people and small minded inbreeds

Momus >:(
stop trolling yourself.

Okej, seriously, thank you for showcasing Nico.
She's pretty much one of the best things ever, and I must see La Cicatrice. I don't care if Garrell is trying to have the DVD release blocked...
Man, her voice is like a tired yet eternally watchful mother of the apocalypse...A female Scott Walker.
I tremble.

"Nothing can stop the free exchange of idle speculation."

What I love about YouTube and the internet in general is that it is truly interactive. I'm reminded of what Godard said about video in the seventies. That video is more like the human body - it has an input and an output.

I'm also glad that the word tube is living on, now that the nineteenth century technology of the cathode ray tube is being phased out. A glass tube filled with magic (toxic) gas that pulled in sounds and images from the air. A beautiful thing.

I'd like to say that it was on this day in 1979 that a certain someone that Momus can't mention in song anymore had declared that he was was now a women and wanted to be referred as that from then on.

Maybe we can call this day.. Happy PostOP Day. :)

appeared somewhat randomly when I searched for Momus in YouTube....and I wondered what does this have to do with Momus?? After watching it for a few minutes, I still had no idea...and then magically, half way through - I'm just not sure it gets better than this. Every byte of this video is awe inspiring on so many different levels!

the last sentence made me wonder what you'd think of i'm not there the new todd haynes bob dylan movie.

word, the folk tube is an epic and endless process of digestion and redistribution of cultural capital. it's a fantasy coming more true every second! everything is outsider art!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey there momus, happy V-day.

Just curious, you mentioned Nico's harmonium phase (which I love too, being both a fan of the harmonium and of the woman herself). What's your take on Chelsea Girl (the album)? Despite knowing the fact that she herself was unhappy with it, and wrote only a couple of the songs, I still can't help but love that album if only for fact that it appears to be incredibly influential in today's chamber pop.

I'm horrible at making commentary about music, but I'd love to hear your thoughts. =P

..loved that portapak song! great music, interesting arrangement, nice twists in the lyrics - why was it 'lost' in the first place?
as I have a number of portapaks I might make an improv video for it myself using my old analogue skip finds.

Well, in about 1997 I planned an EP called "Sports Pierrot" with LGM, my US label. "Hippy Analog..." was going to be the lead cut. But then we gave the track to some compilation or other and scrapped the EP for lack of funds, I think. The song never really fitted any of the albums after that -- it's a bit grungey -- so it got lost. A new video with pictures of portapaks would be cool!

...job done!
now I just need a way of getting it you you. I aim to be in Berlin early July - funds permitting-to do sound work with Rinus. Failing that we'll find another way.

Last night was indeed an enchanted evening I was up until 4am watching momus vids. I love the Hang Low performance. And Spooky Kabuki too.

Did you know that Jackson Browne dated Nico when he was 16. And that he wrote "these days" for her. Talk about leading a charmed life.

cunt_vrnsky

Moamos (http://www.oamos.com/)

i actually have a dvd copy of the movie here with me right now, rented from the AGB at hallesches tor. i will be returning it in about a week, fyi...