From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V19 #100 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Sunday, October 9 2011 Volume 19 : Number 100 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: How do you work this thing? [lep ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2011 02:44:46 -0400 From: lep Subject: Re: How do you work this thing? Miles Goosens says: > On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 9:23 PM, 2fs wrote: >> On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 8:33 PM, Rex Broome wrote: >>> Uh - except for "Meat Is Murder" (the song) - which really is unbearably >> preachy - I think you're taking him too seriously - assuming his words are >> literal, or only literal. >> >> I take his lyrics much more in a sort of ironic, Wildean mode..."here's the >> sort of thing this character might say..." - even though, true, probably he >> was recognizing tendencies of that sort in himself at the same time...and >> also at the same time, exhibiting that typically British rock-star egotism >> that seems almost required - yr Ian McCulloch "I'm the best singer in the >> best band ever" type of thing... > > And, at the same time, writing great self-effacing songs like "The > Queen Is Dead" and "Bigmouth Strikes Again." Morrissey hasn't taken > himself that seriously since MEAT IS MURDER (and "Meat Is Murder"); it > amazes me how his most slavish fans and most ardent detractors still > do. First, dear lord, "Meat is Murder" (the song) bugs me. But, for me, Morrisey is almost always a riot. I think he gets away with being simultaneously dreadfully sincere, and, at the same time, a riot. I think he knows just who he is, even when he's having a piss. The song that epitomizes Morrisey for me is "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now" -- it's only funny because it's so stupidly true. And, personally, it never bothered me that Morrisey is a fucking snob - -- it only bothered me that his fans might be. But if he's a snob, he's got a sense of humor about it -- I mean, Wilde is buried in Paris, Yeats in Ireland, and Keats in Italy. I regret that I've judged bands on things other than their music. But, I was once a bit of a young snob (now I'm just a bit of a snob.) (I equate this habit with my friend Ty's habit of refusing to listen to a band he hasn't heart that just made the cover of Rolling Stone. A reaction in void is still a reaction.) as ever, Lauren P.S. The internet has *everything*: http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/index.html - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V19 #100 ********************************