Grlfrnd n Coma: I No itz SRS
Not being very active on Livejournal as of late means that I miss out on news, or precisely don't comment on news when it is much too late to mention in today's 27/7 newscycle world.
This means by the time I get around to certain things, they are no longer news.
In fact, maybe the news is that it wasn't supposed to be news at all.
So, I would have certainly jumped on the story that Morrissey joined twitter.
But he didn't.
Even if it was verified by Twitter, and his first tweet "Hello. Testing, 1, 2, 3. Planet Earth, are you there? One can only hope...," sounds like something he would write. Certainly, less subtle than what an impersonator might start with. Given his denial, I kind of think maybe he did join twitter, before thinking better of it.
The shortlived @itsmorrissey seems to bland to be the art of an imposter, though I am sure it has its appeal.
It's 2014, so why Morrissey on twitter seems like the most ridiculous thing in the world, similarly reclusive artists like Prince have even made the move.
of course, Moz is in the news as he has a new album.
Hope springs eternal for diehards like us. His autobiography showed a lot of spark, and each Moz album is looked forward to by us.
Moz spends a lot of his time in his book talking about how the music business sabotaged his career, but unfortunately the new album seems to confirm that Moz is usually his worst enemy.
"World Peace is None of Your Business" is another cumbersome title, and the title single unfortunately is my least favorite type of song- plodding, self-important, mostly humorless, and heading towards the worst kind of lounge music.
Still, with an album full of tunes upcoming next month, no doubt there will be gems, Unfortunately, songs like these tend to serve Moz distractors the kind of ammunition for ridicule they always reach for. There's no reason, Moz could take these dramatic stances but infuse some life into them, the way Marc Almond, Bryan Ferry and the younger generation like Patrick Wolf have and continue to do; but Moz steers into Celine Dion territory.
I don't come here to bury the man. For me, it's Morrissey and then everyone else, but he has always been one step away from self-parody, but he makes a big issue in his book that it wasn't his fault.
So when Moz records minute snippets of new songs in spoken word, it's the kind of thing people make fun of him for.
I don't really have a problem with him hanging around Victrolas as he does in "Istanbul" or tickling the ivories in a bowtie hanging with Nancy Sinatra in the spoken word version of the title track. It's what Falco would have done.
Besides without that outfit, Moz in 2014 resembles Robin Williams more than he does Robbie Williams, so sometimes the simple old time microphone and classic tux is the best look.
Nor do I have a problem with him cavorting with Pam Anderson (cavorting is hardly the word) on the roof of the Capitol Records building.
You just have to comment on that stuff.
This means by the time I get around to certain things, they are no longer news.
In fact, maybe the news is that it wasn't supposed to be news at all.
So, I would have certainly jumped on the story that Morrissey joined twitter.
But he didn't.
Even if it was verified by Twitter, and his first tweet "Hello. Testing, 1, 2, 3. Planet Earth, are you there? One can only hope...," sounds like something he would write. Certainly, less subtle than what an impersonator might start with. Given his denial, I kind of think maybe he did join twitter, before thinking better of it.
The shortlived @itsmorrissey seems to bland to be the art of an imposter, though I am sure it has its appeal.
It's 2014, so why Morrissey on twitter seems like the most ridiculous thing in the world, similarly reclusive artists like Prince have even made the move.
of course, Moz is in the news as he has a new album.
Hope springs eternal for diehards like us. His autobiography showed a lot of spark, and each Moz album is looked forward to by us.
Moz spends a lot of his time in his book talking about how the music business sabotaged his career, but unfortunately the new album seems to confirm that Moz is usually his worst enemy.
"World Peace is None of Your Business" is another cumbersome title, and the title single unfortunately is my least favorite type of song- plodding, self-important, mostly humorless, and heading towards the worst kind of lounge music.
Still, with an album full of tunes upcoming next month, no doubt there will be gems, Unfortunately, songs like these tend to serve Moz distractors the kind of ammunition for ridicule they always reach for. There's no reason, Moz could take these dramatic stances but infuse some life into them, the way Marc Almond, Bryan Ferry and the younger generation like Patrick Wolf have and continue to do; but Moz steers into Celine Dion territory.
I don't come here to bury the man. For me, it's Morrissey and then everyone else, but he has always been one step away from self-parody, but he makes a big issue in his book that it wasn't his fault.
So when Moz records minute snippets of new songs in spoken word, it's the kind of thing people make fun of him for.
I don't really have a problem with him hanging around Victrolas as he does in "Istanbul" or tickling the ivories in a bowtie hanging with Nancy Sinatra in the spoken word version of the title track. It's what Falco would have done.
Besides without that outfit, Moz in 2014 resembles Robin Williams more than he does Robbie Williams, so sometimes the simple old time microphone and classic tux is the best look.
Nor do I have a problem with him cavorting with Pam Anderson (cavorting is hardly the word) on the roof of the Capitol Records building.
You just have to comment on that stuff.
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