Momus - Greatest Hits

Image: Staffan Millqvist (comentary) (big size) (momus-tintin)

This page is dedicated to pick the best of Momus as a blogger.

Momus is a pop singer that keeps a diary in livejournal. He also writes for Wired and Design Observer and has a Web Page with very good old material. It is incredible how he's able, every day, to write and describe with pictures so many interesting things, and that he has also time to live all those experiences he speaks about. A friend of mine has the theory that he cannot be one single man, that he is a collective. But the evidences of the blog speak all against that theory. My friend was even able to see him in concert, that means Momus, at least, is real.

I was happy to find this page linked in this Momus's interview by Neil Scott, another reader of Momus. I have here mainly posts from novembrer 2004 until june 2005, the period from when I began reading until I found I was reading it too much, but I'll try to update it soon. If you read a post and find it to be one of the best, write to me at: alemartin (at) gmail.com or post it as a commentary in my blog.

Other people use delicious to select their favorite momus' texts: Spike, City of sound (who also wrote this).

NEW CLASSICS

Guilty pleasures (17/02/2005)

Definition of moronic cynicism (14/07/2005)

Oyster Pearl - Mating in captivity (08/10/2006)

Postcard from Madrid (17/12/2006)

Ample for man? (Ampelman) (09/09/2006)

Money makes free (06/09/2006)

Notes on Potus - Typography politics (20/07/2006)

Inner bitch, meet inner bastard! (29/11/2006)

THE BEST OF THE BEST

Depiction of cultural icons

Clumsy grace (11/11/2004) From a Bowie's video Momus' definition of beauty

Uma in Seoul (20/03/2005) Reflection about icons

John Peel died yesterday (27/08/2004) Obituary of the most important english radio dj

The king of yet-also (13/03/2005) Michael Jackson has never been properly understood, until yet.

Saul Bellow (06/04/2005) Beautiful obituary of his favorite writer

POLEMICS

Momus "aplicates" his philosphy to hot actual themes. Gets a lot of reactions.

Exit this Roman shell (03/11/2004) In reaction to Bush's winning Momus invites all americans to leave their country

--------- The falcon cannot hear the falconer (04/11/2004) ETRS Part II.

--------- Vote with your feet (04/05/2005) Months later, and some elections away, ETRS Part III.

Body Week 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 , 7 (12/2004) Writing, having sex, acting, japanese, performances, the ego, aging

Girlish boy (26/05/2005) Momus' feminism

Nipposexual 1, 2, 3 (04/06/2005) Momus elaborates his fetichism about japanese girls in complicated philosophical arguments about difference.

POSTMODERNISM FOR BEGINNERS

Text vs texture: in his words words loose

The whole play minus the plot equals the whole play (20/02/2005) Japan's theater Kabuki

Writing and no pictures (30/05/2005) Politics, art and sex, all in one.

Naming and shaming (08/12/2004) Thinking about words and looks

Derrida and Jelinek (10/10/2004) Explosive coincidence brings ocasion to postmodern reflection

Death, rebirth and transfiguration of Norman Rockwell (26/11/2004) Descriptions: text vs images

Post-literary (24/11/2004) He wanted to be a writer, became a musician, became a blogger

Notes on production, reproduction (15/11/2005) Sound and music, natural and artificial

Computers thinking tenderly about paper (15/03/2005) When the technology goes so far away it gets back to the past.

----------- Please enjoy past-shape future with tradicombo (16/03/2005) When the technology goes so far away it gets back to the past. part II

Momus' humanism

The Specular Self (07/11/2004) Postmodern manifesto

Anthro-apologist (12/11/2004) Momus' philosophy of culture

The uncanny valley (12/10/2004) ¿How strange has to be a man to be a monster? Reflections on anthropomorphism

MOMUS BY MOMUS

I hate Japan (01/04/2005) April fool joke about his most famous obsession: Japan.

It's Yoko Ono's notbirthday (11/02/2005) Momus' birthday

Emotional communist (23/03/2005) The ultra-ironist lets himself beeing naive, and receives a lot of discussion

Strach a satirist, find a moralist (12/02/2005) The ethics of the ironic (ironie of the etics)

Beuys and ping pong (14/02/2005)

My first office (19/01/2005) Momus in a cage of crystal thinking about work

My life in computers (25/11/2004) Tecno-biography

Ten years of Beck (22/11/2004) Beck appears to be Momus' nemesis

MULTIMEDIA

Noboribetsu TV (31/01/2005) Momus docu-diary video in Japan