I was driving with my family today, listening to a compilation CD, when I heard a Morrissey song--"You're the one for me, Fatty. My daughter loves to sing along with this song, and I won't lie and tell you that I don't sing along because I do. Anyway, hearing the song today got me to thinking about Morrissey's popularity--he's a poet, an icon, a subject for college courses, and even big in Mexico. His music is straight forward verse-chorus-verse. His image is upper-class-happy-days. And he tends to sing flat of a song's key. He's the embodiment of thinking England, well-read, and a vegesexual. He taught me how to say Yeats properly. He's indirectly responsible for the James explosion in southern Utah. And he puts on a concert that is truly an experience. But without all of this knowledge, a significant back knowledge of The Smiths, and Craig Kilborn's constant endorsement, I don't know how I would even break into Morrissey's world. It has it's own landscape full of wet sand, cemetaries, Vicars, panic, and murder. It has it's own vernacular, it's own dress code, it's own meat-watchers point system. And it's as polarizing as female circumcision. If you know about it, you have an opinion about it. For me it's a great travel destination when I'm in a certain mood--it definitely takes me back to visit certain places and people--but I don't plan on buying land there anytime soon, especially since I can crash at the Wellzes.
Sunday, November 25, 2007
The World of Morrissey
Posted by vis at 8:14 PM
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Apparently you don't respond to emails. yes I'm interessado in your idea.
Are you a counter example to the proposition that Morrissey has a cult following? I thought that people who like Morrissey, LOVE Morrissey, and everyone else couldn't care less about him.
Only telepathy could've told you that Heather recently introduced me to your clever monthly blog and that I was just waiting to hear a well-written deconstruction of this living legend. And that photo definitely reveals his vegesexual side.
Maybe you should go at least bi-monthly. I think your Prefontaine post might've inspired me to reconsider running.
Traver, cheers to you on several accounts. Way to finally update your blog, and way to recognize Morrissey as a poet. However, your true mastery is slipping in a random "polarizing" statement into a fairly benign subject. Bravo.
Is this Travis? You know I posted this band of the week post....http://ericajensenfamily.blogspot.com/2007/12/band-of-week_10.html...with you in mind. The band reminds me of you & all our other sweet friends.
Heather sent me to your blog. How are you?
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