Momus is brilliant.
He was a musician I was somewhat fascinated with in the 90s, and I just discovered today that he’s keeping a daily blog that’s pretty damn great. In today’s post he drops some wisdom about the cyclicity of cultural aesthetics. Nothing terribly groundbreaking, but I do love the phrase “the anxious echo.” Definitely worth a read.
He’s also prescient, having anticipated the current twitter reputation economy of information promiscuity in his 1997 song, “Age of Information“:
Ladies and gentlemen, we are now entering
The age of information
It’s perfectly safe
If we all take a few basic precautions
May I make some observations?Axiom 1 for the world we’ve begun:
Your reputation used to depend on
What you concealed
Now it depends on what you reveal…
Somebody is prying through your files, probably
Somebody’s hand is in your tin of Netscape magic cookies
But relax: if you’re an interesting person
Morally good in your acts
You have nothing to fear from facts
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Amber Case
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Tony Zito