Morrissey's 43rd birthday, May 22 2002
posted by davidt on Tuesday May 21 2002, @11:00PM

Brutalful writes:

...Out magazine's back page contains a horoscope section with a big caricature of Moz. Here was his horoscope.

GEMINI: "I refuse to recognise the terms Hetero-, Bi-, and Homosexual. Everybody has exactly the same sexual needs. People are just sexual, the prefix is immaterial." states Steven Patrick Morrissey.

Like most Gemini's, music icon Morrissey (May 22, 1959) possesses an energetic dual nature and an agile mind. With his Mars and Venus in Cancer, he's sensitive and emotional, especially since he was born during a full moon. Mercury in Taurus makes him practical until Uranus fuels his edgy stage persona he uses so well. Since his Venus opposes Saturn, he can't always control his world, so he seeks out things he can - like flowers and his feminine side. His contradictory nature manifests itself in unusual viewpoints; his music is an oxymoron of lyrical morbidity. Because of his Cancer planets, he actually enjoys his huge cult following. Like the doomed romantics of his music, Morrissey wants to be needed.

 
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    Happy Birthday Morrissey! (Score:1)
    Salute My Love!!

    May your birthday be filled with many laughs and many expensive gifts!!
    and
    A Whole lot of Love From your
    Fans!!

    xoxo
    mozluv -- Tuesday May 21 2002, @11:44PM (#30217)
    (User #973 Info)
    "guilt by implication by association"
      Beyond Love . . . (Score:0)
      You know the tale Steven... Of how you took this child, and you made him grow, you made him grow. Beyond thank you, Beyond Loving You, I will always be in your debt. God bless you Steven! Happy Birthday.
      Anonymous -- Tuesday May 21 2002, @11:45PM (#30218)
        Happy birthdays always..... (Score:1)
        This year and many more years hopefully.... hope you're happy and continue to love and learn. I note that my interest in you is slightly fading, I don't know how long it'll take but maybe there'll be a day when your words and music won't speak to me at all anymore.... but nevertheless, I'll forever be thankful for the lessons you've taught me while it lasted.

        You're a very special person.

        Love,
        Miriam/Mimi/Mozzarella
        Mozzarella -- Wednesday May 22 2002, @12:00AM (#30219)
        (User #864 Info | http://www.bozboorer.com/ )
        If I wasn't a cat, I'd be a girl.
        Happy Birthday Dearest! (Score:1)
        Best wishes and warmest thoughts. Hope you have a special one and many more. The sky is the limit and you deserve much more! I wish upon you love, happiness and peace, since you have done the same for many others (especially myself). Happy Birthday great one!!
        Lots of love,
        Rosie
        mozhoney -- Wednesday May 22 2002, @12:18AM (#30225)
        (User #1229 Info)
          Happy birthday! (Score:1)
          Morrissey, I wish you a very *happy* birthday, that this time you'll have what you want :) (success in your private life, love, in your professional life as well, everything you want for yourself) :))))
          Havfine -- Wednesday May 22 2002, @01:14AM (#30229)
          (User #284 Info)
          "Have you forgotten how to love yourself?" Red House Painters
            Happy Birthday Morrissey! (Score:1)
            You are loved by your fans more than Celine Dion could ever say.

            Have a pleasant day!
            Squirrelhead <Squirrelhead2304@hotmail.com> -- Wednesday May 22 2002, @01:23AM (#30231)
            (User #2304 Info)
            "Great minds against themselves conspire and shun the cure they most desire"
              Happy Birthday, my old friend ;) (Score:1)
              Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. (Franz Kafka)

              Congratulations, Stephen,

              Vincent (Belgium)
              Vincent <alf2nd@yahoo.com> -- Wednesday May 22 2002, @01:29AM (#30232)
              (User #1110 Info | http://www.theworldwilllisten.be/ )
              Don't rake up my mistakes, I know exactly what they are!
              happy birthday (Score:1)
              happy birthday, with all my love.

              maribel
              ladymoz -- Wednesday May 22 2002, @02:13AM (#30238)
              (User #154 Info | http://www.flickr.com/photos/loveisblindness )
                what a lovely day for a birthday (Score:1)
                A Little Morrissey goes a long long way
                More than forty long years to this day

                And now he's coming back to us. How wonderful.
                austere -- Wednesday May 22 2002, @02:16AM (#30240)
                (User #103 Info)
                  happy birthday steven (Score:1)
                  your words and your voice means more to me than i could ever express. you have given me so much, and i want to thank you from the bottom of my heart and soul and tell you that you will always be very, very special to me. in my eyes, no other singer/songwriter can even come close to your talent, and no-one ever will.

                  thank you, and happy birthday.

                  tania
                  Natasha <moonstick@postmaster.co.uk> -- Wednesday May 22 2002, @02:19AM (#30241)
                  (User #2836 Info | http://uk.geocities.com/tania_bunbury/index.html )
                  i am repressed, but i'm remarkably dressed
                    horoscopes... (Score:0)
                    Dear Jim,

                    My anus fuels my edgy stage persona.

                    Sincerely,

                    Ozzy

                    Moz, a very happy birthday to you from the Jungle.
                    Jim Rome -- Wednesday May 22 2002, @02:21AM (#30242)
                    (User #720 Info | http://www.jimrome.com/ )
                    ...and how?
                      i've come to wish you a happy birthday (Score:1)
                      may the next year be full of record contracts, succesful singles, very many tour dates( east coast!!!) and maybe some happiness too...

                      love always
                              -seth
                      seth-willnevermarry -- Wednesday May 22 2002, @03:11AM (#30245)
                      (User #551 Info | http://myspace.com/sethxrulz )
                      "I'm OK by myself""
                        no cliches, please.... (Score:1)
                        happy birthday, sweetness...

                        we love you!!!

                        xoxoxo
                        KarlaAnne -- Wednesday May 22 2002, @04:01AM (#30248)
                        (User #949 Info | http://karlaanne.livejournal.com/ )
                          drink, drink, drink and be ill tonight! (Score:1)
                          Dear Morrissey,
                          The message is the same as usual: thank you for all these years (I can't believe it's been 17 years since I bought my first Smiths album!) of music and poetry.
                          I hope you can enjoy your b-day in your "own sick way", staying in bed all day or going out for a couple of Corona's with your friends (ahhhh! dirty old Moz! you and those lucky girls who are always with you ;-) )
                          Please, stay true to you and don't stop at nothing when it comes to being happy... you know that deserve it more than any other human being in the whole world, don't you?
                          LOVE xxx
                          c h a r l e s
                          p.s.: having a pint (pints?) of Newcastle's in your honour this afternoon with my two "very special friends". want to join us?
                          charles byron <{boy_afraid} {at} {hotmail.com}> -- Wednesday May 22 2002, @04:02AM (#30249)
                          (User #49 Info)
                          life without my sweetheart is only half a life
                            Happy birthday to you (Score:1)
                            Thanks for all the music over the years, have a happy 43rd birthday!
                            panicofficer -- Wednesday May 22 2002, @05:11AM (#30254)
                            (User #4276 Info)
                              gurlracer76 (Score:0)
                              you know who this is. so what happened to MOZ SICK anyhow? well, happy birthday... steven.
                              Anonymous -- Wednesday May 22 2002, @05:38AM (#30257)
                                Love and Thanks (Score:1)
                                Morrissey,

                                Thank~you for having such a huggable aura!

                                Happy Birthday,
                                haze <gallondrunk@hotmail.com> -- Wednesday May 22 2002, @05:59AM (#30265)
                                (User #1115 Info)
                                myspace.com/deathwrites
                                  Drink on it tonight, but, please don't be ill. (Score:1)
                                  Happy Birthday, Morrissey.
                                  22nd May, a sacred date. How empty life would have been without it. Thank you for all those years of standing by me and understanding. They will never be forgotten.
                                  I still love you like I used to.

                                  Love always.

                                  Jomo
                                  Spineless Swine <kingbeer@morrissey.zzn.com> -- Wednesday May 22 2002, @06:29AM (#30269)
                                  (User #4968 Info)
                                  Leave your future behind you.
                                    What I really want to know is.... (Score:1)
                                    will you be writing me something on my birthday?

                                    Anyway, happy birthday, Morrrissey
                                    Mr_Biffo -- Wednesday May 22 2002, @06:33AM (#30270)
                                    (User #2843 Info)
                                    "Lies are no comfort when there are tears in your eyes"
                                      Happy birthday (Score:1)

                                      "But there was one that found me,

                                      That wept to see me weep,

                                      And had his arm around me,

                                      And gave me words to keep."

                                      - Dorothy Parker

                                      I hope you know how much the words mean to all of us. Happy birthday.

                                      Ms. Moneypenny <dorothy_parker9@yahoo.com> -- Wednesday May 22 2002, @06:50AM (#30272)
                                      (User #1219 Info)
                                      Four be the things I'd have been better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt.
                                        If I see You and I tell you how I've watched you.. (Score:1)
                                        Thank you for making my last 12 years a poetic experience..........

                                        Forever in your debt........
                                        JezNMoz <jezsoprano@hotmail.com>> -- Wednesday May 22 2002, @06:54AM (#30273)
                                        (User #4406 Info)
                                        "Don't rack up my mistakes, I know exactly what they are"
                                          You're still the best! (Score:1)
                                          I'm still finding great joy and meaning in all your songs, regardless of how many years have passed in this sick universe. I'm still laughing, yelling and signing along with you Morrissey, and always will be!

                                          Whether you release 100 more albums or none at all, your STILL the best.

                                          From one Gemini to another, HAPPY BIRTHDAY my friend.

                                          Oh so kindly,
                                          Montreal's lone fan, DeB of the Bru Crew
                                          Maplefreak -- Wednesday May 22 2002, @06:58AM (#30274)
                                          (User #1234 Info)
                                          And the songs we sing, they're not supposed to mean a thing...
                                          Happy B-Day Moz- You've Earned It, Baby (Score:1)
                                          From one Gemini to another: cheers!

                                          Jay "Mud"
                                          Mud <{jaytando} {at} {hotmail.com}> -- Wednesday May 22 2002, @06:59AM (#30275)
                                          (User #454 Info | http://jaytando.tripod.com/meeting-morrissey/ )
                                          I'm really just Some Totally Random Moz Fan
                                            We Love You Moz (Score:1)
                                            Just wanted to wish you a WONDERFUL DAY today and and even better year to come!!

                                            Happy Birthday to you!!

                                            Love,
                                            Melina

                                            P.S. PLEASE come to Pittburgh soon!! We need you here!!
                                            clarisse -- Wednesday May 22 2002, @07:04AM (#30276)
                                            (User #3566 Info)
                                              We love you famously.... (Score:0)
                                              Happy birthday morrissey. You are a wonderful man even though we may not know you personaly...we respect you. Thank you for the many years of beutiful music and the future years to come.

                                              love,
                                              girls in a coma
                                              Anonymous -- Wednesday May 22 2002, @07:09AM (#30277)
                                                Happy birthday (Score:0)
                                                to be here is not enough, but I am.
                                                to love you is not enough, but I do.

                                                Happy Birthday and thank you for everything!

                                                love always/ L.
                                                Anonymous -- Wednesday May 22 2002, @07:22AM (#30278)
                                                  best wishes to you morrissey.... (Score:1)
                                                  here's to good beer, good times and a football kit for your birthday.

                                                  Cheers,
                                                  state of emergency -- Wednesday May 22 2002, @07:36AM (#30279)
                                                  (User #837 Info)
                                                  "others conquered love, but i ran..."
                                                    Happy 43rd! (Score:0)
                                                    Wishing you all the best on your birthday. If I could blow out birthday candles today and make a wish, I would wish that you would tour the U.S. soon.

                                                    All my best,

                                                    Anais
                                                    Anonymous -- Wednesday May 22 2002, @07:43AM (#30280)
                                                      Happy birthday! (Score:1)
                                                      The best of the best today and always
                                                      with all my love.
                                                      lk -- Wednesday May 22 2002, @07:52AM (#30281)
                                                      (User #920 Info)
                                                        Three songs in reverence (Score:0)

                                                        Three songs from other people which I'd dedicate to the Man:
                                                        "My Sweet Lord"
                                                        "To Sir, with Love"
                                                        "I Wanna be just like You"

                                                        Happy Birthday, Steven Patrick Morrissey. Thanks forever.
                                                        Anonymous -- Wednesday May 22 2002, @07:57AM (#30283)
                                                          Happy Birthday Morrissey (Score:1)
                                                          I wish you the happiest of birthdays and i hope all your wishes come true today. it's your day morrissey, live it to the fullest.
                                                          ashley.
                                                          morrisseylovr -- Wednesday May 22 2002, @08:09AM (#30284)
                                                          (User #3759 Info)
                                                          Ashley
                                                            Birthday Boy=) (Score:0)
                                                            Happiest of birthdays to you my dear moz. You have been the greatest inspiration to so many people. Your music has touched everyone of us......Everyone here luvs you to death, and can't wait to see you soon in concert=)

                                                            Luv, Judy...=)
                                                            Anonymous -- Wednesday May 22 2002, @08:11AM (#30286)
                                                              Happy Birthday, Moz! (Score:1)
                                                              Happy Birthday, Moz!
                                                              Thanks for everything, your songs are the soundtrack of my life!
                                                              We hope to see You touring and new album too, if we are lucky... :-)
                                                              It is great to have You on our side... :-)
                                                              Fox in the Snow -- Wednesday May 22 2002, @08:34AM (#30289)
                                                              (User #4967 Info)
                                                                Happy Birthday! (Score:1)
                                                                I hope you have a wonderful day.
                                                                SleepTheClockAround -- Wednesday May 22 2002, @08:43AM (#30291)
                                                                (User #3329 Info)
                                                                  Morrissey! (Score:1)
                                                                  Oh, it's come around again, huh? :)

                                                                  Look, if I knew more about your birth chart, I could have done a MUCH better job than that magazine, but...

                                                                  Anyway, hope you have a great day because you, of course, deserve it. Thanks for the many years of great music. I'll cherish your words forever.

                                                                  Take care, and since you're touring, I hope to see you sometime in the future.

                                                                  Love,
                                                                  Hand In Glove
                                                                  hand in glove -- Wednesday May 22 2002, @08:44AM (#30292)
                                                                  (User #827 Info)
                                                                  Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. - William Blake
                                                                    Morrissey is gay (Score:0)
                                                                    Morrissey is gay
                                                                    Anonymous -- Wednesday May 22 2002, @08:45AM (#30293)
                                                                    deuce deuce (Score:1)
                                                                    the number 22 has always been ironically special to me. it was my jersey number in high school through college. my first heartbreak which prompted me to listen to your music occured on the 22nd. i placed my whole bet on number 22 playing roulette in vegas and won. today is the day my beautiful nephew was born 5 years ago. and of course it's the blessed day in which you were delivered onto us.
                                                                    thank you for the music, the memories, and the manifestation of genius.
                                                                    happy birthday, sonny!!
                                                                    Mozzeybite -- Wednesday May 22 2002, @09:07AM (#30299)
                                                                    (User #3695 Info)
                                                                    • Re:deuce deuce by hand in glove (Score:1) Wednesday May 22 2002, @09:10AM
                                                                      • Re:deuce deuce by Mozzeybite (Score:1) Wednesday May 22 2002, @09:27AM
                                                                      over the years, we all carry on (Score:1)
                                                                      it was eighteen years ago on my fourteenth b-day that my sister gave me my first smiths album and everything changed that day. you opened my young eyes to so many things over the years, and have brought me so much joy that a million thank you's would never suffice. i hope you have a wonderful birthday and a great year. keep doing what you do best and stay charming. if you never make another record or sing another note, i will always be a fan regardless. all my love, gregory
                                                                      VIVAMOZ <greenshagfloor@yahoo.com> -- Wednesday May 22 2002, @09:11AM (#30302)
                                                                      (User #184 Info | http://www.cato.org/ )
                                                                      blame me! i didn't vote!
                                                                        Happy Birthday Buddy (Score:1)
                                                                        Dear friend, I hope your birthday goes well and if for but one moment remember those of us that love you. On a side note...Thank you for all your words and putting your lyrical arm around me...especially in my rough times...these are the days I thanked you and hated you most. You knew.
                                                                        The Hern -- Wednesday May 22 2002, @09:11AM (#30303)
                                                                        (User #2911 Info | http://www.thehern.cc )
                                                                          I love you Morrissey (Score:1)
                                                                          There are no words that express what you mean to me.I love you!
                                                                          Wilde about the Moz -- Wednesday May 22 2002, @09:16AM (#30308)
                                                                          (User #135 Info)
                                                                            happy birthday my love (Score:0)
                                                                            with all my heart

                                                                            anne*
                                                                            Anonymous -- Wednesday May 22 2002, @09:32AM (#30311)
                                                                              Happy birthday. (Score:0)
                                                                              Thankyou for the music. The inspiration, the hope, the comfort it has provided me have been unparallelled. Love always.
                                                                              Anonymous -- Wednesday May 22 2002, @09:42AM (#30312)
                                                                                Best Wishes! (Score:0)
                                                                                Happy birthday Mr.Morrissey!
                                                                                ilovemoz -- Wednesday May 22 2002, @09:52AM (#30314)
                                                                                (User #1720 Info)
                                                                                "Rejection is one thing, but rejection from a fool is cruel"
                                                                                  The main man (Score:1)
                                                                                  Happy birthday! Sir Steven of moz........I do love you!
                                                                                  FRED UP -- Wednesday May 22 2002, @10:03AM (#30316)
                                                                                  (User #3917 Info)
                                                                                    Happy Birthday (Score:1)
                                                                                    Dear Morrissey,
                                                                                    From where I was standing, probably five or six people back with my arms on the shoulders of my friend in front of me, something truly extraordinary had happened. It had been a wonderful show with high energy and high spirits and a truly surprising setlist. I think I felt for the first time that our love for you was recipricated; you were rewarding your fans with a setlist of rarities and odds and ends, Smiths songs, b-sides, something for everyone.
                                                                                    But the last song is where it all overflowed. It started off with a drum fill too grand to be serious but too solemn to be anything but. When the music kicked in there was a momentary pause of confusion from the audience before you opened your mouth and sang the words. “Last night I dreamt...” And that was the end; the crowd went berserk. Two people on either side of me screamed like I’ve never heard anyone scream. A young lady on my left burst into tears and cried “NO, Morrissey! NO!” A surge carried us five or ten feet in one direction and then the other. It was all I could do to stay standing. The song went on, and remarkably, the emotion didn’t decrease; rather, people became more frantic, the outpouring of emotion even more raw, the screams louder. I was laughing verging on crying from the scene. It was as if, after years of listening to this song with a full heart, just barely unable to give in and break down, the audience was releasing every pent up emotion, all the heartbreak we never express, in one awful moment.
                                                                                    And then it all broke down. It seemed the audience said, “No, you will NOT toy with our emotions this way. Our collective adolescence (however long ago by now) will NOT be summarized and trivialized by making it just another song in a set,” and it, we, proceeded to assert ourselves. You stumbled offstage wearing three or four audience members like tattered clothes. One down, four to go. In your absence we turned on the band. We wouldn’t let them finish the song. I remember someone actually going up to Boz and putting his hands over the strings of his guitar to silence them. It was beautiful. The band stormed offstage, obviously really angry at what had just happened. Some guitarist or other stomped back on to berate us. We laughed at him. He obviously had no idea what had just happened and maybe you didn’t either, which is why I’m writing to tell you. They’re songs, maybe even children to you, but they’re so much more to us. They are our history, summarizing our entire lives, all our failures and triumphs (mostly failures), the wistfull moments and the darkest. And most cruelly, they summarize all these emotions much more clearly and succinctly than we ever could ourselves- THAT’S the most painful part. For that reason, we needed to assert ourselves in that moment, to momentarily claim these songs as our own, and show you the faces in the faceless crowd, the bitterness and pain hidden in our admiration of you.
                                                                                    Happy birthday, Morrissey. We love you more than you’ll ever know.
                                                                                    jypu -- Wednesday May 22 2002, @10:15AM (#30318)
                                                                                    (User #348 Info)
                                                                                    • Re:Happy Birthday by Mozzeybite (Score:1) Wednesday May 22 2002, @11:26AM
                                                                                      • wow by 18th pale descendant (Score:1) Thursday May 23 2002, @03:59PM
                                                                                        untouchable (Score:1)
                                                                                        Happiest of birthdays sir:
                                                                                        Although you will never read this , it is important to me that it be said.
                                                                                        Your words and persona have shaped the person that I am, and that kind of influence is untouchable.
                                                                                        The years that your music graced my life were so formative that the effect can not be minimized by time or space.
                                                                                        Be charming, be old, be no one if it suits you.You will always be wonderful to me.

                                                                                        loving as ever,
                                                                                        Derek
                                                                                        H. Devil <Judibraddy@aol.com> -- Wednesday May 22 2002, @10:36AM (#30324)
                                                                                        (User #4789 Info)
                                                                                        Wickedness is a myth created by good people to describe the curious attractiveness of others- O. Wilde
                                                                                          as always... (Score:0)
                                                                                          and onward, happy birthday and thank you.
                                                                                          Anonymous -- Wednesday May 22 2002, @10:38AM (#30325)
                                                                                            Enjoy... (Score:1)
                                                                                            Enjoy your day. Dont waste it by surfing the net like us..
                                                                                            isla frazer -- Wednesday May 22 2002, @11:17AM (#30329)
                                                                                            (User #1246 Info | http://groups.yahoo.com/group/islafrazersmorrisseyclub )
                                                                                              HB Moz (Score:0)
                                                                                              you're always with me. So glad your there~PEACE.
                                                                                              Anonymous -- Wednesday May 22 2002, @11:20AM (#30330)
                                                                                                Happy Birthday! (Score:1)
                                                                                                Dear Morrissey.... Today friends and I will get rather drunk in your honor and sing "Last of the Famous International Playboys". Your music has helped me in my life in so many ways. I will always love and admire you. I can't continue.... there are no words.
                                                                                                May you continue on in good health and cheer.
                                                                                                Much Love!
                                                                                                MozGirl18 -- Wednesday May 22 2002, @11:21AM (#30331)
                                                                                                (User #2483 Info)
                                                                                                "It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious."-Oscar Wilde
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