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My Only Weakness

Who does he look like?

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My Only Weakness
, November 26, 2011 at 11:53 PM (902 Views)
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In this picture, people say he looks like Jared Leto, Ricky Schroder, Billy Corgan...
With different hair, and with different glasses, I've caught him looking like Moz in certain photos, and he definitely has some
expressions he pulls that remind me of him.
Maybe circa Alma Matters.
And in some of the 85-90 years' photos...
It's funny how people can make you think of someone but not really look at all like them in any real sense.
It's probably just an Irish thing, tribal or something.
What I wouldn't give for a clone, complete with the skill for words!
Blue eyes KILL me.

I have two ex's, one called Stephen (the loathsome ph) and one called Patrick.
(hilarious, right?)
I didn't even know (or had totally forgotten somehow, in spite of Ouija Board,) that those were Moz's
first and middle names until I went to look it up on-line in 2006 whilst in search of middle names for baby William.
I sort of sat looking at the wiki page with a gaping mouth and thought, "well, those are out."
I didn't ever really read much about him or The Smiths when I was growing up because there
weren't any magazines or books about them around where I lived. (the sticks)
I just listened to his music, and, as I have said in my blog before, did everything I could to guard against
taking in too much information about the band because I didn't want to read anything that might have put me off.
I relied too heavily on that poetry to risk it.
Those songs, to this day, regardless of what he meant when writing them, are associatively bonded to my memories growing up.
It has been so weird living in the same place he comes from, trying to reconcile that these streets would have been the landscape for his thought processes.
I spent my childhood dreaming of England, my landscape was home, with my head in Manchester.
And in keeping with the themes that plague my life, now I'm in Manchester, dreaming of home.

Updated November 27, 2011 at 12:38 AM by My Only Weakness

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  1. KenzieW's Avatar
    His lips, chin, and jaw look like Moz. If you cover up the top half of his head you see almost Moz. He also has the bushy eyebrows and the eyes. My mom says a lot of her boyfriends before my dad liked The Smiths. (Sort of like your weird name thing, but not really.)

    Were you happy when you first moved to Manchester? I dream about visiting there someday too. (It would just be a visit though, because I don't think I could live far from my family.)
  2. My Only Weakness's Avatar
    Hi K,
    When I first got here, I was in shock.
    I had fleeting moments of surreal, like, "am-I-really-standing-here-looking-at-Salford-Lad's-Club" and,
    out the top of our penthouse flat in city centre, "Oh-my-God-that's-the-roof-of-The-Holy-Name-Church!!"
    These days, over here in Salford, when I go upstairs to our office, not terribly far off, and framed between two nearer buildings is the tower
    of Strangeways.
    If I had been able to glance into my future, say, at the age of 15, to what my life is right now, in a general, (not specific) regard, I
    would have spent the balance of it between then and now rushing for this.
    But that's because the 15 year-old me was a romantic, dreamy, English novel and poetry reading sap who only ever deviated from her
    staunch Smiths rotation by playing Siouxsie when I was painting and The Cure or Depeche Mode to go to sleep.
    I know if I go home, I will remember all the reasons I wanted out of there.
    Ignorance is universal, though. It's just part of the human condition.
    But, I am more accustomed to, and perhaps even less threatened by the Southern American version of it.
    The North West English variety is an odd beast.
    These people are hard. Life is difficult for them, and that does something to them.
    There are some really great people here, though. They have all accepted me and treated me like one of them.
    Which is more than I ever got at home!
    I was too busy setting myself apart from them to feel any kinship.
    A lot of how I feel is just missing my family. Probably nothing a visit home wouldn't quickly cure!
    This place is a MUST visit, though!
    A lot of the old landmarks are gone or changed beyond recognition, but many of them remain.
    I've been thinking of doing a video of the music tour of Manchester and posting it on here.
    I need to document the important things here in some way.
    And since my brain seems to have seized up and writing about anything but Morrissey is too much like hard work,
    I should just point the camera at stuff!
    It's ridiculous, but I miss Wal Mart in a way I never thought I could. I loathe corporate monsters and their murder of the little shops,
    but all that has happened here, as well. The problem is, the quality of corporate that has taken hold here is shite.
    ASDA is supposed to be the UK version of Wal Mart, they even own it, but it is NOTHING like a proper Super Center!
    I can't believe I'm even admitting this, but I guess it's how far I've fallen from my former self!!
    I should probably assign myself an essay on what I love about Manchester.
    I'll get right on it.....
    Updated January 29, 2013 at 02:00 PM by My Only Weakness
  3. KenzieW's Avatar
    That sounds like me, the romantic dreaming (shy) teenager who listens to The Smiths, The Cure, Depeche Mode, and Siouxsie and reads romance novels. (Although the other part of me is sarcastic, and another is tries-to-be-responsible and over-stresses-sometimes.)

    I think it would be great to visit. I could see missing stuff like Walmart if staying there for longer than a visit. That sounds normal to me. I would love the sights and Smiths and music and Manchesterness, and I dream about going over there someday. But I dream about moving to this little town by me. It has a great library and a record store and these little shops and a vintage store, and the town has this mellow, relaxed mood. When I walk around there I usually see at least one person sitting on a bench or on the grass playing their guitar. The people are kind of hippie. I take guitar lessons over there, and I just love it.
    A video of a music tour of Manchester would be really cool.
    When I think about going to visit Manchester, I do worry that it wouldn't be as great as I imagined because I have been thinking about how awesome it must be for over a year now...