posted by davidt on Tuesday November 23 2010, @01:00PM
An anonymous person writes:
There is a good article in Mojo Magazine #205 (Dylan on the cover) all about "How To Buy The Smiths and Morrissey."
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Details also posted by Maurice E in the forums:
'How to buy Morrissey and the Smiths' - Mojo Dec 2010
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posted by davidt on Tuesday November 23 2010, @01:00PM
The Seeker of Good Songs writes:
In their song "And Now It's Happening In Mine" post hardcore group Touché Amoré mention Morrissey.
Lyrics (thanks to Uncleskinny in the forum post):

"There's nothing that can shock me anymore:from actions to reactions, I want more. What is it you want to hear? That I'm doing great? Well, I'm lying. We're just a parody of ourselves. I'm wasting all my time. I'll go to Morrissey to answer my questions, 'cause Ian Curtis has left me hanging. With our intentions at our worst, we give away all our worth, and I am spent."

The song on You Tube
posted by davidt on Tuesday November 23 2010, @01:00PM
Kewpie sends the link to the post in the forums by joe frady (via Morrissey reddit):

Linder's Isherwood to Morrissey's Garbo...

Linder has written an excellent biographical essay for 'Frieze' magazine, issue #135, November-December 2010. It's titled 'A Northern Soul'.

It begins: "I've recently found solace in Christopher Isherwood's auto-biographical writings from the late 1930s, written when he was trying to reconcile his affiliation with Swami Prabhavananda with driving fast cars with Greta Garbo through Hollywood. Exchange Garbo for Morrissey and Hollywood for Heysham, and you get close to my life at present." (Linder is currently studying the Sikh science of Nád Yoga, classical Indian music and learning Gurmukhi, a sacred Sikh language)

Further on, this: "As a 16 year old I began to read books by Germaine Greer, Eva Figes, Kate Millet and Betty Friedan, Mary Daly, Barbara Walker, Penelope Shuttle, Marion Woodman and Nor Hall, and to look at the work of the artist Penny Slinger. Without them I may have stayed on the council estate and dropped Valium like Smarties. Later, Morrissey and I read Daly's book 'Gyn/Ecology: the Metaethics of Radical Feminism' (1978) and laughed; it was glorious, she took a hammer to the pronoun and smashed it to smithereens. Morrissey was the only person that I knew then who truly understood the importance of language; he's still vigilant now, never uttering a syllable that he hasn't held up to the light and studied."

The whole piece is a wonderfully enjoyable read (not yet available on-line); fascinating biographical detail as well as enlightening consideration of her recent 'Darktown Cakewalk' work.
posted by davidt on Tuesday November 23 2010, @01:00PM
Kewpie writes and sends the links (via Morrissey reddit):
Grant Showbiz was on Breakfast with The Smiths indie 103.1.com (Nov. 21)
Some details in the Breakfast With The Smiths forum thread
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Lil Wayne wears Smiths lyrics t-shirt on his album cover
Link posted by Raphael Lambach in the forums (original post):

Lil Wayne wears The Smiths tribute t-shirt on album cover - blog.albumartexchange.com

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X Factor contestant Aiden Grimshaw in "Smiths Is Dead" T-shirt
Forum post from Pantomime-horse:
Aiden Grimshaw xfactor wearing moz t-shirt?
Is that a morrissey t-shirt aiden grimshaw has on during the audition from about 26 seconds in:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9E0XkWJn48
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The undead are Smiths fans in John Ajvide Lindqvist book "Harbour"
Link posted by Uncleskinny in the forums (original post):

Harbour by John Ajvide Lindqvist – review
Jenny Turner isn't entirely surprised to find that the undead are Smiths fans

Excerpt:

...As before, though, Lindqvist is terribly good at anchoring the creeping dread with small found objects, unlikely and yet totemic – a cartoon bear, a flapping sign, Madonna hair and Frankie T-shirts. "It doesn't go away. Nothing goes away." The 1980s are suddenly back, as the saying goes, with a vengeance: when at last we get to see them head on, the evil demons turn out to be Smiths fans, bespectacled and bequiffed and talking entirely in Morrissey lyrics. "Does the body rule the mind or does the mind rule the body?"; "I am human and I need to be loved,"; "Stop me if you think you've heard this one before." I still can't decide if this works or not – I think on balance it probably doesn't. But it's so strange, so mad, so weirdly inspirational, I can't bring myself to wish that Lindqvist had cut it out.
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Morrissey or Paul Weller: who is the best? - The Word forum users debate

Link posted in the forums by goinghome (original post):

I like Paul Weller. I like Morrissey. But which one's best? - The Word
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Debrett's The Guide for Modern Gentleman mentions Morrissey in crombie coat
Posted by Librarian On Fire in the forums:

Morrissey in a crombie, in Debrett's

In Debrett's Guide For the Modern Gentleman (2009 edition) there is a section devoted to which coat to wear and who favours which coat. Under the entry for Crombie Morrissey's name appears along with the line "a favoured English look". I like what the modern Morrissey wears, and I'm a sucker for reading books on etiquette and manners for a modern gentleman. Liam Gallagher appears under the entry for parka.
posted by davidt on Tuesday November 23 2010, @01:00PM
Bernardo writes:
Arcade Fire played "Still Ill" as their second song of the encore on their October 13th presentation in Mexico City.

Arcade Fire en México
Setlist: Arcade Fire en México

Links are in spanish.
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posted by davidt on Tuesday November 23 2010, @01:00PM
shoplifterromo writes:
See all your old friends and put your arms around them as you drink and dance to a pre-Thanksgiving feast of Morrissey/Smiths originals and covers, plus Britpop, Rockabilly, 60's girl groups, and a sprinkling of Xmas classics Wednesday, November 24, at Club Dedo, 204 Rio Grande, in El Paso, Texas. 9pm-2am. No cover!

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