the hawaii flag looks like something that would def catch morrissey's eye
― goole, Monday, 21 May 2012 19:26 (twelve years ago) link
My neighborhood gay bar is having an Unhappy Birthday party for Morrissey's bday tomorrow.
― kate78, Monday, 21 May 2012 19:35 (twelve years ago) link
omg at Boz
grady I can't believe you didn't tell me about this!
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Monday, 21 May 2012 19:45 (twelve years ago) link
it was a beautiful evening
http://i.imgur.com/FhIeT.jpg
― ♆ (gr8080), Monday, 21 May 2012 20:00 (twelve years ago) link
That looks like the most chill Morrissey show ever.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 21 May 2012 20:10 (twelve years ago) link
oh! and they did Meat is Murder, which was accompanied by video from slaughterhouses being projected on the 30' wide backdrop
everyone was so uncomfortable but i was all "A+ trolling Moz XD"
― ♆ (gr8080), Monday, 21 May 2012 20:12 (twelve years ago) link
xpost there was still a pretty gnarly fight between two dudes who both caught a shirt he threw in the crowd, and the surrounding people who had beer spilled on them
― ♆ (gr8080), Monday, 21 May 2012 20:13 (twelve years ago) link
can't believe he's still on that oscar wilde tip
― jed_, Monday, 21 May 2012 20:39 (twelve years ago) link
the last thing he said before leaving the stage after the encore was just "OSCAR WILDE!"
― ♆ (gr8080), Monday, 21 May 2012 20:54 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― andrew m., Monday, 21 May 2012 20:57 (twelve years ago) link
November Spawned Arthritis
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Monday, 21 May 2012 21:08 (twelve years ago) link
this person must have been right next to me-- watch at least the first 10 seconds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhuAce5S3FM
― ♆ (gr8080), Monday, 21 May 2012 22:12 (twelve years ago) link
I'm sorry to hear that, Morbs xp
― poxen, Monday, 21 May 2012 22:14 (twelve years ago) link
someone please make an animated gif of 0:03 - 0:08
― ♆ (gr8080), Monday, 21 May 2012 22:17 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/WvrcgYW.gif
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 28 August 2013 18:10 (ten years ago) link
http://true-to-you.net/sites/default/files/autobiography_artwork_01.jpg
"Although Morrissey's Autobiography was set to be available throughout the UK on September 16th, a last-minute content disagreement between Penguin Books and Morrissey has caused the venture to collapse. No review copies were printed, and Morrissey is now in search of a new publisher." http://true-to-you.net/morrissey_news_130912_01
― hewing to the status quo with great zealotry (DavidM), Friday, 13 September 2013 10:36 (ten years ago) link
The book was due out on Monday but they hadn't printed any copies yet?
Great cover!
― Eyeball Kicks, Friday, 13 September 2013 10:41 (ten years ago) link
'a content disagreement'? what does this usually mean in publishing terms? not a phrase i've heard often before i don't think.
― piscesx, Friday, 13 September 2013 11:57 (ten years ago) link
publishers wanted him to change the ending
― Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 13 September 2013 13:39 (ten years ago) link
they refused to remove the oval that imprisons the penguin in their logo
― conrad, Friday, 13 September 2013 13:46 (ten years ago) link
the excerpts that have already appeared don't bode well, tbh. And that cover's a fake, surely - it wouldn't be a Penguin Classic.
― mahb, Friday, 13 September 2013 14:13 (ten years ago) link
"I'd like it to go to Penguin, but only if they published it as a Classic," Morrissey told Radio 4's Front Row. "I can't see why not – a contemporary Penguin Classic. When you consider what really hits print these days and when you look at the autobiographies and how they are sold, most of it is appalling. It's a publishing event, not a literary event."
― sleepingsignal, Friday, 13 September 2013 14:28 (ten years ago) link
smdh
― fresh (crüt), Friday, 13 September 2013 14:56 (ten years ago) link
Maybe he just through a hissy fit at the prospect of it sitting next to Toni Morrison in bookshops.
― Matt DC, Friday, 13 September 2013 15:07 (ten years ago) link
oh snap
― Cap'n Save-a-Co. (Noodle Vague), Friday, 13 September 2013 15:42 (ten years ago) link
The Story of Morrissey's Autobiography Keeps Getting Weirder
― fit and working again, Friday, 13 September 2013 16:25 (ten years ago) link
Ha ha. Although this could never happen, because Toni Morrison's books are fiction, and Morrissey's autobiography... er, wait, as you were.
― 'Understand, your daughter's addiction is not your problem' (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 13 September 2013 16:35 (ten years ago) link
It's odd that Penguin hasn't commented given the story that the book was three days away from release is transparently untrue. I'd assume there are discussions at some level about a book in the future but it would almost certainly have to be penciled in for 2014. It's also odd that the BBC has essentially just reprinted a rumour from a fan site as news, but w/e.
― Inte Regina Lund eller nån, mitt namn är (ShariVari), Friday, 13 September 2013 18:40 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3U3Rh9mxcoU
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Friday, 20 September 2013 19:32 (ten years ago) link
!
Okay so photos started going around of just how *long* the book is when you look at it:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BWj8D1oIIAEnaE3.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 16 October 2013 22:30 (ten years ago) link
Holy fuck.
Mine's being delivered tomorrow. I haven't seen any reviews (if there are any?)
― gyac, Wednesday, 16 October 2013 22:32 (ten years ago) link
Amazon says 480 pages. must be thick paper.
― footballer of the future (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 16 October 2013 22:34 (ten years ago) link
Then it turns out it's nothing but obsessive journalling about his breakfasts.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 16 October 2013 22:38 (ten years ago) link
countdown to the first news site with a "480 pages of autobiography and Morrissey is still in the closet" headline
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Wednesday, 16 October 2013 22:52 (ten years ago) link
kinda amazed this really exists! any excerpts leaked yet?
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 16 October 2013 22:53 (ten years ago) link
I'd never seen the Penguin website before, it's pretty.
― There's a lack of... soul on Radio 1. (bends), Wednesday, 16 October 2013 23:01 (ten years ago) link
43;j54356u34jfoiajear23!!
https://twitter.com/ColinGPaterson/status/390617468001337344
Good grief. The first paragraph of Morrissey's Autobiography lasts four and a half pages. The book is 457 pages. There are NO chapters.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 16 October 2013 23:36 (ten years ago) link
I'll be disappointed if the book is not written in the same style as these letters:
http://www.morrisseyscans.com/wordsbymorrissey
― There's a lack of... soul on Radio 1. (bends), Wednesday, 16 October 2013 23:37 (ten years ago) link
no chapters is kind of amazing
― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 16 October 2013 23:42 (ten years ago) link
i suggest we all unite and shoplift some copies of this book
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 16 October 2013 23:42 (ten years ago) link
omg, an emo Tarantula.
― Boards of Komeda (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 17 October 2013 00:24 (ten years ago) link
Sorry, Tarantula not nearly so long and has found its audience in recent years.
― Boards of Komeda (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 17 October 2013 00:30 (ten years ago) link
from someone on the moz forum
"Now read 3/4 of it , the whole smiths story is tainted by how it ended , and there is a lot of vitriol for almost everyone ... its an interesting read from the point of view of showing the raging ego of a man who has never had to grow up and be responsible for his own actions ... the early family stuff is sweet but once the music business stuff starts its just bitching and moaning ..... dissapointing !!"
― piscesx, Thursday, 17 October 2013 00:43 (ten years ago) link
i love music business bitching and moaning. its the best kind next to hollywood bitching and moaning.
― scott seward, Thursday, 17 October 2013 00:45 (ten years ago) link
Hahah yes.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 17 October 2013 00:48 (ten years ago) link
opening line reads "My childhood is streets upon streets upon streets upon streets. Streets to define you and streets to confine you...".
― piscesx, Thursday, 17 October 2013 00:52 (ten years ago) link
In fact that's key here -- WHO WILL MAKE THE BIOPIC.
Suggest cast, director and screenwriter.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 17 October 2013 00:53 (ten years ago) link
To package as a classic a book that no one except Morrissey and a handful of his fawning acolytes has read is instantly to reduce the worth of all classics. Plato, Julian of Norwich, Darwin – they must all be spinning in their graves right now. In essence, Penguin is sneering at the public. A classic is a book that is judged by posterity to be an outstanding work. How does that happen? Through people reading the book, discussing it, embracing it, recognising its artistic beauty and universal import. There is a democratic element to the idea of the classic; certainly the elevation of a work to classic status involves intellectual, public engagement, the subjection of the work to readers and audiences over a long period of time. For a couple of men in suits at Penguin's head office to decree, behind closed doors, that Morrissey's autobiography is a classic is an act of both extreme haughtiness and dumbed-down relativism – it is arrogant to believe a classic can be christened before being devoured and discussed by humanity, and it is ignorant, too, a relativistic denigration of those classics whose worth we as a species have already agreed upon.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/brendanoneill2/100241061/in-publishing-morrisseys-autobiography-as-a-classic-penguin-has-destroyed-its-own-reputation/
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 17 October 2013 01:19 (ten years ago) link
"Signed, Luke Haines"
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 17 October 2013 01:28 (ten years ago) link
While that may have a point, it's written by one of the most profound cunts in the British journalistic canon, so if we're using his argument that a classic must be established on reputation, I say that he has already established his own right to shut the fuck up and never sully my mind with his noxious Tory filth again so help me God
― HAVE YOU SEEN ME? Please don't hesitate (imago), Thursday, 17 October 2013 02:45 (ten years ago) link