I’m posting poetry on my site… *poetry!!* (lyrics, actually… so that makes it even worse, right?). Normally I reserve this kind of thing for MySpace (or more recently, last.fm) but this has got kind of a gaming bent to it, and I’ve posted other game-related stuff here, so in a way… stylistically, thematically; I *had* to do it! Anyway, from “The Cabinet of Kuniyoshi Kaneko” on Momus’ Philosophy of Momus album:
We who paint or photograph to stop your dying in its path
And fix you in the permanence of spring
Can’t stop the prattlers prattling
The rattlesnakes who, rattling, see ugliness in every living thing
In every lovely living thingA looking glass is not a world
A painted girl is not a girl
In games there can be no forbidden things
In life remain considerate, in art the Devil’s advocate
Why deny that Pegasus has wings
In life remain considerate, in art the Devil incarnate
Why deny the siren when it sings?
In games there must be no forbidden things
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Bonus from “Virtual Valerie” on the same album:
I tried to keep my soul alive
Playing Mortal Kombat on the Megadrive
I patched my lust with Nicorette
Went surfing down the Internet
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LOL, Megadrive… Momus expounds on the themes of the first selection in his Michael-Jackson-trial blog entry, The King of Yet-Also (and probably in some others, but that was the one that came to mind).
They’re on the iTunes Music Store if you want to be super-radical and actually purchase them!
I’m a bit confused. Are you suggesting that I purchase them (and make them available as links via my site, after de-DRMing them) or that readers of my site purchase them individually? Obviously, *both* would be ideal… perhaps I could post some 30 second clips or something by way of a compromise. Yeah… that sounds good. Thanks for stopping by, btw!