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Nick Currie (born February 11,1960 in Paisley, Scotland), more popularly known per pseudonym Momus (after a Greek god of mockery), is a songwriter and photoblogger. Virtually all of his songs come self-referential and/or postmodern. For other than twenty years he has been releasing playful & transgressive albums inside labels in Britain, United states of americthe, & Japan, building higher a portable globe dominated by values prefer diversity, orientalism, and the respect for distinctness. He is likewise easily known outside a U.S. as a producer. He is fascinated by identity, Japan, the avant-garde, time travel, and sex. He besides wears the patch in his best eye because he suffers from either catching amebous keratitis.

He has been sued by Michelin U.K., for the song "Michelin Man", which likened the mascot to a blow-higher doll, in Hippopotamomus (1991); & by Wendy Carlos for the song "Walter Carlos", which postulated that the post-sexual reassignment surgery Wendy could travel back eventually to marry her pre-surgery self, Walter, in Little Red Songbook (1998). Around response to the debt found from either Carlos' suit, which was dismissed, Momus wrote xxx songs just about each human or even class action world health organization accredited a song at the price of $1,000, compiling Stars Forever (1999). Patrons include creative person Jeff Koons, Japanese musician Cornelius, and 3-month-old animator/superhero Noah Brill. It should become noted that Momus designed "Walter Carlos" as a tribute to the owner of Switched-On Bach; he was, in fact, at a peak of his self-described "analogue baroque" cycle. Stars Forever too features the winners of a karaoke contest started on The Little Red Songbook (1998).

More Momus activities include writing for Wired.com [http://wired-vig.wired.com/news/storylist/0,2339,1366,00.html], Vice Magazine [http://www.viceland.com/], Index Magazine [http://www.indexmagazine.com/], AIGA Voice [http://journal.aiga.org/], and Design Observer [http://www.designobserver.com/]. Momus has as well been the sort of guest teacher working in healthy-art projects sustaining students 1st at Future University [http://www.fun.ac.jp/en/] in Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan during the early months of 2005, and then over agawithin in September at Fabrica [http://www.fabrica.it/], the Benetton "research centre" near Venice, Italy. The book by Momus in photoblogging is forthcoming (March 2005) from British publishers Thames & Hudson [http://www.thamesandhudson.com/].

Quotes
''"I was at a party last year and a little girl drew a picture of all the guests round the table except me. I pretended to be offended and drew myself into her picture, but she ran away screaming and bawling. I had to erase my self-portrait before she'd calm down. That says it all. Our little pictures and our little songs are more important to us than the life they occasionally portray. The world in the end is beyond our control and doesn't care about us. But in our pictures we have the illusion of making sense of the world, improving the world, taking control of it. And suddenly it's no longer either the world or our vision of it, it's a new world, a thing in itself. The drawing comes to mean more to us than the scene it depicts."

"I've always been accused of being the most literary of songwriters. In fact I started off doing lots of experiments with guitars, bottles, tissue paper, smashed pianos and tape distortion which, eventually, out of sheer laziness, I stuck some words on top of. They were out of a book of Brecht poetry, usually, or a hasty pastiche of Brian Eno. For years I searched my guitar for the 'missing chord' that would stop time or make the whole world weep. Now I scroll through a thousand types of digital delay to find the one that will switch the world into slow motion. It's music that really fascinates me. Words come easy, I have a facility with them, I can 'do' words."

"Ultraconformist, voyager, timelord, tennis and ping pong champion, tender pervert, poison boyfriend, hippopotamus, philosopher, folk singer, star forever."'' —Momus' self-description from either his LiveJournal

Albums
Circus Maximus (1986) A Poison Beau (1987) Caring Degenerate (1988) Don’t Prevent A Nighttime (1989) Monsters Of Love (1990) Hippopotamomus (1991) A Ultraconformist (Survive When Away from Fashion) (1992) Voyager (1992) Timelord (1993) Slender Sherbet (1995) A Philosophy of Momus (1995) Twenty Vodka Jellies (1996) Ping Pong (1997) A Little Red Songbook (1998) Stars Forever (1999) Folktronic (2001) Oskar Lawn tennis Champion (2003) Summerisle, the collaboration by owning Anne Laplantine (2004) Otto Skittish (2005)

Phespirit.info: Momus
Discography and lyrics.

Momus Discography
Fan created discography, including recordings by Currie's first band The Happy Family.

Currie Spices up Art vs. Commerce Debate
From the University of Western Ontario Gazette.

Momus at LFL Gallery
Momus: Folktronia (songs and myths about the electronic age). Sound/video/performance/installation art at LFL Gallery.

I Heart New York: X icons
You can download a set of Momus icons for macintosh here.

For $1,000, Momus Will Write A Song About You
Upcoming Stars Forever album intended to help pay legal bills of experimental singer/songwriter's U.S. label. From SonicNet Music News of the World.

Momus Pays Back His Patrons With Stars Forever
Double album features 30 songs about fans, stores, labels and others that paid for them. From SonicNet Music News of the World.

Radio Free Momus
Personal site of the Scottish oddball pop star with audio samples, biography, Flash videos, news, pictures and discography.

The Onion AV Club: Momus
Interview with the arch Scottish ironist about Stars Forever and rock journalism.


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