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dazzak
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"Morrissey is a pompous arse whose best lyrics are stolen nearly word-for-word from legitimate poets. He's more over-rated than bottled water. If he ever meant a word he'd said he'd have killed himself long ago. Instead he's spent his life making a buck off of depressed people, usually making them more depressed in the process. I wasted a lot of years listening to Morrissey in my teens, and at 30, I really wish I could get them all back. I mean, it might have been nice to have had sex when I was younger or lived my life a little bit instead of moping around because some phony Britpop star made it seem like the intelligent thing to do. Meanwhile I was buying up repackaged Smiths album after repackaged Smiths album and every Morrissey and Smiths "new" Greatest Hits albums, one or two of which seemed to come out every single goddamned year, which only makes me wonder, How much money does a depressed moper really need? Oh, right, enough to live it up, L.A. style. Phony.
Joyce should get his backpay, as should all the other people Morrissey owes money to, including myself, who would like compensation for wasted time, energy and money spent on new collections of songs I'd already bought a dozen times.
As an interesting aside, two weeks ago some friends set me up on a blind date. I went out with this guy and from the second I saw him, I knew he was a Morrissey fan. He had Moz's hair, he dressed like Moz and he even sat like Moz. So I asked him, "You like the Smiths?" and he chatted my ear off about Morrissey. As if it wasn't enough that I was on a date with someone who looked and acted like someone else, which really isn't what I want as identity crises are a dime-a-dozen in the indie community, apparently, on top of it all, he tells me he's a Republican. And not just any Republican... a social conservative. A gay social conservative. Only a Morrissey fan, I tell you. He quoted Moz, too, to defend his position. I didn't have the heart to tell him that the original writer whom Morrissey stole the quoted line from was probably being more ironic than he or Morrissey realized.
A dreaded sunny day, whatever. Morrissey is the drama student's Kurt Cobain, and of the two, only one had the courage of his convictions. And all things being equal, I don't trust drama students; They're trained to lie professionally. They're the politicians it's still hip to like."
Joyce should get his backpay, as should all the other people Morrissey owes money to, including myself, who would like compensation for wasted time, energy and money spent on new collections of songs I'd already bought a dozen times.
As an interesting aside, two weeks ago some friends set me up on a blind date. I went out with this guy and from the second I saw him, I knew he was a Morrissey fan. He had Moz's hair, he dressed like Moz and he even sat like Moz. So I asked him, "You like the Smiths?" and he chatted my ear off about Morrissey. As if it wasn't enough that I was on a date with someone who looked and acted like someone else, which really isn't what I want as identity crises are a dime-a-dozen in the indie community, apparently, on top of it all, he tells me he's a Republican. And not just any Republican... a social conservative. A gay social conservative. Only a Morrissey fan, I tell you. He quoted Moz, too, to defend his position. I didn't have the heart to tell him that the original writer whom Morrissey stole the quoted line from was probably being more ironic than he or Morrissey realized.
A dreaded sunny day, whatever. Morrissey is the drama student's Kurt Cobain, and of the two, only one had the courage of his convictions. And all things being equal, I don't trust drama students; They're trained to lie professionally. They're the politicians it's still hip to like."
