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(1) Rothkoid, I taped it expressly to bring to the netherworld but can do you a copy and send it over in advance. Might take me a little while to get round to it, but. PM me your address if no-one else has offered.
(2) What Smoothly said, basically. I know I am usually clamorously squicked by the imperialism of representations of m/f desire, but in this case I kind of liked it: the female fan they interviewed early on looked like a butch lesbian to my admittedly biassed eyes, which already started to render Moz's particular involvement in m/f along non-traditional lines. And the deliciousness of Moz is partly that he isn't gay in any simple way: I think showing him in the strip club watching the laydeez helped to complicate the ways his sexuality circulates in the world, rather than going "Oh, well, if he won't deny it then he must be gay" and being comforted by the thought that now we've managed to confine him to a straightforward category. I like the way homosexuality and heterosexuality start contaminating each other in the figure of Moz, and the way that no identity category is ever brought in to unify, back up and legitimate his expressions of desire and sexuality. (I recently started identifying as "Morrisseysexual", which is fun.)
Nice to be reminded of what a wonderfully evil little bastard he is, as well (the line about Joyce was fab), but I think my favourite line was the uncharacteristically philanthropic "Not everyone is absolutely stupid".
Would have liked to see more on the racism allegations, though: I haven't heard the two infamous songs and don't know much of the history, though I suppose it would have been a bit pointless to rake it all up again now.
I'm fascinated also by, firstly, the way this boy who I have always thought of as singing, basically, about specifically white British experience (though not in a Fascist way) has been taken up with such adoration by the Latino population of California and, secondly, the way I am (and I think, from the tone of the doco, a lot of other people are) baffled and fascinated by that. What's going on there? Why does it seem so counterintuitive that Moz would have a Latino following? (My complete ignorance of Californian Latino culture probably has something to do with this, I will admit.) What sorts of racial (not racist) fantasies are circulating in, emitted by, and/or projected onto Moz? |
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