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Morrison reference needed

13:58 / 30.04.02

hi all,

I dimly remember reading either an interview-of or an article-by Grant Morrison, in which he talked about what he belived would be a procession through the next couple of years in zeitgiest/pop-culture from technonihilist matrix stylings towards a newly pastoral outlook... can anybody point me to where I may have read this?

cheers

/matt

14:25 / 30.04.02

15:20 / 30.04.02

thanks - but can't seem to find the quote in there. I'm starting to think it was one of the columns on grant-morrison.com actually...

16:54 / 30.04.02

Hmmh...Let me meditate...

16:58 / 30.04.02

SON OF A BASTARD!

17:14 / 30.04.02

nope - sorry - not there wither... as I recall he's talking about horus/year of the horse etc in it, and how after that period there will be a new pastoral spirit in the land, or some such gubbins.

17:22 / 30.04.02

found... right here on Barbelith, courtesy of Mr. Coates

Doh.... thanks for your help though.

this was the section i was thinking of, FWIW:

"We are at the end of the Millennium and we have forced ourselves to think that something important is going to happen. By doing that I think we will make something happen. At the end of the last century we had the decadent movement. They thought nothing new could ever happen again, that all we could do was recycle the past. That is what we are doing now - Oasis are the Beatles. Everything is nostalgia."

"It is pretty easy to work out what happens next," he continues. "The summer of 1999 will see the rise of a massive youth movement. It will probably be pretty punky in spirit. The nihilist spirit will return and there will be an end to things like Cool Britannia and nostalgia. Then there will be a hangover for a few years and then by 2010 Psychedelia will be back in fashion. That's just how it works - we'll all get interested in aliens again."

17:22 / 30.04.02

17:26 / 30.04.02

There's another reference in the "Flick The Switch" interview on disinfo.
Horus/ pastoral connection is on top of page 5:

I'm actually looking to the next kids. I think this generation got kind of fucked, I don't know what happened, where the energy went. The next bunch are really the ones who are going to carry this thing, and they're going to combine this with a kind of hippie thing, that pastoral vibe, it'll be something, you'll start to see this vibe as a low thing, you won't know who they are, they'll be really low down on the radar because utopia is a recessive cultural trait rather than a dominant one, but they'll emerge huge, full-blown into the mainstream by 2010