usually i'm like a schoolgirl, ignoring her crush on the playground

But today, TMTML quotes from an article on Morrissey --

[H]is brand of loneliness and longing and hopelessness (all the stuff he sings about) is that of a person who finds it natural to have relationships with the unreachable - that's to say, with images and works rather than people. Nostalgia is the be-all-and-end- all of pop, and Morrissey is the king of all that, so when he became a star himself (and began featuring his own mug on his record sleeves) he had succeeded in creating an audience literally after his own image, a tribe inured to the modes and manners of heightened fandom."

-- and then names his next post, on 'holy anorexia,’ Some Girls are Bigger than Others. So, yes, a crush, definitely.

Posted by nchicha at March 3, 2004 10:34 AM