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Viva Hate: Dr. Moz Classifies Chinese People As A “Subspecies”
Oh, Moz.
You, ol’ boy, have always been a curmudgeonly, conflicted, narcissistic, arrogant little cunt of a man. A curmudgeonly, conflicted, narcissistic, arrogant little cunt with the voice of a silvery angel, but a cunt nonetheless. And maybe that’s what most people love about you. In an age where most rock stars are just reality-star-husbands-in-training or rehab seat fillers, it’s quite a rarity for a music persona to commit fully to the persona, and completely reject being a real person. So the magical music man that is less a man than an endless well of contradictions can be a welcome reprieve, a thing to be endlessly fascinated by, a mystery perpetually left unsolved: A fay macho-guy. A gaudy, attention-whoring recluse. A bitter-tongued poet. A bleak dreamer. A senescent child.
In the decades that I have followed you and your work, I’ve always rationalized that the element anchoring all of your wild idiosyncrasies–the extreme beliefs and outlandish statements, offensively defensive attitude, insistence on flapping that damn mic cord all around the stage like a lasso while every other performer in the world has gone wireless–was intelligence. You are a self-taught educated man. A smart man. A man of many nuances.
How then, did this comment, made to poet and Guardian writer Simon Armitage, come to pass?
“Did you see the thing on the news about their treatment of animals and animal welfare? Absolutely horrific. You can’t help but feel that the Chinese are a subspecies.”
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Filed under: Animal Rights Activists, Drama, Guardian UK, Love Hate Music Racism, Morrissey, Morrissey Calls Chinese "Subspecies", Moz, Mysterious People, Offensive Statements, Rock Stars, Simon Armitage, Taxonomy, The Smiths, Walking Contradictions
Our Children of Invention Are Smarter/More Successful/Likely to Give Us Grandkids Than Your Children of Invention
Jen and I typically, like Morrissey, hate it when our friends become successful.
Every so often, however, this is not the case.
Like right now, for example: we’ve been watching our pen pal Tze Chun’s film, Children of Invention, make the festival rounds and rack up gobs of sparkling accolades and awards. And they’re not little awards, either: Special Jury Prizes at the Nashville, Sarasota, and San Francisco International Asian American Film Festivals (for example), The Grand Jury Prize at the Independent Film Fest in Boston, blah blah blah win win win. Agh!
Most recently, Invention scored the Grand Jury Prize for Best Feature in our very own grown-up hometown, at the LAAPFF.
Cute kids + Sweet filmmaking = Awards and applauseAnd you wanna know something? We couldn’t be happier. Weird.
[Children of Invention - Official site]
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Thanks, Tze!
Filed under: Awards, Children of Invention, Cute Kids, Everybody Loves a Winner, Film Festivals, Filmmakers, Jealousy, Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival 2009, Morrissey, Success, Tze Chun
