Momus (/ˈmoʊməs/; Greek: ΜῶμοςMomos) was in Greek mythology the personification of satire and mockery, two stories about whom figure among Aesop’s Fables. During the Renaissance, several literary works used him as a mouthpiece for their criticism of tyranny, while others later made him a critic of contemporary society. Onstage he finally became the figure of harmless fun.
In classical literature
As a sharp-tongued spirit of unfair criticism, Momus was eventually expelled from the company of the gods on Mount Olympus. His name is related to μομφή, meaning 'blame', 'reproach', or 'disgrace'.Hesiod said that Momus was a son of Night (Nyx), “though she lay with none”, and the twin of the misery goddess Oizys. In the 8th century BCE epic Cypria, Momus was credited with stirring up the Trojan War in order to reduce the human population.Sophocles wrote a later satyr play called Momos, now almost entirely lost, which may have derived from this.
Two of Aesop's fables feature the god. The most widely reported of these in Classical times is numbered 100 in the Perry Index. There Momus is asked to judge the handiwork of three gods (who vary depending on the version): a man, a house and a bull. He found all at fault: the man because his heart was not on view to judge his thoughts; the house because it had no wheels so as to avoid troublesome neighbours; and the bull because it did not have eyes in its horns to guide it when charging. Because of it, Plutarch and Aristotle criticized Aesop’s story-telling as deficient in understanding, while Lucian insisted that anyone with sense was able to sound out a man’s thoughts.
Nicholas Currie (born 11 February 1960), more popularly known under the artist nameMomus (after the Greek god of mockery), is a Scottish songwriter, author, blogger and former journalist for Wired.
For nearly thirty years he has been releasing, to marginal commercial and critical success, albums on labels in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Japan. In his lyrics and his other writing he makes seemingly random use of decontextualized pieces of continental (mostly French) philosophy, and has built up a personal world he says is "dominated by values like diversity, orientalism, and a respect for otherness." He is fascinated by identity, Japan, Rome, the avant-garde, time travel and sex.
Career
Musical
Momus began by recording post-punk material with ex-members of Josef K in a group called The Happy Family in the early 1980s and was associated with the musicians around Postcard Records (although he never recorded for that label). His debut solo album Circus Maximus (1986, él records) explored biblical themes in dark, almost Gothic acoustic style. His debt to the influence of Gallic pop was clear from a subsequent, sardonically self-referencing cover of Jacques Brel's "Jacky" and portraits of himself in the style of early 1960s Serge Gainsbourg.
A noun (from Latinnōmen, literally meaning "name") is a word that functions as the name of some specific thing or set of things, such as living creatures, objects, places, actions, qualities, states of existence, or ideas.Linguistically, a noun is a member of a large, openpart of speech whose members can occur as the main word in the subject of a clause, the object of a verb, or the object of a preposition.
Lexical categories (parts of speech) are defined in terms of the ways in which their members combine with other kinds of expressions. The syntactic rules for nouns differ from language to language. In English, nouns are those words which can occur with articles and attributive adjectives and can function as the head of a noun phrase.
History
Word classes (parts of speech) were described by Sanskrit grammarians from at least the 5th century BC. In Yāska's Nirukta, the noun (nāma) is one of the four main categories of words defined.
The Ancient Greek equivalent was ónoma (ὄνομα), referred to by Plato in the Cratylus dialog, and later listed as one of the eight parts of speech in The Art of Grammar, attributed to Dionysius Thrax (2nd century BC). The term used in Latin grammar was nōmen. All of these terms for "noun" were also words meaning "name". The English word noun is derived from the Latin term, through the Anglo-Normannoun.
The song is considered a barbershop quartet standard and was used as the signature song of popular big band bandleader leader Harry Lawrence "Tiny" Hill. Hill made three recordings of the song, the first being on Vocalion Records #4957 on June 1, 1939. Hill's later recordings were both released on Mercury Records in 1946 #1053 (recorded 1945) and #6001.
The Getae/ˈdʒiːtiː/ or /ˈɡiːtiː/ or Gets (Ancient Greek: Γέται, singular Γέτης; Bulgarian:Гети; Romanian:Geţi) are names given to several Thracian tribes inhabiting the regions to either side of the Lower Danube, in what is today northern Bulgaria and southern Romania. Both the singular form Get and Getae may be derived from a Greek exonym: the area was the hinterland of Greek colonies on the Black Sea coast, bringing the Getae into contact with the Ancient Greeks from an early date.
Getae and Dacians
Ancient sources
Strabo, one of the first ancient sources to mention Getae and Dacians, stated in his Geographica (ca. 7 BC – 20 AD) that the Dacians lived in the western parts of Dacia, "towards Germania and the sources of the Danube", while Getae in the eastern parts, towards the Black Sea, both south and north of the Danube. The ancient geographer also wrote that the Dacians and Getae spoke the same language, after stating the same about Getae and Thracians.
Pliny the Elder, in his Naturalis Historia (Natural History), ca. 77–79 AD, states something similar: "... though various races have occupied the adjacent shores; at one spot the Getae, by the Romans called Daci...".
The fourth song completed for Marzipan, the 2013 LP from Momus.
published: 22 Mar 2013
Jesus Christ Saviour by Klaus Kinski (english subtitles)
Klaus Kinskis fearless and confrontational performance of "Jesus Christ Saviour"!
(with english subtitles)
Modified and subtitled by Nick W. Sinan Greger
Website: https://www.mns-qs.org/
published: 25 Jun 2015
Kinski Shoots at Extras
published: 13 May 2012
Momus: The Death of Empedokles
Destined for the Scobberlotchers LP.
published: 08 Jul 2016
MOMUSMCCLYMONT: My Greatest Mistake
My Greatest Mistake is the first of two collaborative tracks Momus has made with David McClymont, ex-Orange Juice, to be released soon under his artist name RomanB. Imagery from Pina Bausch.
published: 26 Jul 2012
Momus: The Ephebophobe
The eleventh song made for Marzipan, the 2013 LP from Momus. A trypophile is arrested in Zurich in 2046 for not being an ephebophile and is punished by having the Googlechip removed from his brain.
published: 02 Apr 2013
Momus interview (Rockin In The UK) March 1989
Interview with Nick Currie of one-man band Momus around the release of the single 'Hairstyle of the Devil', taken from the album 'Don't Stop The Night', both of which were released on Creation Records in 1989.
Originally broadcast on 'Rockin In The UK' on British TV on 28 March 1989.
published: 05 Jun 2019
MOMUSMCCLYMONT: Shoot the Planet
MOMUSMCCLYMONT is a collaboration between Momus and David McClymont. This, their second album together, will be released in early spring 2014.
Some days I can't believe I'm even here at all
I don't ride high and I don't walk tall
I want to crawl into bed
Cover my head
With a big yellow pillow
To block the view
Shoot the planet if we're only on it to die
Well the people at the office say "How's it's going sir?"
But they don't really want to know my answer
I'm like a passenger jet
Crashed in Tibet
And the dead are getting eaten by the survivor
Shoot the planet if we're only on it to die
Well the doctor said I've got to try to slow things down
So I went for a month to a slower town
I really thought I was dead
Became a crackhead
And ended up throwing up at 4am
Shoot the planet if we're onl...
published: 17 Dec 2013
Momus: Heliogabalus
A 2001 song updated for 2016.
published: 15 Mar 2016
MOMUSMCCLYMONT: Wombwhip
MOMUSMCCLYMONT is a collaboration between Momus and David McClymont. This, their second album together, will be released in early spring 2014.
You will never beat the clock
You will never whip it
In fact the clock beats you
Might as well admit it
Giving birth hurts like hell
Children cost a bucket
But without them we will fall
So whip the womb now, fuck it
Wombwhip, pussywhip
Crack crack
Wombwhip, cockwhip
Biology the bomb, the clock
Better womb- than tomb-whipped
The coffin is a hungry box
Russian dolls a better boss
We need people in the world
Get to work now, girls!
Russian dolls may wombwhip you
But boys are wombwhipped too
Wombwhip, pussywhip
Crack crack
Wombwhip, cockwhip
Klaus Kinskis fearless and confrontational performance of "Jesus Christ Saviour"!
(with english subtitles)
Modified and subtitled by Nick W. Sinan Greger
Websit...
Klaus Kinskis fearless and confrontational performance of "Jesus Christ Saviour"!
(with english subtitles)
Modified and subtitled by Nick W. Sinan Greger
Website: https://www.mns-qs.org/
Klaus Kinskis fearless and confrontational performance of "Jesus Christ Saviour"!
(with english subtitles)
Modified and subtitled by Nick W. Sinan Greger
Website: https://www.mns-qs.org/
My Greatest Mistake is the first of two collaborative tracks Momus has made with David McClymont, ex-Orange Juice, to be released soon under his artist name Rom...
My Greatest Mistake is the first of two collaborative tracks Momus has made with David McClymont, ex-Orange Juice, to be released soon under his artist name RomanB. Imagery from Pina Bausch.
My Greatest Mistake is the first of two collaborative tracks Momus has made with David McClymont, ex-Orange Juice, to be released soon under his artist name RomanB. Imagery from Pina Bausch.
The eleventh song made for Marzipan, the 2013 LP from Momus. A trypophile is arrested in Zurich in 2046 for not being an ephebophile and is punished by having t...
The eleventh song made for Marzipan, the 2013 LP from Momus. A trypophile is arrested in Zurich in 2046 for not being an ephebophile and is punished by having the Googlechip removed from his brain.
The eleventh song made for Marzipan, the 2013 LP from Momus. A trypophile is arrested in Zurich in 2046 for not being an ephebophile and is punished by having the Googlechip removed from his brain.
Interview with Nick Currie of one-man band Momus around the release of the single 'Hairstyle of the Devil', taken from the album 'Don't Stop The Night', both of...
Interview with Nick Currie of one-man band Momus around the release of the single 'Hairstyle of the Devil', taken from the album 'Don't Stop The Night', both of which were released on Creation Records in 1989.
Originally broadcast on 'Rockin In The UK' on British TV on 28 March 1989.
Interview with Nick Currie of one-man band Momus around the release of the single 'Hairstyle of the Devil', taken from the album 'Don't Stop The Night', both of which were released on Creation Records in 1989.
Originally broadcast on 'Rockin In The UK' on British TV on 28 March 1989.
MOMUSMCCLYMONT is a collaboration between Momus and David McClymont. This, their second album together, will be released in early spring 2014.
Some days I can'...
MOMUSMCCLYMONT is a collaboration between Momus and David McClymont. This, their second album together, will be released in early spring 2014.
Some days I can't believe I'm even here at all
I don't ride high and I don't walk tall
I want to crawl into bed
Cover my head
With a big yellow pillow
To block the view
Shoot the planet if we're only on it to die
Well the people at the office say "How's it's going sir?"
But they don't really want to know my answer
I'm like a passenger jet
Crashed in Tibet
And the dead are getting eaten by the survivor
Shoot the planet if we're only on it to die
Well the doctor said I've got to try to slow things down
So I went for a month to a slower town
I really thought I was dead
Became a crackhead
And ended up throwing up at 4am
Shoot the planet if we're only on it to die
Well I went for a walk in the shopping mall
But I didn't see anyone alive at all
People spend spend spend
Like it's the Day of the Dead
Earth-eating zombies make my flesh crawl
Shoot the planet if we're only on it to buy
Some days I can't believe I'm even here at all
I don't ride high and I don't walk tall
It's like they stopped the planet just for me
And there's no more moon and no more sea
Shoot the planet we're only on it to die
MOMUSMCCLYMONT is a collaboration between Momus and David McClymont. This, their second album together, will be released in early spring 2014.
Some days I can't believe I'm even here at all
I don't ride high and I don't walk tall
I want to crawl into bed
Cover my head
With a big yellow pillow
To block the view
Shoot the planet if we're only on it to die
Well the people at the office say "How's it's going sir?"
But they don't really want to know my answer
I'm like a passenger jet
Crashed in Tibet
And the dead are getting eaten by the survivor
Shoot the planet if we're only on it to die
Well the doctor said I've got to try to slow things down
So I went for a month to a slower town
I really thought I was dead
Became a crackhead
And ended up throwing up at 4am
Shoot the planet if we're only on it to die
Well I went for a walk in the shopping mall
But I didn't see anyone alive at all
People spend spend spend
Like it's the Day of the Dead
Earth-eating zombies make my flesh crawl
Shoot the planet if we're only on it to buy
Some days I can't believe I'm even here at all
I don't ride high and I don't walk tall
It's like they stopped the planet just for me
And there's no more moon and no more sea
Shoot the planet we're only on it to die
MOMUSMCCLYMONT is a collaboration between Momus and David McClymont. This, their second album together, will be released in early spring 2014.
You will never b...
MOMUSMCCLYMONT is a collaboration between Momus and David McClymont. This, their second album together, will be released in early spring 2014.
You will never beat the clock
You will never whip it
In fact the clock beats you
Might as well admit it
Giving birth hurts like hell
Children cost a bucket
But without them we will fall
So whip the womb now, fuck it
Wombwhip, pussywhip
Crack crack
Wombwhip, cockwhip
Biology the bomb, the clock
Better womb- than tomb-whipped
The coffin is a hungry box
Russian dolls a better boss
We need people in the world
Get to work now, girls!
Russian dolls may wombwhip you
But boys are wombwhipped too
Wombwhip, pussywhip
Crack crack
Wombwhip, cockwhip
MOMUSMCCLYMONT is a collaboration between Momus and David McClymont. This, their second album together, will be released in early spring 2014.
You will never beat the clock
You will never whip it
In fact the clock beats you
Might as well admit it
Giving birth hurts like hell
Children cost a bucket
But without them we will fall
So whip the womb now, fuck it
Wombwhip, pussywhip
Crack crack
Wombwhip, cockwhip
Biology the bomb, the clock
Better womb- than tomb-whipped
The coffin is a hungry box
Russian dolls a better boss
We need people in the world
Get to work now, girls!
Russian dolls may wombwhip you
But boys are wombwhipped too
Wombwhip, pussywhip
Crack crack
Wombwhip, cockwhip
Klaus Kinskis fearless and confrontational performance of "Jesus Christ Saviour"!
(with english subtitles)
Modified and subtitled by Nick W. Sinan Greger
Website: https://www.mns-qs.org/
My Greatest Mistake is the first of two collaborative tracks Momus has made with David McClymont, ex-Orange Juice, to be released soon under his artist name RomanB. Imagery from Pina Bausch.
The eleventh song made for Marzipan, the 2013 LP from Momus. A trypophile is arrested in Zurich in 2046 for not being an ephebophile and is punished by having the Googlechip removed from his brain.
Interview with Nick Currie of one-man band Momus around the release of the single 'Hairstyle of the Devil', taken from the album 'Don't Stop The Night', both of which were released on Creation Records in 1989.
Originally broadcast on 'Rockin In The UK' on British TV on 28 March 1989.
MOMUSMCCLYMONT is a collaboration between Momus and David McClymont. This, their second album together, will be released in early spring 2014.
Some days I can't believe I'm even here at all
I don't ride high and I don't walk tall
I want to crawl into bed
Cover my head
With a big yellow pillow
To block the view
Shoot the planet if we're only on it to die
Well the people at the office say "How's it's going sir?"
But they don't really want to know my answer
I'm like a passenger jet
Crashed in Tibet
And the dead are getting eaten by the survivor
Shoot the planet if we're only on it to die
Well the doctor said I've got to try to slow things down
So I went for a month to a slower town
I really thought I was dead
Became a crackhead
And ended up throwing up at 4am
Shoot the planet if we're only on it to die
Well I went for a walk in the shopping mall
But I didn't see anyone alive at all
People spend spend spend
Like it's the Day of the Dead
Earth-eating zombies make my flesh crawl
Shoot the planet if we're only on it to buy
Some days I can't believe I'm even here at all
I don't ride high and I don't walk tall
It's like they stopped the planet just for me
And there's no more moon and no more sea
Shoot the planet we're only on it to die
MOMUSMCCLYMONT is a collaboration between Momus and David McClymont. This, their second album together, will be released in early spring 2014.
You will never beat the clock
You will never whip it
In fact the clock beats you
Might as well admit it
Giving birth hurts like hell
Children cost a bucket
But without them we will fall
So whip the womb now, fuck it
Wombwhip, pussywhip
Crack crack
Wombwhip, cockwhip
Biology the bomb, the clock
Better womb- than tomb-whipped
The coffin is a hungry box
Russian dolls a better boss
We need people in the world
Get to work now, girls!
Russian dolls may wombwhip you
But boys are wombwhipped too
Wombwhip, pussywhip
Crack crack
Wombwhip, cockwhip
Momus (/ˈmoʊməs/; Greek: ΜῶμοςMomos) was in Greek mythology the personification of satire and mockery, two stories about whom figure among Aesop’s Fables. During the Renaissance, several literary works used him as a mouthpiece for their criticism of tyranny, while others later made him a critic of contemporary society. Onstage he finally became the figure of harmless fun.
In classical literature
As a sharp-tongued spirit of unfair criticism, Momus was eventually expelled from the company of the gods on Mount Olympus. His name is related to μομφή, meaning 'blame', 'reproach', or 'disgrace'.Hesiod said that Momus was a son of Night (Nyx), “though she lay with none”, and the twin of the misery goddess Oizys. In the 8th century BCE epic Cypria, Momus was credited with stirring up the Trojan War in order to reduce the human population.Sophocles wrote a later satyr play called Momos, now almost entirely lost, which may have derived from this.
Two of Aesop's fables feature the god. The most widely reported of these in Classical times is numbered 100 in the Perry Index. There Momus is asked to judge the handiwork of three gods (who vary depending on the version): a man, a house and a bull. He found all at fault: the man because his heart was not on view to judge his thoughts; the house because it had no wheels so as to avoid troublesome neighbours; and the bull because it did not have eyes in its horns to guide it when charging. Because of it, Plutarch and Aristotle criticized Aesop’s story-telling as deficient in understanding, while Lucian insisted that anyone with sense was able to sound out a man’s thoughts.