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Day 849 - Boy George Comes Out, But Is This The End For FTM?

January 10, 2014, 9:26 am
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Yesterday afternoon, after posting a humorous tweet about Katie Price; which failed to gain much response, Parody Moz had a (staged?) hissy fit, and stormed off twitter. A bizarre series of events then followed, involving Jonathan Ross and Boy George. Here is the Katie Price tweet which triggered it all off:

" They labelled you one of the top 15 plastic surgery disasters. Pick yourself up dear - pouting won't get you anywhere."

KATIE 'THE POUT' PRICE

After the 'Pout' tweet, Parody Moz tweeted:

"Surely THAT one will go viral..!"

Followed by:

"Wit coming out of my ears and scarcely a b*****d retweet. I'll return when my Jordan tweet has 30 retweets."


Despite the best efforts of the 'Deluded Dozen', the retweets didn't exactly come flooding in, but then a few hours later, Jonathan Ross aka @Wossy, posted a tweet mentioning BOTH @MorrisseyParody and @BlueRoseSociety. Admittedly, the tweet was to answer "No", when asked by a Morrissey fan if Parody Moz was in fact Morrissey, but seeing as Ross hadn't posted ANY tweets (apart from the retweet about Parody Moz and the blue Rose from two days ago) since Christmas day, WHY, from all the tweets that he must receive from his 3,568,381 followers, did he bother replying to one about a parody Morrissey account? WHY?

ROSS -WHY?

The effect of Wossy mentioning @MorrisseyParody immediately set the follower numbers increasing (to 340), along with the retweets for the Katie Price tweet, and a couple of hours later, Parody Moz returned, with his first tweets being:

" Kristeen knows. She just knows."

" Do you think appearing as Log Lady would help your career?"


KRISTEEN (RIGHT) WITH ANGELA REYES (VP OF THE BRS)


Jonathan Ross's sudden public involvement in this phenomenal MorrisseysWorld story has reminded me of a hilarious parody piece I wrote on this blog, back on Day 145 of FTM - February 6th 2012. It really is worth reading again, it is that good, so put on the kettle, snuggle into your favourite armchair, and feast your eyes. Here it is, in it's full original format (with a couple of slight amendments, and some pretty pictures added for those with an eating disorder) :

You can almost picture the Jonathan Ross TV interview when the (Morrissey) autobiography comes out:

JR: Ladies and gentlemen, my last guest this evening, as many of you will know, is a personal herewo and fwiend of mine, well at least I think I'm a fwiend, but with this man, you never weally can tell,(audience laughter) and incidentally, I've had to keep him until last this evening ladies and gentlemen for two weasons, firstly because he always insists on topping the bill, and secondly, because if he had been on first, he would have buggered off home before the end (more laughter).... Will you please put your hands together, and welcome, the one and only, Mowwissey.

(audience applause. Morrissey enters the studio. Wossy goes to shake Morrisseys hand, but at the last minute dives in for a hug. Morrissey looks awkward, but accepts the embrace.) So, Mowwissey, absolutely lovely to have you on again, (Morrissey nods his acceptance) sowwy about the hug, I just couldn't help myself, did it do anything for you?


MOZ: Well it crumpled the shirt. (audience laughter)




JR: And may I say, what a lovely shirt it is too, you are always so vewy stylish.

MOZ: And you too Jonathan, and you too... in your own, sweet way (a few chuckles from the audience). Have you invited me along to just talk of clothing? (slight laughter, probably in fact just one giggling woman, like you used to get with 70's studio audiences)

JR: No, I've invited you along, or if twuth be known, you suggested to me that I should invite you along (audience laughter), to talk about, what is pwobably the most anticipated autobiogwaphy in wecent years.

MOZ: Only anticipated by you, Jonathan, only anticipated by you. I'm sure the rest of the country will not even be aware of it's existence, and it will no doubt just languish on bookshop shelves, in the crimes section, gathering dust. (audience laughter & a woman shouts from audience, "WE LOVE YOU MORRISSEY". Morrissey raises an eyebrow.)

JR: (Shouting towards the audience) Be quiet Jane,(audience laughter) (turning to Morrissey) I knew I shouldn't have bwought the wife tonight (audience laugh & Morrissey smiles). Now don't do yourself down Mowwissey, I know that's just your way, but there have been wecord advanced orders for this book haven't there?

MOZ: Apparently so, and therefore, there will be record disappointment Jonathan(audience laughter) and I would imagine that refunds too, will break all known records. (raucous audience laughter).

THE JONATHAN ROSS SHOW AUDIENCE 


JR: You are too modest Mowwissey, I bet it's a cwacker. Usually of course, when we have a guest on, talking about  a new book, they have the courtesy of sending an advanced copy to me, so that I can wead it, pull out a few funnies, and generwally have something to talk about, but you wefused to let me have a copy, why is that?

MOZ: Well, firstly, you refused to pay for it (audience laughter), secondly, absolutely nobody has read it yet, not even the printer,(audience laughter grows)(turns to audience) who we had to blindfold through the whole process, just to make sure (raucous audience laughter), and in fact, I even did all the proofreading myself, again, blindfolded... naturally, (more laughter) (turns back to Jonathan) and thirdly, if you'd read what I'd written about you in the book, you definitely wouldn't have invited me onto your show. (raucous audience laughter)

JR: You're making me slightly nervous now Mozzer (audience laughter), what have you witten about me?

MOZ: Only the truth Jonathan, only the truth.(audience laughter)

JR: Well as long as it's not what's been witten about me on that pawody website of yours, I've been made to look a wight pillock. Incidentally, I notice the website still hasn't been found by the masses. I pwesume I am allowed to talk about the website now that the book is coming out?

MOZ: Website?

JR: Oh come on, Mowwissey... Mowwissey's World! (turns to audience) Yes, for your information ladies and gentlemen, there is a pawody website, all about Mowwissey, called Mowwissey's World, which many of his fans believe, Mowwissey here is actually behind. It started about thwee years ago, am I wight Mowwissey?

MOZ: It is a website that I am aware of, and yes, it is slightly disappointing that nobody seems to have noticed parody me, but then, why should I be surprised that the masses aren't interested in parody me, when they aren't even interested in real me? (audience laughter)

(EDITORS NOTE - I DARE YOU NOT TO LAUGH AT ME POSTING THIS PICTURE OF A VIRTUALLY EMPTY AUDIENCE. GOD, I'M GOOD!)


JR: But sewiously though Mowwissey, I do hope that the book doesn't have that pawody stuff fwom the website about me in it?

MOZ: If hope is your only weapon Jonathan, then you may as well have come unarmed. (audience laughter).

JR: (joining in with laughter, although, somewhat desperate) That website makes me look like a wight sycophantic twat. (audience laughter)

MOZ: (smiling along to the audience laughter) As I say Jonathan, the book contains only the truth... only the truth. (hysterical audience laughter)

JR: And you also have a twitter  account too, which, may I say, is by far the funniest thing on twitter. You certainly seem to have mastered the hundwed and forty byte witticism to perfection, why do you think more people aren't following you, they follow Jordan and she says nothing even mildly amusing (audience laughter).

MOZ: Well I've never said I have either a website or a twitter account Jonathan, you shouldn't go making allegations that you can't substantiate, should you now? (audience laughter)

JR: No, certainly not with your reputation for lawsuits (audience laughter). I think it's pwetty fair to say, nobody will ever dare cwitisise you again, you'll just sue them. (audience laughter)

MOZ: Oh, I don't mind criticism Jonathan, as long as it's fair, it's the blatant lies I won't tolerate, although I must add, where criticism is concerned, that too, is usually unjust when it comes to my work. (audience laughter)

JR: (turns to audience) You think he's joking ladies and gentlemen, I can assure you he's not! Mowwissey is well famed for not taking cwiticism well. (audience laughter) (turning back to Morrissey) So, if, for arguments sake, this twitter account was to be yours,(audience laughter, well actually, more like tittering) which, and I want to make this one hundwed percent clear, I am not saying it is, (audience laughter) it is by far the wittiest account on twitter, so why do you think you, sowwy, it, (audience laughter) has so few followers?

MOZ: Well I can neither confirm or deny whether I have a twotter account, although, do you really expect me to have one Jonathan? Really? Perhaps after thirty years in the music industry, I have said too much, perhaps my audience are bored of me. It does make you wonder who all these people are, who have pre-ordered the book, I can only presume that they think it is David Morrissey's autobiography, or heaven forbid, Neil's. (audience laughter)

JR: (laughing along) Mowwissey, we are unfortunately out of time, but as usual, it has been an absolute pleasure to have you here, and by the way, we are fwiends now aren't we, I honestly can't tell! (audience laughter)

MOZ: A friend would never need to ask that question Jonathan. (audience laughter)

JR: Ladies and gentlemen, with his new book, entitled This Charmless Man, available to purchase next Monday, will you please give it up, for the one and only, Mowwissey. (audience applause). THE END


Anyway, enough of my old gumpf, back to the recent twitter events, and in particular, the fact that despite Jonathan Ross tweeting that Parody Moz isn't Morrissey, Boy George has this morning tweeted to say that he "reckons" it is. Here is his tweet:


I reckon the real ' M' is behind this so kids!



YES

Oh the mystery. One celeb says, "yes", another says, "no". George's tweet immediately helped increase Parody Mozzer's follower numbers, and as I type this, he has 535.

There have been so many humorous, fascinating, and interesting tweets from Parody Moz lately, that it is hard to keep up. One yesterday, regarding a survey on stripping, included the words, " I'll forward this to my record company." WHAT record company? Could it be that Morrissey has signed a record deal? Here is the quote in full:

"A quick scientific survey. Who is the most popular pop pin-up? 1 Morrissey 2 Justin Bieber 3 Justin Timberlake 4 Harry Styles 5 50 Cent? - I'll forward this survey to my record company. The c**ts don't realise how much yardage there is in Mozzer stripping to the waist on live TV."


Another tweet that caught my eye, was this one, sent to Angela Reyes (@vulgar1mkela), the Vice President of The Blue Rose Society, whilst discussing 'dream setlists'. Could this be a clue to the forthcoming tour list? If it is, then it includes the theme tune of the Blue Rose Society, 'Trouble Loves Me'. I am almost wetting myself with excitement! Here is the tweet:

""


Parody Moz also posted this tweet, and when asked if it was from the novel, he answered, "possibly.":

"I went to that park bench in Bloomsbury and cried in front of flowers in June. I hated you for what you did. The air was rich with petrol. On the bench I sat, writing words on to lined paper with a ball point pen. The words reminded me of those days when we sat and read poetry. "





Here are another bunch of gems. My thanks to Marcus Markou for catching some of them for me:

I'm so self-effacing even my sense of pride hates itself. 

Gary Barlow is quite possibly the most talented sack of potatoes this side of McCain's.

If Elton John ever gets round to making a Biopic, it could double as a Persil ad: one never-ending cycle of dirty laundry washed in public.

If my face resembled a bespectacled tin of jellied eel with matted pubic hair, I'd embrace, not deride, acne.

Limited ambition and a taste for comfort induce contentment. True artists have unlimited ambition and ask difficult, disquieting questions.

When someone gives their life to art, you should at least be polite. Art is not a market. It's a passion.

I throw my arms around Paris more often than I'd admit. The antique shops, cafes and city itself are beautiful.

I am not Morrissey. The fact I put out the novel/album news 24 hours before True-To-You is pure luck. Nothing more. 

I've never been this available. It's curiously liberating.

What I love most about MorrisseysWorld is the madness of ignoring all the facts and embracing cognitive dissonance.Cricket is at its very best when it's rained off.






Did any of you see the blue rose I promised Morrissey would wear in #Live25? 

My priority in life remains clear: I hope to die before Victoria Beckham. The prospect of Sir Elton trotting out Candle again is unbearable. 



There's nothing more depressing than television happiness.

Contentment is a bureaucrat's dream and an artist's nightmare.

The price of life is suffering and the reward of death is its end.

That I'm here is a miracle.

I have four cards marked ‘blindly insightful,’ ‘brutally idealistic,’ ‘whimsically cynical’ and ‘uproariously melancholic.’ - I pick a card at random and type something accordingly.

I'm very adept at falling in love with people who are unattainable to me. I only fall in love with the dead.






8 Jan
- I did tell you in 2011 blue rose would be fulfilled. I notice you've favourited the moment.

Because Wossy knows.

FROM: 
I expect he hit 'favourite' by accident. I'm always doing that

A new theory - all of the coincidences - hand signs, retweets etc. - were just accidents! - I picked a blue rose from the crowd by accident, having slipped on a wet set-list and fallen, where my fingers came to rest was a blue rose, which I picked up quite by accident. I didn't notice it in my hand and when I adjusted my trousers, it slipped inside, in error.


Is the president of my

Childhood is spent wishing to be older. Adulthood is spent wishing to be younger. Old age is spent wishing one had wished a little less.

The more sex you have, the less it means. In the end you may as well have been Morrissey as

Life is too valuable to think about. Simply live. And then die.

One learns more on a shit day.

Beauty is in the eye of the beautiful.

This fame game - it's not all it's cracked up to be.

I got a sternly worded email from some c*** warning me permanent suspension will follow if I don't stop typing like I have a brain. - If one can think quickly enough to send, say, 150 tweets a day, Twitter just naturally assumes you're spam!

c**tish condescension. (Posted on a Wendnesday!)

If only I could come out, I would; sadly there is no closet, no sexuality.

I'm asexual with transsexual, homosexual and heterosexual inclinations. I call it humasexual 

HUMASEXUAL



I was thrilled to see you give up your seat after I tweeted you about your 'freedom' lies. Integrity in tact. - You now realise defending freedom is impossible in UK parliament - welcome to the real world.

Elegance is a passing fantasy.

As time passes, we realise how little we have left.

Does anyone even know what is?

The only thing more depressing than loneliness is Daytime TV.

Hypocrisy is what happens when one is quite wrong about oneself, but too insightful to be deluded and too defensive to be truthful. - Yet hypocrisy is the natural scheme of things among successful artists.

The irony of life is that only the ugly would kill for beauty. Yet they are denied it until they die.

The moon reminds us everything has its reflection and conjures up the notion: 'what a bunch of c***s the electricity companies are.'

When things go wrong you can blame yourself (neurosis), blame nobody (wisdom), or blame every single person you know (Morrissey).

The point of pop music is to inform you death is inevitable, love is unattainable and God is a lie. This escaped 's notice.




An artist will endure brutal poverty for his art sooner than accept mediocre comfort, which is why the artist rarely embraces socialism.

This world forgets those who matter and acclaims those who do not.

The problem with my autobiography was the central character: he was flat, and yet scarcely believable. But sadly I couldn't write him out.


The intelligent long for beauty. The beautiful long for fame. The famous long for wealth. And the wealthy long for obscurity.

Of course you might prefer to witness the genius of on Twitter - he's far more fascinating and has millions of followers.

My songs are my life. And I'm not proud of it.

Fashion exists so that those without a natural sense of style may purchase one.

I'm so self-effacing, even my sense of pride enjoys knocking me down a peg or two.

The years pass like wine.

"The kindness and support of the members never ceases to bewilder."

STOP PRESS: I have just been blocked on twitter by Jonathan Ross, and I have also been accused of 'trolling' him during a bereavement. I would NEVER intend to offend anybody in this way, and have immediately withdrawn from twitter. I will only return if @Wossy unblocks me.

This could very possibly be my last ever posting. 

Goodnight.

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Day 851 - Oh Brother!

January 12, 2014, 12:04 pm
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Morrissey11 January 2014 21:40
How can one be 'trolling' someone by asking the person an unrelated question during a bereavement that one isn't cognizant of?

Keep up the fawning old son.

Carry on Crawling.

Our Mozzer



Reassuring words from The Mozziah, but in truth, my little melodramatic show at the end of my last blog entry was nothing more than just that, I KNEW full well that old Wossy hadn't blocked me for trolling, after all, he blocked '@BlueRoseSociety' too, so he must have blocked us both on the say so of Morrissey himself, the only thing I can't fathom out is, WHY? For anybody who may have mistakenly thought that I was trolling, it should be remembered that, despite Wossy not having used his twitter account since Christmas Day, he took the time to favorite just ONE TWEET.... by '@MorrisseyParody'.... about the Blue Rose Society! THAT was no 'accident', Wossy's in it, and he's in it THICK!


IN THE THICK OF IT


Of course, being blocked on twitter has become second nature to me during this whole phenomenal journey, and Wossy can be added to a list that includes; Uncle Skinny, Kath Viner, Dr Devereux, Alexis Petridis, Mike Joyce and Johnny Marr. There are quite a few others (mainly journalists from The Guardian), and I am sure there will be many more before we finish the ride.

And on the subject of Twitter, two more Big Guns have entered the Parody Moz/BlueRoseSociety phenomenon over the past two days, namely James Russell and Kristeen Young. James, who directed the film 'Morrissey 25:Live', has only favorited four tweets in the past year, and yet he chose to add this one to his favorites on Friday:


10 Jan
In years to come, will be referred to as the Blue Rose dvd.


I have no idea if James is in the 'inner circle' (ie those who KNOW about MW), but I would guess not. I suspect, that like Boy George, James just 'suspects', but for different reasons to those of George. George worked it out thanks to the nature and content of the tweets, where as James, I 'reckon', has worked it out from instructions he would have received from Moz whilst putting together the 25:Live film.
According to an interview James conducted with Julie Hamill on the making of the film, "it was all his (Morrissey's) creative", which means Moz would no doubt have given James particular instruction regarding the editing of 'The Acceptance of the BLUE ROSE' during Alma Matters. If you watch the film, you will notice that the camera angle changes to show it clearly from two different angles.


MORRISSEY ACCEPTING THE BLUE ROSE AT HOLLYWOOD HIGH


James obviously have wondered why he was given such an instruction, and he did some digging, which included following a few of us on twitter. On August 6th 2013, James came to a conclusion, and tweeted THIS picture:





Later the same day, James deleted the tweet! (Read about it here, including the comments section: http://followingthemozziah.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/day-692-james-russell-and-blue-rose.html). The Julie Hamill interview with James Russell can be read here: http://www.juliehamill.com/post/59592097323/morrissey-25-live-review-interview-with-james



JAMES RUSSELL - PHOTO TAKEN FROM JULIE HAMILL BLOG

As I reported on Friday, Kristeen Young was sent the following tweet by '@MorrisseyParody':

" Do you think appearing as Log Lady would help your career?"


Two full days later, the following reply was posted:



I'm sure this is drop dead funny, but I have no idea what it means. And somehow....I'm alright with that.


"No idea what it means"? Yeah, right! Incidentally, on Friday, Boy George started following Kristeen on twitter. Not much gets past me!



And now, after a number of days of frantic tweeting, and 'endorsements' from; Wossy, Boy George, Kristeen Young and James Russell, it would appear that Parody Moz has once again closed his twitter account. The news was broken on my blog just after midnight by 'somebody' called Brother Michael:


It seems that Our Mozzer has shed his corporus digitus too. The Blue Rose Society has never been more broken. We few that remain must cradle the little light through these dark times... Girlwithout, EmotionalAiraRaid, Heather, Sabine, Marcus and Manc, Chuck and Loughton, the Industrial Photography Guy and many others... Stay in contact, and display your blue roses for better times to come. I will stand fast with you, as long as you need me.

Brother Michael


You won't be surprised that I believe Brother Michael to be Morrissey... well I would, wouldn't I! I 'reckon' he has probably left twitter for a while this time (hopefully I'm wrong), but it is comforting to know that Brother Michael will be watching over us. I hope that Fifi is still around too.

At the time of leaving twitter, Parody Moz had posted 1250 tweets, and had 613 followers. His final tweet was to '@PiersMorgan'. He tweeted:

 "I heard Piers Morgan's viewing figures are now so low, they're considering putting on Larry King re-runs instead." Parody Moz also tweeted to Marcus Markou:

"Most people despise their servitude, but they fear freedom more."

HOW THE MASSES FACE UP TO THE CONTROL OF GOVERNMENTS.... AND THE MORRISSEY FANS REACT TO MORRISSEYSWORLD. LIFE IS FAR EASIER THIS WAY.



I started this blog entry with words from The Mozziah, and must therefore let him have the last word too. Here is a touching message that he has recently posted on the very first entry of FTM:

Morrissey9 January 2014 09:23
More sloppy journalism. Where does it say here I'd been online for months? S**ding hacks. All the s**ding same.

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Day 852 - "Reality Comes Striking Back"

January 13, 2014, 8:02 am
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First things first. Following on from yesterday's blog, I thought it polite to ask the founder of the MozArmy, @JulieHamill, if she minded me using her photo of James Russell. The reply I received came not from Julie, but from James:

I do! Bad photo I look like a mannequin.

We at FTM HQ are always trying to be helpful, so here is a less 'static' picture of James, which I presume he must like, as he uses it as his twitter profile picture:

JAMES RUSSELL - DIRECTOR OF MORRISSEY25:LIVE

Right, now that's out of the way, let's get started, although there isn't much to report today.

The Mozziah has once again returned to the Twitterdilly Arms, although by the time I finish typing this entry, he will probably have deleted his account again! Here are the latest pearls of wisdom from '@MorrisseyParody':

The mundane live for their retirement and retire to do nothing in anticipation of death.

Do something insane today; do something you might regret.

From @heathercat222 : Did you do anything that you regretted today?

I bought ten first class postage stamps when I only needed seven.

Heather: That's rather disappointing - what about embracing insanity?

Insane? I bought a new kettle.


MORRISSEY'S TEAPOT - MADE IN PARIS, BOUGHT IN ROME - UNLIKE MOZZER'S KETTLE, THE TEAPOT IS NOT THOUGHT TO HAVE BEEN REPLACED



Upon death, I shall sigh softly and whisper, ‘No more need to worry anymore. There are no Brit Awards Ceremonies in Hell. - Are there?”

What's the point of being witty in an empty room?

I have nothing left to say.

Despite Our Mozzer's twitter account being BY FAR the wittiest, sharpest and most profiund account on the WHOLE of twitter, he still currently has just 620 followers. No wonder he isn't bothering to tweet much, as he says, "What's the point of being witty in an empty room?"

The first person to leave a comment on my blog entry of yesterday, was Fifi, who left the following comment regarding the passing of 'The Champions' actress, Alexandra Bastedo, at the age of just 67.:

And in this land of fantasy, reality comes striking back and makes us shed a tear once again.
Rest in peace Alexandra.

Fifi

ALEXANDRA BASTEDO 

Kate Moss has a certain Alexandra Bastedo look about her, and the above photo was of course used on the cover of The Smiths LP 'Rank'. I would dearly love to know why that particular photo was chosen, and did Moz ever meet Alexandra. Perhaps Fifi knows? Alexandra ran an animal welfare sanctuary close to Chichester in West Sussex.

It has to be said, Alexandra was a STUNNING looker, so for no other reason that that, here are some more photos of her in her prime:




And that is it for today. All is pretty quiet on the Moz front. Perhaps he is writing his novel, which as he informed @LizzyCatMoz on twitter, is unlikely to be ready for release this year. The segment Parody Moz tweeted the other day, reminded me a bit of his song 'Come Back to Camden'. It's very reflective:

"I went to that park bench in Bloomsbury and cried in front of flowers in June. I hated you for what you did. The air was rich with petrol. On the bench I sat, writing words on to lined paper with a ball point pen. The words reminded me of those days when we sat and read poetry. "


*Goes off singing* "But then I, I look around, and I remember that I am alone, alone. For evermore. Drinking tea with a taste of the Thames, sullenly on a chair on the pavement; here you'll find my thoughts and I, and here is the very last plea from my heart. My heart. For evermore."
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Day 853 - Mysterious Fifi and the Secret Code of Rank

January 14, 2014, 9:36 am
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On my blog entry of yesterday, I asked the 'Mysterious Fifi', if she knew why that particular photo of Alexandra Bastedo had been used on the cover of the Smiths LP, 'Rank'. Here is her(?) reply:


I do have a theory about the photo of "Rank" but as usual, it's only a theory which probably only makes sense in my own fantasy world.

I know the title "Rank" is quite a mystery in itself. It could be a reference to J. Arthur, a synonym of vulgar or the cockney rhyme. Nobody really knows.
The way I see it, Rank is a reference to cryptography (secret codes). Rank codes form a matrix that helps locating code errors. It's all very scientific and would take ages to explain but the only interesting thing here is that the word rank can be a reference to secret codes and it is one of the fundamental pieces of data associated with a matrix.
This is the first part of the theory and I'm sorry if it already sounds confusing.

Now, let's try to link this theory to a famous person.
We could choose Richard Barrett in the late 60's TV series 'The Champions' for example. Barrett was a cryptography specialist and even the best code breaker in the world.
So maybe William Gaunt (aka Barrett) could be the face of RANK?

And how about Gaunt's TV partner Alexandra Bastedo (aka Sharron Macready)? She is a vegetarian, animal activist and a popular 60's and 70's sex-symbol.
Alexandra sounds more Smiths-esque than Gaunt, let's be honest. She can be the face of RANK instead.

Plus, she played in the 1975 film 'The ghoul' produced by Rank Film Distrubutors Ltd so she seems to be the best choice.
And why that photo of Alexandra in particular? Well isn't it just beautiful? That's not a theory, just an opinion.

There, you have my RANK theory. I hope you enjoyed it but don't believe everything you read.

As ridiculous as it may sound, I must report a particular event that happened recently. On December 29th, Johnny Marr posted a photo on his twitter account taken at MONA in Tasmania and he wrote "Underground headquarters in Tasmania built in the side of a rock by the sea with code running down the wall".
I suggest you go see that photo. What you will not see, however, is the comment he wrote a few minutes after posting the photo and read "Now you know what inspired the RANK cover"
As a couple of his followers asked confused questions about the RANK reference, Johnny deleted his comment and never mentioned it again.

A matrix, a code…and RANK?
Does my theory still sound crazy?

And if I am right, then what is the secret code in Rank? I wonder.

Have a good night little charmers.
Fifi

Wow, there is a secret code in RANK! And could the white rose on the cover have any meaning? The rose is far more evident in the original picture:

THE ORIGINAL RANK COVER PHOTO OF ALEXANDRA BASTEDO (WITH A WHITE ROSE) - TAKEN FROM THE BOOK, 'BIRDS OF BRITAIN 1967', AN EARLY DAY FHM. (THANKS TO @LIZZYCATMOZ FOR THE LINK)

KATE MOSS LOOKING BASTEDOESQUE

According to Mozipedia, 'Rank' was originally set to be called 'The Smiths in Heat', and Mozipedia also confirms what Fifi has written, in that it is assumed that 'Rank' was either a reference to the film company Rank, or was Morrissey using the word as cockney rhyming slang for 'Wank'. Fifi's new theory about codes would seem quite far fetched, but if anybody knows, it's Fifi! 

Johnny Marr's tweet about his code covered photo at Mona, and his subsequent tweet, of "Now you know what inspired the RANK cover" add to the plausibility. Here is Marr's original tweet and photo:


29 Dec
Underground headquarters inTasmania built in the side of a rock by the sea with code running down the walls. MONA.




THE MARR'S - CODED



THE MUSEUM OF OLD AND NEW ART (MONA) TASMANIA - IT EVEN LOOKS LIKE A SECRET HQ FOR CODE BREAKERS


So, did anybody else see Johnny Marr's tweet about the code inspiring RANK? Please let me know. I certainly didn't see it, but then again, I wouldn't have, I am STILL blocked by Marr! And WHY did Marr delete the tweet?.... And HOW did Fifi remember the exact wording of the tweet, seeing as it has gone? Mystery upon mystery upon mystery.

One thing is for sure, every single comment that is left on this blog by Fifi is both important and relevant. There were a number of comments left by Fifi over the Christmas period that I haven't reported on, because I took Christmas off, but it is time to revisit them. Here is the first, which carries on from my blog entry on Day 831 of FTM, in which I asked if there were any more Jean Cocteau references in the works of The Smiths:


Clue of the day : 1984

And I am sure this one is not going to be a revelation. Surely it was discussed before!
How could I know these things? I can't be the only one.
I am not talking about "This charming man" which would be too easy.
I'll let you do your research...

This is a lot of fun, isn't it?
I am ecstatic.
Have a good day,

Fifi

Hi Fifi, one must presume you are referring to Cocteau's serpent tattoo on the shoulder of Fabrice Colette, from the Hatful of Hollow cover. This has indeed been discussed before, but any idea WHY Morrissey chose the photo?

I am glad to hear that you are ecstatic.... and overjoyed too?

Bermondsey Billy


HATFUL OF HOLLOW



Well done Billy, you win the Perry Capsule jacket! I am indeed overjoyed for you.
The drawing is called "Par Bruno" and is supposed to be a Cocteau self-portrait. I am not sure why you call it a serpent but it's not like I know everything!
The photo of Fabrice Colette taken by Gilles Decroix in 1983 was published in the French paper Liberation's special edition about Cocteau in the same year.
There is also a blue line next to the photo which is believed to be the same colour as the one used on Hatful of Hollow.
http://doaldaze.tumblr.com/post/28530497723/fabrice-colette-by-gilles-decroix

Fabrice Colette by Gilles Decroix

That's about all I have to say about this.

Today, I caught myself watching the video for "All you need is me" and I remembered why I used to like it when it came out. That nipple-revealing jumper and the wallpaper in Boorer's box are such a delight for the eye.
And is it me or Morrissey turns around to show his backside when he sings 'There's a naked man standing, laughing in your dreams' in a 'Hand in Glove' kind of way?
No that's probably just me...
Unless 'You know who it is but you don't like what it means'

Ha ha ha, am I moving too fast for you? Am I beginning to confuse you?

A miserable Christmas to you too "Morrissey"!
Fifi


PAR BRUNO

I personally can't see how 'Par Bruno' inspired the tattoo, but i found this line drawing on Solow, provided by somebody called 'Smiler'. Does anybody know where this drawing originates?

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Fifi is RIGHT about the jumper, the wallpaper, AND Moz turning in the 'All You Need Is Me' video. The BLUE jumper has little flowers on it...roses? The wallpaper is BLUE....and looks to be covered in roses too! Moz DOES turn in a 'Hand in Glove' way. Watch: http://vimeo.com/1299100


"ALL YOU NEED IS ME"


And there's more! Thanks to Comrade Harps perseverance, Fifi provided more information over Christmas about Jean Cocteau, and his influence on Morrissey. Here is Comrade Harps question, and Fifi's responses from Day 833 of FTM:


Getting back to Our Mozzer's mysteries, conspiracies and the significance of Jean Cocteau for a tick, consider these lines from To Give (The Reason I Live) (which, although not a lyric by Morrissey,is sung by him in concert, as realised in 25Live - indeed, I was a live and direct witness of this song in performance during the 2012 Melbourne Festival Hall concert):

I was born as a part of the plan...

And I believe
Everything on this earth
Having meaning and worth

Everything on this earth does have meaning and worth, comrade harps.

Just like on "La triple baie du transept Nord", by J. Cocteau : http://espacetrevisse.e-monsite.com/pages/expositions/les-vitraux-de-cocteau-de-l-eglise-st-maximin-de-metz.html

Fifi


LA TRIPLE BAIE DU TRANSEPT NORD

comrade harps29 December 2013 00:26
Fifi, what I meant is by quoting the "meaning and worth" is that Our Mozzer is perhaps seeing meaning and messages in Jean Cocteau's work that relate to Our Mozzer Himself, as being "part of the plan".

Being a "born again atheist" (a lyric phrase which, curiously enough, occurs in 2 Morrissey songs), I have trouble seeing "the plan" but I note that Morrissey's lyrics (and those of the covers he sings) are increasingly referring to religion and to God. It's something that I'm quite sensitive to. Cocteau and Morrissey both have a relationship (a mutual connection) with Catholicism, which is beyond me.

But what is important here is the observation that the trinity of Morrissey, Our Mozzer and Fifi are drawing connections between Our Mozzer's and Morrissey's understandings of the world (and their place in it) and Cocteau's art.

His writing is also served by a pure and nervous line in a chromatic dominated by the clear blue.

The furrows on the surface by the oscillatory movements of the line are like scars revealing strange inner worlds .

In the third lancet if the same vibrations always produce horizontal harmonic forms also help to highlight two beautiful roses.

This floral presence is also not trivial because the rose plays an essential role in the stories , particularly in Beauty and the Beast. According to Jean -Pascal Pillot , the rose has triggered a series of events that have affected the four elements (earth , water, air and fire) . It is the rose in particular has led to the transformation of the story and caused the irruption of the sacred . Of course it did not escape Jean Cocteau.
Hence a rose bears his name : http://www.roseraieduvaldemarne.fr/roseraie_internet_2010/spip.php?page=rosedumois&id_rubrique=183&id_article=1393&lang=en&annee=2013

Fifi

TEQUILA SUPREME  AKA THE JEAN COCTEAU ROSE

This is ALL so fascinating, and even the words earth, water and air immediately made me think of OUR story. The letters in the word 'earth' are all in the word heather (he earth), the letters in the word 'water' are all in the word rat (we rat), air, or AIRRAID is one of the main members of the Blue Rose Society. Does 'fire' mean anything to anybody?

 Astraea (who I also believe to be Fifi....and Moz) also added some quotes over Christmas:

On page 94 I was shy. I should have written: Works of art are alibis.

Jean Cocteau, Opéra 1927

All of my poetry is here. I trace that which is invisible.

Jean Cocteau, Opéra 1927

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses. J.C.

Fifi


This quote was left anonymously:

"Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what’s known as infinity." - Anubis in Act 2 of The Infernal Machine (1932).


And there's more from Fifi:


'Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else. And failing', said Cocteau in his acceptance speech to the Académie Française (October 1955), quoting Raymond Radiguet.

I really think you know
I think you know the truth Jeane

We tried and we failed.

Fifi

JEAN COCTEAU. Jean Cocteau during his speech at the Academie Francaise in Paris on october 20, 1955. Full credit: AGIP - Rue des Archives / The Granger Collection. 
JEAN COCTEAU DURING HIS SPEECH AT THE ACADEMIC FRANCAISE - OCT 20TH 1955


Finally for today, I would like to post the latest pearls of wisdom and comedic wit from Our Mozzer's twitter account, but unfortunately I can't, because he has deleted it again! This happened last night, just after Broken had been suspended by the Twitter Police for posting too many semi-naked photos of Bieber. What can I say? Our Mozzer had been in a debating mood, and at one point seemed to join forces with one of his old twitter foes, Louise Mensch (@LouiseMensch), as they tried to educate the homophobic '@adeola_ajibabi'. Our Mozzer also took the time to urge his followers NOT to follow '@troubledmozza', an account that somehow has 6,468 and tweets things like this:






As of yesterday, '@MorrisseyParody' had 631 followers! It just doesn't make sense. It's like people choosing to watch this man instead of Morrissey:

PAUL SOMEBODY OR OTHER

I wonder if Joyce and Rourke have ever considered contacting Paul thingy to form 'From The Smiths', just as Bruce and Rick formed 'From The Jam'? Obviously Johnny would never stoop so low, but it MUST have crossed the mind of Joyce, although he has been in the press again lately, stating that he would like to reform the proper Smiths! I bet he would! Joyce has also announced that he hasn't read 'The Book'.... yeah right! Perhaps he's listened to the audio version instead.

And finally, a mysterious tweet has just been posted on twitter by the equally mysterious '@MorrisseysMum'. I should remind everybody that this particular twitter account first came to our attention right at the beginning of this whole MorrisseysWorld phenomenon, in 2011. The account was even advertised on the MW blogsite. 

When the '@MorrisseysWorld' twitter account first disappeared, the 'Mum' account took over, and talked of 'women with wood', before Log Lady then appeared on the MW blog. The owner of the mum account then got bored with it, and let the name go, at which point 'I' registered it. I then received a DM message from '@Banjaxer', saying that the original owner would like it back, so I handed it over to Banjaxer. The question is, does Banjaxer, ie Kevin Marinan still own it, or did he pass it on to the 'original' owner, and if so, WHO is that original owner, who advertised it on the MW blog? Hmm. Here is the mystery tweet :


Thirty years ago today a milestone was passed. A river was crossed. A decision was made. Tomorrow we might cross that river again.

The Smiths first LP was released in February 1984, so did something happen on Jan 14th 1984 relating to the album? Answers on a postcard please.

Goodnight.

TWITTERDILLY ARMS TOP 10 - AS BROADCAST BY @FLUFFRAT AT 4 PM TODAY IN THE TWITTERDILLY ARMS TO AN AUDIENCE THAT INCLUDED: @FadingGoldLeaf, @LoughtonLil, @Heathercat222 , @MarcusMarkou (sort of) and, er, nobody else! "It makes you wonder why the poor s*d bothers."

1. ANOTHER PLACE - FRANCOISE HARDY (NEW ENTRY) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjaxjh6pKLg

2. SATELLITE OF LOVE - MORRISSEY (DOWN 1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLXS9So5SW0

3. TAKE MY HAND FOR A WHILE - FRANCOISE HARDY (NEW ENTRY) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBqKLJh34ww

4. IT'S GETTING LATE - FRANCOISE HARDY (NEW ENTRY) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiBIOxQJpK4

5. LA MAISON OU J'AI GRANDI - FRANCOISE HARDY (NEW ENTRY) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8eD9Oreqes

6. RUN TO MY LOVIN' ARMS - APRIL YOUNG (NEW ENTRY) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjJpz5Uhvqc

7. ANGEL BABY - ROSIE AND THE ORIGINALS (NEW ENTRY) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KikHXfUanJk

8. I WILL BE SEVEN - NICO (NEW ENTRY) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLvX8xUo240

9. AND THAT REMINDS ME - TIMI YURO (NEW ENTRY) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohHLBWjvUpA

10. BOYS KEEP SWINGING - DAVID BOWIE (NEW ENTRY) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMhFyWEMlD4 

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Day 854 - Morrissey Signs for Harvest

January 15, 2014, 8:14 am
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Both the MorrisseysWorld blog and the parody twitter account have GONE.... and this time it feels permanent.... well, permanent for now, at least! Here are the final four tweets of '@MorrisseyParody', who had returned to the Twitterdilly Arms very briefly yesterday evening. I think he may have been under the influence of alcohol (see second tweet, where he writes 'left' instead of 'let'... unless he means left him feeling down. I'd prefer to think he was drunk, so read the tweets in a slurring/woe is me drunk voice... it's better that way). He even confessed to being Morrissey!:


morrisseyMorrisseyParody
Yes, I am Morrissey. Yes, I am insane. 


morrisseyMorrisseyParody
Nothing... just dead time.

morrisseyMorrisseyParody
My followers have left me down. Sorry, but it's true.

morrisseyMorrisseyParody
This is the last tweet I will ever make.



I replied with these two tweets:


I know how you feel. It took me all day to write my blog, and the only ones to bother commenting are me, you and Walter.


This is the last tweet I will ever make. FTM is over.

This rather amusing, and yet blatantly honest comment was then left on my blog. I definitely think The Mozziah was drunk....Notice the use of the word look instead of luck, although perhaps he actually did mean l'oo'k!. He doesn't make mistakes...ever!:

Morrissey14 January 2014 23:45
I quite agree Rat old son. My fans are just not up to scratch. Whatever I do, I'm just ignored. Admittedly your little blog thing is only fractionally as good as my mesmeric thing, but all the same - you do deserve better. As do I, naturally.

I'm bored to bu**ery. So I've closed down my twitter whoreboard and I'll shut down my blog.

You can keep the torch burning, old friend. After all, you have more time than me, and it's worth considerably less, at least money-wise.

Good look with following me. I wish you all the best in dedicating your life to a more worthy cause, such as yours truly.

Our Mozzer


I AM MORE WORTHY

For the record, the comment left by Walter (aka Banjaxer aka Wordsmiff) that I referred to in my above tweet, was this one, concerning the twitter account '@MorrisseysMum', that I wrote about yesterday:

wordsmiff14 January 2014 18:06
Hi. Just want to confirm the 'mum' Twitter account was returned to the original owner who, inexperienced in such things, did not realise the name would be released and free for others to re-register once abandoned.
The original and current owner is not Morrissey.


KEVIN 'WALTER EGO''BANJAXER''WORDSMIFF''MAR(R)INAN' MARINAN - EXPERIENCED

Of course, I never really had any intention of ending FTM, I was just being melodramatic once again, like what he is! Anyway, how can I leave? This is Hotel California. Moonie Heaven. And what is more, I am under instruction to stay:

"You can keep the torch burning, old friend. After all, you have more time than me, and it's worth considerably less, at least money-wise."

Touching words....Bast*rd.....The truth always hurts! Although he is wrong about the time thing, I don't have any time. I am working 9 hours a day, and then I am a full time husband and father, which involves all sorts of ferrying around. I don't actually know how I manage to write this blog at all. It's a miracle.



At the time of closing the twitter account, The Mozziah had posted 1302 tweets (including some that I failed to copy yesterday, so if anybody could post them it would be appreciated), and he had 625 followers. The follower numbers were actually falling! It would appear that people were dismissing the account as a parody.... well they would, wouldn't they, that's what they were TOLD! Nobody is prepared to L'OO'K these days. Where are the inquisitive minds?


The good news is that Morrissey is still here. He has set up a twitter account in Fifi's name as @y20m7d27. I didn't twig on at first about the y20m7d27, but thankfully Chuck (@Chuck_307 and formerly Chuck Norrissey aka Small Boy Jokes) worked out that it was from 'Never Had No One Ever'. I wonder if that song will be on the next set list?

Hopefully Our Mozzer can once again be himself as Fifi, after all, even as 'Parody Moz', he is judged on EVERYTHING he says, and if a certain tweet isn't Morrisseyesque enough, he is dismissed as not being Morrissey. The 'Morrissey wouldn't do that' brigade are incredulous.

Fifi has tweeted to say that she(?) doesn't want people to follow, but wants us to walk by her(?) side. It is interesting that Moz chose the name Fifi, because Fifi obviously represents FIRE. We now have the four elements to the MW story, with Fifi being added to the three people who have stuck with this phenomenon for two and a half years, on a daily basis, without EVER questioning their belief, ie '@HeatherCat222' (Earth), @Airraid25 (Air) and me (Water). Not that we are in any way special, we are not. We are nobodies, who just happened to be in the right place, at the right time, and we trusted our intuition.

Astraea confirmed that Fifi is FIRE, and Fifi then confirmed Astraea is FIRE... which makes sense as they are two parts of the same person:



I'm glad you loved all of my songs. But I still love them more than you do.

As for Fifi, well... she's quite the little firecracker, isn't she?

If I am a firecracker, Astraea, then you are fireworks x
Fifi

I do love a pretty girl who knows JUST how to turn my head. So, thank you.

Now let's just hope that everyone else is ready for us both, Fifi. I'm fairly sure though that we might still have to buy them all some extra fire blankets.

Oven mitts, at the very least.






So, with Our Mozzer gone, and 'Firecracker Fifi' now firmly insitu, what has she got to offer? Let's start with this:


I thought you were never going to mention the blue roses video aka All you need is me!
I am happy you keep enjoying my comments. I really am. So thank you.

'Par Bruno' was probably a mistake on my part, that's what I had in mind but I will go look for the correct name of the drawing.

As for Johnny's tweet, like I said, he wrote it and then deleted it only a few minutes later.
If you go to the account of @Scarlet_Ibis and look for some comments she posted on Dec. 29th on Johnny's account, you will see there definitely was a 'Rank' conversation at some point.
I do not know the person mentioned, I am only sending you there to prove Johnny did talk about Rank and codes. I am starting to know you Rat, you will start thinking I am that Scarlet but I am not, nor do I have any idea who she is. It's only the only person who commented on the Rank reference that's all.
I am not on Twitter personally but I cruise on it sometimes and that's how I know these things.

I would love to write more but as Ringo Starr once said 'I've got blisters on my fingers!'
Too much writing... I must rest but i will return soon. "Je reste avec vous"

And where shall I send my postcard regarding January 14th, 1984?

Ps. Did you read the recent interview by the gorgeous Linder? http://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2014/jan/12/linder-sterling-artist-punk-st-ives

If you happen to go to TATE St Ives, you should check out this exhibition called 'Aquatopia' : http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-st-ives/exhibition/aquatopia

The Wangeshi Mutu painting used on the home page is quite interesting, isn't it?
It's everywhere, dear Rat. Don't lose the passion. Keep writing.

Your code-breaking ally, 
Fifi.
Pps. Shizu Saldamando posted a photo on her personal Instagram account today.
A blue rose.
Has anyone else seen it?
Ouch, ouch, blisters...I'm gone!
Fifi


I shall go through Fifi's observations one at a time. Firstly, the RANK mystery. Here is the Scarlet Ibis tweet, that was obviously sent to Johnny Marr:


If I were cooler I'd have said "Ah yes, Rank! Of course."


Scarlet often tweets with Johnny, so I have asked Agent Earth (Heather) to contact Scarlet to see if she can probe Johnny further. Could Morrissey and Marr possibly have a secret code hidden in an album that was released AFTER the Smiths broke up? How could that be possible?


M&M - CREATING CODES AFTER THE SPLIT?

Secondly, the Linder Sterling interview; which in answer to Fifi's question, 'yes' I had read. A photo of Linder was published alongside the article, and I am intrigued to know who the black & white photo is of... the one on the wall. Does Fifi know?

Linder Sterling at her studio in St Ives, Cornwall
LINDER STERLING - ARTIST IN RESIDENCE AT TATE ST IVES CORNWALL

As Fifi pointed out, the picture on the home page of the Tate's 'Aquatopia' exhibition is a piece by Wangeshi Mutu called..... BLUE ROSE! As Fifi says, "IT'S EVERYWHERE"! Now, I wonder who was responsible for that homepage picture?




And finally from Fifi, there is indeed a BLUE ROSE on Shizu Saldamando's instagram. It would appear that she has tattooed it onto somebody. Does Shizu know about the Blue Rose Society? I'm pretty sure that Fifi was going to dig out an old photo of Moz and Shizu and post it. Now that Fifi has a twitter account, perhaps she will.


SHIZU SALAMANDO - IN THE KNOW?

I was going to write more today, but it must now wait. This breaking news has just come from Rockol.it.... MORRISSEY HAS SIGNED A RECORD DEAL AND STARTS RECORDING NEXT MONTH IN FRANCE..... YAHOOOOOOOOOOOO:


January 15, 2014
Ended the relationship with Decca , Morrissey remains linked to the major label Universal Music under a new record deal signed with the Harvest ( Capitol group ) . This was announced by the general manager of the label , Piero Giramonti and Jacqueline Saturn , anticipating that the artist Manchester will begin recording a new album this month in France along with the musicians who work with him for some time and the producer Joe Chiccarelli .

" Morrissey is one of the most important and influential artists in the music scene ," said the number one Capitol Music Group Steve Barnett. "It 's also one of the few to have remained substantially true to his artistic vision and his ethical principles since he exploded onto the scene in the '80s ." For its part, " Moz " had words of appreciation for the Harvest, the historic brand created in the 70s by which they recorded for EMI Pink Floyd and Deep Purple and that Universal has recently relaunched and mean to make it a sort of indie arm inside the majors.

The latest album by Morrissey, " Years of refusal" , dates back to 2009. Just a few days ago, during a chat organized by his official fan site True To You , the former frontman of the Smiths claimed to be ready to record a new album anticipating that one of the new songs destined to be part of it is called " Istanbul" .
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Day 855 - "Thrilled"

January 16, 2014, 5:50 am
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Capitol Music Group Chairman and CEO Steve Barnett said: "Morrissey is clearly one of music's most important and influential artists. He is the rare soul who has stayed consistently true to his artistic vision and ethical principles since he first exploded onto the scene in the 1980s. We are so happy that he has chosen Capitol Music Group as his home and that his forthcoming album on Harvest will bring new Morrissey music to the world."




STEVE BARNETT - CEO CAPITOL MUSIC GROUP

First things first. Note the wording used by Steve Barnett in yesterday's statement:

"We are so happy that he has chosen Capitol Music Group as his home."'CHOSEN". "CHOSEN". "CHOSEN". Couldn't get a record deal? Bollocks! Morrissey is a mega star, and EVERY record label would have wanted to sign him, and if they didn't, then they haven't got a clue about the music industry.... well, actually....... !

I truly believe that the only reason that Morrissey hasn't signed a deal prior to yesterday, is because he didn't want one. Morrissey is 100% in control of his own career, and he would have worked out a very long time ago, that the best way to stay at the top, is to box clever. He would have desperately loved to have released a new album before now, but the old adage of 'treat 'em mean, keep 'em keen' would have been at the forefront of his mind. 'Always leave them wanting more', and he's right, we are 'Gagging for it!'




A brief True-To-You statement has been made, and the wording is interesting. It doesn't just say that Morrissey has signed to Capitol, it says, 'Morrissey has been signed by Steve Barnett at Capitol Music.' To me, this is Morrissey saying that it isn't just about the label, he is putting his faith in the hands of one man, Steve Barnett.

So, who is Steve Barnett, and more importantly, is he able to deliver, and not let Morrissey down with promotion, like so many other record companies have done in the past? Can Barnett deliver a Number 1 album in the UK? Actually, it's a two album deal, so let's not Barnett rest on his laurels, can he deliver TWO Number 1 albums?

Well, according to the information on Wiki, if anybody can make sure Morrissey achieves the Number 1 albums he deserves, it is Steve Barnett....even though he is from Wolverhampton!

In the words of Katy Perry, "it's nice to have a head in there who knows what the fuck they're doing... He's an incredible boss." There is no doubt, Barnett's track record is good. Here is his Wiki entry:


Life and career[edit]

Barnett began his music career as an agent in London in 1970, working for the Bron Agency (Gerry Bron) and dealing with legendary bands such as Colosseum and Uriah Heep. He became an agent for NEMS Enterprises, the company originally formed by legendary Beatles manager Brian Epstein. While there from 1972 to 1974, Barnett represented artists such as Elton John, Black Sabbath and Deep Purple. He would briefly manage Rough Diamond in 1977, a short lived British band that featured David Byron (ex Uriah Heep), Dave Clempson (ex Colosseum) and Geoff Britton (ex Wings). In 1980 he became a manager and partner in the UK artist management firm Part Rock, where his clients included AC/DC, Cyndi Lauper, Foreigner, and Gary Moore, among other artists. In 1988 he established Part Rock's U.S. company, Hard to Handle Management, where he served as President.

Epic Records[edit]

Barnett joined Epic Records in 1996 as Senior Vice President International, was named Senior Vice President Worldwide Marketing for the label in 1997, then Executive Vice President/ General Manager in 2001. He was named President of Epic in 2004. At Epic Barnett took a key role in marketing artists including Pearl Jam, Audioslave, Shakira,Jennifer Lopez, Franz Ferdinand, Modest Mouse, Good Charlotte and Natasha Bedingfield.

Columbia Records[edit]

In December 2005 he was named Chairman of Columbia Records, with responsibility for overall management of the label.[2] During his tenure, Columbia's marketshare rose consistently, resulting in a 50% increase in current marketshare between 2009 and 2012 and attaining the #1 slot among all labels in 2011 and 2012.[3]
Barnett has presided over successful campaigns for Adele, Beyoncé, John Mayer, Jack White, The Shins, One Direction, Maxwell, Foster the People, J. Cole, AC/DC, Susan Boyle, soprano prodigy Jackie Evancho and the marketing and release of the Glee soundtracks. He has also overseen critically acclaimed and commercially successful albums by artists including Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Barbra Streisand, Neil Diamond, Celine Dion and Harry Connick Jr.
U.S. sales for Adele's 21 are approaching 10 million, which will mark the first time that an album has reached the RIAA Diamond plateau RIAA Diamond since Usher'sConfessions, which was released in 2004 and Diamond certified in July, 2012.[4]
Barnett was instrumental in bringing AC/DC to Sony Music, where the band achieved the label's biggest first-week sales figure in its history when it sold more than 784,000 copies of Black Ice in 2008.[5] The band has since sold over 38 million albums worldwide.
This period also saw Bob Dylan score back-to-back #1 albums with Modern Times and Together Through Life, as well as Neil Diamond receiving the first #1 album in his career with the release of Home Before Dark. During this time, Barbra Streisand set the record as the only artist to achieve a #1 album in ever decade from the 1960s through the 2000s with her album, Love Is the Answer.

Capitol Music Group[edit]

In November 2012 Barnett became Chairman & CEO of the Capitol Music Group.[1] On April 18 in the Hollywood Reporter, one of Capitol's top artists, Katy Perry, said of Barnett, “It's nice to have a head in there who knows what the f---k they’re doing....He’s an incredible boss.” [6]
In October, 2013, Capitol Music Group was named by Billboard Magazine as the 5th biggest label in terms of overall marketshare, with the label building on new releases fromArcade Fire, Bastille, Capital Cities, its development of the UK's Emeli Sande' and, as Billboard wrote, "[Capitol's] future belongs to new acts like Tori Kelly and Naughty Boy, gospel breakouts Mandisa and Chris Tomlin, and still-building new albums from career acts Elton John and Rod Stewart.[7]
Barnett broadened the company's portfolio of labels in 2013, inking high-profile deals with greatly-admired creative figures such as T Bone Burnett (Electromagnetic Recordings),RedOne (2101 Records) and Troy Carter (Atom Factory), as well as a partnership with Arcade Fire for that band's Reflektor album.
In October 2013, it was announced that Beck signed to Capitol Records and plans to release a new album called Morning Phase in February 2014.[8]
On October 29, 2013, Arcade Fire performed 12 songs on top of the Capitol Records building in celebration of the release of their Reflektor album. The show, presented by MTV Iggy and Intel's Music Experiment 2.0, was held for a crowd of contest winners, most clad in their interpretation of the dress code "Be A Reflektor." The show caused shutdowns over several major streets in Hollywood during rush hour, revealing Arcade Fire's sizable power in the music industry.[9]

Capitol Records Tower[edit]

In December, 2013, Barnett completed a year-long renovation of the Capitol Records Tower in Hollywood, California. "This is probably the greatest entertainment office in the world, so why wouldn't you make it look great?" Barnett said of the formerly drab gray floors stacked with dated file cabinets and clunky doors. Today, all 13 stories feature glass. "I want it to be open," he adds. "I want people to see that we're here, so there's lots of glass and light."[10]
Universal Music Group Chairman Lucian Grange commented on the building's renovation and the company's turnaround, "When we acquired Capitol, we made a commitment -- both to the artist community and to the industry -- that we would revive this once-great label," he says. "We committed to reverse its years of suffering from under-investment; to provide it the kind of leadership it needs and deserves. Looking at Capitol today, I am enormously proud to see what Steve and his team are doing to return this iconic company to its prior greatness. ... The building is buzzing."[11]


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THE ICONIC CAPITOL BUILDING - "BUZZING"

Before I move on, this is an interesting interview that Barnett gave just after taking over at Capitol: http://la-confidential-magazine.com/personalities/articles/steve-barnett-chairman-ceo-capitol-records-changes

The True-To-You statement that confirmed the deal, also confirmed what I posted yesterday; that recording of the new album would start in February, in FRANCE. Who remembers the MorrisseysWorld article from March 21st 2012 entitled 'FRANCE', which then had NOTHING  else written? Surely Moz wouldn't have booked the recording studio two years in advance? No, it can't have meant that, but it's certainly mysterious. Here is my blog entry from Day 190, mentioning the 'FRANCE' blog entry: http://followingthemozziah.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/following-mozziah-day-190-thursday-22nd.html

Speculation has already started as to where in France the recording will take place, but I would guess that with all the recent talk of Jean Cocteau on this blog, it won't be far from the Cocteau museum in Menton, which is on the French Riviera, close to the border with Italy.


THE COCTEAU MUSEUM IN MENTON

The most likely place therefore for the recording is 'La Fabrique Residential Recording Studio' - "The Creme de la Creme", approximately 100 miles away: http://www.miloco.co.uk/2012/introducing-la-fabrique-residential-recording-studio-france-the-creme-de-la-creme/


control room la fabrique recording studio france






LA FABRIQUE RECORDING STUDIO - NEAR MARSEILLE

The only (literally) official word to have come from Morrissey since the announcement of the new deal, is that he is said to be "thrilled".

Luckily there have been plenty of 'Unofficial' words from Moz, because yesterday he returned to twitter as '@MorrisseyParody', but this morning, when I came to copy the tweets, I found that the account had gone again. ARGGGHHHHHH! It is so annoying. If anybody managed to copy the tweets from the past few days, could you PLEASE post them in the comments section. Thank you.

There was one particular tweet I liked, which went something like:

"David Bowie gave us the arm around Mick Ronson. Lou Reed gave us boys wearing leather. Morrissey gave us Parody Moz." Again, if you can remember the exact quote, please let me know.









The only tweet that I did manage to copy was this one, regarding the new record deal:


morrissey@MorrisseyParody
TheRatsBack @Broken1andonly I did tell you all quite some time ago...

And of course he is right, he DID tell us some time ago. He also told us a bout a novel and a new tour... ALL before any official announcements. HOW could a 'fake' Morrissey know these things? HOW? WAKE UP! WAKE UP! WAKE UP!

 Why am I shouting? The people who need to wake up won't even be reading this. Scarlet Ibis for example; who I wrote about over the past two days, and who made the initial enquiry to Johnny Marr about the RANK code. Heather (Earth) tweeted her to ask her to push Johnny for more info, but Ibis answered with this:

"Nope. I think you guys are very silly for believing the things you do. Sorry. He (Johnny Marr) deleted it (the original tweet) because I misunderstood him. He was talking about something entirely else. Also, there is no need for me to ask him about it further. I know the entire situation. Just ask me, not him. There's no code. He was just talking to me about a similar look between the cover of Rank & a photo. U guys are acting crazy. I assure u there's NO validity to these signs, symbols, & codes u guys find. The world is full of coincidences. Our brains are wired to seek patterns… even when there are none. :/"

@SCARLET_IBIS


So there we have it. We are all "very silly" for believing that HUNDREDS of coincidental signs and predictions are in any way linked, and there is definitely "NO validity " to the "signs, symbols, & codes" that Morrissey makes. I had better stop blogging right now then. I've got all this hideously wrong. Goodbye.

... But just in case it's Scarlet that has got it all wrong, I'll carry on for now!

The good news is; that although Parody Moz has once again gone, we have the two firecracking 'French Maids', Astraea and Fifi. Here are their latest offerings:

Fifi: Je suis un mensonge qui dit toujours la vérité - Jean Cocteau
(I am a lie who always tells the truth)


Astraea:  I was beginning to think you'd never arrive. Bienvenue, Fifi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEQqXQGKyDQ

The above video that Astraea posted was of 'Je Suis Jean Cocteau', a 10 minute film by Andre Scucato and Cristina Pinheiro, which is a documentary on the life and art of Jean Cocteau, starring Cocteau, his art and parts of his films. The documentary has no words, but has a 10 minute piano piece, written by Scucato and Pinheiro.


JE SUIS JEAN COCTEAU

As I watched the documentary, I immediately had a feeling that the piano piece (or at least part of it... perhaps the violent bit at the end?) would be used later in the year as an introduction to 'Tro.... no, I can't type it, I don't want to jinx it, but remember where you nearly read it first! I tweeted my thought to Astraea, and Fifi has now retweeted it.... but without comment. God, I love this journey!

Astraea: Cocteau. The Blood of a Poet. 1933. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWzY1qXBVMM

I haven't yet had the time to watch 'The Blood of a Poet' yet, but I will try and find time over the weekend.

Astraea: And my favourite Cocteau interview.
"This sickness, to express oneself. What is it?" A poet can never die. http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4485/the-art-of-fiction-no-34-jean-cocteau

The interview Astraea has posted is fascinating. Morrissey IS Jean Cocteau! I love the quote Astraea has tweeted, and also love these: "He who sees further renders less of what he sees, however much he renders" and "I saw him on television and he was very mediocre. But that is the difficulty. That us the kind of thing that goes down with the public. And all they want are names." Cocteau IS Morrissey!




Fifi has returned to the Twitterdilly Arms this morning, so I won't hang around here, I will see what she posts, and report back tomorrow, although I am actually out all afternoon, so I will have to go through her tweets tomorrow morning. Where do I find the time for this? Where? And some people actually thought I was MW as well!

 Fifi's first offering of today is a video of the clip that can be heard at the beginning of 'Shame is the Name', which happens to be one of my favourite Morrissey songs in recent years, and should have had a place on a proper studio album, instead of being 'tucked away' on Swords. You MUST watch the clip of 'Mauricet': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S9mrMpD_pM

And finally, a few weeks ago, Astraea played a song in the Twitterdilly Arms that didn't fit in with the other songs she was playing. The song was 'Farewell' by Ayshea..... on the HARVEST record label:














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Day 856 - "MorrisseysWorld is now dead. The Blue Rose Society will never die." - Morrissey 16.1.14

January 17, 2014, 2:24 am
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There is goodbye and farewell; this is farewell.

When you've sweated blood and tears creating a blog - or perhaps even something more (a home?) - for lost souls, souls lost to the world and to life and to hope, only for it to be nothing but a half-formed sigh, you do ask yourself questions:

Why is my blog so repugnant to almost everybody?

Why is the wit I cry, fester and sigh over, alcohol-fuelled and fancy-free, utterly irrelevant to 99% of tweeters?

What is the point of continuing something in a material format which has a life and spirit of its own - and a momentum?

After a period of reflection, MorrisseysWorld is now dead. The Blue Rose Society will never die.

Keep watching, don't ever stop. But don't expect me to log on to entertain two men and a Jack Russell on Twitter.

I feel nothing but warmth, joy and love for the BRS - each and every one of you. But I wasn't born to be ignored; hated - yes; adored - occasionally; pitied - frequently; ignored - never.

Bowie gave the world the arm around Ronson. Lou Reed brought us men in leather. Morrissey turned up on twitter as a parody of himself.

Sing it from the red brick roof tops, cry until the Smiths are a distant melancholy cry in the night. Love is nothing but an ersatz version of like.

The many months, the years, have brought me - this synthetic Morrissey, devoid of wit, charm and work ethic - close to you all. I am not Morrissey; but then you knew that - didn't you?

Ever Yours,

Not M.


2009 - 2013....PLUS AN ENCORE!


Why oh why did I finish yesterday's blog with Ayshea's 'Farewell'? I put the thought in his head. Bollocks!

Actually, I mustn't blame myself, it HAD to end. The synthetic Morrissey; who has been devoid of work ethic for the past five years, has got a job!

The obituaries have already started to roll in, and I would like to invite EVERYBODY who has been part of this incredible journey to leave their comment at the bottom of today's blog entry (if you have already posted it on yesterday's entry, then please post it again here). Don't be shy, let Morrissey, YES, REAL MORRISSEY, know how much you appreciated what he has done for us by giving us MorrisseysWorld.

For me, MorrisseysWorld has humanized Morrissey. Don't get me wrong, he is still The Mozziah, and he will always remain an enigma, but I could now meet him in the flesh, without either asking 'how are you?', or feeling the need to gush, fawn or lick his face. MorrisseysWorld has prepared me.

Although Morrissey will ALWAYS be my God, he is no longer an untouchable God. To me, Morrissey is, and I shall now quote the Oxford English Dictionary (hardly Wilde, but it will do!), "a person with whom one has a bond of mutual affection", ie, a friend.

The MorrisseysWorld journey has, as I have written many times, been PHENOMENAL, and nobody, not even Morrissey, or indeed Log Lady, could have predicted where it would go, or what would happen along the way.

The formation of the Blue Rose Society is by far the most important thing to have come from this adventure, and it will NEVER die. As to whether it will grow; so that one day EVERY Morrissey concert is awash with roses, only time will tell, but those of us who were lucky enough to have been here as the story unfolded, now have an obligation to repay Morrissey, by spreading the word, and wearing our Blue Roses with pride at the forthcoming concerts. There is no longer a time for excuses or embarrassment, Morrissey gave us a gift, and the least we can do is say thank you. It is no good sitting at the rear of a concert hall, we must STAND at the front, and present Morrissey with BLUE ROSES. I guarantee you he will take them.... I think!

We have laughed, we have cried, we have fawned, we have sung (oh the songs I have been introduced to that I never knew existed!), we have been entertained, but most of all, we have been kept alive. Morrissey has often said that there is no point to life, well there is, we have found it.

My thanks go out to EVERYBODY in the BRS who believed and kept on believing. None of us could have followed this path on our own. We trusted our instincts....and we were right.

The biggest thank you goes to Morrissey. You are right, this movement has "life, spirit and momentum". Parody Moz may have gone, but Morrissey remains with us.

This is not the end, this is the beginning.

Fire walk with me. Walk with us all.

Water Rat
Blue Rose Society

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Day 857 - Je reste avec vous

January 18, 2014, 5:41 am
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I don't have time to write today, and yet there is so much I want to say. Instead, I have decided to post a few of the comments left yesterday by a couple of Morrissey's pessoas; Broken and Fifi, plus a very well written comment  by Marcus. When I next find time to blog (hopefully Monday or Tuesday), I shall give my theory on what/who Blue Rose is.


Long may BRS live on. I feel sure future songs and comments will reference BRS, MW and FTM. BRS and MW will now live on in FTM. Rat has a heavy cross to bear.

Ever Bieber's,

Broken



I would implore Rat to take the baton and run with it. This blog can be the new home of the BRS. I'll be posting a few articles of my own on his blog on old pages so that only Rat can see on his 'comments' page and Our Mozzer told me he will occasionally do the same.

For all who have not seen this, do take a look.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbDKeroCQq0

The funniest youtube video ever?

Broken

Marcus17 January 2014 12:03

I think the 'haters' are smaller in number but louder in voice. I don't think its a problem that the blog brought out the haters and I am not surprised it didn't attract more followers. My film - which is a simple fairy tale, with a gentle pace and is utterly harmless - has quite a few vitriolic haters. I've always said, this is not about numbers. There is a fight out there for people's hearts and minds. And most people will stand on the sidelines.

There was an experiment conducted that placed a fake turtle by the side of a road (you can google it). I think one in 50 drivers (from memory of reading about this) swerved out of the way to kill the turtle (your haters in the is world). One if 50 stopped and helped the turtle across the road. But that still leaves 48 people out of 50 who just drive on by. The current struggle, as I see it, is for the hearts and minds of those 48.

MW attracted the 1 in 50 'haters' and other 1 in 50 'turtle helpers'. The other 48 drove on by - mostly in a hypnotic daze that is most people's lives. I showed people the account in the office I work in and some actually said... "I won't follow a celebrity account until it has the official celebrity Twitter authenticity stamp on it"

"For fuck's sake! Do you think Morrissey would fall into that category?" I yelped. "Do you not think out of all the famous people on this planet the one person to do the opposite of what famous people do when they join twitter is Morrissey?"

Silence. No response. A glazed look in the eye. Drive on by.

We few, we happy few, were the turtle helpers. The task of waking people up is only just beginning. I've always seen this entire adventure as a metaphor for the bigger global story. This was partly because of what was being said on the blog regarding how this planet is run and ordered by forces we just don't see - as most of us are driving down that highway/ motorway in that hypnotic state... "Oooh... it's okay, X-factor starts again today..." etc etc.

Good luck Mr M. Until the next time.

Beautifully put, Marcus. Few people fully grasped the political implications of MorrisseysWorld; I think you, Heather, GOB and Rat certainly did. The entire experience was multi-layered, abstract, impressionistic and indefinable. So much was left to the imagination that it meant many things to many people: some saw it as a simple parody; others as a self-aware parody written by the subject of the parody; others saw it as a mystery of sorts; you and others grasped the metaphor at the heart of the project and played/wrestled with it.

The journey has been comedic, comical, absurd, touching, insane, utterly logical, cultish and very open. I've very much enjoyed meeting you all and I hope you will always remember the significance of the Blue Rose.

For what it's worth, I've realised, through being part of MorrisseysWorld, that it's OK to be in manlove with Justin Bieber and yet to have homoromantic feelings towards Morrissey.

BW

Broken


Fifi (Fire): 17 January 2014 19:45
My little charmers,

I want to apologise for leaving twitter so abruptly. Truth is it never was my intention to be on there for too long.
I would not want any of you to try and communicate with me and fail to reply because it would be rude and I hate being rude.
I will do my best in opening the Fifi account again once in a while to catch up but right now, I cannot.
Rat, keep writing, this blog is far more important to many people than you think. That's if you have enough time to keep it alive.
Now that MW is gone, the BRS relies on you.
It's not because I am not 'commenting' that I don't read it.

I know there are many interesting questions I have not answered but there is still time for that. Jigsaw, jigsaw, jigsaw, would say lovely Willow.

It was a pleasure to talk to each and every one of you. Your kindness, wit and passion made me feel so alive. You are precious. All of you.

Do not let sadness fill your heart for MW and MorrisseyParody are no more. We should just all be thankful for the fun times they provided. They will be missed but I am sure they will occasionally return.

It is a long path we must walk on and there is still so much more to discover and feel ecstatic about on the way.
You are not being abandoned, you are being given more power to keep the flame burning.
So keep smiling.

All my lOve,
Fifi

Just as I published this entry, Broken posted this:


Only a fraction of the signs were documented. Even Morrissey's recent fashion of wearing two crosses around his neck is a tongue-in-cheek reference to JB who often wears two crosses. It goes deeper than any of you realise.


I think I DO realise. I really think I've worked it out. More Monday/Tuesday.

I will leave you with some words left by Fifi on my blog on January 14th (ironically the anniversary of the death of my father), which I have just stumbled on again as part of my research on Cocteau/Morrissey and Blue Rose:



"Je reste avec vous" - Meaning 'I stay with you'...... the epitaph on Jean Cocteau's gravestone.

Morrissey (Fire) stays walking with us, the Blue Rose Society, and I will stay and write the story. The pleasure and privilege is mine.
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Day 859 - "Jigsaw, jigsaw, jigsaw."

January 20, 2014, 7:53 am
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I am often accused of writing far too much in my blog entries, and I know it is a lot for people to wade through, but I have to let out all of the thoughts that are constantly pounding in my head. I am expecting today's entry to be fairly lengthy, so I will set it out with an Agenda, and therefore if anybody wants to skip bits, they can, although why anybody would want to miss any of my musings is a mystery to me! The main item on today's blog is item 5, with my interpretation of the whole meaning to Blue Rose.

As we have an agenda, and as FTM is now the official meeting place for BRS members, I will try and make a daily list of those who are currently 'active' in this story, ie are leaving comments or getting involved in the Twitterdilly Arms. As we pick up new members, particularly in the Twit Arms, please remember to tell them to come here, and then I can give them a mention. The Blue Rose Society is going to GROW and GROW and GROW, until EVERY SINGLE Morrissey concert is awash with roses. Because We Must.

Right. here we go:

Members Present: Broken (a Morrissey pessoa), TRB, Marcus Markou, JohnGill, EdgeIndustrialPhotography Guy, GOB, Chuck, LizzyCat, HeatherCat, AIR, Yunaragunarso, GWO, MancLad, Willow (new kid on the block), Romina, Tracey, Astraea (a Morrissey pessoa), Greyer Girl (a Morrissey pessoa), Mme de Stael, Clover Dean, JJazmine, Comrade Harps, Menippus (a Morrissey pessoa), Vulgar Angie and Wordsmiff (aka Banjaxer Ego fellow). If I have missed anybody out, please leave a comment. The Blue Rose Society is all embracing.

                                AGENDA

1. Apologies for Absence
2. Morrissey Returns to The Twitterdilly Arms
3. Jeane
4. Rank
5. What/Who is Blue Rose?
6. Justin Bieber
7. The Pessoas
8. Shizu Saldamando
9. France
10 Album and Tour
11. NME nominations
12. Any Other Business

1. APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE

Fifi/Fire (a Morrissey pessoa).

2. MORRISSEY RETURNS TO THE TWITTERDILLY ARMS

When Morrissey issued the 'F' word (Farewell) on Thursday, we naturally presumed that MorrisseysWorld was over, and the members of the Blue Rose Society posted their obituaries on Friday. However, the one thing that you can be certain about when it comes to Morrissey, is his unpredictability, and therefore we should NOT have been surprised to see him, in the form of a whole load of pessoas; including Parody Moz, stroll into the Twitterdilly Arms on Saturday, where they remained for the whole weekend, entertaining the masses.

GREYER GIRL TAKES ON BAR DUTIES AS PARODY MOZ, BROKEN, MENIPPUS, ASTRAEA ET AL ENTERTAIN THE MASSES(?) IN THE TWITTERDILLY ARMS


It wasn't just entertainment that Morrissey provided over the weekend, there was wit, charm, intelligence, controversy, LOTS of Justin Bieber (more on that later), music, and he also tried to get people to open their minds and throw away their prejudices.... although that is never an easy thing to achieve. At one point yesterday, Morrissey had me howling with laughter with one of his quick out downs, and when GOB compared the harrows of Morrissey's life to that of Julia Robert's character in Notting Hill, I swear I thought I would combust with laughter (sorry GOB, but JULIA ROBERTS?).


MORRISSEYESQUE

It would be impossible for me to repost all of Morrissey's tweets, there are now just too many of them, but if anybody has copied some, then PLEASE post them below. So many topics were covered, and it is impossible to keep up with him. The way Morrissey switches from one character to another, and the energy he possesses is really quite exhausting to watch, so God only knows what it is actually like to BE him! I think one of the main reasons he has his own characters interacting with each other, is because nobody else on twitter is challenging enough for him.

Among many things mentioned over the weekend, was the new album. Morrissey tweeted that he had "40 songs. Some demos, some more primitive." He later went on to post some lyrics. Here they are:

The sky was crimson and your jokes were barbed
Blackest envy gripped your precious heart
You vomited for hours
You died on a bench
In your room you sit
Youtube mocks and haunts you,
There for all the world to see
Your many failings and fears,
A public spectacle again

As coldness rotted your still-living bones
Politicians made cuts
Bankers got fat
My fingernails collect the world's problems
Oh......
My fingernails collect the world's problems

Oh, It's bitter and cold as I am
My heart, such as it is, goes out to you
Your blue lips colder than Fulham Road in December
Your small mind broken by the spite of this world
I'm sorry I did nothing
So sorry
As I live, I will never feel a thing again
Your life was everything to me
And now I am a frozen shadow


FULHAM ROAD - FEATURED IN 'MALADJUSTED' AND POSSIBLY DUE A RE-VISIT


Interestingly, on Day 472 of FTM, I reported how Moz had tweeted, "I'm just cobbling together the sleeves of 'Boredom is a plague' and 'My fingernails collect the world's problems'." At the time, nobody knew if Morrissey was serious about these two new songs, but surely the above lyrics are from 'My Fingernails Collect the World's Problems'.

If that song were to be included on the new album, then NOBODY, and I do mean NOBODY would be able to deny that MorrisseysWorld had been the work of Morrissey.... although I suppose, in theory, it could be said that the song title and lyrics had been leaked to whoever it was behind the fake Moz account, or it could be said that the whole MW thing was the work of somebody close to Moz. EVERYTHING is deniable!

One thing is for sure, if 'Fingernails'does appear on the album, there will be thousands of Morrissey fans pouring over FTM.... or will there?




Parody Moz also mentioned that he had written a song about Justin Bieber, which he said was called 'Never Say Always'. He then posted these lyrics:

Tears fall like raindrops
But managers apply foundation and touching cream
Lights hurt your eyes
But still you smile
Never say always

I have to admit, I was howling with laughter, but Morrissey has of course already written a song about Bieber, it's called 'The Kid's a Looker'. Anyway, more on Biebs later.

Here are a few of the hundreds of Parody Moz tweets from this weekend:

'My mind is a crushingly uncomfortable place to reside for a day; a lifetime is a sluggish torture."

"I'm 50% inhuman and 50% superhuman."

"'Tough love' is always the final calling card of the failed parent."

"Years of Refusal is my masterpiece. The next album will be superior."

"End bullying and save lives."

"I'm not Morrissey, but then neither is Morrissey these days."

When given abuse by somebody called @DonkeyDave64, Moz replied:

"If you were as capable as you are confident, you'd be dangerous; instead you're embarrassing."

"If your best effort is to type something wholly witless, followed by llllllol you might want to badger @richardm56 (Richard Madeley) instead."

"You few are receiving the best of my life - yet I'm giving the very worst."


TO GIVE, IS THE REASON I LIVE

Parody Moz also confirmed that he had posted sections from the first draft of his novel on both twitter and the MorrisseysWorld blog. I am presuming that the section on the MW blog is the Leonid Albrecht article, which has been mentioned here before, and the section on twitter is the piece I wrote about a few days ago.


3. JEANE

With all that has happened in recent days and weeks, I had completely forgotten to report on a posting by Fifi, which she quietly made on December 29th, and placed it in the comments section of Day 826 of FTM (Jean(e) Genet - December 18th). Nobody else would have noticed it, because we had all moved on, but luckily I tripped over it. On Day 826,  I wrote of a semi-conscious dream I'd had the previous evening, regarding the lyrics of Morrissey's song, 'Jeane'. By the way, I am not being petty when I refer to Smiths songs as 'Morrissey Songs', and I mean no disrespect to Johnny Marr, but it has always been the lyrics that most interest me in Morrissey songs, and the writers of the music of each of the songs are, to a certain extent, irrelevant. I wouldn't be able to tell you which musician wrote which Moz song. Anyway, I digress.

In my semi-conscious dream, it had occurred to me that Jeane had been written about Jean Genet, or perhaps Jean Marais or Jean Cocteau. After that particular blog entry, Jean Cocteau has cropped up time and time again, and I will discuss him much further in the next item on the agenda, but it would appear from Fifi's posting, that Jeane was indeed written about Cocteau, quite possibly written from the viewpoint of his best friend, Raymond Radiguet.... but there is more! First of all, here is Fifi's posting:

'Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else. And failing', said Cocteau in his acceptance speech to the Académie Française (October 1955), quoting Raymond Radiguet.

I really think you know
I think you know the truth Jeane

We tried and we failed.

Fifi


Radiguet, as I have said,  was Cocteau's best friend, although according to my research, 'best friend' doesn't really tell the story. Cocteau met Radiguet whilst in his twenties. They 'collaborated extensively', 'socialized', and 'undertook many journeys together'. Some contemporaries and commentators thought there might be a romantic component to their friendship. Cocteau himself was aware of this perception, and 'worked earnestly to dispel the notion that their relationship was sexual in nature.' This screams to me of 'Morrissey and Marr'.

Could Jeane in fact be about M&M, with Morrissey as Radiguet, and Marr as Cocteau, or was my first assumption right, that it is Morrissey writing as Radiguet to Cocteau? Rather ironically, Cocteau's friendship with Radiguet only lasted five years, before Radiguet died suddenly, after a trip with Cocteau. Cocteau was so stricken by grief, that he neither went to Radiguet's funeral, and could not see anyone for weeks afterwards. It's just as it was with Morrissey and the death of The Smiths!

It is also interesting to note that if Jeane IS about Cocteau, then Morrissey added an 'e' to Jean to disguise the fact. Is it a coincidence that Morrissey's close friend James Maker' added an 'e' to the name Raymond to create 'Raymonde'? Is Jeane the story of Maker and Moz? As Morrissey states on page 353 of his Autobiography, "Jigsaw, jigsaw, jigsaw." (My thanks to Willow aka @Smashingblouse7 for bringing this quote to my attention.)


RAYMOND RADIGUET - 14 YEARS YOUNGER THAN COCTEAU, AND SAID TO BE HIS PROTEGE. DIED AGED JUST 20 (REMEMBER THIS FOR WHEN YOU READ ITEM 5 & 6 OF TODAY'S AGENDA.... BROKEN IS 14 YEARS OLDER THAN BIEBER... JIGSAW, JIGSAW, JIGSAW)


I think it's fair to say, that whoever Jeane is about, it is probably not about Morrissey's aunt, and it is DEFINITELY not, as Sandie Shaw thought, about Morrissey's mum, although in fairness to Sandie, she was just (mis)quoting a throwaway remark from Marr.... but was Marr keeping a secret?

4. Rank

There is a very strong likelihood that many of Morrissey's songs have completely different meanings to those that have been interpreted over the years by fans and writers, and perhaps we will be lucky enough to have Morrissey share them with us as we continue this journey. As well as hidden meanings, we are also led to believe that there may be codes, or at least a code on the album cover RANK, although if there is one, I certainly can't fathom it out, and I have now been staring at the cover for three days solid!

I have tilted it, turned it, squinted at it.... but I see nothing! There are no numbers written in the eyes of Alexandra Bastedo, so it is time to ask Fifi for a clue. Fifi, can we have a clue please?


CODED?


It would appear that I have already waffled on for far too long today, and this blog is already getting ridiculously long, so I think it is time to adjourn until tomorrow, although there is no harm in bringing forward item 8 on the agenda.

8. (Which is actually now 5!) Shizu Saldamando
Shizu Saldamando is an artist residing in LA. Regular readers will remember that Shizu is the one whose artwork of 'A Morrissey fan' (that includes a Blue Rose in the piece) is displayed at LAX airport. Regular readers will also remember that Fifi left a comment on FTM in December regarding there being a photo of Shizu and Moz. Here is that comment, which incidentally mentions Johnny Marr keeping a secret about the meaning of 'Jeane'. Jigsaw, jigsaw, jigsaw:


I just don't know how to post photos (not links, actual photos on here), computers are not my thing. I am as clueless about them as Sandy is about the Jeane song! Actually, in that case, Johnny was clueless about it. Or maybe he just knows how to keep secrets.

I can elaborate more about the famous triangle and I will try and do that soon but right now I must go, I must attend a very boring dinner. Hopefully the wine will be good!

Shizu met Him quite a few years ago. In 1998 to be more precise. I have a photo of them both in my archive somewhere.


Fifi



And below...... is a photo of Shizu and Moz from 1998. Jigsaw, jigsaw, jigsaw.

Tomorrow, I shall go into unchartered waters. I may be barking up wrong trees, but as Broken wrote on my blog two days ago, 'it goes deeper than any of you realise."

Meeting adjourned.












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Day 860 - All Mixed Up

January 21, 2014, 4:12 am
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So, carrying on from yesterday, here is today's agenda:

                                                 AGENDA


1. Apologies For Absence
2. Matters Arising From Yesterday
3. The Latest From Parody Moz.... and Broken
4. Justin Bieber
5. The Pessoas
6. France
7. Album and Tour 
8. NME nominations
9. What/Who is Blue Rose
10. Any Other Business
11. Twitterdilly Arms Top 10 Chart

Blue Rose Society Members present in the past 24 hours: Broken (a Morrissey pessoa), TRB, Marcus Markou, Chuck, LizzyCat, HeatherCat, AIR, GWO, MancLad, Willow, Romina, Astraea (a Morrissey pessoa), Greyer Girl (a Morrissey pessoa), JJazmine, Comrade Harps, Menippus (a Morrissey pessoa), Bermondsey Billy (a c*nt), The Other Half (left a comment about many people reading the blog, and then deleted it), Fifi (Fire.... and a Morrissey pessoa) and Kate 'Dolly' Ryan (a Morrissey pessoa). If I have missed anybody out, please leave a comment.

1. APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE
None received, although HeatherCat asked that President Kyle be listed. I am only listing people who are active and getting involved. I would guess Kyle is at school, but it would be great to see his father, Brian here. No apologies have been received from John 'Loughton Lil' Gill, who quite frankly seems to come and go as he pleases. No apologies received from GOB, who is currently sulking after receiving a telling off from Parody Moz after she showed intolerance towards Broken and his sexual preferences. Come on GOB, reflect, and then get back on the bike. He is here to challenge our prejudices. Edge of Industrial photography guy has disappeared too. Is there really so few of us?

2. MATTERS ARISING FROM YESTERDAY

A) APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE

I don't think I've ever been to a meeting where there is something brought up under 'Matters Arising' concerning 'Apologies For Absence', but Fifi posted this quote from Francois de La Rochefoucauld regarding her absence:

"Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires"


B) LYRICS TO 'MY FINGERNAILS COLLECT THE WORLD'S PROBLEMS

HeatherCat, Parody Moz (via his secretary 'R') and Fifi, were all quick to point out that I had mixed the lyrics of the new Morrissey song 'My Fingernails Collect the World's Problems', with a parody song written by Parody Moz about Justin Bieber, called 'Never Say Always'! What can I say? I am hanging my rat shaped head in shame. Here is the comment left by Parody Moz (who still deludedly signs in as 'Morrissey'), which was sent by his admin guy/secretary 'R':


Our Mozzer emailed me this evening thus:

"R get that s***ing Ratb****** to correct his sloppy journalistic rag tag of a blog post immediately. The c*** has mixed up the two songs in the most catastrophic fashion. In the more sincere song the dead pop star on a park bench is suddenly transported - without explanation or vaguely rational musical bridge - to his bedroom, watching youtube, presumably from beyond the grave. For f***'s sake - is a little journalistic integrity too much to ask? A little fact checking? A bit of due s***ing diligence? Instruct that good-for-nothing inbred that the songs were as follows:

'The sky was crimson and your jokes were barbed
Blackest envy gripped your precious heart
You vomited for hours
You died on a bench


As coldness rotted your still-living bones
Politicians made cuts
Bankers got fat
My fingernails collect the world's problems
Oh......
My fingernails collect the world's problems
Oh...

As bitter and cold as I am,
My heart, such as it is, goes out to you,
Your blue lips colder than Fulham Road in December,
Your small mind broken by the spite of this world,

I'm sorry I did nothing,
So sorry,
As I live, I will never feel a thing again,
Your life was everything to me,
And now I am a frozen shadow.'

'Never Say Always' as follows:

' In your room you sit
Youtube mocks and haunts you,
There for all the world to see
Your many failings and fears,
A public spectacle again

Tears fall like raindrops
But managers apply foundation and touching cream
Lights hurt your eyes
But still you smile
Never say always'

Ever Yours

Fake M!

PS Tell that presumptious c*** that they won't be on the s***ing album now; instead I'll release them posthumously. My laughter shall reverberate around Hell like thunder.

PPS All out of caramelised onion H. over here old son. Also Boz forgot to bring me some blue brie. Useless c***. I don't suppose you could pop over with some pain au raisin, blue brie and caramelised onion H? Before 8 pm please. Thanks. Oh and don't forget my laundry."

I hope this clarifies matters.

'R'

I really am a Grade A c**t. Is M serious that this beautiful new song will now not see the light of day until after his demise? Actually, and this has nothing to do with today's agenda, I have often thought about singers recording albums/songs to be released posthumously. You quite often get a situation where some old demos are found in a loft, but wouldn't it be a completely novel thing to do, to record an album, and then leave it safely locked up, with instruction that it only be released upon death. Has any artist ever done this before? Morrissey should do it. It could be called, 'I Bet You Miss Me Now I'm Gone'. Any other suggestions for a posthumous album title may be left in the comments section!

One last thing on this matter......Who the fuck is 'H'?


CARAMELISED ONION

C) JEANE

Fifi left this comment regarding my thoughts on Jeane:

"Great analysis, Mr Rodent. Very, very interesting indeed. Last line on 3. He was. He is. I am too. 

The comment "He was. He is. I am too." would appear to mean that Johnny Marr WAS keeping a secret from Sandie Shaw about the subject matter on Jeane, and he still IS.... and so is Morrissey.... but I think I might just be right!

Comrade Harps also offers a theory:


As for the meaning of Jeane or any other song, as a failed poet I can attest that the meaning of a work of art (written or otherwise) can be multiple. Writers can be aware of these multiple meanings at the time of composition and even through moments of self-revelation at a later date. Cocteau and Raymond Radiguet, Moz and Linder Sterling, Linder and Howard Devoto: Jeane could be about all of the above and more at once.


D) SHIZU SALDAMANDO

With regard to the photo of Morrissey and Shizu, Fifi commented, "Bloody public domain."

E) There is no 'E'.... so we shall move on to the next item on the agenda.


3. THE LATEST FROM PARODY MOZ.... AND BROKEN

Parody Moz once again returned to the Twitterdilly Arms yesterday, and although there are just too many great witticisms to reproduce them all here, I worry that if I don't at least repeat some, they may all be lost forever (once he deletes the account, which inevitably he will), so here we go. Morrissey is quite generous with his wit, and doesn't keep all the best lines for Parody Moz; his pessoa 'Broken' is just as amusing.

With 1800 tweets and 642 followers, I'm obviously doing something very right.
At this rate if I typed for 24 hours a day it would take me 315 lifetimes to reach 's number of followers.
I'm happier than ever on Twitter with my rag-tag bunch of followers, but I can't help feeling envious and bitter over Katy Perry.
Don't my tweets deserve a chance to influence the world, or at least appear in a gossip column in Missouri?
The purpose of life is to realise there isn't one.
The purpose of death is to challenge our faith in the pointlessness of life.
On twitter I wield an enormous influence - over my right hand.
Every tweet is an egregious act of wanton self-destruction. Each witticism further erodes one's hopes for this life and the one after.
Wit is one of the most destructive forces. Brilliant wit undermines one's trust and faith and hope until one is too demotivated to think.
Thus in producing genius wit, one erodes one's spirit until one is a witless bore. There are no exceptions to this rule.
Wit destroys the soul faster than cocaine. Cocaine steals the soul; wit obliterates it.
However bad things get, I can comfort myself with the thought that I'm neither Ryan Seacrest nor Richard Hammond.
Ryan Seacrest retweeting Kim Kardashian - is there a better definition of the word vacuous?
The outwardly beautiful and inwardly ugly have the most pleasurable lives.
The outwardly ugly and inwardly beautiful live principally for death.
The goal of democracy is to make people's lives better. The goal of politics is to make people's lives meaningless.
Broken: Love is like God - it only exists as a concept. Politics deals with absolutes - like sex and gold.
A valid point Broken. Politics deals with sex, gold and power, while pretending to manage love, money and justice.
We're all a bit Asperger's on Twitter.
I live to be ignored so that when I die I'll always be remembered.
Is anyone else on Twitter capable of being Wildean over a quick pot of tea?
If there was any justice in this world, your song would get to number one. There is justice - but only in my house.
The human mind can cope with absolutely anything, except reality.
Last time I left twitter for a year when I reached 8000 followers. This time I think I'll depart when I pass 1000.
As a certain singer said in an interview recently "Twitter is interesting." But ... how would he know?
I am not Morrissey.
I truly hope Victoria Beckham outlives me; the prospect of a tearful Elton trotting out ‘Candle in the Wind’ for a third time is unbearable.
Blessed with the wit to ask myself all the wrong questions, I quickly realised that to look at oneself is to dislike oneself.
After three lifetimes of soul-searching I have discovered the solution is simply to avoid all mirrors.
My retweet figures are scandalous. There are dustbin men giving daily updates who get better figures than I do.
Broken: It is a fri***ng disgrace how few retweets you get. You're like Rimbaud quoting Wilde on a particularly cloudy day. - Plus, you're a c*** and that usually goes down well on twitter.
Everybody's lost but they're pretending they're not.

Parody Moz: Bieber supports PETA.
Broken: Can shit music be cancelled out by PETA activism? In other words is it OK if you release 'Baby' just so long as you avoid meat and support animal rights?
Parody Moz: Releasing 'Baby' and supporting is better than releasing 'For Your Pleasure' and going fox hunting.

Life is darker than the days but lighter than the nights.
The intelligent long for beauty. The beautiful long for fame. The famous long for wealth. And the wealthy long for obscurity.
Life is the curse and sleep is the cure.
Almost 2000 tweets. Still I struggle on, devoid of wit, charm and followers.
I long for the pure white light of poetic redemption, the grim leaden Manchester night and Rome's skyline by dawn.



4. JUSTIN BIEBER

I actually don't have the time to write anymore today, so I will jump to item 11.


11. TWITTERDILLY ARMS TOP 10

The chart was advertised to take place in the Twit Arms at 12pm today, but as nobody turned up (except half a Heather), it was cancelled. Here is the chart that was lined up.... not that anybody is remotely interested.

1. JEANE - THE SMITHS (NEW ENTRY) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNRghlld8HU


2. JE SUIS JEAN COCTEAU - CRISTINA PINHEIRO AND ANDRE SCUCATO (NEW ENTRY) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEQqXQGKyDQ

3. RAMONA - CANDY DARLING (NEW ENTRY) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiY0xzvfXXY

4. MY GOD - BOY GEORGE (NEW ENTRY) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEuuGObqchs

5. QUANDO QUANDO QUANDO - ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK (WITH THE DANCING ROYCE REED) (NEW ENTRY) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9lsnMh_tNA

6. GANGLORD - MORRISSEY (NEW ENTRY) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gowz4V1c-0

7. CANDY SAYS - THE VELVET UNDERGROUND (NEW ENTRY) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPgGjUSEWss

8. THE FALCONER - NICO (NEW ENTRY) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QZu8FrzgpU

9. RUBBER RING - THE SMITHS (NEW ENTRY) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5afU9ivbmQ

10. ALL THAT MATTERS - BART BAKER (BIEBER PARODY) (NEW ENTRY) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbDKeroCQq0

Bubbling Under

11. MELANIE - PEBBLES IN THE SAND http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Gyn-npsKC0

12. BEAUTIFUL - EMINEM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgT1AidzRWM
13. SOMEBODY LOVES ME - JULIE LONDON https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWtIEVq2sxs
14.  PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE (LIVE IN BOSTON 2012) - MORRISSEY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLInZxJv17o
15. THE ANSWER TO ALL YOUR PROBLEMS - KRISTEEN YOUNG (LIVE AT THE BOWERY ELECTRIC) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJSBDmJhHPk

Back to the real world. Perhaps I should stay there.
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Day 861 - The Spirit of the Rose

January 22, 2014, 8:09 am
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I promise that today, my theory on Blue Rose will be explained, but I am very short of time, so I may not get through the whole agenda. This will also be my last blog entry for a few days.

                                  AGENDA
1. Apologies For Absence
2. Matters Arising From Yesterday
3. Morrissey on Twitter
4. France
5. What/Who is Blue Rose
6. Justin Bieber
7. The Pessoas 
8. Album and Tour
9. Any Other Business

Blue Rose Society Members Present in the past 24 hours: TRB, HeatherCat, Loughton Lil, LizzyCat, Willow (@Smashingblouse7), Bermondsey Billy (a c**t), Fifi (Fire... a Morrissey pessoa), EARS, Romina (back to me thinking she may be a possible pessoa.... somehow.... with Damon's input?), Kate Ryan (a Morrissey pessoa), Yunaragunarso, Comrade Harps, Chuck Smith, MancLad, Astraea (a Morrissey pessoa), Father Brian (good to see you sir), GWO, Edge (not him out of U2...the photography guy), Kellie the Crisp and Clover Dean.

1. APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE

Girl On Bike
To set the record straight, I didn't criticise Broken's sexual preferences, nor did I call JB (or anyone for that matter) a fag. Parody Moz correct in stating that there is a line that shouldn't be crossed. For me, that line is being accused of things like mocking someone's suicide attempt (???) etc. Real Moz or not, but accusing people of things they didn't do and tweeting sarcastic comments about them is not on. But that is my problem, not yours.

It was fun while it lasted but for now it's good bye.


2. MATTERS ARISING FROM YESTERDAY

A) 'H'Yesterday, Morrissey mentioned 'H' when describing caramelised onion. I took it to mean a person called 'H', perhaps a waiter, but GWO offers this:

girlwithout21 January 2014 21:43

I did not read the 'caramelised onion H' as being a who, but as a what. But what a what I do not know.

B) RANK

HeatherCat has pointed out that Fifi's comment left on Day 859 of FTM referred to item 4 of that day's agenda, ie Rank, and not item 3, ie Jeane, as I reported yesterday! I really am getting rather muddled lately. In truth, I didn't understand what Fifi meant when she said, "last line on 3. He was. He is. I am." Here is the whole comment from Day 859:

What have you done, Water!? http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/20/french-riviera-floods-saint-tropez-two-dead
Not cool.

Joking aside, very good job once again on the blog. You are on fire! Well, not literally. You know what I mean.

1. "Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires"
2. See R's comment above.
3. Great analysis, Mr Rodent. Very, very interesting indeed.
4. Last line on 3. He was. He is. I am too.
Soon...
8. Oh no you didn't! Bloody public domain.

I have to go. I have a swimming lesson.
Fifi

Heather's interpretation was later confirmed by Fifi as being correct:

Heather is right about what I meant. Heather is always right.

I must go. I have to go buy some Fred Perry wellies and they're not easy to find. I will be back later.

Fifi

Bermondsey Billy got confused by this, and thought it therefore meant Fifi was referring to track three on Rank (Vicar in a Tutu), but Heather later explained:


Billy, Fifi wasn't referring to the last line of track 3 on Rank, but rather the last line that Rat wrote on item number 3 on the agenda, which asks if Johnny was keeping a secret (about Jeane). Fifi is saying that Johnny is keeping a secret about Rank, and so is she. She also wrote 'soon', which I'm hoping means that she will reveal the secret of Rank to us soon. Thanks, Fifi - I'm not always right, btw :)

So what is this secret code that is in Rank? And on the subject of secrets, WHY were both @MorrisseysMum and @Banjaxer tweeting the number '22' the other day, and WHY, before disappearing from twitter, did Fifi and 'Mum' both post tweets quting the 'Vicar of Wakefield'? WHY WHY WHY? So many mysteries.


MARR AT MONA - WHAT IS THE RANK CONNECTION?


C) TWITTERDILLY ARMS TOP 10

Romina suggested that Kristeen Young's song should have been higher in yesterday's chart, but the way in which she suggested this, with a highly amusing reply in 'broken' English, has ONCE AGAIN thrown suspicion back on her as being a Morrissey pessoa. I have always believed she had to be a pessoa, but her Italian is so fluent, I just couldn't work it out.... but it's simple, Damon Anacreonte is responsible for providing the Italian... or maybe Moz has learnt Italian himself! Either way, Romina HAS to be connected to Morrissey.

Here is Romina's comment from yesterday, which interestingly enough mentions 'swimming', just as Fifi mentioned it the day before! Hmm:


Dear Rat, sending you my massive apologize for the char, I was out for shopping and these promotional sales make me waste a lot of time! Anyway cheers for the fantastic songs! maybe Kristeen's song deserves an higher position, but cousin Fluff is the DJ and I don't want to hang him! Fingernails is very interesting, the word remainds me my holiday in Dublin three years ago, on a local newspaper there was a picture of Morrissey and Tony Visconti busy recording the three "new" songs, but in the front page there was a large picture of Shane McGowan sporting a veru strange kind of French manicure, do you know French manicure? Simple, just the top of the fingernail is painted with withe nail polish and all the finernail is painted with transaprent shining polish, but Shane's top fingernails were painted in black as the dirty fingernails of a young boy...curious coincidence, as always. Yesterday post was very interesting to, I'm agree with Comrade Harps about the interpretation of the lyrics, in fact, interpretation is strictly related to the personal culture of the reader and sometimes the author does'nt know about the symbols or the connection with other artworks, or maybe the reader, or the listner, got a particular idea about the author and misunderstands the meaning of the words. This, in my opinion, happens with the song "I can have both", due to the constant gossip about Morrissey's sexuality people read this song as a clue of bisexuality, but in my mind it is simply a song about the attitude with love's choise, not about gender choice. Sorry if I'm a little bit boring, now I got to go, my daughter got very important swimm training. Ciao!



3. MORRISSEY ON TWITTER

The Parody Moz account has once again been closed, so there is nothing to report. More importantly though (and you'll see where this leads under items 5 & 6), Broken has been back on twitter with his 'Ironic Boy Belieber Twitter Page'. It is also important to note that Broken's twitter profile reads:

'A Boy Belieber. I believe Justin has talent and will in a few years discover The Smiths. He will be the new Morrissey/David Bowie. Watch this space.'

Here are some of Broken's (@Broken1andonly) tweets from yesterday, and remember, these have been written by Morrissey. This IS important:

Will the real Justin Bieber please stand up?
I think the real JB is a sweet, slightly damaged dude from Canada and he's created an image to sell to the world.
He loves animals, his family and pizza pie.
But somewhere along the line he picked up a Georgia accent, indoor shades and a few Ferraris. He needs to find himself.
Maybe that's what Justin's doing? Finding himself?
People don't realise Justin just has to live. He'll make mistakes but he'll come out stronger than ever.
He's too good a singer and performer to keep doing this bland R&B shit.


Menippus (@Menippus) made a very brief appearance yesterday, with just this one tweet of note:

For some surreal reason I dreamt I was at Judy Finnigan's 70th birthday party at a funfair/carnival. No Bieber in sight.


Astraea (@FadingGoldLeaf) is the musical director of Morrissey's online life, and most of her tweets are music related. I actually wonder if Astraea is feeding us material that may at a later stage appear on Morrissey's pre-concert warm up video. I do hope so, her taste is impeccable. If that is to be the case, then her account will no doubt disappear before the tour starts.

Yesterday, after the weekly chart was published, Astraea posted the Jayne Mansfield's version of Quando Quando Quando, which is just UN FUCKING BELIEVABLE! : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_TKbZWGtwg. Astraea also posted Suey by Jayne M, which will make your liver quiver: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHpoeJopm-M




The only other pessoa to put in an appearance yesterday (the only other to my knowledge that is, although there could of course be hundreds more) was Kate 'Dolly' Ryan, but as she has now apparently blocked everybody, I can't report on her tweets, although she was having a rant about Morrissey not using his official twitter account '@itsMorrissey', which incidentally hasn't been used since 2009, and yet still has over 72,000 followers. It will be interesting to see if the marketing men at Capitol look to get that account active before the next album comes out.


4. FRANCE

It is interesting to note in Fifi's first quote above, that she posts a link to floods in Saint Tropez, and then mentions buying Fred Perry wellies in her second post. Presumably this means that Morrissey is heading to the South of France, as I previously suggested.... perhaps he is already there!

So, WHY France? Morrissey's previous two albums were recorded in LA and Rome, so is he heading to France for any particular reason? I personally believe that Jean Cocteau is the pull, and Cocteau has obviously influenced Morrissey for years, but why go now, why has he not gone before? Perhaps Moz always meant to record in France, but just never got around to it.

Perhaps Morrissey is planning to meet up with Francoise Hardy. Could that be the French connection? There has been rather a lot of Francoise's music played in the Twitterdilly Arms lately by Astraea.


SAINT-TROPEZ - IN DRIER TIMES


5. WHO/WHAT IS BLUE ROSE

Right, I've put it off for long enough, so here goes.... THE MAIN EVENT of today's blog entry.
I don't really know how to start, and I don't even know what I am going to write, so let's see what spews out of my rat like brain. For many people, this whole next bit might be a little bit too much to comprehend, and I have to admit, it is WAY outside of my comfort zone.

Ultimately, most Morrissey fans will probably see the Blue Rose Society as just a bit of fun, although I use the word 'most' fairly loosely, because actually, most Morrissey fans have never heard of the BRS. Actually, the word 'fun' is a fairly loose word too, as most Morrissey fans who have heard of the BRS don't think it's fun, they think we're all a bunch of crackpots, and what I am just about to write is probably only going to heighten those thoughts.

I suppose that this whole Blue Rose thing could just be a Morrissey Fan Club, set up by the man himself, via a parody website, but I agree with Broken, "it goes deeper than any of you realise."

I am very much an atheist, and as far as I am aware, I have never had any sort of spiritual side. I'm just your average run of the mill bloke, who likes cricket and football, works hard (or probably smart rather than hard if I'm honest), and doesn't try to think too deeply about things... but this MorrisseysWorld experience has opened my mind on so many matters, and I keep stumbling across things that seem to link to other things. Jigsaw, jigsaw, jigsaw. I'm waffling aren't I?

Ok... *deep breath* my theory on Blue Rose is that Morrissey, or perhaps we, the BRS as a group, have 'subconsciously' created a modern day equivalent of either the Priory of Sion or the Rosicrucian, but perhaps not with any religious connotation.

For those who haven't immediately logged off, and are interested enough to want to see where this is going, then I aught to explain just what the Priory of Sion is; although because I have neither read The Da Vinci Code, nor read any more than a wikipedia entry on the Priory of Sion, I am very much out of my depth here. Here is the wiki entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priory_of_Sion

The original Priory of Sion is supposedly a secret organization responsible for preserving the truth about the 'Real Jesus', and according to what I have read, it's Grand Master between 1918 until his death in 1963, was none other than Jean Cocteau. It is believed by some that Cocteau was unable to find a successor to his role, presumably because there was nobody who he felt worthy, and it may well be that the order failed to continue after 1963.... but if I had a spiritual bone in my body, I would say that perhaps it was just 'on hold'.

It could be that Cocteau had initially earmarked the younger Raymond Radiguet to succeed him as Grand Master, which is why, when Radiguet died so suddenly, Cocteau took it so badly.



Although all this is out of my comfort zone, I can't help but feel that there was a 'spiritual' reason for Cocteau to come to Britain in 1959 and draw his 'Three Frescoes of the Annunciation, Crucifixion and Assumption' at the Notre Dame de France church in London. Could it be that Cocteau was drawn to England because he sensed his successor was here, even though he didn't know their identity? Was it his calling?

Cocteau's drawing in the Notre Dame de France church is very interesting, in that he doesn't show the face of the person on the cross, so although most people would presume it is Christ, it could be Cocteau's faceless successor. Cocteau drew a large Blue Rose, a large letter 'M', and he signed it off with DDD.







Jean Cocteau mural, London. by TheAltruist.



More information about Cocteau's drawing in London can be read here: http://internationaltimes.it/on-jean-cocteaus-crucifixion-2/

The article mentions another society with whom Cocteau was supposedly involved, called the Rosicrucian. I have a feeling that I have read somewhere before that Oscar Wilde may also have been linked to the Rosicrucian. Information on the Roscicrucians can be read here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosicrucian_Order


I don't believe for one minute that Morrissey has ever been 'inducted' as the Grand Master of the Priory of Sion, but I DO believe that he himself feels some sort of spiritual connection with Cocteau, and Morrissey will be more than aware of both the Priory of Sion and the Rosicrucian. Does Morrissey feel that he is Cocteau's successor, albeit that it may be a 'spiritual' succession, and if so, has he ever shared this with anybody?

I can't imagine for one minute that Morrissey would ever go public with such matters, it would put him into David Icke territory, and I don't believe for one minute that either the media, or indeed Morrissey's own fans, would be willing to let him off lightly if he ever made such a claim

All the masonic imagery that Morrissey placed on the MorrisseysWorld blog, was put there for a reason. Perhaps it was Morrissey showing that he knew there was a connection between him and the Priory/Rosicrucians, but maybe he didn't know what he was supposed to do with it. Perhaps it is only the natural evolvement of the BRS that has awoken something inside him, which again, may account for him feeling the need to record in France, close to Cocteau.

I may of course be barking mad, but there is definitely something spiritual about the Blue Rose Society, and perhaps I have only touched the tip of an iceberg, perhaps this already runs far deeper.

Morrissey IS Blue Rose.




6. JUSTIN BIEBER

As well as masonic imagery, another 'constant' throughout this MorrisseysWorld journey has been the inclusion of Justin Bieber. There has to be a reason why Bieber of all people is continuing to be part of 'this', and I think it could be that despite Bieber's awful songs, fashion faux pas' and THAT moustache, Morrissey finds that he has a connection to him, and if I am right about the whole Priory of Sion thing, Morrissey could actually see Bieber as his protege!

Having observed Morrissey's behavior towards Bieber, both in 'real life' through press comments, and via Morrissey's 'online pessoas', I would guess that Morrissey is battling himself about Bieber. Every bone in Morrissey's body must be telling him that Bieber is just "another nonsense non-star" who can't dance, can't sing, can't do anything... and yet, and yet, and yet.... he feels a connection. By using the pessoa of 'Broken', the 'ironic boy belieber', Morrissey can pass the whole Bieber thing off as a joke, and if Bieber fails to live up to expectation as a successor, then the whole thing WAS a joke, but those words,  "I believe Justin has talent and will in a few years discover The Smiths. He will be the new Morrissey/David Bowie. Watch this space.", I believe could very well come true. Jigsaw, jigsaw, jigsaw.

There was an interesting tweet the other day, not by Broken, but by Parody Moz, which said something like, "They are ruining him." Bieber is only 19 (20 in March), and if he's not careful 'they' might not only ruin him, they might kill him. And people thought 'The Kid's a Looker' was a throw-away song? Bollocks!




7. THE PESSOAS
Knowing who is who in this whole phenomenal MorrisseysWorld journey is one of the biggest mind fucks. Most people on twitter hide their true identities, and therefore everybody is suspicious about everybody else. There is also the impossibility of working out which pessoas might, or might not be, the work of Morrissey. Personally, I believe Morrissey to be behind Parody Moz, Broken, Greyer Girl, Menippus, Kate 'Dolly Wilde' Ryan, Astraea, Fifi, possibly Romina, and Morrisseys Mum, but I may be wrong. There could also be MANY others. Each pessoa has there own personality, gender, age etc, just as Fernando Pessoa created his. In the case of Kate Ryan, she is not only mentally unhinged, but she is also a writer in her own right. What is very important to remember is that NONE of these pessoas is Morrissey.



8. ALBUM AND TOUR
There are now just 10 days before work starts on the album. The excitement is going to be electric. Hopefully the tour will also be announced soon, and I can't wait to see what cities the tour takes in. The 2013 tour kicked off in Long Island, especially, it would seem, for Kyle, the President of the Blue Rose Society. Will Morrissey play concerts close to the homes of EARS, GOB, Loughton and me? He knows where we all live! And will any of Astrea's music, or any of the MorrisseysWorld imagery make it onto the tour video? Can you imagine our faces if Billy Britt suddenly appeared?




It's going to be a GREAT year for Morrissey.


9. ANY OTHER BUSINESS

A) David Bret

I had never heard of David Bret until the other day, when a few of the Blue Rosers got into an argument with him on twitter, but although he is being particularly scathing about MorrisseysWorld and Parody Moz, it is only because he, like many others, just can't comprehend that Morrissey could possibly be behind it. From the comments left by Broken though, I get the feeling that Moz actually has a soft spot for Bret. Here is what he tweeted:

Broken: Bret seems a bit petty. Have you seen him interviewed? He's rather eccentric. But he's superior to the average Moz fan. He's also right about M-solo. He's more enlightened than the cesspit of Morrissey fans. He's a many-times-published writer. He's got something to say.

Chuck: disagrees is just too brainless to understand his enormous insights.

Broken: So very much like Morrissey then? Every TTY note more or less says the same. I'm right and you idiots don't understand, you idiots! And why am I so ignored?


If Bret is as intelligent as Morrissey thinks, then it will only be a matter of time until he realises that there couldn't possibly be anybody except Moz, who is behind MorrisseysWorld. Many have tried to find somebody else who could possibly be behind it, but once you put together all the pieces of the jigsaw, there actually isn't ANYBODY else it could be. It's impossible. Slowly, slowly, they will all begin to realise.

B) Blue Rose member, Chuck Smith, has created a blog, which keeps tabs of all the 'coincidences' and 'signs' that surround the mystery of MorrisseysWorld. It is currently a work in progress, but hopefully she will list as many as she can.... and there really have been HUNDREDS. Here is the blog: http://morrisseymystery.blogspot.co.uk/

So, that's it. I have entered unchartered waters with my Blue Rose theory. I certainly don't expect Morrissey to admit it, but we are on a ride to somewhere, and I'm holding on tight.



Love Blue Rose MT (Menton) - Trouble Loves Me


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Day 862 - Wrong

January 23, 2014, 1:29 am
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Yesterday's post went in the wrong direction. An over-active imagination perhaps.

Broken: "TRB your blog was interesting but wrong today."


Time for a rest.
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Day 863 - Postcards from the Poolside

January 24, 2014, 2:17 am
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Dear Blue Rosers, I have arrived back in the real world, where I find nothing much has changed. For some, the real world is hell on earth, but I am one of the lucky ones; my home is a loving place, and taking the dog for a long walk along the beach yesterday with a wife who adores me (well why wouldn't she?) was as blissful as one can hope for.
I will no doubt be "back down the rabbit hole" soon.

ZOOM not GLOOM.

Rat
ZOOM NOT GLOOM!

Dear Earth, Wind and Fire (llllol), Earth, thank you for keeping us all grounded, Wind (Air), thank you for providing a soft cooling breeze, and Fire, never stop burning.


Water





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Dear Justin, I know you won't be reading this, but following your arrest yesterday for 'driving whilst under the influence', I fear for you. You are just nineteen, and you are rebelling, but it looks as though there is NO cause. What was it that Log Lady foresaw in the last MorrisseysWorld article? Oh yes, a car crash. Hopefully, Justin, for you it will just be a career car crash, but I fear for you.

Live fast, Justin, Live fast.

A Friend of Broken's








Dear GOB, The MW journey has helped us all open our eyes and minds to many things, and it has shown us we have prejudices, no more so than how we all pre-judged how we thought Morrissey would behave. The journey has also shown us we have prejudices that we may not even have realised existed.

Sometimes in life we have to put our hands up, and admit we are wrong. With regard to your argument with Broken, despite what you think, YOU are wrong. You are perhaps seeing something in yourself that you do not like, but rather than offer excuses, or blame another (ie Broken), it is time to reflect, and then if you can see that you are wrong, you should apologize to Broken.

If after reflection, you still think you are 100% right, and you decide NOT to apologize to Broken, then I guess that you will be mounting your bike, and heading in the same direction as Rosy Mires, Still.I.Cling et al. Perhaps the BRS is not the place for you after all.

I hope to see you here on my return, but if not, enjoy your ride, wherever it may take you.

TRB




Dear Harrison (@OdysseyNumber5) and Stephanie (@Stracy1675) Thank you for your messages of support. The BRS is indeed a global family.

Rat

Blue Rose Postcard postcard
And now, back to the poolside...... "H, be a darling.... wash that caramelised onion off your hands and come and do my back for me dear."
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Day 391 - Tea For Two and Two For Tea

October 9, 2012, 8:17 am
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Tonight, Morrissey will be appearing on New York's 'The Colbert Report', and will, according to his 'official''unofficial website' True-To-You.net, be singing 'People Are The Same Everywhere' and 'I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris', although I'm sure the announcement originally said 'Action Is My Middle Name ' was going to be sung and NOT 'People', I wonder why it was changed?

 The Colbert Report's 'official' website, ColbertNation.com, has posted a link to Morrissey's 'official' website, ItsMorrisseysWorld.com, which hasn't been updated since early 2011, and STILL has a home page that advertises the forthcoming release of 'Glamorous Glue' and the 'Very Best Of Morrissey.' Does Morrissey even have the password to this website? He should sack his manager!



"I STILL DREAM OF A MANAGER WHO ACTUALLY MANAGES. BUT THEY DON'T EXIST"

TTY has also announced that 'Morrissey will be interviewed whilst in New York by Victoria Wood for British television.' Before anybody gets too excited, I have found the following on the interweb:

'Victoria Wood looks at the history of Tea and it's unique place in British culture.  2 x 60 minute documentary series about TEA, for BBC1, to be presented by VICTORIA WOOD. Programme one deals with all things domestic, from the arrival of tea in the 1600s as a luxury item, through to present day, considering all aspects of how tea is produced, marketed and consumed in the UK and the unique traditions and rituals associated with the Great British Cuppa, including Afternoon Tea, the Tea Dance, as well as the significant role tea played in maintaining morale during WWII. 
      In programme two Victoria travels to India, China and America, to reflect upon the role the simple beverage, tea, played in building Britain’s Empire and shaping the destinies of these modern superpowers.'


VICTORIA WOOD: AS SEEN ON TEA-V


It is fairly safe to assume that Morrissey's interview will take place (may have already taken place) as part of Programme two, as Victoria talks about the Boston Tea Party of 1773. Let's picture the scene:


VICTORIA WOOD: (speaking to camera) So here I am, standing on the dock of Boston harbour, where in 1773, the activist group, the Sons of Liberty threw tons of tea leaves into the water, an act that later became known as the Boston Tea Party. This act of defiance by the American people against the ruling British government, was a major turning point in America's claim for independence, which as every good schoolboy knows, was declared on July the 4th, 1776.



BOSTON HARBOR

(Cut to 'Tea & Sympathy', a British tea shop in Greenwich Village, New York, where Victoria Wood is sat at a table with Morrissey. There is a camera man filming and a producer lingering behind. The table is decked with lace doilies, two bone china cups and saucers, a silver sugar bowl and a traditional English cake stand)





VICTORIA WOOD: (to Morrissey - holding tea pot) Shall I be mother?

MORRISSEY: Well, I've left my pinny in Stretford Victoria, so yes, the mother's role is all yours.




VICTORIA WOOD - MOTHER


VICTORIA WOOD: (pouring tea)  So, Morrissey, you're here in America on tour with your band, and as a British citizen you would have required a Visa (passes tea to Morrissey).......

MORRISSEY: (taking tea & interrupting ) Thank you. No Victoria, I have no Visa, I stowed away in your hand luggage, as you fully know. (taking a cake from the stand)You are an accessory to the crime.

VICTORIA WOOD: (laughing) ......but if it hadn't been for the good old tea leaf, we Brits might not have needed Visas to visit the U-S. America might still be under British rule.

MORRISSEY: (rubbing his chin) It would, Victoria, it would (smirks to himself at his play on words and takes a sip of his tea). The American people rebelled against the inept British government and placed the power of rule into the hands of their own, who have proven over a two hundred year period to be more than EQUAL to us Brits when it comes to ineptness. (Morrissey smirks again and takes a sip of tea while Victoria also smirks, and looks over at the producer for some guidance. The producer shrugs his shoulders.)

VICTORIA WOOD: Well perhaps we should keep away from modern politics.

MORRISSEY: As should Mitt Romney, Victoria, as should Mitt Romney. (Victoria laughs out loud).


FORMER ENGLAND GOALKEEPER - MITT ROMNEY


VICTORIA: (still laughing, turns to the producer and camera man) This is hilarious, but are we actually going to be able to use any of it in the documentary?

PRODUCER: Let's just keep it rolling, we can always change it in the edit, you know, take bits out, add bits in.

MORRISSEY: (speaking to the producer) Do you 'know' Conor McNicholas?

VICTORIA: (regaining her composure) So, Morrissey.

MORRISSEY: You used a 'So' at the very beginning of our conversation Victoria.You're not in Prestwich now, this is the BBC, try again. The Oxford English dictionary has thousands of alternatives to 'so', and you needn't limit yourself to just the two lettered words, try three, or if you REALLY want to push the boat out, go for a four.

VICTORIA: (laughing) I wish I'd brought my dictionary with me.

MORRISSEY: Well you won't find one around here, the Americans only use five words, and three of those they spell incorrectly. As they say over here, there's no 'u' in humour, and that's BEFORE they've seen your act Victoria (Victoria laughs, Morrissey smirks and sips his tea). I think it's fair to assume that the 'Sons of Liberty' threw Doctor Johnson's 'Dictionary of the English Language' into the harbour with the tea, and of course that's harbour spelt without a 'u'. (Victoria laughs, Morrissey sips his tea).

VICTORIA: So....sorry, er, well then Morrissey, do you know anything of the Boston Tea Party?

MORRISSEY: (shaking his head at Victoria's poor use of opening words) WELL THEN, Victoria, I do know a little of American history, in fact, probably more than the majority of the Americans, but then again, Boris Johnson could possibly make the same claim, so it's hardly something to brag about  (takes another sip of tea).

"AMERICA IS REALLY BIG"


VICTORIA WOOD: So, (under her breath to herself) bugger, (to Morrissey) what is it you know of the 'Sons of Liberty'?

MORRISSEY: (puts cup down, licks his upper lip, crosses his legs and leans back slightly into in his chair) If it hadn't been for those brave revolutionists of the seventeen hundreds Victoria, the Americans would now be ruled upon by Harry, the naked Prince of Las Vegas (Victoria laughs). Bill and Hillary Clinton would have been replaced by David and Victoria Beckham, and the Mayor of New York would be none other than Russell Brand (Victoria laughs loudly, while Morrissey leans forward and takes a sip of tea). Dame Susan Boyle would of course be sat in Washington, keeping a watch over them all. (Victoria laughs again). 

VICTORIA: (wiping tears from her eyes) I can't see us being able to use ANY of this interview, this is supposed to be serious.

MORRISSEY: And you are SUPPOSED to be a comedienne, but SO far, I haven't laughed once. Is your act always this bad?

VICTORIA: (now crying with laughter again) Stop it, will you PLEASE be serious for one minute?

MORRISSEY: I have spent a lifetime being serious, I am sure I can provide you with a further sixty seconds for your BBC documentary. SO, Victoria, on a SERIOUS note, perhaps the time has come for us Brits to follow the American lead, and throw tea into the harbour at Grimsby in the hope that we can rid ourselves of Queen Elizabeth and the rest of her parasitic family (takes a sip of tea). I presume that there IS a harbour in Grimsby, Victoria?

VICTORIA WOOD: (still laughing, but looking slightly bewildered) Er yes, I DO believe there is.

MORRISSEY: Good, then we shall all meet at Grimsby Harbour next Wednesday, just after four pm,  and we will CAST our PG tips into the murky waters of the North Sea. Her Royal lowness will IMMEDIATELY realise that her antiquated system of rule has FINALLY come to an end, and she will INSTANTLY declare each of the commonwealth countries, a republic. Grimsby's very own Ella Henderson shall be declared the new leader of The Republic of England, and shall govern from Grimsby itself. Who knows Victoria, perhaps the Royals will EVEN stop shooting stags, or have I gone into fantasy mode?

VICTORIA: Morrissey, thank you very much. (holds up the tea pot) More tea vicar?


MORRISSEY SIPS HIS TEA - ONE LUMP OR TU-TU?



GRIMSBY HARBO'U'R




THE TWITTERDILLY ARMS TOP 10 - WEEK BEGINNING SUNDAY OCTOBER 7TH 2012

1. SPRING-HEELED JIM (LIVE IN BOSTON) - MORRISSEY (NEW ENTRY)
2. TROUBLE LOVES ME - MORRISSEY (UP 5)
3. FANTASTIC BIRD - MORRISSEY (NEW ENTRY)
4. A RUSH AND A PUSH AND THE LAND IS OURS (LIVE IN BOSTON) - MORRISSEY (NEW ENTRY)
5. HOW SOON IS NOW? (LIVE IN BOSTON) - MORRISSEY (NEW ENTRY)
6. I KNOW IT'S OVER (LIVE IN BOSTON) - MORRISSEY (NEW ENTRY)
7. EVERYDAY IS LIKE SUNDAY (LIVE IN BOSTON) - MORRISSEY (NEW ENTRY)
8. OUIJA BOARD, OUIJA BOARD (LIVE IN BOSTON) - MORRISSEY (NEW ENTRY)
9. FRANKLY MR SHANKLY - THE SMITHS (NEW ENTRY)
10. HEART - RITA PAVONE (DOWN 4)




MOZZER'S 'SPRING HEELED JIM' EDGES PAST RAT'S FAVOURITE 'TROUBLE LOVES ME', TO TOP THE TWITTERDILLY CHARTS
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Day 392 - A Little Somethin' For Ya

October 10, 2012, 9:53 am
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It always gives me a bit of a buzz when Morrissey leaves a comment on my blog, as it shows he still reads it, which makes it all the more worth while WRITING it. Yesterday was such a day, but Mozzer's comment has left me baffled. It wasn't a comment as such, he posted some lyrics, lyrics to the 1995 number 2 hit,  'I've Got A Little Something For You' by MN8. WHY, WHY, WHY? Has Our Mozzer finally lost it, or could it be he is planning a surprise for the BLUE ROSE SOCIETY?


HAS MOZ BEEN ADDING TO HIS IPOD?


It occurred to me, and a few of the others, that perhaps Morrissey would do/wear/say something on last night's Colbert Report, so this morning I rushed to watch it on YouTube.

The Colbert interview itself offered NOTHING new, and I thought Stephen Colbert was both rude and incredibly stupid, but I later learnt that Colbert is a 'parody' talk show host, a little along the lines of Alan Partridge. Having learnt this, I re-watched the interview, and found it far more enjoyable, and very funny, as Colbert asked 'cliche' questions, and made the sort of 'cliche' comments we've all come to expect from talk show hosts.  It just goes to show what a thin line it is between reality and parody, but of course, those who follow MorrisseysWorld, ALREADY know that!

COLBERT - SO DIFFERENT WHEN YOU REALISE IT'S PARODY


Before the Colbert show started, one of Morrissey's roadies, Joseph Joannides (@JosephJoannides), posted a photo on twitter. It shows the band doing a sound check, but it's interesting to see that Boz is wearing the MUGGER t-shirt that ALL the band later wore on the show. It's a bit like David Beckham turning up for a football match already dressed in his football kit!

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BOZ IN 'PLAYING KIT' - OBAMA ON KEYBOARD?

Here are Morrissey's responses to the cliche subjects raised in the interview:

On being a living legend - "(legend) means something that might be true and might be false, so it doesn't really apply."

On the Queen's diamond jubilee - "sixty years of dictatorship."

On the Queen being 'YOUR Queen' - "I am not a subject."

On the Royal wedding -  "I think they're arrogant, horrible, dictators. The world does not need them."

On Pippa Middleton - "She's horrendous."



"I AM NOT A SUBJECT"



When Morrissey asked Colbert if HE had a royal family, Colbert replied "yes, it's called the Romney's", to which Moz said nothing, he just stared into the camera. It was hilarious.

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THE MAN WHOSE WORDS HAVE SAID SO MUCH TO SO MANY, SAYS IT ALL, BY SAYING NOTHING

(Is it just me, or are Mozzer's eyes a little hypnotic in that picture?)

On a Smiths reunion - Colbert said, "You guys could cash in huge", to which Morrissey replied, "Not EVERYBODY is a fat old slag."

ADAM & THE ANTS - REUNITED AND IT FEELS SO GOOD


On being vegetarian - "animals are nicer than humans, they're conscious beings.""If you stick your grandmother in an oven, she will probably be tasty, but is that any reason to eat your grandmother?"


MRS RAT SENIOR - TASTY


On the album and song Meat is Murder - Colbert said, "when I hear that, I just think murder is delicious." When I watched the interview the first time, I thought that Colbert was just an idiot for making such a comment, but KNOWING he's playing a satirical character makes this line quite funny, and it is interesting to see Morrissey smirking, he TOTALLY gets the parody humour. Morrissey responded to this by saying "to a REALLY intelligent being, murder is NOT delicious", so Mozzer STILL managed to make his point!

After the interview, Morrissey sang 'People Are The Same Everywhere' and 'I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris', but the only POSSIBLE link to the MorrisseysWorld phenomenon, is Morrissey wearing a number 22 on his Mexico football shirt, with '22' being the number of original BLUE ROSE members, but he's worn that shirt before, so I'm not convinced that it was the 'little something' that Our Mozzer has planned. Tomorrow I shall scan YouTube and lOOk for a 'little something' else.


WE ARE RON'S 22 - MOZ IN 'THAT' SHIRT WITH A PILE RIDDEN VENTRILOQUIST


Tonight, Morrissey plays the first of three sold out New York shows, and the BLUE ROSE SOCIETY are hoping that Moz WON'T be able to resist the charms of Kyle Douglas (@mozkidkyle), who will no doubt be on his father's shoulders, right at the front, BLUE ROSE in hand.


KYLE - THE COOLEST KID IN TOWN.........


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...........AND HIS SPECIALLY BOUGHT ROSE



And WHAT leisure centre is Morrissey playing in tonight? Radio City Music Hall on 6th Avenue! It would appear that there is no desperate need to become a fat slag JUST yet!











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Day 393 - Hoisted From The Herd

October 11, 2012, 1:30 pm
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Yesterday I posted my 'little something for ya' blog at about 6pm (1pm NYC time) and half an hour later, Our Mozzer (@MorrisseysWorld) returned to twitter, with the following tweet:

"Morrisseysworld.blogspot.co.uk BlueRose - a surprise?"

GOB (@GirlOnBike1102) then tweeted:

"@MorrisseysWorld - Will you take @Mozkidkyle 's blue rose tonight if he can get it to you?", which MW immediately retweeted....and then he was gone!

The only new edition to the MorrisseysWorld blog was this photo, with NO words:


CHIO'S BLUE ROSE ON THE WATERBURY STAGE, WHERE IT REMAINED FOR THE WHOLE ENCORE

Just as TRM (The Real Morrissey) said it best, on Colbert, when he said NOTHING, Our Mozzer's publishing of a solitary blue rose said EVERYTHING too. It was a SIGN!

But WAS it a SIGN of things to come at Radio City Music Hall? In the words of Britain's biggest TV star, Churchill the nodding dog......"OHHH YES!"

"OHHH YES!" L TO R: GAYNOR TENSION, CHURCHILL & LIAM THE CHAUFFEUR

RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL, NEW YORK CITY

SET:

IN                                                                        OUT
LAST NIGHT I DREAMT                            FANTASTIC BIRD
BLACK CLOUD                                            A RUSH AND A PUSH
                                                                      MALADJUSTED


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MALADJUSTED WASN'T PLAYED

Before setting off to Radio City Music Hall, the youngest member of the BLUE ROSE SOCIETY, eleven year old Kyle Douglas (@Mozkidkyle) tweeted a picture of him leaving home with his BLUE ROSE, but would Morrissey be ready to accept it?

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KYLE WITH BLUE ROSE, CLEAN SHOES & WELL SWEPT VERANDAH


I have managed to watch virtually every song on YouTube, and the show was OUTSTANDING, truly OUTSTANDING. 'Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me', 'Everyday Is Like Sunday' and 'Let Me Kiss You' are my personal favourties from last night, but EVERY song was delivered with meaning, and Morrissey's voice is better now than at ANY other point in his career, it seems to have got deeper and stronger, it has more of an edge to it. Forget '55', I can see NO reason why Moz won't continue until his dying day. Why WOULD he stop anyway, THIS IS HIS LIFE, it REALLY IS!

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MORRISSEY ON STAGE AT RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL - TO GIVE, REALLY IS THE REASON HE LIVES

You will see from the above photo that the plaster is STILL in place, the pain NEVER goes!

So, back to Kyle. Did he manage to get to the front? Yes, and he even managed to throw in a couple of good old fashioned 'Horn Hand' signals, God, this kid is GOOD!


Morrissey
"OI MORRISSEY, I'VE READ YOUR BLOG!"


Let me cut to the chase, because most of you reading this already KNOW what happened next, and the MorrisseysWorld blog has beaten me to it. Morrissey appeared for the encore of 'Still Ill', and before he'd EVEN sung a word, Kyle leapt onto the stage, with his BLUE ROSE in hand, and HUGGED Mozzer. Kyle was gently led away by the security staff before he was able to offer the rose, but Morrissey walked straight over to where Kyle stood, and TOOK the BLUE ROSE from him. Let me JUST type that again for those who may have poor hearing, MORRISSEY TOOK A BLUE ROSE, and then wore it for the WHOLE song.

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BLUE ROSE TUCKED IN TIGHT TO THE HIP


And WHO caught Morrissey's shirt during 'Let Me Kiss You'? You guessed it, Kyle, and he didn't even have to fight for it......well would YOU fight the president of the Blue Rose Society?

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HOISTED FROM THE HERD, PEOPLE ARE 'NOT' THE SAME EVERYWHERE



You would think that with BLUE ROSE fulfilled, that would be it. The BLUE ROSE members are all bursting with pride at Kyle's achievement. It has been reported on twitter, that Moz even spoke to Kyle halfway through the show, just before Ouija Board, and asked him his name, and how old he was. Morrissey is even alleged to have replied that HE was nearly named Kyle. Morrissey didn't of course NEED to ask Kyle's name, Morrissey follows my blog, and reads twitter, he knew FULL WELL that he was speaking to Kyle. Moz  KNEW that BLUE ROSE would be fulfilled last night, he just KNEW, and THAT is why he re-opened MorrisseysWorld yesterday, and it's why he retweeted GOB's tweet.




The only other thing to report today, is that another email interview has emerged, this time with VillageVoice.com. Most of the questions cover the usual old bumf, but there is also some good stuff. Presuming the interviewer hasn't altered anything to 'Americanize' Mozzer's answers, it is interesting to note that Morrissey has once again used a 'z' in the word 'institutionalized', instead of the British 's', but centre has been spelt center, so perhaps Moz is just helping out the American readers. Here are the highlights of the interview:

On Record Labels: "I like to be institutionalized behind a great wall. I'm independent enough without selling CDs out of the back of a van."


MOZ (RIGHT) TELLS LIAM "IF TRADE DOESN'T PICK UP BY TWELVE, WE'LL THROW IN A COPY OF SOUTHPAW GRAMMAR WITH EACH PURCHASE OF THE NEW CD"


On Viva Hate & The Smiths Split: "I alone was responsible for clearing up any financial Smiths debts. There were no calls for 25 percent equality at that stage from any ex-Smiths! Let Morrissey carry the can, and we'll carry the cash...uh. Anyway, like an idiot, I trotted along, and under such pressure came Viva Hate."

On Smiths Songs: "I don't feel that they are somebody else's songs. The sentiments in the songs from the Smiths period were always mine, and mine alone. I wasn't the voice of a collective. I don't even think that the other three Smiths even liked the lyrics."

On Being a Decent Human Being: "In Rome a few weeks ago, a pigeon was zapped by a passing motorbike, and people just stepped over it as it writhed in agony in the center of the road. I ran into the road and picked it up and carried it to a dark corner. It was bloodied and dazed, but I returned later with bread and it responded very well. The point is, nobody would help the pigeon. People are so embarrassed to help. It's as if they can't forget about themselves for a split-second."

THE WOMAN FROM THE BOOKSTORE HAS NOW MADE A FULL RECOVERY FROM HER MILD STROKE, AND IS FEEDING INJURED PIGEONS IN ROME


And HOW have the non believers reacted to BLUE ROSE? Solow haven't even noticed, and Rosy Mires has called it a.....coincidence, saying Kyle is a well known super fan, and that Morrissey ALWAYS looks after his super fans.

And HOW have the Blue Rose Society reacted to  the non believers STILL not believing? Relief, sheer relief. The days of trying to convince Morrissey fans that Morrissey is behind MorrisseysWorld are LONG gone, MorrisseysWorld is OURS, and the longer that remains, the better. The BLUE ROSE SOCIETY is growing by the day, but they HAVE to find it for themselves. THIS IS ART.


For the record, just in case people DO start to realise the significance of what happened last night, '@MorrisseysWorld' followers currently stand at  8339.

And WHERE does it go from here?

*Goes off singing* Trouble loves me, trouble needs me, two things more than you do.



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Day 394 - "Over To You, Morrissey"

October 12, 2012, 9:20 am
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I missed out on quite a lot of yesterday's excitement in The Twitterdilly Arms, and more over, I missed Morrissey's visit to the MorrisseysWorld chat room.

The reason I missed out on yesterday's buzz, was because I spent the morning watching as much footage from Radio City Music Hall as I could, and then, having made a start on my blog, I had to go off to 'Dodgy Hearts Anonymous', an exercise club for those who have recently undergone heart surgery. The nurse asked if I'd had any problems during the week, but I thought it best not to mention that my only scare was when 'Loughton Lil' crept up behind me in The Twitterdilly Arms during the chart rundown on tuesday! The nurse might have thought my brain was as f***ed as my heart, which actually, is probably true.


LOUGHTON LIL BEHIND THE BAR OF THE TWITTERDILLY ARMS ON TUESDAY WITH ROMINA AND CHIO. LIZZY PROPS THE BAR


After 'DHA', I then had to rush straight to watch one of my children play hockey, and by the time I'd got home, had a family meal, and finished writing my blog, it was nearly 10pm. It's hard work living in the real world, but now I am back to the comfort of the shell.

Today, all seems much quieter in The Twitterdilly Arms, and I sense the feeling of  'what now?' among the regulars. The answer MAY be about to be revealed. At 5.30pm (New York time) yesterday, Morrissey placed the following comment on the MW blog:

"What does blue rose mean? You will see."

This has been followed up with an MW tweet this morning at 3.15am NY time, which said:

"Blue Rose fulfilled BUT what does it all mean? Over to you, Morrissey."

Could it be that Morrissey will now start WEARING a BLUE ROSE, just as Wilde wore his GREEN CARNATION? Morrissey now has the perfect excuse to turn up on stage this evening wearing a blue rose, with Rosy Mires offering the excuse that it's Morrissey's 'thank you', to young Kyle's kind gesture! Morrissey could then continue to wear a BLUE ROSE at EVERY concert, with Mires and her Solow friends explaining that it is purely because Morrissey 'likes it', thus dismissing the MorrisseysWorld connection as yet ANOTHER coincidence, or maybe conceding once again that Morrissey is 'just playing along'. It's BRILLIANT, the whole thing is BRILLIANT. Morrissey can now even wear the Bieber t-shirt if he so desires, they won't believe ANY of it, they don't WANT to believe, they are sleeping....or am I sleeping? Is this all a dream?


WILL THE GREEN CARNATION NOW BE REPLACED BY THE BLUE ROSE? '00'


Also on the twitter front, MW yesterday posted the following:

"@mozkidkyle He is the hero of the BlueRoseSociety."

I don't think ANY of us dispute THAT. We are all so proud of Kyle, he has restored the faith of many people these last few days. Even Billboard have given him a write up, and mentioned the BLUE ROSE (see here: http://www.billboard.com/events/morrissey-goes-shirtless-inspires-rowdiness-1007978762.story#/events/morrissey-goes-shirtless-inspires-rowdiness-1007978762.story)


MORRISSEY WITH KYLE'S BLUE ROSE IN NYC TWO DAYS AGO

Other MW tweets from yesterday:

"THEY said I'd never take my shirt off at London. I did. THEY said I'd never accept red and white roses. I did. THEY said I'd never do '00'. I did. THEY said I'd never spell it mesmerizing. I did. THEY said - OK but he'll NEVER wear a blue rose. I did. BlueRoseSociety."

"BlueRose is fulfilled and....nothing happens and nobody notices. BECAUSE WE MUST. BlueRoseSociety."

The above tweets are NOT parody Moz, they are REAL Moz. Incidentally, '@MorrisseysWorld' follower numbers have DROPPED to 8336. If you are reading this blog entry in January 2014, having just read Morrissey's autobiography, I promise you, I am NOT making this up!


MORRISSEY'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY

And on the subject of Morrissey books, it has occurred to me that I HAVE to outlive Morrissey, as otherwise I will never get the chance to read his diaries, which I am presuming, he will only allow to be published posthumously. Morrissey is six years older than me, but I have a dodgy ticker. My only other option is to sneak into his room, but as I don't even know what COUNTRY he lives in, let alone which town or street, the sneaking option seems flawed before I even began (see what I did there?).

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SNEAK IN FOR A READ....IF YOU CAN FIND THE ROOM


Smiths drummer, Mike Joyce (@ReadilyReplaceableLawnMowerPart ), has been busy tweeting today, and his tweets prove that he must still read everything about Morrissey, as he has responded to Morrissey's interview with Village Voice. Joyce's opening tweet of the day read:

"Apparently Mozzer reckons me, Andy & Johnny never liked his lyrics. Yeah, I always thought he was the weak link in the band..."

He quickly followed this up with another tweet, just in case anybody thought he was being serious. He tweeted:

"Talking of Moz. The best performance from any frontman ever? I believe this is it. Staggering. (link to YouTube performance of 'William' by the Smiths, live in Madrid in 1985)."


MORRISSEY MADRID 1985 - "BEST PERFORMANCE EVER"


I tweeted Joyce saying:

"I agree Moz was brilliant back in the eighties, but his voice TWO DAYS AGO in New York was BETTER", and I posted a link of Morrissey singing 'I Know It's Over'.


It is obvious that Joyce still adores Morrissey, but those of you who have been reading my blog from the start, will remember that I suggested to Joyce back on 'Day 43', that in my opinion, the ONLY chance of him EVER playing with Morrissey again, would be if he publicly apologised for taking Morrissey to court. Joyce's full response can be read in the comments section of 'Day 43' of my blog, or in my 'Day 46' entry, where I write about it further.

Joyce at the time said that he DID have "regret" and "was sorry" that they had all had to go through the process, but he also said that he was "NOT wrong" for doing it. I wonder if, ANOTHER year on, and with a Smiths reunion as distant as ever, Joyce STILL believes he wasn't wrong, or can he now see that with yet another year's hindsight, he would have been better off NOT suing Morrissey, but biding his time, and waiting for the right moment for the Smiths to reform? I shall post this blog entry to Joyce's twitter feed, and see if Joyce would care to let us know in the comments section below.

MIKE JOYCE ON HIS WAY TO COURT IN '96 - SORROW YET?


And finally Esther, and finally Cyril, my old mate 'Loughton Lil' said to me on twitter a couple of weeks ago, that he would be interested to see my blog audience figures once the US tour started. Since the very start of my blog, my core audience has ALWAYS been from the UK, but for some unbeknown reason, I am currently getting more views from the USA. Could it be that Heather has been re-reading the WHOLE of my blog, or is there another explanation? I'm sure it's just a coincidence, most things ARE around here.

FOLLOWING THE MOZZIAH - WEEKLY AUDIENCE, WEEK ENDING OCT 12TH


Graph of most popular countries among blog viewers
EntryPageviews
United States
1062
United Kingdom
845
Italy
182
Japan
171
Germany
110
Brazil
56
Indonesia
47
Peru
30
Russia
28
Argentina
26




Foot note: For anyone else, who missed Mozzer's visit to the chat room yesterday, there are some notes in the comments section of yesterday's blog entry.


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Day 396 - Viva El Presidente

October 14, 2012, 1:46 am
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I am writing this at 9 am on Sunday morning. I shall soon be setting off to Bagshot in Surrey, where my football management skills will be put to the test in a very tough Under 15 cup match. I have decided to adopt Malcolm Allison's approach to football management, and will today be wearing a fedora hat, and insist that the player's call me 'Big Rat'. If that doesn't get us a victory, then God knows what will!


'BIG MAL' GIVES THE BLUE ROSE '0' SIGN - AHEAD OF HIS TIME - NOW DEAD!

I have had a very quick glance at YouTube, and it would appear that as I was sleeping, the BLUE ROSE's President was dancing the night away, on stage with Moz! HOW does he do it? Seasoned concert pros like Manc Lad, have attempted FOUR times to give Morrissey a rose, and yet Kyle strolls in to Radio City Music Hall on Wednesday, hops onto the stage at will, gives Moz a BLUE ROSE, then hops off again, whilst LAST NIGHT, in a pit of aggressive 'Meatheads', Kyle just pops onto the stage again during the 'Still Ill' encore, jumps into Morrissey's arms, and then dances with him!


EL PRESIDENTE DANCES WITH THE MOZ


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THE YOUNGEST WAS THE MOST LOVED DURING THE ENCORE AT TERMINAL 5


SET LIST

IN                                                                   OUT
SCANDINAVIA                                          FANTASTIC BIRD
I KNOW IT'S OVER                                   PEOPLE ARE THE SAME EVERYWHERE



The only other videos on YouTube at the moment are of 'Scandinavia' (mesmerizing!), 'One Day Goodbye Will Be Farewell' (powerful) and 'Speedway' (awesome as ever), so I've no idea if there was any relevance to 'I Know It's Over', as mentioned yesterday, but it WAS played.

During 'Speedway', Morrissey quoted, "Some are born for happiness, some are born for sorrow, but only for a little while, we'll all be dead tomorrow." I've got a feeling that he's quoted this before,but I haven't got time to look up the quote. 

The evening before, during 'Speedway', Morrissey quoted a section of an old parody song by Victoria Wood, called 'Northerners', so I imagine that Moz probably had his 'tea interview' with Victoria on Friday.

I have no time to write any more, so please add comments below. Thanks to Edge  Industrial Photography for leaving comment yesterday on Friday's concert.

I am presuming that NOBODY managed to get a rose to Morrissey, not EVEN El Presidente, but we can't expect it EVERY day (everyday). And HOW has our president coped with all this excitement?


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EVEN GREAT LEADERS NEED REST!
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Day 419 - TheRatsBack

November 6, 2012, 5:27 am
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There has been NO word from Morrissey regarding the health of his mother, but then again, why should there be, it is a private family matter, and perhaps Betty doesn't want her illness publicised, after all, she ISN'T public property like Morrissey. The only reason that it was ever mentioned that Betty was ill, was to explain Morrissey's tour being postponed. If he hadn't had been on tour, I'm sure we would never have known that Betty was in hospital, although no doubt somebody would have tweeted about seeing Moz there.

 Whether or not Morrissey and his mother choose to make any further comment regarding her illness, is up to them, but True To You has announced that the US tour is being rescheduled for January, which would suggest that Betty is on the mend, either that, or she's only been given two months to live!

Before anybody jumps on me, it's just my black humour, I'm joking. I wouldn't really say "she's only been given two months to live", if she'd REALLY only been given two months to live, but with the news about the tour, I now feel confident enough to joke about it.

Morrissey himself, must be exhausted. Anybody who has ever held a bedside vigil at a hospital will know how draining it is. On top of that, he has had to rearrange the tour. Presumably Morrissey has a tour manager, but I always get the impression that he does SO much of it himself. I don't believe he actually makes the phone calls to book the venues, but you just never know. I also wonder if his mother is still involved in any of his business arrangements? I now have a great parody picture in my head of Moz making the concert bookings from the hospital phone, and passing the phone to his mum to do the talking, just after he's dialed, even though she's barely with it, and on a drip. If Moz gives me a sign that all is well, I'll write the parody, although what would be EVEN better, is for Our Mozzer to write the story, and post it here. *Crosses fingers*

BETTY DWYER - HOPEFULLY ON THE MEND


It has now been three weeks since the MorrisseysWorld blog and twitter feed disappeared. I only ever started writing this blog to follow the MorrisseysWorld phenomenon, and with it now having gone, I'm not sure whether to carry on or not, although I get the feeling, it isn't over just yet.

Morrissey's acceptance of the BLUE ROSE on October 10th, may have been the natural ending for MorrisseysWorld, but while the whole thing remains undiscovered by the masses, there is no reason it can't go on, although of course, Morrissey might have become bored by it all.

With Our Mozzer (and Mozzerie Guts & Society Rose & all the other pessoas) currently gone, most of the MorrisseysWorlders have stayed away from twitter, or as our little corner of it has become affectionately known, the Twitterdilly Arms. Most of us only ever joined twitter to engage with Our Mozzer, so without him there, there seems little reason to visit.


THE RECENTLY REFURBISHED TWITTERDILLY ARMS SITS EMPTY


Our Mozzer always said that we would miss him when he's gone, and he wasn't joking, having gotten so used to interacting with Morrissey on an almost daily basis, the past few weeks without him, have been empty. Although I haven't been on twitter to interact with the others, I can feel their pain, it is no exaggeration to say that losing Morrissey's contact, is like suffering the death of somebody close. All right, that may be a little over the top, but it genuinely HAS left an emptiness.

What the hell did old JC's disciples do, when he disappeared? I can only guess, they shuffled around, kicked the dirt, twiddled their thumbs, and then EVENTUALLY, they got on with their lives, although they must have hoped that JC would one day return.

* I've just googled it, and it would appear that after JC's death, most of the disciples were rounded up and crucified upside down.....great!*


LOUGHTON LIL AT THE HANDS OF THE SOLOW LOT?


If we have seen the last of MorrisseysWorld, it is VITALLY important, that we keep BLUE ROSE going. The internet gives us the opportunity to pass the word on, and we must try and encourage Morrissey fans everywhere, to take roses to his concerts. For those who may have forgotten WHY Our Mozzer wants roses, here is an exert from the BRILLIANT MW parody article-

 'Minutes of Bans and Concert Ejections Committee - 16/8/2011':

MAM: And one more thing, Steven... flowers... at your concerts...

MORRISSEY: Oh God, not that again, Mam. All I can remember from '84 and '85 is being repeatedly stabbed in the left contact lens with gladioli stalk... I'm surprised I didn't have a heart attack, what with the vagus nerve centres being behind the eye... can slow the old heart rate 'right' down. It can be utterly lethal.

MAM: Steven, it's such a pretty thing... all those flowers... bouncing around in the crowd...

MORRISSEY: Can't I just wear a little freesia or something in my buttonhole? Or a flower head dangling symbolically from my waist?

MAM: Steven - for me? Just this once...

MORRISSEY: Oh go on then, mother. Don't say I don't do anything for you, either...

MAM: Roses, Steven. Make it roses. I do love seeing all those flowers in the mosh pit as I gaze down from the seats. Makes me cry. It reminds me of Wilde.


16 AUG 2011 - 'BANS & CONCERT EJECTION COMMITTEE', AND OTHERS, RELAXING - L TO R: LINDER STERLING (NON MEMBER), MIKEY BRACEWELL, MORRISSEY, MAM, BOZ BOORER, LOG LADY'S LEGS (NON MEMBER)

The next concert, is on December 14th in Wellington, New Zealand. As far as I am aware, there are NO New Zealanders who know about BLUE ROSE, but hopefully, we can spread the word. My blog has NEVER received a single hit from New Zealand, but even if the message doesn't reach New Zealand, I do have a number of hits from Australia, and MorrisseysWorlder '@ShutTheKellUp' has already promised to take a rose to her concert, so we should be able to keep things going, although taking a rose, and actually getting it to Morrissey, are two entirely different matters, as the pages of this blog will tell you.

We have had roses die in the cold of Chicago, get trampled on in Singapore, get refused admission in NewYork, get removed by security at a number of venues, and generally not get close enough to be handed to Moz. It takes strategic planning to get your rose INTO the venue, get yourself to the VERY front of the stage, and then GET the rose to Morrissey. What El Presidente Kyle achieved (with the help of his dad) at Radio City Music Hall on October 10th, was quite INCREDIBLE... and then he was back on stage AGAIN with Moz just a few days later! "You have destroyed my flower-less life, Not once - twice."


13 OCT 2012 - BLUE ROSE PRESIDENT KYLE DANCES WITH MOZ AT TERMINAL 5 IN NEW YORK


For now, I shall keep my blog going, and what is more, I have gotten rid of that silly old 'Pier' twitter account, and brought back The Rat. There is no point feeling sorry for ourselves, the mourning period is over, it's time to return to the Twitterdilly Arms, and start playing the internet jukebox, after all, if we're not there, then there is nobody for a resurrected 'Our Mozzer' to return to!

Today is US Presidential election day. Tomorrow, Mitt Romney will go back to his old job as a goalkeeping coach, and Bollock Obarncake will continue to take America nowhere.

Love to Betty x

TWITTERDILLY ARMS TOP 10 CHART - WEEK ENDING SATURDAY NOV 3RD 2012

1. ALL THE LAZY DYKES - MORRISSEY (NO CHANGE)
2. LIFE IS A PIGSTY (LIVE AT HOLLYWOOD BOWL 2007) - MORRISSEY (UP 8)
3. PET SEMATARY - THE RAMONES (NEW ENTRY)
4. ALL OVER THE WORLD - FRANCOISE HARDY (RE-ENTRY)
5. SWEET AND TENDER HOOLIGAN (LIVE AT NIAGARA FALLS 2012) - MORRISSEY (DOWN 3)
6. TROUBLE LOVES ME - MORRISSEY (UP 1)
7. HEART - RITA PAVONE (UP 1)
8. THE BOY WITH THE THORN IN HIS SIDE - THE SMITHS (NEW ENTRY)
9. BELA LUGOSI'S DEAD - BAUHAUS (NEW ENTRY)
10. FRANKENSTEIN - NEW YORK DOLLS (NEW ENTRY)



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Day 420 - Hanging On by a Thread

November 7, 2012, 7:00 am
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When Moz is on tour, I usually settle down in bed each night, and work my way through Youtube footage of his latest concert. With no tour action at present, I have been watching films instead. A couple of nights ago, I watched an early 60's film called 'Ladies Who Do', starring Peggy Mount, which was rather enjoyable, but the real gem I have discovered this week, is a 1969 film called 'Staircase', starring Richard Burton and Rex Harrison. It is a delightful watch, and I would highly recommend it. I don't think it has ever been issued on dvd, and at the time of release, it was absolutely hammered, but it really is a great film, and I particularly love the interaction between Burton and Harrison. Here is the link for anybody who's interested. I should rub-a-dub: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCAZS8PsZjQ


REX HARRISON AND RICHARD BURTON IN THE 1969 FILM STAIRCASE

You've probably already guessed that I have nothing Moz related to report, and despite a number of the Twitterdilly Arms regulars attending the Top 10 countdown yesterday lunchtime, the rest of the day remained fairly quiet once again.

Perhaps the reason that we have heard NOTHING at all from Morrissey, is because he has already gone to Australia..... to appear in I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here. Oh, could you imagine it? The public would vote every day for Morrissey to do the bush tucker trials, which Morrissey would refuse on a daily basis to do, and therefore, ALL of the other camp mates would get nothing to eat, except rice and chick peas, which would no doubt greatly appeal to Morrissey's sense of humour. He could take his diary in as his one allowed luxury item, either that, or Boz Boorer as his man servant. No, I'm with Rosy Mires this time, Morrissey WOULD NEVER.....would he? I can sense another parody piece.

I'M A CELEBRITY PUBLICITY PHOTO OF MORRISSEY & TORY MP NADINE DORRIES


With no MorrisseysWorld to keep tabs on, I am having to find other things to do, and I am now toying with the idea of going back to work, although I don't really want to return to my previous job. I gave up work in January to 'Follow The Mozziah', but it could be that the whole MorrisseysWorld phenomenon has come to an end, in which case, I can't just sit here doing nothing all day, I need to keep occupied. What I really aught to do, is write a play or something, but it is very hard to find the self motivation.

I have resorted to spending a lot of my time on ebay, but I usually end up buying more than I sell, because it's easier! I have still not managed to add the promo 7" of Glamorous Glue to my record collection, but two have recently appeared on ebay, the first selling for an incredible £425 and the second for £280. A year ago, you could pick up one of these promos for just over £100, so their value is rocketing. There are only 150 copies in existence, so no doubt the value will continue to rise.

GLAMOROUS GLUE PROMO


I will make this my last blog entry for a while, because with no Moz news, I'll just end up reporting what I had for breakfast, and that is NOT why I started this blog. Just in case you are interested, it was Weetabix.


*Goes off singing* Please hold me by the hand, and come with me, and help me climb the staircase



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