Saint Moz

In honor of Morrissey's NY stand at the Apollo Theatre, Gothamist directs your attention the new book, Saint Morrissey, written by Mark Simpson, the brilliant man who unwittingly brought the world the word "metrosexual." There's an excerpt of the "psycho-bio" in Salon:

Of all the attention Steven Patrick Morrissey has garnered, he is perhaps best known for not doing the nasty. His abstinence is seen as symbol, proof and cause of his eccentricity. After all, in an age utterly obsessed with and possessed by SEX, such party-pooping is inconsiderate, anti-democratic, downright unhealthy, and, well, positively sinful. And in a pop star who hasn't been knighted and whose main audience isn't grandmums, it's actually heretical.

Praise for the book (it's only making its U.S. appearance now), see the new Morrissey video (via Stereogum, who calls it "Morrissey Week") and photos of the Apollo from rion. And Morrissey is a prototypical quirkyalone...well, duh.

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By Jen Chung in Arts and Events on May 3, 2004 1:40 PM

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David Eng

Morrissey is looking more like elvis circa 1966 (http://www.elvis.com/elvisolog... and less the new waver waif.

Yaji

The Apollo is the perfect venue for Morrissey, its where "Stars Are Born, And Legends Are Made."

informationleafblower

Nononononono. We're all gonna get together after the gig on Saturday.

matt

jake: nothin' so official as with the man himself. (at least i don't think, and, if i'm wrong, i'll name my first child after him -- and by that i mean stereogum and not even scott. ya hear that, lapatine?! heck, i'll even name him/her rumpelstiltskin.) what i really meant was a meet-up of the likeminded.

jen: thanks!

jake

holy gajesus- stereogum has access to the post-gig party? what, and i mean what, do i have to do to get in on that?

Jen

Oooh, thanks. I can't wait to get my copy of Saint Moz.

And you look so cute in your Morrissey T!

matt

i'm so there for friday and saturday. on one of those nights, thanks to the folks @ neighborhoodies, you'll know me by my calling card.

ilb is heading up for thursday and saturday, and we're counting on/hoping for stereogum to fill us in on post-gig party details.

further on saint morrissey, there's this (thanks to tmftml).