better not tell him someone else likes the album or they might like it anymore

Oh man, I was into Marxy like 5 years ago.

Ha, that's funny, I read part of that very article today at a friend's house in Brooklyn, in between takes of some movie we were shooting (I played a ghost, don't ask). I didn't see the reference, but I have the magazine right here... Let's see... It's a huge long article... Ah, here it is, page 56:

"I want to seem self-aware, but not a pretentious asshole," Matt Morello, a Yale graduate who logs onto Facebook about a dozen times a day, wrote in an e-mail. He described how simply listing his favorite music became an agonizing task: "I never used to update this, thinking it was just too fraught a category (like favorite books still is, unless there's some joke to make). I'm a musician: what I play and listen to has always been an important part of my identity, and it's only fairly recently that I've developed the confidence to say, you know, I like this, and I don't really care if you don't. So what's there now? Albums by Babyshambles, Lady Sovereign, Marxy, and My Bloody Valentine, respectively an indie rock thing, a grime thing, a twenty-minute album released on my friend's record label that's brilliant and heard by practically no-one, and a canonic album from the late 80s."

"In the photograph that accompanies Morello's profile, he appears with his eyes closed and his mouth stuffed with cookies. "I think it's something of an achievement to fit six Oreos in one's mouth... I want certain people to get much more out of it than others, and for those certains to be impressed by my cleverness tempered by restraint."

I recommend my album to all people who can stuff cookies in their mouths.

yeah, marxy. let me type out the entire article in detail so that everyone knows the messenger is not trustworthy. otherwise...

C'mon, this is essential information, invaluable for Marxy, who can now tailor his marketing to "the six-Oreos-in-mouth demographic".

Why would I market my music?

LOL I was like THAT guy 5 years ago. Anyways, I am deeply uncomfortable, as of three days ago, with Momus's decision to name himself after a god of mischief. Largely because it interferes with my desires to (1) name myself Ratatosk (2) worldhop five minutes ago (3) name myself Clytemnestra.

Anyways, you have an album, Marxy?

the saltine challenge

http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2005/03/the-saltine-challenge

untill you try it you don't know.

haha "you have an album?" love it. so internet-er-ly mean.

on the internet no one knows you are a musician

But offline, I am like the Falco of the 21st century. Watch out!

you're nobody till somebody facebooks you

seriously though, congrats marxy on another bit of media attention.

i've lent your cd to my girlfriend just this morning. shall i keep you updated about that?

Depends on how many cookies she can fit in her mouth.

That picture shows the glorious conclusion of a cookie-eating contest at a 2005 New Year's Eve party, at which I was the only one to manage six, but not nearly the only one to enjoy the then-soon-to-be-released album. Just saying, when this plug sends it to platinum, I want to work craft services on the sold-out Young Alive In Love '06 arena tour.