Sunday, May 3, 2009

My Travels with Morrisey



In the year of 1990 I was driving over the Benjamin Franklin bridge, inbound to Philly from Marlton NJ with my friend Bill Cawley. We were on our way to Orltliebs Jazz Haus. As usual we were discussing cinema and music. Bill asks me "have you seen the new Morrisey video?", "No" I replied. Bill laughed and proceeded to describe it to me "It's called November Spawned a Monster, he's in the middle of the desert wearing a see through shirt, writhing on rocks, overly emoting. Then he takes his shirt off and he has a Band-Aid covering one of his nipples and he stands their with an apple in his mouth, it's so annoying." This description threw me for a real loop, I laughed heartily and asked "What! Are you kidding? Does Prince know about this?" Bill stops laughing, looks at me like I've lost it and says in a deadpan voice "What do you mean, why would Prince even care?" I was confused, had Bill's memory failed him at the tender age of 21? I said "Come on Bill, you know Prince is the creative force behind everything that Morrs Day does." "I said Morrisey, not Morris Day!" Much laughter ensued and to this very day I always picture the video with Morris Day in Morrisey's place.


1 comment:

Anonymous said...

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