I got an email from Momus today. I’m trying to send him a CD and he gave me his address and was real nice about it. For those unfamiliar, Momus is Nick Currie, a guy who wrote some weird pop albums in the mid-80s (I only know Tender Pervert; “Lucky Like St. Sebastian” is an amazing song) and has continued to record music till the present day. Along the way he started blogging and writing (writing about blogging even!) thereby gradually tranforming himself from musician to kind of all-around immersive hipster intellectual blog reporter.

I’m kind of fascinated by this guy, how he’s managed to make a living based on his interests and just who he is (well, that and his obvious skill at expressing said things in writing). My luck then that someone just posted this interview piece entitled “How to Live like Nick Currie”. One the most interesting parts for me is this:

Q: Would there ever be a self-help book: How to Live like Nick Currie?

A: I guess that’s always been my fantasy. I think anyone who is self-advertising, self-mediating, self-promoting, that’s one of the first thing you’re taught as a musician: to think of yourself as a product.

Ok, so that’s a little icky on some levels – self as product advertised by self – but some of it appeals to me. It kind of plays into this idea of living your life based on what interests you, becoming this kind of touchstone for interesting and creative things, which hopefully helps you feed your face. I think that’s kind of my ideal at this point – which might explain why I put my name and face on my frikkin business card. Whether I’m aware of and/or comfortable with the ramifications of that move is something I’m still trying to figure out. Seems like Momus would be, and that seems like a good thing.