John Maus interview

[dean]

Man, those interviews are fantastic. I'm really interested in what you guys think about the Mausspace reference in the first one... I don't personally feel responsible for shaping anything, other than hosting a space for a community to form. The way I've interpreted things is that he feels that Mausspace has created a persona of "John Maus", and somehow this persona has been bought into by those who write/review/commentate/regurgitate. Am I off the mark, or does anybody else read it as that?

[meewillis]

I think he's trying to say he'd prefer to see himself photshopped into space jam rather than thoughtfully looking out a window.

[dean]

I think he's trying to say he'd prefer to see himself photshopped into space jam rather than thoughtfully looking out a window.

LIKE

[pluckypurcell]

Man, those interviews are fantastic. I'm really interested in what you guys think about the Mausspace reference in the first one... I don't personally feel responsible for shaping anything, other than hosting a space for a community to form. The way I've interpreted things is that he feels that Mausspace has created a persona of "John Maus", and somehow this persona has been bought into by those who write/review/commentate/regurgitate. Am I off the mark, or does anybody else read it as that?

yeah, i really enjoy listening to/reading his interviews. i got to talk with john about mausspace at the concert here and he pretty much said a lot of the same stuff from that article. he's genuinely grateful and i think humbled that his body of work has generated enthusiasm and emotion in normal, everyday people like us, no matter how thinly spread around the globe we are, and that he isn't comfortable dictating or influencing our reactions to his art, he's gracious that people connect with what he's doing. i know i sure as hell would be if i were an artist.

what's unfortunate is that our enthusiasm is appropriated by people who aren't necessarily invested emotionally in what he does; they may be in it for the business side of things or to look cool by buying the latest darling-of-pitchfork album. other bands that we like tangentially are all of a sudden in his genre, whatever that may be, or somehow are informed by what he's doing or vice versa. once that happens it isn't the same anymore, it can't be the same. it doesn't make it better or worse, just different. i think it is great that he is so fiercely loyal to us and has qualms about changing. you don't hear artists saying those sorts of things. i've heard ariel pink say something like 'fuck the old fans,' but i don't really know how serious about it he was. i dunno, i really respect john for what he does and his honesty and the connection he has with us.

and yeah, i think he really sees himself doing a tomahawk dunk over daffy duck while michael jordan looks on.

EDITED TO SAY THANK YOU, DEAN, FOR ALL THAT YOU DO

[AppTrans]

Is he speaking disparagingly about this projected image of 'John Maus', via the avenues of worship/enthusiasm or hipness stature/artist exploitation? Hard to say, but it seems pretty obvious that he cares for the community on this site!

[owligarchy]

I think he's trying to say he'd prefer to see himself photshopped into space jam rather than thoughtfully looking out a window.

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hey i did that

[eternia]

http://www.cmj.com/features/2011/07/pop ... -sensible/

“Maybe it’s our task to wrest the radical from the periodic.”

[Fishfinger]

(ps : sorry for my english , it still hard to explain in my native language , so in english ...)

Man, those interviews are fantastic. I'm really interested in what you guys think about the Mausspace reference in the first one... I don't personally feel responsible for shaping anything, other than hosting a space for a community to form. The way I've interpreted things is that he feels that Mausspace has created a persona of "John Maus", and somehow this persona has been bought into by those who write/review/commentate/regurgitate. Am I off the mark, or does anybody else read it as that?

For me , the biggest question is why are we here ?
Okay , we all love his music and when i discovered it , i was so bored and depressed musicaly that It was a spiritual revelation ( musicaly ) but why we want to know and do more and "meet" each other ?
This gathering and forum is very strange .
I mean , for an exemple the band "au revoir simone " , i listen to them since a long time and they are pretty famous , and "original" but i never though to go more into it and when i check on internet ( just curious about their editing and how big the fan community is ) there isn't any forum or active and regroup fans , a lot of fan (myspace,facebook..) , but nothing connect .

I'll do a comparison that might seem disproportionate but I think a lot of , it's in the second season of " Ghost in the Shell , SAC " and the Stand Alone Complex theory.

In those episodes , heroes are tracking a man who wrote politicals book and seem to be the leader of an organisation of immigrant revolutionaries .
They try to find how the terrorist action have been organize , because the leader never contact them , they don't know each other either before their action . They first thought about a cyberbrain hacking ( you know , cyberpunk stuff ) but some of them didn't have cyberbrain . So they try read under the line of the book to find an unconscious lobotomy thing but they found nothing .
( damn it ! , i'm suck with explaination , i will just quote wiki :

"...In Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG this Stand Alone Complex theory is expanded politically. The main antagonist of the series, Gouda, attempts to spark a revolution by what he terms "data manipulation" in other words, fulfilling pre-requisite conditions of a Stand Alone Complex. By manipulating the fear and frustration of the repressed Chinese refugees in Japanese society, as well as creating false information which is then "leaked" to the police and Public Security Section 9, a terrorist organization calling itself "The Individual Eleven" emerges. However with each terrorist incident, including an attempted assassination on the Prime Minister, it becomes clear that nothing connects the incidents together besides a logo, which had been "leaked" by Gouda. In other words, "The Individual Eleven" is an organization constructed by a Stand Alone Complex - a group of self-interested individuals with no connection or ties to each other but unconsciously and collectively act towards the common purpose of revolution. Gouda notes that there is a tendency within a Stand Alone Complex for the masses to unconsciously project their inadequacies and common desires onto a leader. In the first Stand Alone Complex this was the Laughing Man and in Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG this figure is unconsciously realized in the form of Hideo Kuze."

In the anime , they made an analogy between this leader Hideo Kuze with Gandhi , like people who's become leader with two step , first , they just speak about an idiologie without the pretention or the intention to lead or be the boss of it ( no hierarchy forcing ) , with that , they have an earase ego and sincere personnality ( like mysterious ) , so its people who's make them their leader , because they unconsciously materialize their feelings or their cause that gathering them .
(second step , they have the power and devellop a serious case of megalomania and personnality trouble like Hitler but , for john maus , this has not happened yet )

About John maus personna thing , we are group around a "new" vision of music that touch us and make us feel ( and still hard to explain why ) which come with a mysterious man who's seem to not make music for ego valorisation purpose .
For an example artist like Peaches or Marilyn Manson really work on there media personnality and create a new character , and we don't have to make the amalgam with who is really someone and who he decide to be or look like in the media or in society , there is no reallity but just what we decide to show and see .
For those two artist , they decide to not lie to themself and create fantasy new character , but a lot of jounalist and fans don't understand it and there still journalist who are afraid to have their balls cut off when they made interview with Peaches .
For John maus , i think because he came with a blank personnality or media representation , it's pretty fun to create it . I never think about the real man who's John maus is when i come here , in fact , i don't give a shit ( well , it's turn on its a very interresting guy in interview and his theory about pop music are pretty much the same as mine but ... )

Argh ! I give up . I will try to make it clear later .

Just to say , JOHN MAUS IS THE NEW FUCKING JESUS !!!
and i hope his ego will succeed in taking on this role .

[AppTrans]

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_b ... -pink.html

[owligarchy]

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_b ... -pink.html

really interesting read! i like lists.

[eternia]

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/displa ... john_maus/

[eternia]

http://yfrog.com/mmn9dpz

[pluckypurcell]

fructose mixed up with molecules and shit....lol

[dean]

I'm eating chips and drinking some weird mango drink right now. AKA - I'm mutating.

[owligarchy]

fructose mixed up with molecules and shit....lol