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19 Mar 07

The Believer - The Passion of the Morrissey

  • Even before he dropped his Christian names and became a pop icon in his own
    right, Steven Patrick Morrissey obsessively worshipped outsiders. As a bookish,
    isolated teenager holed up in his bedroom in Manchester, he idolized a string of
    famous misfits, from James Dean to Oscar Wilde, going as far as to pen a booklet
    about Dean entitled James Dean Is Not Dead. He was an avid reader of
    feminist texts and fan of outmoded 1960s British, female pop divas like Sandie
    Shaw and Twinkle. 1960s kitchen sink dramas such as A Taste of Honey and
    Billy Liar, both studies in the themes of isolation, marginalization and
    the power of the imagination, exerted a potent influence on him.
  • Gradually, the adoration turns into unabashed devotion, as people try to clamber
    onto the stage. Those that make it past the heavy-set bouncers cling desperately
    onto their pop idol like lepers begging for a miracle. As the singer up on stage
    leads the bacchanal of flailing bodies in a rousing chorus of "Hang the DJ! Hang
    the DJ, Hang the DJ!" the scene resembles something of a cross between a room
    full of lagered-up soccer hooligans and The Sermon on the Mount.
05 Jan 07

Caring for Your Introvert - theatlantic.com

  • Caring for Your Introvert









    The habits and needs of a little-understood group

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