AKICIF: music trivia

So say I happened to be coming home from a doctor's appointment yesterday (gastroenterologist, and nothing to do with the virus that's still hanging out with its metaphorical feet on my metaphorical coffee table, munching metaphorical potato chips and probably watching some ghastly metaphorical soap opera) and happened to be listening to the quasi-80s station on the radio. And say I happened to hear a cover of the Monkees' "I'm a Believer," done by a guy who couldn't exactly sing and didn't exactly know all the words.

Who the hell was I listening to?

ETA: And less than ten minutes later, I have an answer: Smashmouth. (Thank you, redredshoes!) Some days I do love the internet.

GIP

Because I finally have a program with anti-aliasing.

Those of you with graphical skills will probably critique the hell out of it anyway, but I'm fine with that.

And another

Because it beats trying to work or think or be in any way, shape, or form a useful and contributing member of society.

Stupid virus.

Anyway, this is Mina Loy, as photographed by Man Ray (one of many, and not actually one of the ones that shows how absolutely stunningly drop-dead gorgeous she was). The words are also Mina Loy, from her poem "Lunar Baedeker." (Collected in The Lost Lunar Baedeker. That and her very strange, semi-autobiographical novel, Insel, are her only readily available works.)

( full text of poem here )

Loy's biography, Becoming Modern by Carolyn Burke (interviewed here in-depth and with photographs--including pictures of the art assemblages Loy did as an old lady living in the Bowery) came out in 1996. There's a collection of criticism, Mina Loy: Woman and Poet edited by Maeera Shreiber, from 1999.

Okay, perhaps I'm slightly useful after all. At least to anyone interested in obscure Modernist/Futurist/Dadaist women poets.