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12:13:2005 Entry: "Ann : An American in Paris? or "Everyone Stole from Jack Fairy""

An American in Paris? or "Everyone Stole from Jack Fairy"

Last night I came across an odd URL in my referrer logs for one of my sites. It led me to a very odd journal at MySpace.com. Now I have always maintained that MySpace is nothing but a meat-market for teens and middle-aged men pretending to be teenagers. It's also a really ugly site host as far as navigation, not to mention cliquey. You have to be a registered member to contact anyone who has a site there. And, contrary to some naive teenagers' claims that I have read, not EVERYONE has a website at MySpace. Especially if you can do much better designing one on your own. Especially if you're famous. Especially if you're a rock star. Especially if you're a rock star named Brian Molko of Placebo.

The name sounded familiar. I don't know much about Placebo, but I know they had something to do with one of my favorite movies, "Velvet Goldmine." I checked the IMDB, and yes, Brian was "Malcolm", singer in "The Flaming Creatures" in that movie. Where am I going with this? Well, this very odd MySpace site that I had found had taken some of my entries from this journal and copied them, practically word for word, into their site. Some of the words had been changed, i.e., sometimes "Mexico" substituted for "Colorado," or pounds sterling substited for dollars, not adjusting for the exchange rate, however. And the author of the MySpace journal? A supposed Brian Molko of Placebo. Now, unless you are the type of person who clicks on links in email that says "Your ebay account has been terminated! Click here to restore now", you know that it isn't the real Brian Molko. Why would he have a MySpace site? Why would any rock musician of greater or lesser known status mess around with MySpace?

No, this was a faux Brian. Perhaps it was a bRyan? Recently, I did notice a visitor from France who spent inordinate amounts of time at my journal. I suspect it was bRyan. bRyan does talk a lot about various places he likes in Paris. Obviously, that is not content stolen from me--not all of the content on that site is, just a great deal of it is. Note how the text looks different on some of the entries. Must have been stolen from different online journals from some other unsuspecting souls.

And in case you're wondering, the link to bRyan's site is here.

So what is this animal if not the real Brian Molko? Anyone can pretend they're anyone on the web. Name anyone famous--you can find a bio on them, get pictures off of fan sites, put them up on your own site, claim to be them, and you'll have flocks of little girlies and girlyboys naively leaving you litte love notes because they WANT TO BELIEVE you really are that person. The very funny thing is, when these naive little girlies post comments to "Brian Molko" how they love his dreams and "his" various posts, they're really telling that to me!

So we have an imposter pretending to be Brian Molko in identity, who happens to write like a 40-something woman. Or, we have an imposter pretending to be a 40-something woman who is using Brian Molko as her identity. It all gets rather Victor-Victoria...a woman pretending to be a man pretending to be a woman...

I suspect this bRyan is one of two things:

1) Someone who has plagiarized me in the past, someone who recently graduated from college and is now living in Paris (where he thinks he can disappear from his past into a new Gay Parisienne life) on Daddy's money. "Since we're feeling so anesthetized", obviously a quote from a Placebo song, is on the imposter bRyan's page (click where it says "Brian" over the picture of "him") and this could also be a reference to my site, ann-s-thesia.com, a site that this person is quite familiar with. Since this person from my past has a history of pretending to be other people as well as plagiarizing my sites, as well as a strong bi- or gay self identity, he's at the top of my list.

2) Someone unknown to me, that happened to google something which landed them on my site, and decided to use my words to go along with their Brian Molko fan site (why, I have no clue), but then decided, no, they would actually BECOME Brian Molko. As well as Ann Stretton.

Regardless of which it is, what a pathetic life. It's one thing to be a fan, as I am and many people are. But another thing to become so obsessed that you want to fool people that you ARE that person. They must be really unloved, not to mention they have no creative bone in their body, otherwise they'd write their own music or lyrics. Or journal entries.

16 Comments

Appropriation as life?

Posted by Stan @ 12:13:2005:06:24 PM CST

Very postmodern. Of course that might be intellectualizing it too much. I doubt much conceptualizing went into this, it probably happened organically for them, just like their organic brain disorder.

I like the other term I came up with...a Postmodern Plagiarized Pastiche.

Posted by Ann @ 12:13:2005:06:27 PM CST

Oh, and you know what will be really funny is if "he" swipes this entry, and changes it around so that *I* plagiarized *"his"* site! That'd be a good one. Too bad they forgot to change the link to my eyebalm site in one of the entries (which is how I found the site in the first place). I just love dumb plagiarists.

So, ya think it's Mr. Pantywaste?

Posted by Ann @ 12:13:2005:06:35 PM CST

I highly recommend that our budding postmodern appropriation artist look into the works of Sherrie Levine.

Posted by Stan @ 12:13:2005:06:41 PM CST

I was absent the day in graduate school we studied her. I'm just familiar with the fact she used gold leaf in her works, covering the entire canvas, but completely unlike the way I do. Nothing sensual about her work at all. Enlighten me?

Posted by Ann @ 12:13:2005:06:45 PM CST

Here is another possibility. How about an artist - who is not Sherrie Levine in real life - appropriating the works of S. Levine as well as lots of other artists who have at least copied if not actually appropriated other artists who have at least appropriated other parts of other art works which may have been re done, copied or even appropriated from anyone.

This person could then appropriate the name of some other famous person who is completely unconnected to S. Levine or any other postmodern appropriation artist.

Then would we have origional creative work by this new young artist?

Posted by Stan @ 12:13:2005:06:46 PM CST

Maybe our little artiste could also widen his musical scope by downloading some tracks by Hogwire. Heh. That oughta keep him busy for a while. Not glammy enough? How dare anyone insult the stylish farmboy chic of frontman Rusty Uterus?

Posted by Ann @ 12:13:2005:06:48 PM CST

...sounds of Appropriation Artiste fiendishly googling "Rusty Uterus" +Hogwire...

Posted by Ann @ 12:13:2005:06:50 PM CST

Copywrite law changed so much in the 90s that appropriation, basicly became impossible - at least on any realivant intelectual scale. Sherrie moved on into a more sublime direction. That is the kind of work you sawwith the gold leaf.

Actually, I think she is an incredible intelect, and deserves much more attention and notice that she has in the art world.

I do tend to favor the intelegent females, so I do have a biased opinion when it comes to female artists.

Posted by Stan @ 12:13:2005:06:51 PM CST

Our little Appropriation Artiste, aka bRyan, favors the intelligent females too. But he fears them. They are filthy creatures. Men are born of them.

Posted by Ann @ 12:13:2005:06:54 PM CST

I'm sorry. I just have a hard time sitting through any of their songs....Hogwire.

Posted by Stan @ 12:13:2005:06:54 PM CST

I'm sorry. I just have a hard time sitting through any of their songs....Hogwire.

Posted by Stan @ 12:13:2005:06:56 PM CST

Really? I sort of liked the album "Lick the Tire." It was their most urbane album.

Posted by Ann @ 12:13:2005:06:57 PM CST

How weird! Why blog if you have so little to say that you must steal entries on other blogs? But I would be kind of flattered if someone stole mine :/

Posted by Nico @ 12:15:2005:05:20 PM CST

Me again - It's the weirdest fucking thing, it's just - but I find him rather attractive!

Posted by Nico @ 12:15:2005:05:24 PM CST

No, no, Nico, that is not him, that is Brian Molko of Placebo, and yes, Brian Molko (the REAL Brian Molko is attractive!) But that is not the author of *that* blog! The real guy is a nerdy little twerp who needs lots of attention even if it is negative attention. He puts up pictures of Brian and pretends he is him! Just like he puts up my writing and pretends he wrote it!

You could leave your URL here, Nico, and see if he steals your blog! But he probably wouldn't because you're a guy. From his past history, he's mostly only stolen from women.

This little fellow needs attention. He likes dressing up in women's blogs and parading his transvestite blogauthor self on the internet.

But yeah, if you don't have anything to say, wouldn't you just not blog? Of course that makes too much sense, and this guy's elevator obviously doesn't go to the top.

Posted by Ann @ 12:15:2005:05:30 PM CST

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