Indiepop List - Momus

Queens, goons, pigeons and baboons

I met them on the indiepop list

Folks that make me dance a tap

I’m so happy you exist

Maura Smale found the holy grail

Maura was the first to post

Stephen Cramer in a hotel room in Georgia

Wrestled Matthew Jacobson and lost

Luke Owens, happy lazy bones

Says 'Give my Small World a plug'

Layna Ayre came from alt dot angst

Where she met her husband Doug

Mike Appelstein met his bride to be

Callie on the indiepop list

Jonathan Takagi likes his movies arty

If Chris Marker points the camera he’ll assist

Johannes Schneider loves Nora and New Order

Grows apricots in Weisbaden across the German border

Nora, 19, adores Belle and Sebastian

And 'Tapestry' by Carole King mainly for the cover

Jim Thaxton honks the rusty claxon

On his trusty Beetle Foxy Brown

Rob Enbom, once a heavy metal fan

Runs Dial-A-Pirate Records when Holly’s not around

Craig Chin is interested in

Art and revolution nerd style

Steven McGowan sells gay porn

But he’s a pussycat deep down

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So glad that you exist on the indiepop list

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Check that you exist on the indiepop list

Jasmine J. Jopling and Eliot Van Buskirk

Lie drinking Irish coffee in bed

Lettuce prey that every boring holiday

We celebrate Crabonanza instead

Xavier Kim of Clock Strikes Thirteen

Shameless self-promotion is his task

Laura Waitling stands patiently waiting

'What's your favourite colour?'

's all she asks

Susannah Grossman, currently heartbroken

Finishes her homework with a sigh

Jaime Schmid took the long route

To school so she’d see Charley and say 'Hi'

Dan Zmud makes symphonies of mud

When he takes the mushrooms he’s Prometheus the god

Katie Vincent, the bendiest girl in school

Has a lifelong fear of robots but thinks that Dan is cool

Marian Chen loves perverted British men

Cunning linguists and Louis Phillippe

Victor Raul thinks Seisure are cool

Sings along to Beatles songs in faraway Peru

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Check you exist on the indiepop list

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So glad that you exist on the indiepop list

Adam Donnelly, girly tall and skinny

Is one of the most interesting people he knows

Alyssa Ference needs her independence

But Adam loves her anywhere she goes

Paul Fitzgerald gives trophies and medals

To cokeheads, but don’t ask me why

Lisa Brandt would like to go to Pluto

Where Sarah Records bands go when they die

Keith Sawyer to satisfy your lawyer

I’ll say your college radio show is great

Andy Coles didn’t want to spoil

The relationship of consumer to artist and so he never wrote

Chris Flores loves the dawn chorus

Blue skies filled with bulbous airy clouds

Anne Zender, slacker, troublemaker

Is tall enough to see in any crowd

Andrew Leavitt, Fairways is his band

He lives in San Fransisco with an anthropologist

Ryan Williams, a big Whit Stillman fan

Makes his films on super 8 cos he’s expressionist

Ned Norland, his one man band

On Revival’s called America, Dear

Seo Hui Han, makes the Carryout zine

And studies great white frenchmen who were clinically insane

Patrick Rogers and his three large rescue dogs

Make obsessive compulsive etchings with a twist

Guy Leavitt has an esoteric secret

He thinks that I’m a numerologist (1,2,3,4)

Little Shirley Beans she’s only 16

She put this song together in Brooklyn

Aaron Mandel he loves to read about the scandal

Of the artist formerly known as Nixon

Jenny’s favourite doll is a poofy purple cat

And even though she hates it, she hugs it when she’s sad

Alexis Lopez would like to get head

On the moon till he explodes from Maurice Sendak

Queens, goons, pigeons and baboons

I met them on the indiepop list

Folks that make me tip my hat

I’m so happy you exist