Quotes of the day, March 7
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to want to do.
May 4
Money was invented as a lubricant for the barter system, but we're way overdue for a lube and oil change.
May 3
I think that any authentic feeling one has of life should be a feeling of defeat. It's a losing game. You're going to die. Civilization is going to end. Our society is in decline, and we should feel OK about it because Roman society was in decline and before it the Assyrian one was, and they disappeared off this earth and we will disappear too.
May 2
Poverty is the test of civility and the touchstone of friendship.
May 1
There is always a way to go if you look for it.
April 30
When you listen to the Anthology of American Folk Music, or anything like that - a compilation of garage bands from the Northeast in the early '60s - you're not necessarily listening to the band and thinking about the lead singer, or the story of the group, or the context or the mythology of the group. You're just listening to the song and whether or not it has a hook.
