“My favorite prof, though, was Baruch Hochman, a little Jewish firecracker and D. H. Lawrence freak with a brush mustache. He used to say things like "If all you do is identify with the protagonist, you're not fully engaged with the text-it's like making love to a woman and feeling nothing but your own body.”
― [(Eminent Hipsters )] [Author: Donald Fagen] [Oct-2013]
― [(Eminent Hipsters )] [Author: Donald Fagen] [Oct-2013]
“The problem with halls of fame is that they celebrate sanitized versions of raw life. Country music finds itself in the church on Sunday morning because it spent Saturday night in a back-alley knife fight and trying to convince the barmaid to hike her skirt up around her hips. Without the dynamic tension of the guilt over the bacchanal, it becomes either joyless proselytizing or empty-headed carousing.
Rock and roll went from being a brick through window to the status quo—from actual leather-jacketed greaseballs making rockabilly records to Kiss belt buckles sold in mall stores, to Thug Life press-on tattoos. The music gets marginalized as the bean counters constantly recalibrate their risk-to-reward ratio of public taste.”
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Rock and roll went from being a brick through window to the status quo—from actual leather-jacketed greaseballs making rockabilly records to Kiss belt buckles sold in mall stores, to Thug Life press-on tattoos. The music gets marginalized as the bean counters constantly recalibrate their risk-to-reward ratio of public taste.”
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