Lofi Digital Monk

“For Aristotle, a mark of good literature is that it “satisfies the moral sense.”1 The Christianized version of this classical tradition reached its climax in the Renaissance author Sir Philip Sidney’s treatise A Defense of Poetry. Sidney claimed that the very purpose of literature is the “winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue” and inflaming a reader with a “desire to be worthy.”2”
― Karen Swallow Prior, On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life Through Great Books

“Nevermind is almost two years into being everywhere. Grunge shit is all over MTV and, to paraphrase the Dead Milkmen, they’ll slam to anything”
― Joe Gross, In on the Kill Taker

“It’s been said before, but it bears repeating—Dischord is, above all, a folk label, one that documents the native sounds of a Certain Group of People at a Certain Place and Time.”
― Joe Gross, In on the Kill Taker

“But good old Albert, aka Vic, whooped and howled like a Belgian wolfhound getting a glucose enema.”
― Harlan Ellison, Vic and Blood: Stories