Lofi Digital Monk

“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

“MacKaye found what became in the band’s name in 1987, in journalist Mark Baker’s fascinating 1981 book Nam: The Vietnam War in the Words of the Men and Women Who Fought There. Fugazi: a slang term for “fucked up.”
― Joe Gross, In on the Kill Taker

“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