“Bad taste is real taste, of course, and good taste is the residue of someone else's privilege.”
― Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy
― Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy
“Nostalgia - its delicate, but potent. Teddy told me that in Greek nostalgia literally means “the pain from an old wound.” It’s a twinge in your heart far more powerful than memory alone. This device isn’t a spaceship, it’s a time machine. It goes backwards, and forwards… it takes us to a place where we ache to go again. It’s not called the wheel, it’s called the carousel. It let’s us travel the way a child travels - around and around, and back home again, to a place where we know are loved.”
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