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This is the era and genre of music I love. I love reading interviews and memoirs and so far this book is all of the juicy details I want to hear about the bands behind my favorite songs.

I'm learning a lot because I know NOTHING about the Bible. My only gripe so far: no photo of the wooden shack in the apt living room. At this point, I still feel secular. but I'm enjoying hearing about his experience and how there Bible is interpreted historically, on modern times, for practicality, and especially in this book, literally. I will definitely be reading this author's other works when I'm done.

"'well forgive me if I'm being cynical, but why would you possibly need to hear music you dislike that you only associate with a cat you barely remember?' I really don't know how to answer that. Maybe it's like having a tattoo... you'd still never get rid of it because it's part of your skin now. It's a scar and scars mean something."

"And no excuses: If you love a record, you need the original pressing."

"That’s the problem, it’s lonely collecting records. You can share it, but there’s a vicious undercurrent there, the only person you can ever impress with that rare record you just got is another collector who’s looking for the same record. And the average person, I can show them the rarest record in the collection and they’ll say, ‘Yeah? So what?’”

"I feel that it's my responsibility as someone whose life was completely altered, colored, shaped, and categorized by whatever music I was listening to at the time, to give my kids a little background on why music is so important to me, and how it almost comes to define who we are."

"Somehow, over the last few decades, the generation gap seems to have narrowed somration gap seems to have narrowed somewhat. You see adults dressing like teenagers, and kids listening to Nirvana, Green Day, and the same bands their parents listened to when they were graduating high school."

"Regardless of how jaded I am, I still believe in this shit."

"In all such cases, death is certain, but the timing isn't. So everyone struggles with this uncertainty- with how, and when, to accept that the battle is lost... In the past few decades, medical science has rendered obsolete centuries of experience, tradition, and language about our mortality and created a new difficulty for mankind: how to die."

"In all such cases, death is certain, but the timing isn't. So everyone struggles with this uncertainty- with how, and when, to accept that the battle is lost."

"Three battles of being mortal is the battle to maintain the integrity of one's life... Sickness and old age make the struggle hard enough. The professionals and institutions we turn to... [increasingly] believe their job is not to confine people's choices in the name of safety but top expand them in the name of living a worthwhile life"

"You become a doctor for what you imagine to be the satisfaction of the work, and that turns out to be the satisfaction of competence... from being technically skilled... your competence gives you a secure sense of identity."

simon pegg was a lifeguard.

"The cool character on /Happy Days/ was 'the Fonz,' and he was ridiculous. His office was in a men's bathroom. That's not only not cool, that's not even sanitary."

"Doctors always have the attitude of 'Look, we are scientists- we've figured out the human body. Trust us.' Yet whenever I go for a check up, they are always like, 'It's either a freckle, or we have to amputate your head.'"

"There are pieces of you that are inherently yours, but everything else is a collection of the things you've seen and the people you've met... step up and drop a verse on my story,"

"I do not think stress is a legitimate topic of conversation, in public anyway. No one ever wants to hear how stressed out anyone else is, because most of the time everyone is stressed out."

i'm not a cynic. i'm a realist.

misanthrope solidarity!

not sure if i can finish this one. the side plot is long and winding- can we get back to the mechanical hive already?!

"In your heart you cared about a dead, gone bugger you never knew, and you laid him out, because you're a Waiting Man. But Vaughn, he didn't flinch because he doesn't care one bit... Them as have the Screaming, Billy, they're empty inside, and the things they can do when they start to understand... not for good fellows to dwell on."

"Necessary". A magic word to excuse a multitude of sins, and all it really means is "easier this way than the other".