MxMorganic’s Reviews > Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy > Status Update

“Popular narratives are not real life, and everyone knows it. In truth, such narratives are the *churches* of every day life. They bless its ragged constituencies with rituals of closure and reassurance, and, since we have the freedom of religion in this republic, each of us may worship at the church of our choice.” (pg. 142)

“You try because, when you quit, you die, and life is better than death, I promise.” (pg. 136)

“For the first time in history, the songs we sing, the pictures we see, and the place we attend are not being dispensed by over-educated, Aryan muscle-boys, and these muscle-boys are very upset.” (pg. 86)

“One either prefers the honest fakery of the neon or the fake honesty of the sunset - the undisguised artifice of culture or the cultural construction of “authenticity” - the genuine rhinestone, finally, or the imitation pearl.” (pg. 52)

“Bad taste is real taste, of course, and good taste is the residue of someone else’s privilege” (pg. 54)