Yeah, and I almost never get lonely. I love being alone. I’m glad I’m married, and I love my wife. But there’s never been a situation in my life where my unhappiness was based on loneliness. Even when I was in a different country last year, I lived in Germany, I missed things about America, but the fact that I was there by myself wasn’t an issue. I’m good at being by myself. I guess if you’re a writer you get used to that.
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Chuck Klosterman
Oh Chuck, I really wish you would stop stealing my thoughts and feelings and then articulating them far better than I ever could. I mean although this quote could have come straight from my head, I guess its not a totally uncommon sentiment. But the fact that in your latest book you wrote about Chris Gaines/Sasha Fierce and how they relate to the idea of authenticity, an idea which I myself had been working on writing about for some time, is pretty damn freaky.
I don’t want to sell anything, buy anything or process anything as a career. I don’t want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought or processed, or repair anything sold, bought or processed.
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Lloyd Dobler
20 years on, still a good life plan
I’ve always noticed that it takes me about five minutes to scroll through the B section of my iTunes, but I never realized until today just how many artists I love start with such a seemingly random letter. I would understand if we were talking about S or T or even M, but B seems like such a unlikely letter to be so wildly popular. By my count I have 118 artists in my iTunes whose names start with the letter B. Hell, there are 13 artists alone who start with the word “black”. S may technically outnumber B (129 to 118) but the number of heavy hitters in B is just staggering. The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Beck, The Band, The Beastie Boys, Bob Dylan, Billy Joel, Bob Marley, Bruce Springsteen and of course Bone Thugs and Harmony are all some of the biggest names in the last half century of popular music. And if you want to go back further than that there’s Beethoven, Bach and Brahms. I don’t know why B is so popular, but maybe it provides some explanation as to why when I was three years old I insisted on going as the letter B for Halloween.
Its strange to me that Zombieland and Michael Jackson’s This Is It are both being released in the same month. You would think the studios would want to space their zombie movies out a little more.
“Im having too much fun to be cool”
