The most popular single in the world was Livin’ la Vida Loca, a song about how Pro Tools made Puerto Ricans gay.
The Constitution is awesome, but still overrated; it’s like Pet Sounds. The
If Elvis ..is the definition of rock, then rock is remembered as showbiz...It becomes a solely performative art form, where the meaning of a song matters less than the person singing it. It becomes .....
I never feel weird about being the main character in the nontransferable, nonexistent movie of my life. That’s totally fine. What makes me nervous is a growing suspicion that this movie is fucked up a...
Even the invisible are insecure. It's the most universal problem we have. It's so universal, it might not even count as a problem.
But I still feel like I lost.We all have the potential to fall in love a thousand times in our lifetime. It's easy. The first girl I ever loved was someone I knew in the sixth grade. Her name was Miss...
As a rule, people who classify art as irrelevant are trying to position themselves above the entity; it’s a way of pretending they’re more in step with contemporary culture than the artist himself, wh...
A book becomes popular because of its text, but it’s the subtext that makes it live forever. For
The drive to Santa Fe on I-25 is midly zen. There are public road signs that say "Gusty Winds May Exist". This seems more like lazy philosophy than travel advice.
[On political correctness:] Any intended message mattered less than the received message, and every received message could be interpreted in whatever way the receiver wanted.
When given the choice, we’d all rather be happy now … even if that guarantees we’ll all be sad later.
There is a new song on Top 40 radio right now that's so good I want to kill myself. I'm not sure why exceptionally good hip-hop singles make me want to commit suicide, but they often do. I don't know...
The strength of your memory dictates the size of your reality
The soul is a circle
The solution to this paradox (according to Palahniuk) is the theory of splintered alternative realities, where all possible trajectories happen autonomously and simultaneously (sort of how Richard Lin...
The most wretched people in the world are those who tell you they like every kind of music 'except country.
The last girl I love will be someone I haven’t even met yet, probably.
The falling flakes were random and without purpose; the snow was drunker than she was.
Sports are among the increasingly rare moments of totally unscripted television. The human element informs everything, in confounding and inconsistent ways. And since these are only games, and since a...
Somewhere, at some point, somehow, somebody decided that death equals credibility.