The logic for me, in writing it is that the different areas or different years are almost like different rooms.

I'm known as being a massive dweeb who's into video games and so on.

It's interesting, in the U.K., I'm known for doing comedy things, which often doesn't translate to the U.S.

If technology is a drug – and it does feel like a drug – then what, precisely, are the side-effects?

Most writers or performers walk around with the notion in their head that - a paranoid worry that maybe people don't like them.

Don't accuse anyone with the temerity to question your sad supernatural fantasies of having a 'closed mind' or being 'blind to possibilities'. A closed mind asks no questions, unthinkingly accepting that which it wants to believe. The blindness is all yours.

Everyone had clearly spent far too long perfecting their appearance. I used to feel intimidated by people like this; now I see them as walking insecurity beacons, slaves to the perceived judgment of others, trapped within a self- perpetuating circle of crushing status anxiety.