When things get so absurd and so stupid and so ridiculous that you just can't bear it, you cannot help but turn everything into a joke.

What's been missing from digital music sales has been the possibility of added depth. In a printed package one can only include so many images and so much text - for example - but digitally it's wide open.

I can't tell one from the other:I find you or you find me?There was a time before we were born If someone asks, this is where I'll be.

I wave to the double-decker buses from my bike, but the passengers never wave back. Why? Am I not an attraction?

I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously.

Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored.

Maybe it's naïve, but I would love to believe that once you grow to love some aspect of a culture-its music, for instance -you can never again think of the people of that culture as less than yourself. I would like to believe that if I am deeply moved by a song originating from some place other than my own homeland, then I have in some way shared an experience with the people of that culture. I have been pleasantly contaminated. I can identify in some small way with it and its people.