People use irony as a defense mechanism.

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.

Software constraints are only confining if you use them for what they're intended to be used for.

Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?

Suburban houses and tin sheds are often the objects of ridicule.

As I define it, rock and roll is dead. The attitude isn't dead, but the music is no longer vital. It doesn't have the same meaning. The attitude, though, is still very much alive - and it still informs other kinds of music.