june 18 in idea barrages

You might think Viagra will uncomplicate your life but, really, you’re just making it hard on yourself.

I think the thing is, it’s better to say I’m trying my best to be an ally than to say I AM an ally. It’s a learning process to be empathetic about something you don’t fully understand. I just keep learning and keep trying.

I like hypotheticals, in theory.

Back in the 90s, we were staring at scrambled blobs on the upper channels, trying to figure out the Skinemaxic Universe.

You know a guitarist is laying down something sick when they look like they smelled something so awful they’re about to throw up. For some reason, that’s the highest praise a guitarist can heap upon their own work.

How much cooler would it have been if “You’re So Vain” hadn’t been about Warren Beatty, but had been her looking in deep and criticizing herself? Diss tracks, meh, they were played out before the wax cylinder machine. Songs of knowing self-criticism, though, are the best.

“Don’t get it twisted! Testicular torsion is NOT cool!”

Anything you do on April 1st is truly a fool’s errand.