Cities Are Made For Enemies To Destroy.

I Feel Like, For Me, Reading Thomas Merton Is Like “wait A Minute, This Is A Rabbit Hole. This Isn’t A Gateway Or A Ticket To Anything Except Itself”. When You're A Ways Into It, You're Five Pages In, 20 Pages In, 30 Pages In, It Seems Like One Of The More Oxymoronic Undertakings You Could Attempt.

I Felt So Liberated When I First Saw Charles Mee’s 'the Glory Of The World' At Bam Play, Because For Me This Is The Gateway To Contemplation, Or This Is The Gateway To Love, Or This Is The Gateway To Faith, Not Sitting And Reading A Book By An Isolated Monk, God Bless Him. This Is.

The First Music I Bought When I Was Nine Or 10 Was Pop Music From The '50s And '60s, Like The Everly Bros., Elvis, Del Shannon, The Flamingos, The Platters, Whatever I Could Get My Hands On. And Then Some Musical Things, Like Camelot, Singing In The Rain And Hair.

At The Same Time, You Don't Want To Be Blindsided At Some Point Because You've Taken Too Much Comfort From Knowing Nothing. So You Try To Keep A Little Store Of Practical Knowledge. At A Certain Point You Have To Pretend That Something Is True In Order To Have A Relationship With The World.

The Ideal Is To Put On Shows Where, If You Go Into The Same Space Again, You Don't Remember Ever Having Been There Before, Because Where You Were Was A Space That Only Existed That One Time, Created By The Music.