It's So Nice To Have A Band

I Have To Erase My Google Search Histories, Because They Always Lead To An Obituary.

I Don't Think I Would Live Outside Of The Northwest. I Think The Quality Of Life In Portland Is Really Good. People Move From Intense, High-powered Jobs, And Move To Portland, Work Half As Much And Live Twice As Good. They Can Afford Bigger Houses, Or They Can Actually Afford To Buy A House, They Can Work The Minimal Amount And Still Get By. I Think There's A Really Strong Sense Of Community There. It's Beautiful.

Wholeness Is Sort Of A Dubious Concept. Because In Terms Of The Human Body And Literal Wholeness And Structures, You Think: "here Are The Structures That Help Make Me Whole." Family, Or School, Or The City I Live In. When Those Structures Are Dysfunctional Or Decaying, You End Up Kind Of Frankensteining Pieces From Everywhere In Order To Make Yourself Sated And Comfortable And Alive.

No Matter What People Are Struggling With, Or Based On Whatever. Sexuality, Ethnicity, Economic Status, Size. I Don't Wish Smallness For Anyone. It's A Terrible Place To Live.

I Wrote So Much About Fandom And Participation For Npr That I Eventually Realized My Most Fertile Way Of Participating In Music Is To Actually Play It, At Least In A Way That Made The Most Sense To Me.