I Don't Watch Tv But

As Hard As You Try And Create Narratives About Sports, Once The Ball Is In The Air, There's Not A Damn Thing You Can Do About It, It's Just Very Real.

I Think About Dischord. There's Been A Pretty Consistent Notion That Dischord Have Been Some Sort Of "overlords" Of The Scene. Some People Have Felt 'they Are Too Cool For Us,' Or 'they Won't Put This Out,' Etc. All We're Doing Is Our Own Work, Our Own Thing. That's All We've Ever Done. Our Work.

I Have Thousands Of Tapes, And Photos And Fliers, Letters, Posters, Artwork - Basically Everything That Ever Happened, I Kept. I'm Not A Hoarder, Though. I'm Sort Of A Librarian.

You Can Hear A Real Shift. You Listen To The Late 80s Recordings, You'll Hear Us Engaging With The Audience, Dealing With The Issues Surrounding Punk Shows At The Time. Back Then, People Thought You Had To Be A Skinhead And Beat The Crap Out Of Everybody When You Went To A Punk Show. Come The Early 90s, When You Had This So-called Grunge Stuff And When Videos Became So Dominant, You Had This Totally Huge Shift In The Culture Of Shows.

I Think That People Are Constantly Thinking About Capturing Things That They're Not Actually Present For The Moment They're Trying To Capture. I'm Quite Sure Of This. I Think It's Insane How Many Pictures Have To Be Taken These Days. We Have To Realize There's A Level Of Documentation That's Just Chatter, It's Noise, And Beyond That, People Who Are Truly Documenting Are Going To Have To Find A Way To Puncture That.