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Clip Your Year-end Column And Put It Away For 10 Years. See If You Don’t Feel Like An Idiot When You Reread It.

Record Labels, Which Used To Have Complete Control, Are Essentially Irrelevant. The Process Of A Band Exposing Itself To The World Is Extremely Democratic And There Are No Barriers. Music Is No Longer A Commodity, It’s An Environment, Or Atmospheric Element. Consumers Have Much More Choice And You See People Indulging In The Specificity Of Their Tastes Dramatically More. They Only Bother With Music They Like.

There's A Stupid Trend In American Politics Right Now With People Who Have No Experience With Politics And No Grasp Of Public Service As A Profession Just Deciding That They're Going To Jump Into It. The Obvious Figurehead Of This Whole "i Am An Idiot, Therefore I Can Be A Politician" Is Donald Trump. People Think That Ignorance Of A Profession Is Somehow Qualifying For That Profession. It's Utterly Baffling.

When People Are Absurdly Tall, They Command Everyone's Attention When They Walk Into A Room. Nobody's Ever Dismissive Of Somebody For Being Too Tall.

Almost Any Decent Cook Will Make Food By Eye And Taste. Virtually All Of My Family Cooked That Way.