There's Very Little Admirable About

Venues Are All The Same, All Feel The Same, These Generic Blank Spaces. I Like Artists Like Lightning Bolt-bands That Go In And Kind Of Change Things Every Time, Play On The Floor, Set Up In The Middle Of The Room. They Go In And They Reinvent The Space Every Time, Which I Feel Is Like The Kind Of Thing That Should Just Be Happening.

I Do An Opening In 'the Glory Of The World' Play At Bam, And Then I Go Up To The High Balcony In The Back And Watch The Bulk Of The Play, But Then I Have To Leave My Seat About Seven To 10 Minutes Before The End Of That Final Big Scene...and It's A Bummer.

Sometimes We Need To Tell Ourselves That We're Not Going To Do Certain Things, Just In Order To Stay Sane.

Making Money Is Awesome And Fun As Hell, But They're Saying, "well, You're Offered A Whole Lot Of Money To Do This," And It's Like, Well, I Do Want The Money, But I Don't Really Do That - Like Headline A Big Festival Or Something Like That. I Could Go There And Do That, But It Isn't Really What I Do. It Feels Weird To Me.

The Less People Present In An Urgent Situation That A Moderately High Stakes Recording Session Can Create - The Less People There Are In The Room - The More Openness There Can Be. These Songs Share That As Well, In Addition To Just The Obvious, Basic Starkness.