To Touch Is To Heal,

As Hard As It Is, As Ghetto As It Is, Hip-hop Is Pop Music. It's The Sound Of Music Getting Out Of The Ghetto, While Rock Is Looking For A Ghetto.

It's So Sweet, I Feel Like My Teeth Are Rotting When I Listen To The Radio.

I Used To Love Kurt Cobain, When He Was Telling People We're A Pop Band. People Would Laugh, They Thought Of It As Good Old Ironic Kurt. But He Wasn't Being Ironic.

Sadly, I Do My Homework. I've A Soft Spot For The Boring Minutiae. I Read The Charter Of The United Nations Before Meeting With Kofi Annan. I Read The Meltzer Report, And Then I'll Read C. Fred Bergsten's Defense Of Institutions Like The World Bank And The I.m.f. It's Embarrassing To Admit.

It's Quite Widespread In Rock Culture, That Mythology Of The Shooting Star. I'd Rather Be The North Star. As Bob (dylan) Says, You Can Navigate By It.