By Now All Rock Bands Are Wise

I Moved To Chicago In 1980 To Go To College

Whenever There's Active Promotion On The Part Of Somebody Else, Whenever I See Somebody All Dolled Up For A Fancy Photograph And Someone's Handing Out Flyers Or Whenever There's Active Promotion For Something Like That, As An Imposition On My Day, I Hate All Those People And I Want Them To Fail. I Have A Visceral Reaction To Advertising And Promotion. There's Just Something About Salesmanship That Grates On Me On A Very Base Level And I React Very Negatively Towards It. I Want Those People To Suffer And I Want Their Enterprises To Fail.

In 1980, I Moved To Chicago, And I Recorded Demo Tapes For My Friends' Bands, And In 1981, The First Big Black Record - The First Thing I Did That Was An Actual Record.

Over The Last Thirty Years Or So, I Have Definitely Become More Enlightened About Corners Of The Social Spectrum That I Had Less Exposure To As A Young Man. I've Interacted With More Poor People, More Minorities And More Sexual Minorities. As You Get More People From Different Backgrounds Involved In Your Life, You Get A Broader Perspective And You're Less Cavalier About Your Opinions.

Suicide Was Such A Formative Band For Me, So Influential In The Development Of My Taste. They're One Of Those Bands That Operated In Absolute Isolation For So Long That They Developed A Completely Unique World View.