When You're In A Band And Write

I Remember When Martin Luther King Was Assassinated And Riots Broke Out In The City. We Celebrated Palm Sunday On 14th Street. I Have A Memory Of Walking Down The Street With Buildings Smoldering, And Soldiers And Cops Everywhere. Anyways, It [st. Stephen’s] Was A Church That Really Taught Me The Things I Needed To Learn To Not Go To Church. But I Think It Is A Church That Does Great Work, I Went To A Wedding There Three Days Ago.

I Do Remember Seeing Godspell Or Jesus Christ Superstar, One Of Those. It Was A Liberation Theology Venue. Anything Radical Seemed To Be Accepted There. I Definitely Picked Up The Idea There That You Should Question Authority.

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'm Really Anti-option, So Computers Have Been My Nightmare With Recording. I Don't Want Endless Tracks; I Want Less Tracks. I Want Decisions To Be Made.

I Put My Name On That Occupy Musicians List Because Someone Wrote To Me And Said, "would You Do This?" I Said, "yeah Sure, I Support This." What Artist Wouldn't Support That? What's The Big Deal? But Then People Wrote To Me, "wow! You're On That List!" And I'm Like, "who Isn't On That List?" That Would Be More Shocking.