Body Odor Is The Window To The

A Bike Is The World's Most Used Form Of Transportation

My Favorite Term For A New Kind Of Performance Is "security Theater." In This Genre, We Watch As Ritualized Inspections And Patdowns Create The Illusion Of Security. It's A Form That Has Become Common Since 9/11, And Even The Government Agencies That Participate In This Activity Acknowledge,off The Record, That It Is Indeed A Species Of Theater.

The Heads Were The Only Band On That Scene That Had A Groove.

With A Lot Of What We Take To Be True Feelings, Especially On Pop Records, We Feel Them Because They're Cleverly Crafted. And Because The Words Are Written By Somebody Who Knows How To Craft Words And Draw On Those Things And Convey Those Feelings. That Doesn't Mean They're Dishonest. But It Also Doesn't Mean That It's All Just Pure Primitive Emotion Spilling Out.

Human Beings Have The Incredible Capacity For Denial. I Think They Do. And Although It's Really Hard To Believe, I Have My Doubts. But My Feeling Is That First They Have To Convince Themselves. First They Have To Justify This Stuff To Themselves And If They Can Do That, Even For Just The Moment That It's Coming Out Their Mouth, Then They Can Kind Of Mouth It With Kind Of Believable Sincerity, Even If Some Of Us.