Florida Is Such An Unlikely Place For

What I Value Most In New Music Today Is Strangeness, Oddity. Passion. And Humor. I Listen To A Lot Of Hip-hop Because It Combines So Many Things Like That.

If Your Whole World Of A Band Or Music Is Taking Place In A Digital Realm Or On Technological Devices, It's All Mediated Through Those Things. That Takes Away From The Experiential And Sensual Nature Of Music. That's A Lot Less Exciting For Me To Think About. It's Not My Ideal Way Of Living With Music.

The Fact That People Go To Portland To Visit A Tiny Feminist Bookstore-no Matter What The Impetus Is For Them Getting There-the Fact That They Go In There And Look Around And Shop For Books Or Stationery Or Whatever, Is A Major Source Of Pride For Me.

Once You're Away From Music, I Realize That's As Intrinsic To Who I Am As Anything Else. That's The Part That Takes Me Out Of My Brain.

I Grew Up Outside Of Seattle, And Have Lived Here My Whole Life, And I Think That There Is A Culture Of Questioning, And Guilt. Almost An "anti-ambition." Like, An Awareness, And Then A Subsequent Guilt. But Sometimes That Progressive, Liberal Guilt Is Really Obnoxious, Too - In Some Ways, I Think It's Better To Just Own It. It's Weird, That Actually, The Acknowledgement Of Privilege Or The Enactment Of Guilt Can Be As Obnoxious As Anything Else. It's A Never-ending Rabbit Hole. We're Really In A Rabbit Hole Right Now, With This Conversation. We're Just Spiraling Down Into The Void.