I Wanted To Make Room For Antiheroes.

I Took Punk To Be The Detonation Of Some Slow-fused Projectile Buried Deep In Society's Flank A Decade Earlier, And I Took It To Be, Somehow, A Sign.

For Me, The Melancholy Of The Late Xxth Century Is Walking Late At Night By The Mont Blanc Pen Store And Seeing These Things Always Strike Me As Simulacra Of Luxury Items. They Seem Like Fakes.

I Suppose I Do The Japanese Because I Just Don't Know China. Chinese Popular Culture Has Never Evoked That Instant Of, "whoah! What's That?" That I Have With Japanese Popular Culture.

The Box Was A Universe, A Poem, Frozen On The Boundaries Of Human Experience.

I'm Not The Only One: Witness Pokemon! They Still Keep Coming Up With This Stuff That Just Rivets Us In Unexpected Areas.