Last night, after shopping at North Street Records in Normal, we had dinner with Marty and Danielle. Cristy explained to them that she was a \u201ccheapskate\u201d when it came to buying music. Which left hanging in the air the implication that became my confession: \u201cI tend more to be, in Freudian terms, a bit anal-expulsive.\u201d<\/p>\n
I lived in Rosmarie and Keith Waldrop\u2019s house for a year. They\u2019ve<\/span> got some books and CDs and records. When I asked Keith the naive, studently question what his theory was on book collecting, he shrugged. He said: \u201cI don\u2019t have a theory. It\u2019s just that, where ever I stand, piles of books seem to grow around me.\u201d<\/p>\n I subscribe to apocalypse thinking. I believe that I may end up being the last person alive, who inherits the responsibility for curating human coolness (or at least English-language coolness): rock and roll\u2019s steward who must ensure that when the cats rise to claim the planet, they will learn guitar.<\/p>\n When the aliens land, and say TAKE ME TO YOUR LEADER, I\u2019ll be standing in my living room, with a foot of white beard, holding up a copy of Hopscotch<\/span>, raving: \u201cYou got to read this book, man! … Here: listen to the Kinks!\u201d<\/p>\n WE HAVE COME TO TAKE ALL OF YOUR PLANET\u2019S WATER.<\/p>\n \u201cWater? Wow. I don\u2019t even know that band, man.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last night, after shopping at North Street Records in Normal, we had dinner with Marty and Danielle. Cristy explained to them that she was a \u201ccheapskate\u201d when it came to buying music. Which left hanging in the air the implication that became my confession: \u201cI tend more to be, in Freudian terms, a bit anal-expulsive.\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[115,114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apocalypse","category-collector-scum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}