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Nothing Is As Nice As Plugging In Your Guitar And Turning Up The Volume Really Loud, Just Seeing What Kind Of Beautiful Noise You Can Make With It.

I Think In Some Ways, Whether You've Ever Actually Been To Portland, People Definitely Understand This Highly Curated Niche Lifestyle, Because A Lot Of People Are Sort Of Striving For That Now. Or They're Hating On It.

I Have No Desire To Play Music Unless I Need Music.

It's Very Common To Think That We're Always Evolving, That We've Changed So Much From Our Younger Selves, That Within Decades We've Transformed Into These Different People. We Like To Think That. I Feel In Some Ways That I Am Still So Much My Younger Self. There Are Ways That I'm Different: I Feel Like I'm Wiser And Kinder. But I Think A Lot Of The Impulses Are Still The Same. I Learned That.

Living In Portland, Which Is A Predominantly White City, The Privilege And The Luxury To Be Able To Obsess Over A Certain Kind Of Minutia, That I Think, If You Did Not Have That Privilege, Would Never Be Bothersome. When People Are Worried About Whether "local" Means 100 Miles, Or 50 Miles, Or 10 Miles From A Grocery Store, I Just Think, "wow. What A Privilege It Is To Have That As A Major Concern In Your Life." As Opposed To, "can We Afford Food Tonight?" Sometimes I'm Just Shocked At What Becomes Concerning In These Kind Of Communities.