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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.

I Think That The Intentions Are Genuine In The Search For Authenticity, But It Can Tip Over Into Absurdity So Quickly. I Just Start To Wonder, Like, What Authenticity Even Is, And Whether We Can Even Start To Define It In Such A Globalized World.

I Think A Lot Of The Intention Of Bands, Especially In The Last Year, Is To Spread Themselves Out Geographically And Borrow From Different Cultures And Different Sounds, And To Be Eclectic. And That's Great In Terms Of Dynamics, But It Also Tends To Not Have That Torpedo And Fire Running Through It. If You're Spreading Yourself Out Across The Globe, You're Also Not Emphasizing A Singular Point, Which I Think Great Rock Music Has Always Done.

Wholeness Is Sort Of A Dubious Concept. Because In Terms Of The Human Body And Literal Wholeness And Structures, You Think: "here Are The Structures That Help Make Me Whole." Family, Or School, Or The City I Live In. When Those Structures Are Dysfunctional Or Decaying, You End Up Kind Of Frankensteining Pieces From Everywhere In Order To Make Yourself Sated And Comfortable And Alive.

For Film And Television, It's Interesting How Fans Feel That Their Particular Ways Of Manifesting Their Affections Are The Correct Ones. It's Not Just About Being A Fan, It's About How You Perform Your Fandom. That's Always Been Interesting To Me.