We Had Punks Literally Protesting

I Work At A Record Label Where I Have Archives. These Things [memorabilia] Occurred And Are Important To Somebody, And They're Important To Me. I Find The Record Industry Largely Repellent. This Music, The Teen Idles, All Of That Stuff, Is Important To Me. I Don't Have Lawyers, An Agent Or A Manager. However I Find The Music Industry Largely Repellent. I Just Make Records Because That's What I Love To Do. So I Think That Era, Those Pieces Of Media, I Keep In My Collection.

First Of All, [st. Stephen's] Is A Radical Church. It Was One Of The First Dc Churches To Have Gay Ceremonies. A Woman Said Mass There, Which Almost Got A Priest Excommunicated There; Black Panthers Spoke At The Church; It Was A Sanctuary For Civil Rights Protesters And Anti-war Protesters.

There's Also A Lot Of Skateboard Stuff, Because I Was A Skateboarder. Somewhere Around Here I Have One Of My Original Boards.

I Always Appreciate When People Save, And More Importantly, Share. As We Speak, There Are People In This World - Mostly Men - Who Have Giant Collections Of Recordings That No One Will Ever Hear. And The Value Of That Collection Is Almost Defined By The Fact That Nobody Else Can Hear It.

I've Had People Call Me From Bands That Are Very Popular, And They're Like, "what Do We Do? We Want To Do What You Do." It's Almost Impossible To Do What I Do, Because You Would Have To Start In 1980. You Can't Just Do It.