But it’s not anything like what we envisioned it to be. It’s almost like there’s too much choice.
ALAN PALOMOThere’s this really amazing quote from Jim Jarmusch about celebrating your theft that I think has become more and more prominent in music.
More Alan Palomo Quotes
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Let alone 15 minutes – to decide what you think about it.
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We really are living in the era that all this sci-fi literature and cinema was centered around.
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Is my music indicative of a caffeine-surged green liquid? Probably not.
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You should always choose your associations wisely because people create impressions around the music.
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It’s difficult because it forces you to really get creative.
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And we use it to read album reviews and watch kitten videos… not to put those two things in the same light!
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There’s something really fun and spooky about that teenage feeling of narcissism or indestructibility.
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I don’t mind that I’ve created an identity around what I do.
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Things are changing at such a rate that you really can’t get too familiar with anything that you own in relation to what sort of functionality it has in your life.
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You can’t always just put color filters in 80s aerobic videos or take stuff from public-access and look at it in this very ironic, self-conscious way. That only takes you so far.
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I think it’s more about trying to just focus exclusively on writing music and making that a viable, sustainable lifestyle.
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There’s no real template to follow these days for what a band should and shouldn’t be – bands are just becoming these weird little Internet avatars that you either follow or download or interact with in some removed way.
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I think the Internet has a way of coaching you into this state of mind where you think that every step you make needs to completely supersede the last.
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You start reverting back to that state of mind where you’re having conversations with yourself, and that’s where the weirdest and most honest ideas come from.
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it opens opportunities up for talented people along with people like Rebecca Black.
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