By 1985, machines will be capable of doing any work Man can do.
That's it. With equal parts regret and relief, the Jane's Addiction experiment is at an end.
I had been thinking about how greatness always has a hand from luck or fate. That no one ever achieves anything with their will alone. The luck or fate that helped us, amongst many others, was that my sister happened to know these two heavy metal kids David Navarro and Stephen Perkins.
I know in my soul when something feels like a sell out and I think for me, I knew that if I did the Jane's Addiction reunion thing, that I would feel like a sell out. That's how it would feel to me.
Art stands in opposition to all the bad things that happen in life, which is where physicians stand. That's what doctors do-affirm life. And that's what artists do.
I have always considered reunions to be a way to make a quick buck, and it sells short my own experience of it the first time around.
But the great thing, and the horrible thing about the web is you can just throw stuff up there and it doesn't cost anybody anything.
I became stereotyped.
The Tonys ignored West Side Story. The Tonys ignored Gypsy. It's a kind of public humiliation.
Dark Blue' is ultimately a gritty crime drama, at its core. I don't think that is ever going to change.
Thin ribbons of fear snake bluely through you like a system of rivers. We need a cloudburst or soothing landscape fast, to still this panic. Maybe a field of dracaena, or a vast stand of sugar pines—generous, gum-yielding trees—to fill our minds with vegetable wonder and keep dread at bay.