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262 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 2012
When you think about it, I'm like a 45. Liz is my A side, the song everybody knows, and Gabe is my B side—not played as often but just as good. When 45s were around, most DJs didn't care about B sides, but somewhere big hits: The Smiths' "How Soon is Now" and U2's "The Sweetest Thing," for example. We don't really have B sides anymore, since digital music wiped them out, but digital's not me. I'm analog, Wall of Sound, old school to the core, and it's time to let my B side play. My radio show is a deep new groove on it.
I want people to listen—to my show, to me—but if they don't, I don't care. I'm playing it anyway.
"You know, life is just programmed chaos. Everybody starts out on one side—that's the programmed part. But then chaos happens, and our album flips. We get fat or thin, or dye our hair and pierce our nose. But those are just our outsides. Our insides are still beautiful, even if we think we're ugly children."