X Saves the World Quotes

“Generation X has marinated in the fat of boomer mythology for so long now that we're like Keanu Reeves in The Matrix when he's hooked up to all those tubes and wires in a tub of gelatin. We don't even notice.”
― Jeff Gordinier, X Saves the World: How Generation X Got the Shaft but Can Still Keep Everything from Sucking

“A blog is a zine liberated from the annoyances of physical form.”
― Jeff Gordinier, X Saves the World: How Generation X Got the Shaft but Can Still Keep Everything from Sucking

“Viewed from the outside, fine, let people think we're an army of yupster antique dealers, puttering around in granny glasses and moth-eaten cardigans, fishing through a milk crate for that pristine vinyl copy of Daydream Nation while everybody else rushes home for the Clay Aiken Thanksgiving special. We know what's really going on. We're the ones lying in wait like a parking lot full of Trojan horses.”
― Jeff Gordinier, X Saves the World: How Generation X Got the Shaft but Can Still Keep Everything from Sucking

“Go drinking and come up with an idea and do it. I gave away the keys to the castle.” He doesn’t see Architecture for Humanity as a rigid institution. He sees it as a virus. “If we give these things away, they spread like wildfire,” he says. “The ideas get replicated.”
― Jeff Gordinier, X Saves the World: How Generation X Got the Shaft but Can Still Keep Everything from Sucking

“I’m not interested in big monuments,” Haeg has said. “I’m interested in singular gestures that become models— small gestures in response to common issues that can be instituted by anyone.”
― Jeff Gordinier, X Saves the World: How Generation X Got the Shaft but Can Still Keep Everything from Sucking

“Nobody was safe on South Park—and that, strangely, gave the show a prophetic kind of moral clarity.”
― Jeff Gordinier, X Saves the World: How Generation X Got the Shaft but Can Still Keep Everything from Sucking

“Although Colbert himself would wince at the suggestion, his hilarious act of transgression was a Cooler King moment for the ages, a stroke of Gen-X triumph on a par with the “Smells Like Teen Spirit” video and Quentin Tarantino’s Palme d’Or. It played out like an Oblique Strategy on a grand scale: you saw it and—blam— you were awakened.”
― Jeff Gordinier, X Saves the World: How Generation X Got the Shaft but Can Still Keep Everything from Sucking