In the Jingle Jangle Jungle Quotes

“Stay true to yourself, who you are at the core, your essence, and the center will hold. You will weather whatever b.s. storm the fucker gods can make.”
― Joel Gion, In the Jingle Jangle Jungle: Keeping Time with The Brian Jonestown Massacre

“Record store life here not only became about learning how to cope with unhip hippies and goofy college kids that as a species all loved Weezer, but also the glazed-over eyes and serene Manson Family-like demeanor of the California New Agers, the amount of white people with white dreads versus the almost complete absence of black people, but maybe the weirdest of all, considering, was the lack of old-school real-deal Endless Summer-style surfer bums.”
― Joel Gion, In the Jingle Jangle Jungle: Keeping Time with The Brian Jonestown Massacre

“Eighth Street on St. Mark’s Place has a flush feel with breezy trees and neighborhood stoops with networks of fire escapes above beautifully natural hip people of every stripe striding the streets. It feels like Sesame Street got an expensive new outdoor set upgrade filmed in widescreen Technicolor.”
― Joel Gion, In the Jingle Jangle Jungle: Keeping Time with The Brian Jonestown Massacre

“Even the 70s lime-green polyester world of the Hunter S. Thompson book is gone. It’s more like a sprawling city constructed by set designers of an 80s hair metal video, like the Hard Rock was a disease that has now spread and multiplied over the entire town.”
― Joel Gion, In the Jingle Jangle Jungle: Keeping Time with The Brian Jonestown Massacre