You drink expensive bourbon and then you piss it out. No getting around that. - Wright Thompson

More and more today, we don’t want to do the work or take the chances required for greatness, and we try to fix all those shortcuts on the back end with marketing and branding — modern, fancy words that mean lie.

What is the cost of knowing our past?
And what is the cost of not?

...left to write Darkness and stew. To me it's a record about trying to protect a dream while confronted with a growing wall of reality that says the dream is dead — and worse: useless, pathetic, impossible.