Sometimes music listeners talk as if artists are running the show: there’s a stage, and these musicians are standing on it, addressing us. And then sometimes musicians talk as if listeners are running the show: they make music for their own pleasure, and then a vast and fickle public decides whether anyone will be interested, and what chance the music will get to continue. I wonder sometimes if the internet has exploded the former impulse and maybe diminished our memory of the latter…

Successful, but how successful, and to whom, and what does that mean in terms of getting along in the world?

"Home of the obscure and independent movie syncs." Dr. Eraser is "Dr. Strangelove" and Thom Yorke's "The Eraser." And "Yellow House" with "The City of Lost Children."