I love this. Well done, fella, thanks for getting me pondering the potential.

YEAHHHH DAD ROCK!!!

I do, too, Les Mis notwithstanding.

here's a pretty great essay about Middle Cyclone and heartbreak and being maybe not the greatest guy all the time. Swear I didn't write it, lord I sure wish I did though.

hey I work on a farm, where's the sentimental sucker that got caught up by the Paul Harvey ad and gonna buy me a bottle of scotch? all your expectations of me as a noble, guileless human are 100% true!

I think you've listened to more of this stuff than I have, but that line "I'm spittin that dope shit, smokin on regulars/ Writin' 16s like internet child predators" is priceless ha. After I heard that, I was like OK this dude's my guy.

Oh yeah, I'm with you completely on that. I think his eccentricities draw some people in initially, myself included. Come to find out dude is smart as a whip, funny as hell and gives a great interview, and hey, that's just good ol' fashion charisma right there. + Danny Brown weirdness lol.

I saw him open for Das Racist in Madison back in '11, and he stole the entire show. He's a fascinating creature, no doubt, as evidenced by the video above. But give XXX a few dozen listens, then check out his live show, and voila. Bafflement begone.

Are you kidding me with that Green Day pick? Green Day. Alright, guy, whatever you say.

christ I am so happy Danny Brown is famous.

Yeah I came across the autobio on audiobook at the public library. Long driving hours at work drive a man to desperate ends.

I read Middlesex a few years back before I really, was truly ready for it, ha.

I didn't hate it. Didn't love it either. Read Franzen's autobiography, that'll cure you of any desire to pick up one of those door-stoppers ever again.

Where would you recommend beginning with Murakami? And I realize this next sentence I'm about to type makes me look like a total corncob, but I'm not much of a science fiction guy, so if you could factor that into your answer, if it's appropriate, I'd be much obliged.

Excellent! "The Road," wrecked me for damn near a month! Cormac, what can one even say?

"All the Pretty Horses." Bye friends, hello despair!

Aww, thank you. Now I'm tearing up at your tearing up.

I remember laying at my dad's feet as he slept in the recliner after he came back from morning chores at the farm, watching this show on an enormous, 1960s style box television (this was in the 90s, and we were frugal.) I can't even handle Mr. Rogers' clips or such very much anymore, because those memories are so…

Is it 10, 2 or 4?

I guess Rozay was HUSTLIN HUSTLIN HU-HU-HUSTLIN in the royce.