“...God's love is unspeakable, implacable, its gaze matter-of-fact. But human love is something else: We love in excess of God's love if we love at all. We love by heaping meaning on objective fact. If I believed in God, I… — Carl Wilson Copy Share
“Bourdieu's interpretation was that tastes were serving as strategic tools. While working-class tastes seemed mainly a default (serving at best to express group belongingness and solidarity), for everyone else taste was not only a product of economic and educational background but, as it developed through life, a force mobilized as part of their quest for social status (or what Bourdieu… — Carl Wilson Copy Share
“...this midlevel cultural-capital audience is not as far from the average white pop critic as we might have expected. We usually make middling incomes or worse, and while most have university degrees, our expertise is usually more self-taught than PhD-certified, a pattern believed would produce an anxious, fact-hoarding intellectual style in contrast with the relaxed mastery of a fully legitimated… — Carl Wilson Copy Share
“...God's love is unspeakable, implacable, its gaze matter-of-fact. But human love is something else: We love in excess of God's love if we love at all. We love by heaping meaning on objective fact. If I believed in God, I might imagine this is what He created humans for, to give things more tenderness than He granted them, amid nature's… — Carl Wilson Copy Share
First, I'd become an avid reader of blogs, especially music blogs, and they seemed to be where the critical-thinking action was at, to have… — Carl Wilson Copy Share Image
“And the places she turns up in Jamaica are all the more curious. I remember being at sound-system dances and hearing everyone from Bob… — Carl Wilson Copy Share Image
I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV.… — Carl Wilson Copy Share Image
Sure, we've had our fair share of ups and downs, but I don't know if we've had more than any other rock band... we… — Carl Wilson Copy Share Image
I had been playing for about a year and a half when the Beach Boys formed. When our folks went to Mexico on business,… — Carl Wilson Copy Share Image
“Suck said that Gummo evoked “the vertigo we encounter when people discover and make up new standards of cool and beauty,” — Carl Wilson Copy Share Image
