Chris Robinson
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Jack Kerouac isn't writing about the suburbs.
He's writing about Mexico City or whatever.
Gregory Corso or Allen Ginsberg, all these poets and people are writing about all these experiences that don't seem to be happening in a neighborhood where they call the houses a five, four, and a door.
So a certain angst is...
Let's get the fuck out of here.
But you know what's weird about that?
But I spend a lot of my time reading.
I read a lot of varied materials.
And one thing that comes up is humans are dangerous.
And places where there's a shit ton of them are usually pretty gross and dangerous.
It's a numbers thing, right?
It's totally a numbers thing.
It's other things, ills as well, that are hard for us to deal with.
And look, if we're lucky enough to be walking upright and somehow mentally stable or whatever, right?
I think cities have always been dangerous places.
Ancient Rome was a dangerous place.