the proudest i ever felt was the time between when john peel played my music on his radio show and when i found out about john peel the person. valuing approval from famous people inevitably leads you to face the truth about rich people.
And it retroactively makes me really appreciate mark e smith’s weirdly blasé interview after he died where they couldn’t get him to say much of anything nice and he was playing with the inside of his cheek with his tongue
