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Ahead of His Time

Ahead of His Time

Don DeLillo, 1973. These are the words of Bucky Wunderlick, the protagonist of Great Jones Street. He is a rock star akin to Mick Jagger, and is speaking with a journalist, who is asking him for an interview.

Make it all up. Go home and write whatever you want and then send it out on the wires. Make it up. Whatever you write will be true.

Eminem, 2000. The Marshall Mathers LP. "The Way I Am."

And I am, whatever you say I am
If I wasn’t, then why would I say I am?
In the paper, the news everyday I am
Radio won’t even play my jam
Cause I am, whatever you say I am
If I wasn’t, then why would I say I am?
In the paper, the news everyday I am
I don’t know it’s just the way I am

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January 30th, 2006 | Category: Uncategorized

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