The Electrified Journalist
Mark Mordue, markmordue.com, 5 May 2008
WHEN I THINK ABOUT rock 'n' roll and my life trying to write about it, my trying to get inside rock 'n' roll through words and stories, it seems to me all I ever cared about was this thing called "the truth," or being able to celebrate, activate, animate a moment, good or bad, to put it there on the page rock 'n' roll as a lived experience.
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