I enjoyed this very, ahem, sincere piece of writing by Mr. Roderick of Seattle Weekly.  It’s about being a band, being a music writer, being a believer of unicorns, being a lady in a band, being a boy in a band, being hip-hop in Seattle and much more. You should read it HERE. Here are some high-or-low-lights:

• “Keep pushing and striving until you reach your dream!” All massively successful people say this kind of platitudinous horseshit, because inspirational-sounding crap is all the wisdom massively successful people have to offer.
• Listening to famous people describe the secret of their success is about as helpful as listening to microwaved popcorn.
• If your “dreams” are to be universally acknowledged as a groundbreaking auteur, may I humbly suggest that realizing those dreams is about as likely as learning to fart rainbows.
• I appreciated her point but, despite appearances, she wasn’t issuing a feminist battle cry so much as she was calling attention to her new power, humblebragging. “I am being interviewed! It’s so exhausting to be famous, but I’m still ’street’ because I point out hypocrisy! Fight the power!”
• Sometimes you push and strive and never get a gold-plated unicorn, but it doesn’t mean you’re not talented and might not have a long career if you keep at it. Often it only means that unicorns are fake and if you gold-plated one it would die.