Should-be rock star Joe Pernice (of the Pernice Brothers) on being offered a book deal:
Well, I was certainly intrigued. Even a little flattered. But to be honest, I had suffered through my share of paper writing in graduate school and had spent my last drop of critical juice back in 1997. By the time I finished my graduate degree, I was so burned-out on paper writing that I actually convinced an unsuspecting professor who was a distant fan of my first two records to let me write a ten page paper (my last) on postmodernism IN MY OWN MUSIC! Give me a break. I don’t know who deserves the bigger throttling for that one. Probably me.
By the way, you should buy Joe’s new album, due out on May 20. The two previous albums are also gems.