Squares buy Soundgarden CDs and watch The Simpsons. Squares grow and haul the food we eat. Squares make our cars. Squares support education and world-relief drives. Nobody will care about Seattle next month.
People here are so used to obscurity, when the spotlight shines they squint and wait for it to stop.
But like I've written before, this could just be the flash that lights a lasting fire. It's an identifiable sound, imitable yet sufficiently diverse to allow infinite variations. If we play our cards right, Seattle could become the Nashville of rock. Most mayors like to kiss up to their town's fastest growing industry, but not ours. Rice comes from the disciplinarian side of the black middle class, where adults want young people to strive hard at all times and avoid idle temptations like pop music.