Intolerable Beauty: Portraits of American Mass Consumption,

There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.

UN-AMERICAN, adj. Wicked, intolerable, heathenish.

What can be labeled, packaged, mass produced is neither truth nor art.

One culture I find fascinating to juxtapose against American culture is the culture of Germany. They've gone through a long process through their art, poetry, public discourse, their politics, of owning the fact of their complicity in what happened in World War II. It's still a topic of everyday conversation in Germany.

Even the bands I dig don't have a history of attaining mass consumption.