TO LIVE OUTSIDE THE LAW YOU MUST BE HONEST

I think this early picture of Elvis was one of the elements that convinced me as a youth that it would be pretty fucking cool to be Elvis. Of course, Elvis has been dead thirty one years this month and I'm still here. (Hows that for a lead-in to a spot of malcontent philosophy?)

'The formula works. He stumbled on the first and last truth about the leisure society, and perhaps all societies. Crime and creativity go together, and always have done. The greater the sense of crime, the greater civic awareness and richer the civilization. Nothing else binds a community together. It's a strange paradox.' - J.G. Ballard (in Cocaine Nights)

The secret word is Nihilist

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