Blog: Frontier Psychiatrist

Matthew Compton and Asa Taccone of Electric Guest October, 2001:  I am a college sophomore reading Alexis de Tocqueville in an empty coffee shop.  Suddenly over the busted speakers I hear this freaking song thatsounds like everything I’ve been looking for in Western philosophy books and instantly regrettable hook ups.  This being a time when not everyone had a laptop or a smart phone, it was an agonizing eighteen minutes before I could race back to my dorm room and confirm that the axis-shifting song was “The Modern Age,” from The Strokes’ [...]