Everyone is built differently, and people are certainly different in what gives them pleasure -- guitar feedback is food for the soul for one guy, while for another it's like having a dentist's drill jammed in his teeth. Some of those differences come from upbringing, and some are genetic.

Rock music -- however that might be defined -- seems like it might actually be losing ground to rap ... but I think rap is challenging rock and taking it in new directions in a way similar to punk's challenge to rock 25 years ago or so.

Becoming a fan of (any musical style) is much like joining a particular church. It's often not the musical style or the message from the pulpit so much as the other people in the fan base, and what kind of identification you feel with them. ... Liking a kind of music involves taking to the scene as much as the style.

I love the show 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia;' that's probably a guilty pleasure! I laugh so hard.

The pleasure of eating should be an extensive pleasure, not that of the mere gourmet. People who know the garden in which their vegetables have grown and know that the garden is healthy will remember the beauty of the growing plants, perhaps in the dewy first light of morning when gardens are at their best. Such a memory involves itself with the food and is one of the pleasures of eating. (pg. 326, The Pleasures of Eating)

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