Music Babble

Eh, the idea isn't all terrible. To a certain kind of young man (although now I'm not a leading intellectual light here, I was pretty sharp when I was a teenager) it's the most stirring, romantic sentiment there is. "Constant self-improvement" is an attractive mantra at that age. It's just that you have to grow out of it eventually, which is why Neil Peart dropped Ayn Rand in his mid 20s.

Man, the supplements: I remember buying bottles of DMAE and ginseng and nootropics and such that have very little science behind them, at a stupid price. (Mainly I was into psychoactive chemicals.) I was on a television quiz show for high schoolers and on the Scholastic Bowl team (which is kind of like an untelevised game show between schools) and I needed an edge, man.