DAX SHEPARD: I love you
Was it politics or literature or what
Whenever duty forces him to spend time there, he burns a fair number of calories complaining about the programming on the local classical-music radio station or making caustic remarks about the parking-lot attendants to the stars or visiting friends in their carefully decorated offices at the studios and saying things like Hmm, pretty tacky and I get such an up feeling here. According to the stereotype, most agents are named Morty or Marty and go around wearing shirts that show off their chest hair and saying things like Well max it at three hundred thou. A friend of Cohns, intending to be flattering, said not long ago, Sams success reminds me of what Karl Marx said about John Stuart Mill that his eminence is due in large part to the flatness of the terrain. Praising Cohns intellect, Jeff Berg, the president of I.C.M., has called him the Adlai Stevenson of the agency business. Cohn lacks the well-tailored, lean-and-hungry style that many agents, for whatever reason, seem to cultivate
The fact that I also listen, with equal or even greater regard, to many dozens of shows that I never attended, the majority of them performed during my nursery-rhyme years, props up my usually fruitless contention that nostalgia has nothing to do with the way the Dead wormed their way into my minds ear and fought off all comers even decades after the band had disappeared from the stage
