Pop stardom, the way he defined it, means you keep feeling fascination for the now sound right up to the moment—you don’t settle for what you did yesterday. You tune in to the pop trash all over the radio dial for any ideas worth scavenging.

It appears that countless women born between the years of 1965 and 1978 are in love with John Cusack. I cannot fathom how he isn’t the number-one box-office star in America, because every straight girl I know would sell her soul to share a milkshake with that motherfucker. For upwardly mobile women in their

Adult Naturals do something similar, particularly if they are artists: they create their own fantasy world, and live in it as if it were the real one. Fantasy is so much more pleasant than reality, and since most people do not have the power or courage to create such a world, they enjoy being around those who do.

commenter on the “Dear Mother Monster Project” video summed it up nicely: “Your little monsters love you so much. And for us it’s not really about your cute tweets or your fashion choices. It’s more about the music, and the community, and the things that you teach us.”