You know, I think I’ve done ok as a copywriter but what I really wanted to be was a music journalist. I wanted to be Lester Bangs. And for a brief moment in the award-winning Wednesday magazine, that’s what I got to be.
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You know, I think I’ve done ok as a copywriter but what I really wanted to be was a music journalist. I wanted to be Lester Bangs. And for a brief moment in the award-winning Wednesday magazine, that’s what I got to be.