Middle America

Growing up in Vancouver,

Growing up in Vancouver, it’s not like growing up in Middle America or the middle of Canada. It’s a very movie town. Evan Goldberg

The mall is good for hearing new music because you hear music everywhere. I like to walk around the mall and hear what the kids are listening to, or what’s the feel of Middle America, cause that’s what the mall is. Ester Dean

The important thing for

The important thing for me is that I try to understand the culture. Everything I thought I knew about the country was either through TV, music, movies or hopping in and out when I did shows. You can’t just get the US through being in Miami, LA and New York. Middle America is the place … Read more

My childhood was elegant

My childhood was elegant homes, tree lined streets, the milkman, building backyard forts, droning airplanes, blue skies, picket fences, green grass, cherry trees. Middle America as it’s supposed to be. But on the cherry tree there’s this pitch oozing out – some black, some yellow – and millions of red ants crawling all over it. … Read more

Mitt Romney said that

Mitt Romney said that he liked to fire people. Well, there’s a pretty good message to send to Middle America. When Rick Perry heard that, he said, ‘Well that’s nothing. I like to execute people.’ David Letterman

Dancing With the Stars’

Dancing With the Stars’ is so Middle America, and people take it so seriously. David Alan Grier

Perception has always interested

Perception has always interested me. The idea thatbehind every face, there are a thousand faces. Beneath the placidveneer of middle America, there lies terror. Bryan Singer

If Mitt Romney can

If Mitt Romney can be pushed around, intimidated, coerced, co-opted by a conservative radio talk show host in Middle America, then how is he going to stand up to the Chinese? How is he going to stand up to Putin? How is he going to stand up to North Korea if he can be pushed … Read more

There’s a certain window

There’s a certain window of time in the middle of the night out in Middle America where there’s no bar open and nothing on TV. If you don’t want to do too many drugs, you have to start bodily mutilation. Ani DiFranco

There is that lovely

There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’ I’ve always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America, a discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to … Read more