I don’t believe in guilty pleasures. If you fucking like something, like it. That’s what’s wrong with our generation: that residual punk rock guilt, like, “You’re not supposed to like that. That’s not fucking cool.” Don’t fucking think it’s not cool to like Britney Spears’ “Toxic.” It is cool to like Britney Spears’ “Toxic”! Why the fuck not? Fuck you! That’s who I am, goddamn it! That whole guilty pleasure thing is full of fucking shit.
Thompson’s notebooks contain comments, musical notation, sketches, and phrases and their translations, along with ticket stubs, symposium programs, and photographs of interviewees. Here he shows a notebook with his sketches of puppets, and a postcard, from the Frida Kahlo Museum in Mexico city.