i love reading biographies because i love knowing that a human life is present in our world but i don't care for the obligatory early chapters of the subject's childhood particularly when the subject is an artist because inevitably his/her childhood is damaged and/or fucked up which makes it appear that a fucked up childhood is necessary for a creative life i would rather skip those opening chapters not because i think childhood is not needed for our growing as human beings but because who doesn't come for some form of the fucked up so it ain't about sometimes how you got into this world but how you managed to live because i am firmly convinced there is not a high or low art the same as there are no high or low lives for we are all pretty warped because warped is the human condition so i'd rather not read the early chapters of a biography where the subject was born of this or that flawed and/or toxic early life because really that is such a large club