        I got Evol for Christmas when I was fifteen. I remember
opening my presents Christmas morning and then going back up to
my room and lying in my twin bed by the window and reading Lisa
Crystal Carver's amazing liner notes and listening to the CD and
the light was all bright and white, reflecting the snow outside.
"Expressway to Yr Skull" was the first song I loved on Evol
("We're gonna kill the California girls" is a very hot lyric
when you're a shy teenager in  Massachusetts), but I appreciated
what I recognized as the "Kerouac-y-ness" of "In the Kingdom
#19."          When I was 15 I pretended to love Jack Kerouac
because I thought it meant I was deep. Lots of kids probably do
this, and that's fine - I mean you gotta start somewhere, in
terms of finding your way out to something wilder than what you
already know. Pretending something means something to you even
though it doesn't mean much is still meaningful; it's part of
becoming what you are. I didn't like reading On the Road but I
liked listening