“Realizing that life is precious the natural tendency is to trample on it, like laughing at a funeral.”

—  Lester Bangs

"Peter Laughner" (September/October 1977), p. 222
Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung (1988)

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American music critic and journalist 1948–1982

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