Come on, Josh. Git hit in your soul.

“Identity is fleeting and ever-changing, and so should our influences and loves be. Everything else is rank sentimentality.”

Identity may be fleeting and ever-changing, but why do we have to scrap our influences and loves every time we turn a new corner? Frankly, I think there’s something a little bit distrustful about someone who so easily shucks off his earlier selves.

I’m not the same person I was at age 10 or age 20, or every year in between, but I’ll be damned if I’ll be disloyal to those first loves, like Little Women and Les Misérables and The Muppets Take Manhattan and Clue the movie and Clue the board game and E.M. Forster and sweet, glum Eeyore and Jane Austen and Archers of Loaf and Charles Mingus and Running on Empty and about a gazillion other things that I’m not gonna let go, I’m not gonna stop talking about, and I’m not gonna stop letting, at least in small part, inform who I am today.

So there it is:

Kim Jones = Rank Sentimentalist

This article appears in July 11 • 2008.

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A graduate of the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas, Kimberley has written about film, books, and pop culture for The Austin Chronicle since 2000. She was named Editor of the Chronicle in 2016; she previously served as the paper’s Managing Editor, Screens Editor, Books Editor, and proofreader. Her work has been awarded by the Association of Alternative Newsmedia for excellence in arts criticism, team reporting, and special section (Best of Austin). The Austin Alliance for Women...