Quotes from Ken Baumann

I don't eat fast food often, but I love tacos. I could write prophetically about how perfect the taco is.

I love art and I think I was destined to end up in some aspect of the arts.

The Runaway Five's obvious influence is The Blues Brothers. During localization, their black and white suits were made more colorful to avoid legal action from Universal Pictures or the film's producers. When I told my wife Aviva about this, she admitted she had never seen The Blues Brothers film. Having grown up on a steady diet of Saturday Night Live-spawned movies, I told her that her innocence here was blasphemous. That night, we marveled together at James Brown's hair.

If we were to take EarthBound's early hours as material evidence of Shigesato Itoi's impressions of American culture, we would have to consider cruel parents, small-town gangs, abusive cops, weak-willed politicians, usurious property owners, and murderous religious cults as the case. This does not seem inaccurate.

Rarely in the realm of the flesh have I been as prepared as I am in almost all video games: I obsessively check drawers, pilfer medicine cabinets, steal supplies, craft items and load up at the shop.

Art is the most benign cultural practice, and yet art has an upper bound of personal revelation that is so far away it is basically a horizon.

Books woke me up. Books are my favorite man-made objects. I fetishize their design, smell, feel. And that they can contain such burning, complex communications is a miracle to me.