Great excerpt from Nick Hornby's latest book "A Long Way Down."  So well put!

Narrated by the musician character JJ who just played Nick Drake for Jess and Martin for the first time.

'At the end of the first song, Jess started putting her finger down her throat and making faces.  "But he's such a drip.  He's like a poet or something."  This was meant to be an insult. I was spending my days with someone who thought that poets were creatures you might find living in your lower intestine.

"I don't mind it.  I wouldn't walk out if he was playing in a wine bar." said Martin.

"I would," said Jess

I wondered whether it would be possible to punch both of them out simultaneously, but rejected the idea on the grounds that it would all be over too quickly, and there wouldn't be enough pain involved.  I'd want to keep on pummeling them after they were down, which would mean doing them one at a time.  It's music rage, which is like road rage, only more righteous.  When you get road rage, a tiny part of you knows youre being a jerk, but when you get music rage, you're carrying out the will of God, and God wants these people dead.'