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Monday, September 16, 2019

RIP Ric Ocasek

"People tell me all the time that I look forbidding or aloof. That doesn't bother me much - I am fairly private, withdrawn, and... distant, I guess. But, um, I think that's okay."
- Ric Ocasek  
(March 23, 1944 – September 15, 2019)

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