beware the banana foot lotion

"I wanted to go to a time when cities were cheap and full of junk, and on every street there was a shop with dusty windows that sold radiograms and soul albums with the corners cut off, or secondhand books that nobody had taken the trouble to value.... Now it's just lattes and bottles of banana foot lotion and it's difficult to see how banana foot lotion will end up producing the Patti Smiths of the twenty-first century; she needed the possibilities of the city, its apparently inexhaustible pleasures and surprises."
-- Nick Hornby on Patti Smith's new book, Just Kids, in the The Believer, June 2010.