Guide.

I just read the book Guide by Dennis Cooper, and it messed me up.
A better association for Guided By Voices, for me, is this:
When I was 18, one of my two or three jobs right out of high school was at a fabric store, cuttin' it up and taking general high-strung-craft-lady abuse. I had a homemade Guided By Voices patch on the hoodie I wore every day. It was hot-pink satin, and the words and image (what was the image??? Can't remember) were in sharpie (yay me).
One day at the store a very very old man came up behind me, while I was cutting somebody's fabric and whispered in my ear in both concern and bemusement, "Are you.... guided by voices?"

Obv. the answer is and was "uhhh, no?"

But now I imagine what could have transpired if I had said yes?