Life's Pleasures Quote by Warren Cuccurullo

Culture shifts rarely arrive as manifestos; they show up as lunch plans. Warren Cuccurullo describes California not as a place but as a conversion experience: Brooklyn-to-West-Coast becomes a before-and-after where the plot twist is meeting vegetarians. The humor is unforced and telling. He frames vegetarianism less like an ethical awakening and more like an alluring local custom, the kind you try because everyone around you makes it look normal. That casual tone is the point: identity, in a music scene, often travels through proximity and vibe before it hardens into principle.

The subtext is assimilation with a wink. “This whole new world” signals the classic coastal culture shock, but instead of beaches and palm trees, it’s social codes: what people eat, how they talk about it, how they perform care. In a creative ecosystem like California’s late-70s/80s orbit, dietary choices doubled as aesthetic signals - health, spirituality, anti-corporate sensibility, maybe a little sanctimony. Cuccurullo’s “let me try this” captures how scenes recruit: not by coercion, but by offering a ready-made narrative of becoming.

There’s also a musician’s pragmatism here. Touring, recording, and living among new peers pushes reinvention; you adopt what works, what fits the rhythm of the room. The line “I got really into that” is deliberately plain, but it lands because it mirrors how people actually change: one curiosity, one community, one habit that suddenly feels like you.