Hello Friends,
Thinking a lot about Pavement lately again. Talking to my friend Mike Henning who was in the mighty “Carpet” (Pavement name rip off) with me in San Diego. Remembering how much I loved that band, and how funny it is I ended up in New York. Talking to Gabe in the practice space about how he knows some people who used to hang out with those guys years ago, and reflecting on how much my life has changed. I still remember sitting in my driveway in La Mesa where I grew up playing wiffle ball and talking about how Pavement must be set for life because they were doing their first European tour and hoping that one day I could be as big as Rocket From The Crypt. That was fun. What great pop songs these guys wrote, and I don’t just mean Malcamus, I mean all of them together. The dude who yelled, the drunk drummer who would throw his sticks as high as he could every show, the moog sounding squggles on everything. I remember being on the water polo team and swiming around with Zurich Is Stained in my head the whole game and the Trigger Cut single in high school, cd single no less, just feeling like I had cracked some secret code or something about life. Like I finally got it or something. On into the night and here I am in New York, writing something that someone might care to read. Maybe someone in there driveway.
Love and Peace, Don’t give up your dreams as they say in Stepbrothers the movie…
Luke, now with short hair and glasses
yeah, i care.
i grew up listening to Pavement too, and i just remember seeing these guys in 1995, it’s was one of the best live presentations ever.
Been listening to slanted and enchanted just this week – some talk of a pavement reunion doing the rounds. Fingers crossed.