Day 19
TODAY'S SONG:
"Our Singer" by Pavement
I
was wondering if I would have a repeat artist on this list. So
there's another Pavement song, which is not surprising since I have
about one billion Pavement songs on my computer.
“Our
Singer” is the final track on Pavement's debut album, Slanted
& Enchanted, which is also
in my Top 10 albums of all time, if not number 1. So I've obviously
got a long history with this song and this album. Here are some
random thoughts I'm having listening to it now:
Going
to Erie in the Summer of 2008 to meet up half way with my friend
Jordan from Pittsburgh. We ate at Olive Garden and then he gave me a
sedated little kitty named Dr. Bruce.
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| Dr. Bruce Marcus, ca. 2010 |
Driving
my mom's red '92 Impreza to Point Gratiot with my friend Jeremy,
playing frisbee on the beach, swimming out into Lake Erie, pretty
sure I could make time stand still if I really tried.
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| Point Gratiot, ca. ??? |
Driving
to Buffalo with my friend Sean, listening to a bunch of mid-90s rock
like Pavement and Superchunk, deciding we were going to start our own
mid-90s rock band in the mid-00s. We called the band Lane Shift,
named for a sign we passed on the 90 East. I recorded a few Lane
Shift demos that summer on a 4-track recorder, and one more recently
for my first fun-a-day project.
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| Lane Shift, ca. 2001 |
Dragging
a suitcase through downtown Pittsburgh to the Greyhound station,
where I sat listening to my headphones waiting for the bus to Erie.
I watched this guy walk in and a girl ran across the station and leaped into his arms. They were kissing and embracing for several minutes
while I listened to Julie Doiron and pretended not to notice.
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| The Greyhound station in Pittsburgh, slightly updated since the release of the Simon & Garfunkel song, "America." |
Playing my Les Paul while staring out the window at the trees finally starting to sprout some leaves after a long and brutal winter.
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| Dr. Bruce Marcus, ca. 2014 |
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