CHICAGO: If Hepatitis C Were Attacking Your Face Instead of Your Liver You'd Be Doing Something About It

John, you're making me hungry.

xpost: oh, I get why people do it. I'm sure I'd do it in my head if I worked retail at a bookstore. I was easily intimidated by indie rock boys at that point in my life anyway. I'd be able to handle it if it happened now.

I saved my energy for following people I thought would buy things I liked and trying to see what they were looking at. It was more positive stalking than negatively-charged derision.

You'd think but NO! We created special Ska and "Electronica" sections and became well known for having the best selection of both genres in lower Delaware (damning with faint praise for real). Chemical Bros was exactly the right era. It was the summer of Block Rockin' Beats, which I actually still think is a pretty catchy song.

I have never been able to figure out what he says in "Loser." Whores over Canada? Scores of what else is new?

"Soy un perdidor." = "I'm a loser" en espanol.

i have a hard spot in my heart for the smashing pumpkins.

MOCK ME THAT IS FINE I CAN TAKE IT.

xp: I have nothing against the Pumpkins except Billy Corgan seems like a douche. "1979" is super-pretty, but all my friends were obsessed with that album and I blame it for making them boring.

fuck you, billy. and fuck me for spending $15 dollars on tickets to that 12 years ago.

Point taken.

except Billy Corgan seems like a douche.

I've prob mentioned this before (although not to you, Horseshoe) -- but my friend Katie worked as BC's personal assistant for a year. She says (of course) that he's "misunderstood."

I was never a big fan, but I still like most of their singles. I owned Siamese Dream for a minute when it was de rigueur. Great drumming.

yeah, in a studio where they can wait and wait and wait until his brain is clear of junk to get a decent take. lousy fucking singing, a drummer who was too fucked up to count to four, open hostility between bandmates on stage.... great show.

HS OTM w/r/t the many ways that other people ruin probably perfectly reasonable music. And Billy Corrigan's douchery. Probably Michael Stipe, too, but I was such a massive fangirl back in the day that I'll forgive MS for nearly anything except maybe buying sex slaves and torturing cats.

BC: Sure. But my whole thing is that people don't fall in love to Pavement, people don't get up in the morning before they go to school and put on Big Black. They put on Smashing Pumpkins or Hole or Nirvana, because these bands actually mean something to them. It's the difference between music you put on to take drugs to, and music you put on to live your life.

Billy Corgan, leader of The Smashing Pumpkins, threatened to drop The Smashing Pumpkins from the 1994 Lollapalooza Festival if Pavement was allowed to play. The Smashing Pumpkins were headlining Lollapalooza that year.

It kind of reminds me of like Zsa Zsa Gabor or something: "I used to be the most beautiful woman in the world. I used to be in pictures."

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Maybe it was ZWANN.

Heh, one of the dudes in my band started a rumor about another friend that he's a really big Zwann fan, and got really upset when they broke up. You should try it with someone you know, it's fun.

Btw, I've got my (non-dude) book club for Man with the Golden Arm tonight and we're meeting at a bar, so I plan on drinking in the style of the novel.