eephus wrote: Tue Jul 01, 2025 8:54 am
I have not seen Pavements yet.
Many critiques of Pavement miss the facts that they have a beating heart and that it's pretty obvious a lot of the time.
Stop Breathin, Silence Kid, Gold Soundz, From Now On, all of Watery. Like half of Slanted.
Grounded for fuck's sake the best thing they ever did probably.
Father to a Sister of a Thought.
Type Slowly.
Not that there aren't elements of archness and ambivalence, mostly about revealing oneself through one's art and the value of that art in the first place.
Sure there are.
But just because that bit is the easiest part to grasp (and discuss) doesn't mean that's the part that matters the most. It's the least interesting thing about the band.
It's like how critics focus on lyrics--that's because writers understand words.
They might know the
feeling they get when someone communicates to them through sound.
I mean I would hope that feeling is why they're a critic.
But it's so hard to put that feeling
into words that, almost inevitably, they focus on what they know--the available text.
Which is never the most important part of it, not by a long shot.
Saw this movie.
I liked it! haha!
It was a lot warmer than I expected, and funnier.
I'm not sure I liked it better than a straight movie about the band, but I'm not sure it is possible to make a movie like that.
the fake biopic stuff was pretty funny. maybe more so b/c i know those folks.
the musical theater stuff musically was hilarious maybe in a way they didn't intend, but it also sort of ameliorated everything I said above.
in that it was zero percent arch or ambivalent.
It was funny and kind of weirdly touching to see someone take such an straightforwardly emotional approach to their stuff, though I didn't think it worked b/c i basically hate musicals.
anyway, exceeded expectations.