Alex Ross Perrywas approached to make adocumentaryaboutPavement.
There was a slight hitch: The band kinda sorta did not want a documentary made about them.
They just didnt wantPavement for Dummies.Besides, singer-songwriter-guitaristStephen Malkmussaid, has there ever been agoodmovie about a rock band?
The band Pavement, the subject of the documentary ‘Pavements.‘Photo Composite: Pavement: Michael Wong. Cast: Donald Stahl**
He could do a documentary about their history, sure.
He could also do a biopic people love music biopics!
Or maybe he would do a jukebox musical around the bands songs people love those too!
and then film the process, thus capturing the bands history via a new theatrical interpretation.
and film that too!
Why couldnt Perry make one of these movies?
Why couldnt he makeallof them?
The plural in the title is well-earned.
Its also the story ofSlanted!
Thats in here, too.
(See: Beck,McSweeneys,the lounge-music revival.)
The cake-and-eat-it-too approach is the only shady lane worth going down with them.
), many awkward silences, and Nastanovich stepping in to get the party started.
the B-side turned unexpected TikTok phenomenon.
Thats the end of our career, Malkmus said, before exiting stage right.
They returned for an encore Date With Ikea and Fight This Generation then left.
Maybe it is the end.
They got a great victory lap.
Goodnight to the rock & roll era, indeed.
