Now that Ethan has so callously insulted both the Melbourne Cup winning jockey and his dead brother and indeed accused the winner of being responsible for the death of the brother I can only assume that there will be repercussions. These I suspect will come as a raid on The Wax offices to be followed up with the stringing up of Wax members Mussolini style.
This means that if we are to survive this angry mob there exists the possibility that I/we are going to have to flee. I have already made tentative plans to flee to a desert island. In preparation for such an eventuality I have started to write up those stupid "what 10 CDs would you take to a desert island?" lists.
I don't know what I'm gonna do. I have decidedly more than 10 essential desert island CDs. If indeed the need to flee does arise I will be hard pressed to select which CDs of mine I take with me and which CDs I throw at my attackers in a feeble attempt to deter them.
I can assure you however that whatever CDs I do take with me at least one will be a Pavement CD. Pavement is one of my all time favourite bands.
The music isn't the only reason I love Pavement, however. It's also shit like this: Instead of re-releasing an album with one or two extra songs to bring in the salivating masses, Pavement chose to re-release their first album (Slanted and Enchanted) with an extra 34 bonus tracks. 34. Goddamn, son.
I said Goddamn.
Written on Friday, 8 November 2002