Box Elder by Pavement epitomizes the 90's aspect of this essay so well. It's a 5 minute song with two and a half minutes of pointless nonsense to start but the last two and a half minutes absolutely rule.
Your thoughts about Pavement made me think about R.E.M. I remember going to their Midway stadium show in the summer of ‘99 and then after being drenched during the encore (which is what most people probably remember about that show), going home an immediately making a mixtape of the set list. I was probably up until 3 AM that night creating it and then listening to it on my Walkman. Talk about something else that doesn’t exist anymore! The time and effort to do or recreate something meant as much as the memory of the actual event. Unless you’re seriously invested in creating something artistic, possibly. The casual people have moved on to convenience I think.
Box Elder by Pavement epitomizes the 90's aspect of this essay so well. It's a 5 minute song with two and a half minutes of pointless nonsense to start but the last two and a half minutes absolutely rule.
Your thoughts about Pavement made me think about R.E.M. I remember going to their Midway stadium show in the summer of ‘99 and then after being drenched during the encore (which is what most people probably remember about that show), going home an immediately making a mixtape of the set list. I was probably up until 3 AM that night creating it and then listening to it on my Walkman. Talk about something else that doesn’t exist anymore! The time and effort to do or recreate something meant as much as the memory of the actual event. Unless you’re seriously invested in creating something artistic, possibly. The casual people have moved on to convenience I think.
Want a tale set in 2024 (with also some events set in 1999) that feels like an artifact? “Highlander 2!”
“What did a physical map or 17 pages of MapQuest directions feel like?”
Like it was sitting in a binder in Robb Garni’s apartment.
A joke for an audience of 4, and one that made me laugh very loudly.
“I know that my son prefers silence (and will paradoxically shout this preference)…”
I think your son has been hanging around my son