17 September 2009 — Reuniting
A few months ago I did a Q&A with Inpress, no doubt because some other band had pulled out at the last minute. It was just a few questions in an email that are pretty much the same for every band, in fact, I have a pretty strong memory of answering exactly the same questions a couple of years ago when we were promoting our album.
So when it got to the question "what is your favourite song lyric and why?", I felt like I'd already done the Bod Dylan thing last time around. Instead, I opted for a lyric that had been sticking with me more recently, from The National's "So Far Around The Bend", which is on the Dark Was The Night compilation. The National always gets me with their lyrics, despite their relative simplicity. This one was no different, and it's not exactly poetry, but it seemed to sum up something about something.
You've been humming in a daze forever
waiting for Pavement to get back together
And now, it turns out, we will have to wait no longer (well, another year). Aside from the fact that this may make Stephen Malkmus' upcoming Melbourne gig more interesting, it also relates to this little post I had. Pavement reuniting, Pixies touring, Beastie Boys and Pearl Jam reissuing their old albums, Kurt Cobain singing Bon Jovi songs in Guitar Hero. The 80s are over: we're in the 90s now.