Director (Other Music) Producer (Micro Budget, The Elephant 6 Recording Co.)
Surprisingly decent shot-on-video local TV doc about Minneapolis music in the 80s, with pretty long segments on Morris Day, the Time, Jimmy Jam, Terry Lewis, and Hüsker Dü plus some complaining about how Prince and the Replacements wouldn’t agree to be interviewed. Watched on YouTube.
It boggles my mind to think that there are people who are somehow able to enjoy the absolute worst most annoying Star Wars nerd shit like the cartoons, Ahsoka and the prequels, but think THIS is bad.
I watched a not-quite-final cut of this in June (thanks Alex!) but now that it has actually played in public I wanted to write a short review.
Really liked this! More than anything else it’s a film about Pavement’s (and Malkmus’s) strained relationship with fame and success early on. There are great archival scenes of him/them being absolutely miserable on the Lollapalooza tour. It all culminates with the contemporary story of Pavement growing up and being able to navigate their…
