08/08/2023
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Pavement Co-founder, Former Drummer Gary Young Dies at 70
- “Without Gary, many people would not have noticed us,” band says
Gary Young, the co-founding Pavement drummer who was with the band from 1989 to 1993, has died, Stephen Malkmus said.
“Gary Young passed on today,” the Pavement frontman said Aug. 17 on social media without giving a cause.
“Gary’s Pavement drums were one-take-and-hit-record. Nailed it so well.”
Young appeared on four EPs and Pavement’s debut long-player, 1992’s Slanted and Enchanted before leaving the group.
“Without Gary, many people would not have noticed us,” Pavement said in a statement. “In all of the best ways, he was a freak show. He was magnetic. He was magical. He was dangerous. We could think of him as an uncle, an older brother that none of us had.”
Young’s post-Pavement activities included recording three solo albums under the Gary Young’s Hospital banner.
“Gary had FUN, and those of us who got to hang with him will never forget this amazing cat … what an honor and what a gift sweet Gary was,” Thurston Moore said on social media.
8/18/23
here have this picture i made and forgot about until now
[Id: an edited photo of Seinfeld featuring Kramer, Jerry, and George anticipating the arrival of the mesomerican god of ice frost death and justice itztlacoliuhqui]
cackling at this, can NOT believe it's a real, actual quote. it reads so much like one of those clickhole pieces
He also said this about the snake.
All of this is hilarious, but a gorgeous quote from the same interview:
“In all seriousness, this discovery is humbling. It’s a reminder that there’s still so much to learn about our wild world — and that humans are one small part of an impossibly vast biosphere. On this planet, all fates are intertwined, and right now, one million species are teetering on the edge of oblivion. We have an existential mandate to mend our broken relationship with nature and protect the places that sustain life.”
yesterday I went to a little meeting at my local queer community center and I was admiring their bookshelves and mentioned that I work at the public library and someone said "well I bet they don't have any [LGBTQ+ books] at our library" and I was like um. yes we do. we have tons of them. half of our employees are queer leftists so they said "oh well I bet they don't in [nearby rural county]" and I was like uh once again yes they absolutely do. gay people live and work there as well
so here's a quick reminder that if you don't think your local library has enough queer centered materials you should actually check before assuming, and if you're not satisfied with their collection you should submit a request for more such books. I don't know what the political landscape of libraries looks like outside the us rn, but within the us no matter where you are, I promise you there are employees at your library fighting for inclusion and intellectual freedom and they can't win without vocal public support