That's Really Super, Superchunk
For a run in the 1990s these folks were one of my favorite bands, so if you don't know them, visit YouTube for tons of good videos and music.
“We discovered that it was OK to have a little high-brow as long you have a lot of low-brow. That’s entertainment value. The one thing you want to avoid is the middle brow, because the whole world is frigging middle brow at the moment.” – Jon Langford
For a run in the 1990s these folks were one of my favorite bands, so if you don't know them, visit YouTube for tons of good videos and music.
posted by George at 9:52 AM
George markets only for the forces of good for a living. He has a paid hobby that involves eating, drinking, and writing, things he’d do for free, which is almost what he’s doing it for. In a previous life he taught mostly illiterate and generally ungrateful college students how to write. He has been a body guard for Jodie Foster, a walk-on dancer with French avant garde troupe Maguy Marin, a film programmer, a judge at an Iron Chef style competition, a political activist, a textbook author, a bassist in a band, a two-time league winning fantasy baseball manager, a union local president, a pr flack helping run a red carpet at an Angelina Jolie event, a janitor, a chauffeur to folks from TC Boyle to Andrei Codrescu, a delivery man to Plato's Retreat, a reluctant writer of a non-snarky intro for Colin Powell, a radio DJ, a corn detassler, an escort van driver, a rock journalist, a lab assistant for a company that made everything from mouthwash to super skin lubricant, and even, once, a poet. His biggest brush with fame was when Julie Christie fondled his tie, a tie George Lopez belittled to 1000 people minutes later. The best thing about him is his wife. His dogs aren't bad, either.
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I was just listening to my Merge Records fifth and tenth anniversary compilation CDs this past weekend. They handle Superchunk as well as Lambchop, Portastatic, East River Pipe, Magnetic Fields and Archers of Loaf, among others. At least they had them all in '99. Great label.
Merge was/is great and was created by Mac McCaughan and Laura Ballance of Superchunk, actually. Mac is also Portastatic.And a busy man.
...was created by Mac McCaughan and Laura Ballance of Superchunk...
I knew that at some point in my life.
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