I don't eat with people, I eat with magazines.

Slayer...But they better not pull some "Oh this is our other drummer " shit and try and bring Paul Bostaph along to get a free meal..I ain't havin it...

I'd split the difference and have dinner with Player, in hopes that they'd spontaneously break into a rousing rendition of "Baby Come Back."

Remember KPH's story about when he was a teen in Germany finally getting to meet his idol SM, but as soon as he told SM that he was also psyched to see the opening act, Malkmus mockingly repeated that band's name every time KPH tried to say anything after that...

"bedheadbedheadbedheadbedhead"

I ALWAYS think of that story whenever I hear a Pavement or solo Malkmus song. Always.

There was a band back in Athens once, from the B-52's days, Pylon. And one day, I realized that this really nice guy who was a friend of my boss (a kindof a friend of mine) had been their bassist. Pylon was big in that town, and had the lofty sort of mystique the days when athens first became a Music town. But Michael was just this quiet, artsy, feindly DJ guy who I had a great deal of difficulty picturing with a bass on him. One day, over a beer at the Globe, I asked him about it, and he clammed up (though very politely) as though I'd asked about his dead mom. I recall asking stuff like "so what kind of rig did you play through?" which was very Me circa 20 years old. And his response was something like "I have no idea. (stare off out the window)" And then he changed the subject. I didn't get mad at him, or think less of him, but it was just about as baffling at the time as anything could've been to me. I guess the moral is that almost no artist is ever like what you think they'd be like, except maybe the drunk ones.

Hee hee...I thought along kinda-sorta similar lines, except that I'd invite half of each band. Maybe they'd start a new band called Slavement.

I'm pretty sure I could piss off Malkmus in an entertaining way over the course of a few hours, so definitely Pavement.

(I could piss off Slayer too, but that would be immediate and short-lived and, therefore, nowhere near as much fun)

(and I'd be reluctant to have dinner with Player, for fear that we agreed on anything)

dude, go watch him tomorrow night....

http://www.wearepylon.com/html/live-show.html

You gonna buy my airfare to GA from WI? Otherwise it sounds like a lot of fun. I'm sure the place will be chock-full of old-timey athens royalty. Wow. I truly can't believe Lachowski is gonna play bass again. Damn.

i forgot about that entirely. and I think that that's gonna run through my head form not on as well.