#86 Stephen Malkmus
When we left the café, he was waiting for us, leaning against a wall, smoking a cigarette. He looked like he wasn’t expecting anything, just smoking. He looked older, too, quite imposing, but Stephen Malkmus remained true to what we imagined. A cool guy who didn’t seem able to be disappointed or pissed off by anything in the world—but who was also unprepared to really invest at all. A guy with a guitar who was about to sing three folk songs for us, then forget about it, then tell his friends we asked him to do Pavement...
But who cares. For me, as for many people I think, this entire session was justified in only one second. We were on a bridge over the Canal St Martin, at 49 seconds on the video. His voice went out of tune, carrying singularity, charm, the story of a band we once loved.
Réal : Vincent MoonNate Chan
Tourné à ParisSan Francisco
Réal : Vincent MoonNate Chan
Tourné à ParisSan Francisco
It goes without saying: the low-key Malkmus was not a fascinating subject to explore for our impetuous Moon. He never paid attention to Pavement or to Malkmus’ solo stuff, so, in his eyes, here was just a man who did not show much. Luckily, Paris was a great help in cheering up the whole session. A pile of chairs in a dark alley, a samba lesson in the basement...
Réal : Vincent MoonNate Chan
Tourné à ParisSan Francisco
Réal : Vincent MoonNate Chan
Tourné à ParisSan Francisco
...And then, this door that opened to the back of the Gibus, a famous club. It was empty: only two workmen were there, but they were too busy to talk. Malkmus wandered in the empty corridors like an erratic troubadour in that sleeping rock club.
Réal : Vincent MoonNate Chan
Tourné à ParisSan Francisco
Réal : Vincent MoonNate Chan
Tourné à ParisSan Francisco
Then Malkmus said goodbye, and left...
Nate Chan more or less warned us once. He had filmed Stephan Malkmus with the Jicks when they played at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco. No Pavement, no Jicks... Just an anarchic bunch of old R.E.M. covers. Go figure!
Réal : Vincent MoonNate Chan
Tourné à ParisSan Francisco
Réal : Vincent MoonNate Chan
Tourné à ParisSan Francisco
Translated by Nora



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3 July 2008, by Marcelo
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18 July 2008, by Tigerlilly
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you’re all being super harsh on the crew. If any of you actually MET Mr Malkmus you’d know exactly what they’re saying. his music’s great and I’m sure these guys who recorded it are fans of the music. The man? he’s hard going and not easy to get along with.
stop giving the people who run this site a hard time, it’s the best of its kind in the world!
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27 February 2009, by un courageux anonyme
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19 April 2009, by dave
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28 May 2009, by un courageux anonyme
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21 June 2009, by christoph
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okay found the problem - for any of you who wish to download the iPod version of Wicked Wanda - the corrected URL is this:
http://download.blogotheque.net/CAE...
still wondering why Patrick Watson, The Shins, etc aren’t available for download yet others are - any insight?
thanks yet again
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21 June 2009, by christoph
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25 September 2009, by mattthehoople