It's all for expensive lawn

I won't get into a melodramatic thing this time, and Mike has already got your music blog needs covered, but allow me just to mention that today is the 10th anniversary of the release of Pavement's Brighten the Corners, one of my ten, probably five favorite albums of all time. I remember buying it on cassette, on a lark, at the Tower Records on West 4th Street in New York. I had never been into Pavement before that, but I had read an interview with them about the new album in Tower's Pulse magazine and they sounded like smart, interesting guys and I had a feeling I would like this one. Like I said, it was a lark. That was shortly before I went home for spring break in March, and I spent most of spring break listening to it while driving around Bensalem and surrounding environs in my parents' minivan (I was ostensibly driving around looking for a summer job, but that ended up never working out). It was, and I presume still is, good music for driving around in cold, wet weather. Wow, remember Pulse? Remember cassettes? I do, but then I'm very, very old. Anyway, if you have it, take a listen to it today or this week. If you don't, go out and buy it, I think you'll like it. The artwork is all in earth tones, and there are cats on the CD.