slint -- _spiderland_: classic or dud

so surprising

https://gallery.mailchimp.com/27422a6572f095b65ed12eea5/images/68ad44b6-fc42-4ffd-9ce1-2a30e1c7fe95.jpg

1/12/15

To all the customers, friends, and family of Wild and Woolly Video:

Due to the current state of the video industry, and the corresponding financial outlook for Wild and Woolly, as well as my desire to pursue a different career, I’ve decided to make March 23rd (our 18th anniversary) our last day in business. We will start selling off our amazing collection of movies on January 26th. We will keep renting movies through March 15th, but as of today we will no longer be signing up new rental customers. We will honor all gift cards through March 23rd.

I plan on renting out the building for at least a year, or possibly selling it to the right buyer, so if anyone has any serious interest, please contact me.

In some ways this was an easy decision to make, as our business has been declining for several years, and while still profitable, it is no longer sustainable in a format that makes sense for the store or for me.

I am also just ready for something different. I’ve been taking Pilates classes for a couple of years due to a shoulder injury, and they’ve really helped my shoulder as well as my overall health. But I’ve also gotten deeper into studying this method of exercise, and learning about Joseph Pilates, the man who invented it.

So once the store closes, I’m planning to spend at least a year studying to become a certified Pilates teacher, and look forward to helping other people who’ve been injured or just want to lead healthier lives.

But, thinking about all of the great customers and employees- now that part made this a hard decision.

But in the end, I’ve chosen what I think is best for me and my family.

So my family and I thank you for all of your years of love and support and for keeping us around a lot longer than I could have ever imagined. Our customers are incredible and it’s amazing how many people are no longer just customers, but are truly our friends.

Thanks especially to all of the people who work at the store-we would have closed the doors a long time ago if it’s wasn’t for the awesome people who work at Wild and Woolly.

Sincerely,

Todd Brashear/Owner

man an indie video store making it to 2015 is a pretty good run

just watched this movie last week, oddly fascinating

I feel ill just posting this. If anyone knows where David Pajo lives, please go check on him. He posted this about 40 minutes ago: http://www.pinkhollers.blogspot.com/2015/02/i-surrender-to-my-broken-heart.html?m=1

what the fuck!!!

OMG... this is really terrible

posting in case it disappears:

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christ, he's got a pic of a noose around his neck. i am kind of freaking out here

I'm gutted. Really hoping someone who knows him well can get to him.

ok, a FOAF has supposedly gotten in touch with his brother, who says he's alive. i have no other information right now

that is some srsly fucking harrowing reading, man

whatever's up, hoping he comes through it

jesus that's tough reading.

He is in police custody, per twitter.

Posting that letter may have been the smartest move of his life.

:-O

get well soon

That is one of the most heartbreaking, fucked-up things I've ever read. I really hope he pulls through and finds a better headspace.

why would anybody repost that?

or at least, can someone remove it now we know people are with him?

yeah that's a good idea

utterly harrowing read & experience. hoping hard that he gets all the help and support he needs.

How awful.

i posted to make sure that if it had details that could help someone get to him that it would be there. there was location information in there.

Posted just now on Instagram

http://instagram.com/p/zDD-AIE_lr/

oof, hope he gets through this

Me too. The pic is encouraging. So intense to see his face after reading that though.

Poor guy. Those bandages are scary.

nothing really constructive you can say about this whole thing but jesus fucking christ dave :(

how sad

Never saw this before:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb46UMdmGqY

https://www.loumag.com/articledisplay.aspx?id=59820590

history of Louisville punk

After Skull of Glee, Steve Rigot played in In the Vines, Common Law Cabin and Women Who Love Candy, among other bands. He is an artist (painter) and lives in Southern Indiana.

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2010/04/26/it-was-a-suicide-mission-from-the-very-start-a-chat-with-the-endtables/

http://louisvillemusic.org/blog/2015/03/20/steve-chili-rigot-dies/

haha
http://i.imgur.com/Bl5i66N.png

http://imgur.com/gallery/X83MF

http://imgur.com/gallery/4Tvfr

I bet that last band photo is their first band, Languid and Flaccid. Not Todd Brashear on bass there - I think it's Ned Oldham but not positive.

yeah, last photo is Ned on the right. but the fifth does not depict Ned; the fourth does, as well as Craig Brown and Chris Hawpe, Ned's tightest buds at the time.

apart from the last photo, its all from a J. Graham Brown School yearbook, probably '81-'84.

Slint have finally sold out. pic.twitter.com/VRvIGmm76U

— Loud And Quiet (@LoudAndQuietMag) May 3, 2017

o m g

https://i.imgur.com/7ZWA34Y.jpg

Ahead of their time in so many ways

https://wwpilates.com/

thank you, that really hits the middle of a venn diagram of stuff my wife likes.

aw that's cool good for him

would exercise with todd

that's pretty cool

Love that he kept “wild and woolly”

2 lengthy interviews with/by Britt from a few months ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNs1GUWZefw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZKAN03mnhg

I listened to that in march… and… I was present for the birth of Slint, attending their second, third and fourth shows, and then one in lville a year before the release of Spiderland… I cannot properly express my pride that guys that were only a few years older than me could possibly create music that unique, and he in particular is unlike any drummer to have ever walked the earth… I was in lville for most of the past week, and the awe with which they are regarded there is palpable… and…

I gotta say that interview is exceptional for showing how unusually inarticulate he is about what he has done (and probably everything else, as each of the times I have interacted with him he has been like that) relative to the hundreds of musicians i have interviewed. He is all show, and can't figure out how to tell or is incapable of telling.

I like Spiderland but have literally not listened to it in years. And then today in the car my 16-year-old son plugs in his phone and puts on "Good Morning, Captain." He likes to play me stuff he's found, and to see if I know it. He is now apparently a big Slint fan. I think he got into it via his Microphones-inspired excavation of '90s indie. Anyway, 16-year-olds still getting excited over it nearly 30 years on says something for it.

That is so cool!

tipsy: did you recommend the documentary "Breadcrumb Trail" for your son?