We jam Econo

Shout out to Kevin on this one.

This documentary about the Minutemen, those percussive philosophers of Pedro, fairly takes my breath away. Riding around Pedro in a van with Mike Watt, it's hard to describe. It's not that he's really that smart or deep. And the performances, while showing how singular their sound was, don't sound that good.

But the spirit, the energy, the props they get from Ian McCaye and Thurston Moore and everybody under the sun, the tales of the magical hook-ups with Black Flag at the Clash concert in '79 and Saccharine Trust living downstairs in some shitbox, it takes me right back to the day, though we never rocked quite as good in NC. And yes, in some sense we're still living that life right here in Princeton, NJ, in a crib dense-packed with eclectic goodies no catalog would ever touch.

This thing is three and a half hours long. More later I'll bet.