sculptor Jessica Jackson Hutchins, whose work will appear in the prestigious Whitney Biennial; he tells me their wedding song was “What Love Can Be” by Kingdom Come. I believe him, but I’m not sure if this indicates weird sincerity or next-level mockery. Sometimes he’s amazingly straightforward, like when I ask if he thinks Pavement could have been bigger if that had been what they wanted. This was always the core criticism of the Pavement posture—some may remember an especially insightful episode of Beavis & Butt-head wherein Beavis watches the “Rattled by the Rush” video and reprimands the
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