1995

December 6th, 2007

She’d gotten a snare and a hihat and a cymbal and I couldn’t believe how loud it was. Her parents said she’d quit by year’s end. She did. She gave me a tape with weird indie music I’d never heard before–The Magnetic Fields, Pavement, Papas Fritas, the Legendary Jim Ruiz Group.

I had dreams of running up mountains and doing a thousand pushups a day and setting up old tires to run through in the backyard. Instead, I lounged around the living room flipping through the Minty Fresh Records catalog and listening to the Mets on the radio.

Legendary Jim Ruiz Group - Urban Gentleman
Legendary Jim Ruiz Group - Every Other Sunday
Legendary Jim Ruiz Group - Glad They’re Gone
Papas Fritas - Passion Play

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