Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks Share Sparkle Hard: The Movie — album making-of documentary
I wonder if Kim appears in it. Even though it's just ten minutes, I haven't watched it yet because... I'm not the biggest Stephen Malkmus fan, frankly. I own Pavement albums, I like a lot of what's in 'em. I dug the Jicks when Janet Weiss was the drummer. But in general, sometimes the derivativeness is too damn much — mainly The Fall, of course (large chunks of the style, the gnomic scribbling, the MES "dancing" [I could swear I've even seen Malkmus in an argyle sweater vest, but that might be fake news]; there's even a song called "The Hexx" for fuck's sake), but also some Swell Maps copied down to a T... And then the bloody Zappa-ish solos, which are a no-to-the-no in my book.
My favorite Makmus record is the one in which he simply covered
Ege Bamyasi in its entirety, which says it all about my deeming of the guy's work, really.
