The Pixies
May 5th, 2006 by Lauren
“So, the Pixies are back together.” To anybody who respects music at all THIS is quite a big deal. If you know about them, as you should, I’m sure that ‘Where is my mind’ will be replaying in your head all day long.
May 4th EliasArts hosted a Screening and cocktail party introducing the fact that they just signed Pixies Guitarist, Joey Santiago…a huge deal to people in the ad industry looking to pair their “brilliant” ideas with “star material” music.
Working for the company I work for has quite the perks. Besides the fact that I get to work with really talented musicians, get to travel to the West Coast on occasion, and get my hands on most of the new music out there for free, I also get to meet these so called “star material” musicians.
The trick when interacting with these people is looking like you don’t care that they are eating out of the same shrimp cocktail bowl as you, greet them with just the right amount of admiration (everyone needs a little verbal blow job once in a while), grab a picture without looking like one of those MTV total request screaming teenage girls and then live to brag about it without actually seeming like you’re bragging. At all this - I am an expert.
A picture with Joey Santiago and I’m off to a screen of loudQuietloud, a documentary film featured at this years Tribeca Film Festival. Directed by Steven Cantor and Matthew Galkin, loudQuietloud is a little different from most Band Documentaries. This documentary starts from the beginning of the regrouping. The Pixies reunited after a 12-year inauspicious split and set out to re-conquer the world leading you through the trials and tribulations of egos, rehab, and fan based obsessions. The film is honest, funny, and perfectly captures how passionately people feel about the band members and the little band they formed call the Pixies.
If you are looking to reignite your love for their music and don’t have all of their albums…may I make a suggestion? Go to iTunes and download Wave of Mutilation – Best of Pixies. $9.99 for 23 classics that you should own anyway. It combines the best of the Surfer Rosa and Doolittle…my faves.