Secret Backroads/Secret Handshakes (test, two, three)

On a recent long drive, I listened to Pavement's debut album, "Slanted and Enchanted," (the reissue) for the first time in awhile, months probably. I've always thought of it as the password to the world of good, often obscure art. If you love it, know it's catchy through all the noise, sloppiness and shouting (and love that too), then, "Welcome, let's go further. Do you want to go to that show Friday?" Perhaps Gerard Cosloy mans the door?

In honor of all the record signifies, this blog takes its name from it. (Well, at least one of the reissue's previously unreleased songs. As Dan Koretzky writes in those liner notes, I'm one of those "kids" in their twenties, gainfully employed enough to buy the record a second time.) Not exactly sure what this venture is -- shot into the twenty-first century, musing, venting, search for higher profile -- but here it goes.