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Pavement Members Talk ‘Wild’ Format of ‘Pavements’ Biopic, Throwing Out First Pitch At Cincinnati Reds Game

Pavement's Mark Ibold and Bob Nastanovich talk quirky 'Pavements' biopic and throwing out first pitch at Cincinnati Reds game on Wednesday (June 4).

If you were a fan of Pavement in the 1990s then it probably won’t surprise you that when time came to make a biopic of the quintessential indie slacker rock band director Alex Ross Perry ( Her Smell) took a hard turn away from the typical hagiographic, soft-focus treatment. While Ibold jokes that his takeaway was that “we’re all more handsome than we really are,” Nastanovich says that he honestly saw some things he didn’t know about before, including shots of Malkmus’ original lyric drafts and real memorabilia sent in by band archivist Scott “Spiral Stairs” Kannberg, which appear in the movie’s fake museum. Speaking of the major leagues, Ibold is excited to be back in Cincinnati, where he was born and spent many summers attending Reds baseball games with his family during the team’s late 1970s heyday.

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