Opus 40
Mercury Rev, 1999.

This song always makes me think of chilly, cuddly Sunday mornings in Fresno in 2001. And of “Golden Slumbers” by the Beatles.

Some of us read this piece in the Charlotte Observer about a “Green Acres” remake set in the South Charlotte suburbs and eventually realized that it was an April Fool’s Day gag. Others (the editors of the Winston-Salem Journal, for example) were considerably more gullible.

That said, it could have been a pretty funny show had it been for real.

Sonic Youth
Dirty Boots, 1990.

I saw Sonic Youth on the “Goo” tour, at the original Cat’s Cradle in Chapel Hill. Unfortunately, the boy from the video (I coveted him at the time) was not there.