At a party in 1993, I wrote “PVMT” on the back of
my hand with a stubby sharpie the first time I heard “Unseen
Power of the Picket Fence.” Later that week I bought SLANTED
& ENCHANTED & scrawled “Pave-Ment” across
my black boombox with white-out. Pleased with the results, I
used the same small brush to recreate the WATERY DOMESTIC e.p.
cover with my archive copy of the ROOSTER l.p., painting with
correction fluid & scraping with deformed paperclip. With
each new release, I found myself Pavementing my possessions.
The latest & most ambitious of these transformations involves
my 70s Chevyvan. I shipped it to Orlando Florida, where a former
wizard from Industrial Light & Magic customized it with
tinted bubble windows & computer-generated airbrushed animations
of the TERROR TWILIGHT cover artwork. When the sun sets,the
van comes to life: the stars twinkle, nipples harden and the
dog howls off-key cover songs to the ever-changing moons.
