Friday, December 12, 2008

And thats how Modest Mouse began...

So you thought that the 2003 MGMT performance was cool? Well check out this rare one from Jeremy Tague's personal favorite, Modest Mouse.


All we need now is rare 1993 footage of Issac Brock and company practicing in the shed he built after police evicted him for living on the second floor of a flooded house. Crazy? Tell me about it. Issac Brock is full of amazing tales. Here's him describing his 10 day stint in jail during an interview with The A.V. Club:
"When I first showed up, there were people who'd try to make me give them my lunch, and I'd be like, "No, get the fuck away from me!!" That worked. The white gangsters were hilarious. I was in a holding cell with three of 'em, and they're all just telling their superthug stories about how they can outrun all the cops. I had no sense of humor, and I was like, "Why don't you guys shut the fuck up? You're in jail. You apparently aren't so hot at outrunning cops." There was this one dude wearing the uniform they give you, and he was like, "All right! These are my new club clothes!" I'm just like, "You are an idiot. Shut the fuck up right now until I leave. This isn't fun!" Here's the rad thing: One of the dudes, this Little Lord Badass, was on the same cellblock as me, and when he'd get on the phone, it'd be, "Dad, you gotta bail me out of here!" It was awesome. Mostly, I just kept low-key. I had some late-40s, freaky, child-molester-looking dude basically saying that he was going to rape me. I sat down and played chess with him, and he was making all these creepy comments, so I was like, "OK, we're done playing this game."  —Isaac Brock, The A.V. Club

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