Mark Ibold is best known for his stints as a member of both Pavement and Sonic Youth, but when he's not playing bass in a seminal indie rock band, he pays his bills by bartending at the Great Jones Cafe in Manhattan. In an interview with
New York magazine, Ibold offers some comments about the restaurant's famous clientele, anecdotes about dealing with messy eaters and loud drunks, and some vague glimmer of hope for a Pavement reunion tour within the next few years. (""Our booking agent seems to think we're going to be doing a reunion tour sometime in the next couple of years," he says. "But it's definitely not official")
After the cut, Ibold answers the most important questIon: Who gets more action, musicians or bartenders?
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People we never expected to see on Fox News: Former Pavement singer/current Jick Stephen Malkmus. Question we never expected to hear on Fox News: "I've heard from the Urban Dictionary that [Jick] is a specific act of making love. 'To Jick.' Is that exciting?" Response that we would kind of expect from someone on Fox News: "I don't know what ghetto that came from." Malkmus and Red Eye host Greg Gutfield also discussed the audacity of Blender magazine, the Whitney Museum and how Real Emotional Trash compares to Bach. Notable quotables below.
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Oh man, Pavement might be (thinking about someday in the near or far future, and maybe only for one show or maybe for a tour) reuniting! Personally, I'm excited, since now that 
