2 years post-Pavement...
Malkmus on living in NYC in the early 90s:
"I don’t know. There’s so much in the early ‘90s I could talk about. One time I got caught evading a fare on the subway in 1991 because they had these really old turnstiles and I just slid through one of them and there was a sting. I got caught and had to spend four hours in the underground Union Square precinct with a bunch of other homeless derelicts. That came and went and I had a court date and my friend David Berman (also) got caught and he had this idea to say that we were signing up to go fight in Iraq. And we had out-of-state licenses so we just said we were tourists from out of town and had come to New York to enlist to go to Kuwait. And the judge just told us to get out of there. So it’s nice to know the judges of New York care about our boys over there."