I’m 50 pages into Black Postcards, the Dean Wareham memoir. Here is the first installment things I have learned from Dean’s book.

15 things I’ve learned so far:

-Don’t take acid and swing a pickax
–Chinatown’s Pathmark is the biggest supermarket in Manhattan
–Voidoids’ guitarist Robert Quine once said: “Matthew Sweet…I hope he gets hit by a bus.”
-It’s sexy for a girl to have an empty refrigerator
–Australians are fond of suits that favor shorts over long pants
-Dean and Damon’s pre-Galaxie 500 band Speedy and the Castanets lost a battle of the bands to a band featuring Semisonic singer Dan Wilson
-Pete Kember and Jason Pierce had come to fisticuffs the first time songwriting credits were discussed in Spacemen 3
–Naomi’s mom writes a gardening column for the New York Times
–The first Galaxie 500 album was made for $750.
–Damon was class valedictorian and president of his high school class
-The cover image on David Bowie’s Diamond Dogs is scary
–Damon and Naomi have been a couple since high school
-Dean is a big Feelies fan
-Boston Scenester, Billy Ruane, was the first person to book The Middle East Rock Club in Cambridge, MA had a day job and it was working in the Wider Library
–Joe Cocker was big in Australia

p.s. . I really enjoyed working on the Galaxie 500 DVD, Don’t Let Your Youth Go To Waste, with Dean, Damon and Naomi released by Plexifilm a couple of years ago.