an old ticket from a 2002 Sonic Youth show. i keep all the tickets of the concerts and movies i go to and tape them in my journal.

anyway, the signature (i believe it’s supposed to be a face) is from Jim O’Rourke. don’t know who that is? he’s possibly the best record producer/mixer/engineer on earth. he’s done a few records himself, which are very surprising and not all that good. i mean…they sound great, but the music is just not at all what i usually like (which is saying something; i listen to a lot of different kinds of music). the amount of records this guy has worked on is incredible. he’s worked with Stereolab, Tortoise, Wilco, Smog, and helped produce the High Fidelity soundtrack.

when i got the autograph we had been waiting at the band’s bus for a while after the show. a drunk couple had come over next to us. the guy was leaning on a parking meter making up french sounding words and shouting them at us while the woman was pounding on the door to the bus screaming “thurston! i have to fix your apple!” but thurston wasn’t even on the bus yet.