Pavement Plays Scrabble

This link came off the CGP: Pavement is a 65 Point Word. It's an old (1999) Salon article about the Indie rock darlings, Pavement, and their love of Scrabble.

The journalist found out that when Pavement was on tour, instead of indulging in drugs and groupies, they played Scrabble. So in lieu of a real interview, he challenged them to a game.

Just after Blanchfield and I narrowed the score to 148-138, the P-boys dropped OUTLINE, playing all seven of their letters -- an automatic 50-point bonus -- and running up their total to 219. I busted out my meanest question.

"Now that alternative rock is sort of off the map, indie rockers like yourselves aren't being paid much attention. How does that feel?"