He's Got a Range Life

"I got everything I wanted out of [Pavement]," Malkmus said. "There was nothing for me to complain about. I got to tour with these people I like and creatively do what I wanted, relatively, so there's not really anything [controversial] there.

"I wouldn't say I was really frustrated. I was just tired of it, you know?" he says, laughing. "The routine. I guess frustrated people can be tired and a little bit bogged down or something. A little turgid, slow-moving, like a slow-moving ox. I was tired of being this ox. A lot of bands get that way once they're more established. I liked the feeling we got from our records. We just had problems communicating our ideas."

Now 35, former Pavement frontman Stephen Malkmus says things are looking up.

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8 p.m. Thursday, October 25, $16.50, 303-322-2308

Bluebird Theater, 3317 East Colfax Avenue

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And, of course, nothing lasts forever.

"There's a time to go out," he said. "You don't want to be a crocodile in this modern world, some prehistoric animal. Anyway, it was a good time to go. This is fun, what we're doing. It's more than fun. It's like, beneficial to humanity, I think. Not in such big terms, but, I mean, there's good music coming from it."

Just good music, or a boon to humankind? Laughing, Malkmus quickly recoils from his momentary lapse into pomposity.

"It's not really beneficial to humanity," he admits.

Even as he talks about the supposed importance of his music, Malkmus gives us a verbal shrug.

Whatever.