encounters pt.I

[hudson bell]

> i first encountered pynchon when i was in the 9th grade...
>i was reading this interview by some guys at UK(kentucky), they
>were interviewing David Lowery , then of Camper Van Beethoven..(a band)---
>  it was in RiFLe Comix as they called the mag, the student radio being, WRFL,
>at the first of the interview the guys introduced themselves as TJ Slothrop
>and Pirate Prentice and Lowery was like, "Why do ya'll name yr selves after
>thomas pynchon characters?" ...they then went on explaining and chatting
>about pynchon for a sec and it sounded so wierd and like, what are they
>talkin about?...
>        At this point in my life i was big into Camper Van Beethoven and
>especially liked Lowery's lyrics...so naturally i thought i'd like what he
>read..It was a couple months before i came upon the pynchon novels, and of
>course, bought COL49 first.....layed down on my bed and read it cover  to
>cover, my reaction being....WOW....you can write like this?...something so
>good and challenging at the same time...and coming together like that,
>        Lowery has written lots of songs influenced by Pynchon novels it
>seems, in just his phrasing, "history of utah", "eye of fatima pt.I", "she
>divines water"....and then songs which he told a friend of mine were
>actually based on actual Pynchon characters...like "All her favorite
>fruit"...which all must remember the great fruits of Slothrop's onetime
flame...
>        to bad CVB broke up coz the Cracker stuff just cant compare...
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