Fwd: Re: Smells like Pig Bodine

[RICHARD ROMEO]

"SMELLS LIKE TEEN SPIRI," the breakthrough hit by Nirvana...may have been

inspired by Thomas Pynchon's "GRAVITY'S RAINBOW." The song, fromthe album

NEVERMIND, contains such lines as "I feel stupid and cotagious" and 
"well,

whatever, nevermind." In GR, Pynchon writes, "they do biother him, these 
free

women in their teens, their spirits are so cotagious." He then launches 
into

spurious song, which contains the lines, "Spirit is so 
contay,-juss/Nobody

knows their a-ges" and several references to the lyric "nevermind."



"i don't think Cobain ever read GRAVITY'S RAINBOW," said Michael Azerrad, 
the

author of COME AS YOU ARE: THE STORY OF NIRVANA. It's probably a 
coincidence,

but it sure is freaky.' "



And back to you, with the sports..... Hoka hey, geo scombulis





There was an Esquire article a couple years back on KC stating that he 
had in fact read GR.  I think it was written by Stephen Dixon.(?)  So who 
knows?  It is kinda interesting BTW how often TP's  name is popping up 
nowadays.  TP-if you're looking for a grant come to the Foundation 
Center-I'll be glad to help ya



rich

nyc



Rich