Pynchon's band

[Kurt Revis]

Kevin Crosby <kcrosby at wppost.depaul.edu> sez:
>
> Someone mentioned the Jazz Butcher (Conspiracy) as a good
> band for TRP--fine choice.  They have a song called "Looking for
> Lot 49" on their album "Fishcotheque."  The song is sort of a
> musical version of the basic plot of Lot49--the only line I
> remember is "He's just a postman so what do I care."  

The lyrics only ever seemed tangentially related to COL49 to me.
Actually, I'd heard the song before encountering the book--when I
noticed the book on a friend's bookshelf, I got really excited and
started babbling the lyrics to him, and he had no idea what I was
talking about.

To wit:
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You know I'm exactly like everyone else 
Sometimes I get sick and sometimes I get tired 
Sometimes I turn ugly it's bad for my health 
Sometimes I get frantic and think I'm inspired 
Well now I try to be useful and I try to be good 
I try to be cognisant and act like I should 
Sometimes I'm downhearted and [?] with friends 
Well [?] prop me up and start me running again 

Chorus: 
       Just when I feel like I should be dead and gone 
       You make me want to carry on 

The cold light of day and the news of the night 
Make me wonder if language has turned out quite right 
This scene is quite normal it's Saturday morning 
The breakfast in ruins the newspaper torn 
And I'm starting to wish that I'd never been born 
When a letter comes in with your handwriting on 

Chorus 

A room full of postcards a room with a view 
I stare at the street just for something to do 
There's a man on the sidewalk with egg in his hair 
He's got hands like Les Nielson [?] I don't like his stare 
Everytime I look out of my window he's there 
But he's only the postman so what do I care? 

It's just that I seem to be spending all my time 
Looking for Lot 49 
Lot 49 

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Anyway. The JBC has another couple of songs named "Racheland" and
"She's A Yo-Yo", but if there are any real references in the lyrics,
I've completely missed them.

-- 
Kurt Revis            Wine in the morning and some breakfast at night
krevis at blarg.net      Well, I'm beginning to see the light      -- VU