Barefoot in the Head (again)

[Ronkarate at aol.com]

Here are the aforementioned liner notes to BAREFOOT IN THE HEAD (Jim Sauter,
Don Dietrich, Thurston Moore. Released by Forced Exposure, FE-015):

One night Johnson, Coley and I were sitting in the backyard with a bucket of
fresh sangria and a few bongloads of some very righteous boo. I'd brought out
a box of my live Sonic Youth tapes and we were arguing about Ranaldo's tongue
vectors in the third quadrant of "Society is a Hole" [Folk City, NYC 12/1/82]
when one of T. Moore's downstrokes caught our attention. We ran the tape back
and listened to the passage a few times. The subtly monstrous and mindless
GUSH with which T. Moore hit the "E" chord made it obvious that his playing
was not coming out of a complete spiritual void. This was a real revelation.
It meant that he was capable of actually unclenching his brain and loosing
the demons of soul creativity.

Because we hate to see anyone lackeyed to jive-ass, pop-structure, white-man
a-motionalism, a plan was immediately spun for freeing T. Moore from the
shackles of Peggy Lee-descended dogshit that were obviously choking off his
TRUE HUMAN FORCE. Deciding which hominid cudgels might best be wielded
against these procedural chains was a lead pipe cinch. Who but Jim Sauter and
Don Dietrich? Their work with Borbetomagus has long been a raucous fountain
of tonal explosion and aesthetic purity, as well as a black-gloved fist up
the diz of all conservative musical architects. If anyone could blow the lock
of T. Moore's creational emo-safe, Jim and Don were it.

The rest was a snap. I had my agent get in touch with all the parties. She
explained the points of our proposal in no uncertain terms. The results are
presented here. Two free men meet a slave. Everyone goes home barefoot.
Right-fuckin'-on.

--Thomas Pynchon
  Somerville, MA
  January, 1990


I'm not sure if this is true TRP or faux-TRP. In any case, it makes more
sense for TRP to have written this than to have written the liner notes for
the Lotion record (IMHO). I know that "Coley" refers to Bryan Coley, who has
something to do with Forced Exposure. I'm not positive, but I believe the guy
who runs Forced Exposure is named Jimmy Johnson, which would explain the
reference to "Johnson." But I have trouble believing the three of them have
ever shared "a few bongloads of righteous boo." But, then again, who knows?