FW: Re: Henry Miller

[JM]

So where's the obPynchon? Well, both TW and TRP betray a fluency in
low life which seems like it must depend on anonymous spectating - you
know, sitting in diners in naugahyde booths, putting up with verbal
and visual insubordination from adjacent `characters'. Of course I did
the mental arithmetic but, well, that picture of TW on `Asylum Years'
makes him look about 19 and his first songs are copyright around 1970.
Too old to be our boy. Still if ever a musician was a TRP candidate on
the strength of the lyrics and the music I'd go for TW.


Andrew Dinn
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And though Earthliness forget you,
To the stilled Earth say:  I flow.
To the rushing water speak:  I am.


I can see no comparison twixt TRP and TW.  Though generally I like TW's music, his lyrics 
frequently leave me wishing he'd worked them up a little more.  For instance, the early song 
"Lookin' for the Heart of Saturday Night" is wonderfully evocative, but the closer you listen to the 
lyrics (alas) the lamer they begin to sound.                   -jm