Sonic Youth liner notes

[Murthy Yenamandra]

ckaratnytsky at nypl.org writes:
>      Funny you should mention this, as I had been wondering about it 
>      myself.  One of our computer jockeys brought it to my attention just a 
>      coupla weeks ago.  But, other than that it exists, I don't know a 
>      thing.

The last time it was discussed, everyone seemed to think that it was a
fake and I'd agree, it doesn't sound like Pynchon at all. Here is a
blast from the past:

> Date: Tue, 3 May 94 13:21 EDT
> From: emc at m-net.arbornet.org (Evan M Corcoran)
> To: pynchon-l at sfu.ca
> Subject: Another Minor Pynchon Reference
> 
> The liner notes on the album "Barefoot In The Head" (a title taken from
> a Brian Aldiss novel) by the band Borbetomagus are credited to Thomas
> Pynchon.  According to the Sonic Youth Discography maintained by Rob
> Vaughn <rob at msc.cornell.edu>:
> 
>    "Liner notes from 'Thomas Pynchon', which Seth says 'is, 10 to 1
>    odds, either Jimmy Johnson or Byron Coley.'  My guess is the
>    latter."
> 
> I have no idea who Jimmy Johnson and Byron Coley are.

Further (skimpy) details in the pynchon-l archives.

Murthy

-- 
Murthy Yenamandra, Dept of CompSci, U of Minnesota. mailto:yenamand at cs.umn.edu
"Always there's that space between what you feel and what you do, and in
that gap all human sadness lies." - _Blue Dog_