Re. the Buckaroo Banzai writer

[Vaska Andjelkovic]

>All this talk of Buckaroo Banzai inspired me to go rent it tonight.  I
>shouldn't have bothered.  I just watched most of it before turning it off,
>feeling I'd wasted my time.  I kept telling myself, "it's PARODY--it's
>SUPPOSED to be awful."  I was intrigued by the multi-position rotary
>switches that were shown being turned during the opening blast-off sequence,
>but frankly I can't see how anyone could attribute such video drivel to >TRP.

I guess you missed the implied warning in my parenthetical "it was that kind
of movie, honest."  The film *is* schlock, but then I never thought Pynchon
either indifferent to or above certain types of schlock.

Hastily diving for cover. . . .

Vaska Andjelkovic
vaska at geocities.com