TRP, NYer, Pavement

[Scott Eric Kaufman]

On Thu, 22 May 1997 Djuna35 at aol.com wrote:

Re: Pavement

> "One friend of mine had heard that G.Young was a reclusive Pynchon-esque
> genius who had hired teen-agers to play his rock compositions."
> Seems to me a random TRP allusion, with the reference solely redundant for
> "reclusive" and/or "genius": I don't think Ross wants to imply that crazyman

Last night the two Baton Rouge P-listers took in the Pavement show, and
afterwards I asked their lead guitarist, the Pynchonesquely pseudonym'ed
Spiral Staircase, if there was any truth to that rumor.  He said there
wasn't, then looked at me funny and said "Are you sure about the New
Yorker?"

As for the Pavement/Pynchon connection, the two are absolutely intertwined
in my mind, because I was listening to Pavement's first album (_Slanted
and Enchanted_) almost exclusively my first time through _Gravity's
Rainbow_.  They both have that brilliant, amalgamated feel to 'em, one
complementing the other as well as two such distinct works of art can.

Scott Kaufman