M&D music

[Thomas Lundvall]

I've listened to Mark Knopfler and Dire Straits a bit in my days, and 
although I've heard that he is a very bright and intellectual guy I don't 
think that his music could capture the spirit of P's novels. Lately I've 
actually been thinking about music inspired by, or at least capturing some 
of the spirit in P's novels, and I think that the live-versions of "Shore 
Leave" Tom Waits played on last year's tour would fit on a soundtrack to P's 
works. I wonder what Mr P himself would say on this matter since he likes to 
put all these songs into his novels.

Thomas


>From: Orlowsky at aol.com
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: M&D music
>Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 10:04:04 EDT
>
>I just received the following email from a friend:
>
>"Just heard the title track from Mark Knopfler's forthcoming 'Sailing to
>Philadelphia':  It's a duet that casts Knopfler as Dixon and James Taylor 
>as
>Mason, on the way to the States and debating their mission to create The
>Line.  Has Knopfler been reading Pynchon?  (As you might expect, the song 
>was
>very contrived; hope it's not a concept album!)"

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