Monkey Island

[mike j]

Pynchon has great taste in music & it shows. Don't
forget the John Larroquette thing...

"I got a call from Pynchon's agent saying Pynchon
liked the script, but he wanted a couple of changes.
First you call him Tom, and no one ever calls him Tom.
Second, although he likes Willy DeVille he would
prefer if it were a T-shirt with Roky Erickson of the
13th Floor Elevators."

http://www.pynchonfiles.com/johnlarroquette.htm

>>>>>

Hating to seem defensive as one of the central
participants in this convo,
but popular culture, rock & roll, black power and
political resistences
generally, the positing of meanings in postmodern
contexts, obscenity and
its meanings, attempts to censor works as a result of
obscenity - not
pathetic, thanks, but plenty of legitimate tie-ins, if
you ask me.  I too
like to think we share similar tastes when TP has DL
Chastain sing "Kick Out
the Jams".

Taste's will as taste does, but there was a decent
amount of interest over
that one, we had a nice wee chat without anyone
getting their feelings hurt
too bad, so feel free to keep deletin' and move on,
surely.

Phil

----- Original Message -----
From: <RuudSaurins at aol.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 2:55 PM
Subject: Pinch and Swallow: Musickal Musings


>      I, too, have enjoyed wearing out the delete
button in response to all
the musings regarding rap, hip-hop, Eminem, and
Pynchon.  I simply do not
see them related in any but the most contrived and
pretentious fashion.  I
do, however, think that music (in general, all forms,
styles, fashions,
social implications, etc.) is very dear, and possibly
important to Thomas
Pynchon.  It is one area of his writing where I feel
he will "go out of his
way" just to drop a name.  I must admit an instant
cheap thrill when he
mentions, for example, Jaco Pastorius in Vineland. 
Nice to think we may
share some similar tastes.   Rossini vs. Beethoven in
the ears and heart of
Osbie Feel in GR.  I could post and read ad nauseum
about Pynchon and music,
but focusing on Eminem, rap, and hip-hop to the
exclusion of the topic at
large srikes me as mis-directed bordering on pathetic.
>                         Know one owes,
>                         Ruud Saurins
>


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