Confessions of a Sleepwalker

[sam at zeppomusic.com]

I'm a newbie to PynchonList, and perhaps a negative
note is not the best one to start off with, but I feel
compelled: 

The vaulting, lucent chaos of GR has what, exactly, to
do with the bland, turgid, middle-of-the-turnpike
songwriting of REM? I'm not saying Buck didn't read it,
I'm saying I don't see any Pynchonic echoes WHATSOEVER
in any of REM's material, even the decent stuff.

- Sam.

Heikki Raudaskoski wrote

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> Mark Lindquist: OK, other books [than the short-story
collections
> of Flannery O'Connor] that have affected you as a
songwriter?
> 
> Peter Buck: Denis Johnson.
> 
> ML: Why?
> 
> PB: I don't know why. "Already Dead" changed me when
I read it. I can't
> say why or how, but I felt like a different person at
the end, in the same
> way that when I was a teenager, Pynchon's "Gravity's
Rainbow" completely
> moved me.
>
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> 
> From
> 
> Reconstruction Of The Fables:
> The Dynamic Interplay Of Music And Literature
> By MARK LINDQUIST And PETER BUCK
> October 14, 2001
> http://www.marklindquist.net/buck.html
> 
> 
> 
> (We better not forget, however, that a much more
suitable house
> band for TRP comes straight from the early 60s
Boeingland, as
> their name betrays: the devastating, silly, great,
headlong,
> etc., Sonics.)
> 
> Heikki