Confessions of a Sleepwalker

[Heikki Raudaskoski]

On Tue, 9 Apr 2002 sam at zeppomusic.com wrote:
> 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.


I agree. Well, maybe the "Imitation of Life" *video* is
a bit more, hmm, raucously rickety than the rest by REM.
There's just this "hunting Pynchon mentions" fixation on
the pynchon-l - as you may have noticed already, may not
- that I'm by no means exempt from, is all. To make things
worse, afaik, am guilty of bringing the infamous "Knopfler
sez M&D is great" quotation to the list, too. And if REM
is light years away from GR, "Sailing to Philadelphia" and
M&D don't even belong to the same galaxy.



Blakeanly,
Heikki