did pynchon write this?

Mark Wright AIA mwaia at yahoo.com
Tue Sep 3 07:27:19 CDT 2002


Howdy
"...very righteous boo?" Hit sure don't sound like P to me. 
What's the music like? 
Mark

--- Aboredbowler at aol.com wrote:
> sorry if this has previously been discussed, but i own an album
> recorded by 
> thurston mooore, don dietrich and jim sauter........
> the liner notes are credited to pynchon, but to me it seems like
> someone trying to write like pynchon might... sort of like a kit
> car replica of a 1963 ferrari or some such thing.  if i had to guess
> i would say that this was written by mike watt. anyway, here
> it is, decide for yourselves... or perhaps it's already been decided,
> either way:
> 
> "One night Johnson, Coley and I were sitting in the back yard with a
> bucket 
> of fresh sangria and a few bongloads of some very righteous boo. I'd
> brought 
> out a box of my live Sonic Youth tapes and we were arguing about Lee 
> Ranaldo's tongue vectors in the third quadrant of 'Society is a Hole'
> (Folk 
> City, NYC 12/1/82) when one of T. Moore's downstrokes caught our
> attention. 
> We ran the tape back and listened to the passage a few times. The
> subtly 
> monstrous and mindless GUSH with which T. Moore hit the 'E' chord
> made it 
> obvious that his playing was not coming out of a complete spiritual
> void. 
> this was a real revelation. It meant that he capable of actually
> unclenching 
> his brain and loosing demons of soul creativity. 
> Because we hate to see ANYONE lackeyed to jive-ass, pop-structure,
> white-man 
> a-motionalism, a plan was immediately spun for freeing T. Moore from
> the 
> shackles of Peggy Lee-descended dogshit that were obviously choking
> off his 
> TRUE HUMAN FORCE. Deciding which hominid cudgels might be best
> wielded 
> against these procedural chains was a lead pipe cinch. Who but Jim
> Sauter and 
> Don Dietrich? These two men are the freest, loudest, swingin'est
> white 
> motherfuckers to ever jaw-cleave an industrial strength reed. Their
> work with 
> Borbetomagus has long been a raucous fountain of tonal explosion and 
> aesthetic purity, as well as a black-gloved fist up the diz of all 
> conservative musical architects. If anyone could blow the lock off of
> T. 
> Moore's creational emo-safe, Jim and Don were it. 
> The rest was a snap. I had my agent get in touch with all the
> parties. She 
> explained the points of our proposal in no uncertain terms. The
> results are
> presented here. Two free men meet a slave. Everyone goes home
> barefoot. 
> Right-fuckin'on.
> 
> Thomas Pynchon
> Somerville, MA
> January 1990"
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