did pynchon write this?

[Heikki Raudaskoski]

7-8 yrs ago the general opinion on the p-list was that it
is a hoax. Wasn't the album titled "Barefoot in the Head"?

Heikki


On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Mark Wright AIA wrote:

> 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"
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> __________________________________________________
> Do You Yahoo!?
> Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes
> http://finance.yahoo.com
>