did pynchon write this?

Otto ottosell at yahoo.de
Tue Sep 3 09:52:47 CDT 2002


On Spermatikos they say it's from Pynchon:
http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_music_S%20&%20D.html

Otto
"A little disinformation is good for keeping your defenses up"

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Heikki Raudaskoski" <hraudask at mail.student.oulu.fi>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 3:15 PM
Subject: Re: did pynchon write this?


> 
> 
> 
> 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"
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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