review 'o P doc

[Dave Monroe]

They do share a certain complicated relationship with
being in the public eye, don't they? But ...

"In chapter two of Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot
49, a band named the Paranoids shows up to party in a
hotel with the two co-executors of Pierce Inverarity’s
estate.... 

"But even if Pynchon wasn’t thinking of the Residents,
they have certainly been thinking of him (probably
since they moved from Shreveport, Louisiana to San
Francisco in the early ‘70s, when they were compared,
for no good reason, to Frank Zappa and Captain
Beefheart). Included with their remastered CDs
(available through East Side Digital Studios) is a
postcard; and in the place reserved for the stamp is
the image most famously associated with Pynchon’s
WASTE delivery system in Lot 49: the muted trumpet. 

[...]

"The Residents weren’t named by Pynchon, but they were
named in a Pynchonesque way. When their first demo
tape was returned from Warner Brothers Records, it was
addressed simply to 'The Residents.' That’s what
they’ve called themselves ever since...."

http://www.epinions.com/content_35457568388

--- "P. Chevalier" <Pierre.Chevalier at infm.ucl.ac.be>
wrote:
>
> Has this "Residents-Pynchon" connection yet been
> explored?

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