They persisted in screwing up the partridge antecedents

[Joel Katz]

yes, waterloo sunset is pensive indeed.  to the point of autism.  and yes, i 
do believe newley bagged britt ekland for a while.  and that is truly a 
savage piece of ass.  that's what i'm talking about.



>From: cfalbert <calbert at hslboxmaster.com>
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: They persisted in screwing up the partridge antecedents
>Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2004 15:24:41 -0500
>
>At 02:16 PM 4/2/04, you wrote:
>>of course the beatles, you gumballs.  but what about the kinks?  'sitting 
>>on my sofa' anyone?  'sunny afternoon'?
>
>
>Stacked against Waterloo Sunset, Sunny Afternoon is completely gay.....
>
>
>>and what about syd barrett and david bowie (in his more faggy neo-anthony 
>>newley phase).
>
>and yet, "Be My Wife", of all things, really smokes... the list of high 
>quality snog hammered by newley is long indeed...it likely exceeds, both in 
>number and quality, that stapled by Serge........I'm off to shop for an 
>ascot as we speak...
>
>
>love,
>
>cfa
>
>>and what the fuck was elo doing up there?  are you nuts?
>>
>>and who's the numbnuts who said 'skylarking' is better than 'drums and 
>>wires'?  it's like mccartney on poppers.
>>
>>
>>
>>>From: "a l" <elviscoturbio at hotmail.com>
>>>To: monrobotics at yahoo.com, malignd at yahoo.com, pynchon-l at waste.org
>>>Subject: Re: OT-- pensive pop and orwell pop
>>>Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2004 17:18:46 +0000
>>>
>>>Dave, thanks for the brain feed, as here out in the otherlanguage 
>>>culture-shock boondocks, I've got nothing to lean on but a whole lot of 
>>>martian crap I don't know what to do with, but that seeps in like rusty 
>>>water and backup in a flashflood torrential.
>>>
>>>You listed 'em, the origin of pensive pop 'And your bird can sing', 'I'm 
>>>only Sleeping', moving into 'Dr. Robert', then, later, after the 
>>>(burning) rubber and the drifting of soul, and the bitter wedge of 
>>>contemporary artist, 'Savoy Truffle', 'Happiness is a Warm Gun', and 
>>>'Piggies', that was sooo pensive, in fact, that it even inspired Manson 
>>>to inculcate his children to mass murder after their lovely time on the 
>>>ranch.  'Piggies' counts as pensive pop, but also as orwell pop, which we 
>>>could bring back on-topic with TP's intro to _1984_.
>>>
>>>Serge's 'Suis le poinconneur de Lilas', though catchy, shows what a 
>>>horrendous pretty boy a la jacques brel and company he was at first, 
>>>though it was perfect to lay the groundwork for him to come into HIS own 
>>>with the later burning bills (Sinead would borrow heavily later on) and 
>>>the chain-smoking and the counter-character paradox of a lifetime in 
>>>song, like when you see pretty Cary Grant playing the villain in 
>>>Hitchcock, or were to imagine 'Ol' Blue Eyes' singing a late version of 
>>>his own 'My Way' to a reggae beat in army fatigues and dreads for the 
>>>soldiers in the Me-Kong Delta or the oil fields of Basra, razor stubble, 
>>>chain-smoke-yellow nails and teeth, sag-eyed and sassy, telling the boys 
>>>'you're beautiful, now go out there and die'.
>>>
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