Brevity's Raincheck

[Keith McMullen]

One should read Pynchon by Harry Partch, John Fahey, Chet Baker,  
Thelonious Monk, Ornette Coleman, David Thomas (lots of David  
Thomas), Eugene Chadbourne (lots of Eugene Chadbourne), if you insist  
on Bach (questionable choice) it must be Glenn Gould, Jim White,  
Johnny Dowd (lots of Johnny Dowd), John Oswald, Leonard Cohen, Mr.  
Bungle, Nick Cave, Penderecki, Xenakis, Peter Brotzmann, Robert  
Wyatt, Soft Machine, Ry Cooder, and Roy Orbison.

On Aug 22, 2006, at 5:44 PM, Penny Padgett Harper wrote:

Hi all,

Another old-time P-lister checking in here.

David Kipen recently asked about music to read Pynchon by.  I quarried
this out of the P-list archives, from 1995, by Ted Samsel, regarding a
song in _Vineland_:

For WACKY COCONUTS try:   George Formby-a ukelele playing brit who  
may have made an appearance in GR. Very popular in the USSR in  
WWII.   Old pop hawaiian tunes from the 20's-40s (perhaps earlier)  
i.e. I WANT TO GO BACK TO MY LITTLE GRASS SHACK (IN KEALAKALUA, HAWAII)