Brevity's Raincheck

[Joe Allonby]

The Mr Bungle suggestion is way out of left field. Interesting contrast.

On 8/22/06, Keith McMullen <keithsz at mac.com> wrote:
>
> 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)
>
>
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