Brevity's Raincheck

[ruudsaurins at aol.com]

Now listen!
       I find it very difficult to actually "listen" to music while I am trying to read (and occasionally succeed).  Anything with lyrics distracts me excessively.  Music that seems to work well for me is Brian Eno's music for the Apollo films, Keith Jarrett solo piano, and recently (I strongly encourage that he be checked out) Richard Leo Johnson.  Bach and Mozart are the standards, in my humble opinion, by which any music for this purpose (background for reading) is judged.   And, of course, anything by William Shatner...
                                                            truly,
                                                            ruud
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: keithsz at mac.com
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Sent: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 8:04 PM
Subject: Re: Brevity's Raincheck


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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