Unfilmable novels

[John Burgess]

Right intro song; wrong instrumentation.

It should clearly be performed by an all-harmonica band with solos taken up by kazoo. The synthesized rendition doesn't do credit to the intent, IMO.

----- Original Message ----
From: Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com>
To: robinlandseadel at comcast.net; pynchon-l at waste.org
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 1:00:33 PM
Subject: Re: Unfilmable novels

Trailer for GR

Black.  Music fading in: "Joy" by Apollo 100 ...

http://lp2cd.com/time/70/70004.htm

Texts fades in: "A screaming comes across the sky
...."  Suddenly, images: an explosion, followed by, in
no paticular order, soldiers cavorting in a greenhouse
full of bananas, a pinne map of London, a giant
octopus, a nymphet, an orgy, a dodo hunt, Puritans, a
rocket man and/or a pig hero, a V2 test site, a light
bulb on the move, cartoon dwarves riding cartoon
vultures morphing into divebombing Stukas (cf. p.
664), you name it, and then ...

Music changes: "God's Children" by The Kinks ...

http://kinks.it.rit.edu/discography/showsong.php?song=124

More images: a bespectacled eye reflecting a windmill
(cf. p. 670), a moon colony morphs into the Apollo
landing (cf. p. 723), a launch countdown, kabbalistic
iamgery, and so forth, a hand reaches into a stream,
retrieving a harmonica, pan across a crowded theater,
fading to white ...

Text: "Now everybody--"

Fade to black.  Text: "from the novel by Thomas
Pynchon ..." and so forth ...

--- robinlandseadel at comcast.net wrote:

> I've pictured the open credits for COL49 for years
> now....


 
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