Pynchon music/party time

[Darius Kazemi]

1st hit on a Google search for "dire straits" and "thomas pynchon":

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/off-the-straits-and-narrow-701809.html

-Darius

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 4:32 PM, Bryan Snyder <wilsonistrey at gmail.com>
wrote:

> ...really?
>
> Not being argumentative but is there like.. proof of that?  I'm not a big
> dire straits fan so...
>
> B
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On
> Behalf
> Of grladams at teleport.com
> Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 10:52 AM
> To: joeallonby at gmail.com; tony.antoniadis at gmail.com;
> pynchon-l-digest at waste.org
> Subject: Re: Pynchon music/party time
>
> Mark Knopfler, OBE of the now dissolved Dire Straits,
> if you can get him!
>
> Original Message:
> -----------------
> From: Joe Allonby joeallonby at gmail.com
> Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:06:47 -0400
> To: tony.antoniadis at gmail.com, pynchon-l-digest at waste.org
> Subject: Re: Pynchon music/party time
>
>
> Radiohead seems to like him, what with their W.A.S.T.E website.
>
> On 3/25/08, Tony Antoniadis <tony.antoniadis at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > A quick question for you. I'm helping cobble together an event at a
> > bookstore here
> > in Brooklyn and one of the things that this event will feature may or
> may
> > not include
> > some live music by a band or soloist who has some connection to our main
> > man.
> > Besides Lotion, who I believe are defunct, and Borbetomagus, who I love,
> > but who may
> > not be able to make it, are there are any bands that anyone can think of
> > who have
> > either a) been publicly endorsed by Pynchon, b) have endorsed or
> expressed
> > an
> > affinity for Pynchon themselves, or c) just seem to be kindred spirits
> > with the man?
> >
> > Any thoughts, feedbacks, darts tossed at this dart board here are of
> > course totally
> > appreciated; you will most certainly be credited as the long-distance
> > curator of the
> > musical component of this event if we can pull it off. B-believe me when
> I
> > say I have
> > some of my own ideas, but I figured, you know, ask the foax who probably
> > know best.
> > Food catered will feature, natch, all the stuff that Slothrop puked up
> at
> > the Roseland
> > Ballroom: "hamburgers, homefries, chef's salad with French dressing,
> half
> > a bottle of
> > Moxie, after-dinner mints, a Clark bar, a pound of salted peanuts, and
> the
> > cherry from
> > some Radcliffe girl's old-fashioned." Oh yeah.
> >
> > Thanks in advance everyone.
> > best!
> > Tony
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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