Pynchon music/party time

[kelber at mindspring.com]

Hope you won't be including Brigadier Pudding's favorites.  Which bookstore?

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: Tony Antoniadis <tony.antoniadis at gmail.com>

>
>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