Maybe a Playlist Addition for IV--Neil Young's LA

[Richard Ryan]

Excellent Rich - maybe with a smattering of Zuma:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zuma_(album)

--- On Wed, 4/29/09, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
> Subject: Maybe a Playlist Addition for IV--Neil Young's LA
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Wednesday, April 29, 2009, 12:10 PM
> its reportedly written by Young
> around 1968-1969. on the great Time
> Fades Away record (still not on CD)
> 
> L.A.
> In a matter of time,
> There'll be a friend of mine
> Gonna come to the coast,
> You're gonna see him
> Up close for a minute or two
> While the ground cracks under you.
> 
> By the look in your eyes
> You'd think that it was a surprise
> But you seem to forget
> Something somebody said
> About the bubbles in the sea
> And an ocean full of trees.
> 
> And you now, L.A.
> Uptight, city in the smog, city in the smog.
> Don't you wish that you could be here too?
> Don't you wish that you could be here too?
> Don't you wish that you could be here too?
> 
> Well, it's hard to believe
> So you get up to leave
> And you laugh at the door
> That you heard it all before
> Oh it's so good to know
> That it's all just a show for you.
> 
> But when the suppers are planned
> And the freeways are crammed
> And the mountains erupt
> And the valley is sucked
> Into cracks in the earth
> Will I finally be heard by you.
> 
> L.A.
> Uptight, city in the smog, city in the smog.
> Don't you wish that you could be here too?
> Don't you wish that you could be here too?
> Don't you wish that you could be here too?
> 
> ________
> 
> speaking of I wonder if this will be mentioned in IV
> 
> Santa Barbara's oil spill of 1969 is re-examined as the
> birth of the
> modern day environmental movement.
> 
> on January 28, 1969, a “blowout” erupted below the
> platform and,
> before it was plugged, more than 3 million gallons of crude
> oil spewed
> from drilling-induced cracks in the channel floor. For
> weeks national
> attention was focused on the spill’s disturbing, dramatic
> images.
> Oil-soaked birds, unable to fly, slowly dying on the sand.
> Waves so
> thick with crude oil that they broke on shore with an eerie
> silence.
> Thirty miles of sandy beaches coated with thick sludge.
> Hundreds of
> miles of ocean covered with an oily black sheen. But the
> spills impact
> went far beyond the fouled beaches. The disaster is
> considered to be a
> major factor in the birth of the modern-day environmental
> movement.
> 
>