RE: Did Dylan rip off Pynchon?‏

[Carvill, John]

<< That's not too big a surprise about Sir "Angry Jealous Fearful
Orchidectomied" Paul McC. He'd never intentionally steal, and he's unable
to righteously mimic. 

How I hate him.  >>


Heh. Macca has been guilty of a lot of crimes - against music, taste, history, etc. - over the years. He can be a very irritating interviewee, the way he wildly overestimates how much heavy empathis each well-worn anecdote requires for the viewer to 'get' it. Most of the footage of him in the Beatles Anthology videos is toe-curlingly embarrassing. He constantly rewrites history, and he tried to have the songwriting credits on the Beatles' back catalogue changed from 'Lennon & McCartney' to 'McCarthey & Lennon'. Imagine being insecure about that after all these years.

Still and all, I could never hate him. There should be life-size statues of The Beatles in every city in Britain, maybe even the world. Did you see him on Letterman? What an inanity fest. What a f**king moron that Letterman is. "SO, you were in The Beatles, with John Lennon, is that right? And you first came over her in 1963, is that right?" Didn't you give Macca credit when, asked why he'd never been on the show before he replied, "I don't like the show", and left Letterman hanging, expecting a defusing joke which never came. Genius.