Thomas Pynchon's Soundtrack to Inherent Vice

[Dave Monroe]

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 2:21 AM, David Kipen<kipend at arts.gov> wrote:

> This is genius. Love that "courtesy of." Bring on the rest of trp's corpus! But where's mike curb's score from elmore leonard's 'the big bounce'?

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0192608/
http://www.mikecurb.com/about/soundtracks.htm
http://www.amazon.com/Mike-Curb-Congregation-Greatest-Hits/dp/B000000D01
http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/articles/2008/04_Dec---Soundtrack_LPs_Part_Three.asp
http://www.nowtorrents.com/torrents/the-big-bounce-theme-song-mike-curb-congregation.html

During the 1970s, Curb also began venturing into public service. In
1976, he served as co-chair of the Ronald Reagan California Campaign
for President and later was co-chair of President Gerald Ford's
California campaign. In November 1978, Curb was elected California's
lieutenant governor, the same year that Democrat Jerry Brown was
elected governor. During his 1979 to 1983 term, Curb, served as acting
governor for about one year, guiding the state during disastrous
floods, fires and a threatened prison guard strike. He also served on
the University of California Board of Regents and the California State
University Board of Trustees. Curb also served as President of the
California State Senate and Chairman of the Economic Development
Commission.

In 1982, Curb was elected chair of the National Conference of
Lieutenant Governors. Then in 1983 and 1984, at President Reagan's
request, Curb served as Chairman of the National Finance Committee
during the president's re-election campaign, responsible for raising
more than $100 million.

http://www.mikecurb.com/about/bio.cfm

Curb was encouraged to enter politics in part by Ronald Reagan. Curb
ran for lieutenant governor of California, and was elected in November
1978, even though the Republican gubernatorial nominee, Evelle J.
Younger, lost to the incumbent Democratic governor, Jerry Brown. For
much of 1979 and the first half of 1980, Brown was out of state,
seeking the Democratic nomination for President of the United States
against the embattled incumbent, Jimmy Carter. For approximately one
year, Curb served in Brown's absence to take on the role of acting
governor, sometimes vetoing legislation or issuing executive orders,
yielding results that were at odds with Brown's liberal politics.
Curb's actions resulted in litigation, but his legal right to act when
Brown was out of state was upheld by the Supreme Court, setting an
important precedent for future lieutenant governors.

Despite being seen briefly as one of the GOP's rising stars and being
promised a bright political future by some national Republican
leaders, Curb narrowly lost the Republican gubernatorial nomination in
1982 to attorney general George Deukmejian

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Curb

Okay, have copy of TBB OST LP on the way (the movie, by teh way, is
available on DVD). Meanwhile, I've been spinning this one out on 45.
Note killer breakbeat ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k34-VmETA4

Also ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxYC350nqRM