Kill Bill

[Henry Musikar]

Na, not genre redefining Tarentino.  We have the chops to read P, though,
and apparently so does Devo:

"Jerry Casale and Mark Mothersbaugh formed Devo when they were students at
Kent State University. Jerry explains how the song came together:
'Whip It, like many Devo songs, had a long gestation, a long process. The
lyrics were written by me as an imitation of Thomas Pynchon's parodies in
his book Gravity's Rainbow. He had parodied limericks and poems of kind of
all-American, obsessive, cult of personality ideas like Horatio Alger and
'You're #1, there's nobody else like you' kind of poems that were very funny
and very clever. I thought, 'I'd like to do one like Thomas Pynchon,' so I
wrote down 'Whip It' one night.'"

Henry Mu

-----Original Message-----
From: Carvill John
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 4:48 AM
Subject: Re: Kill Bill


<< Is Tarentino an example of violence porn posing as art or art posing as
violence porn? This movie sounds ill timed and foul coming after events in
Gaza and Lebanon. During the reign of Cheney I didn't see any Christian
ninjas rising up in righteous vengeance , no oriental ninjas, and no Jewish
ninjas. I did see code pink ladies throwing rhetorical pies and a brave
Iraqi hoisting his shoes.>>
 
Agreed. And, while the speculation about Kill Bill/Vineland parallels is
interesting, I doubt Tarantino has the nous to read Pynchon. Tarantino is so
one-dimensional that calling him "a one-trick pony" would make him sound
much more interesting than he actually is.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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