Kill Bill

[rich]

don't know that band but have been listening to another wacky Japanese
psych experimental band Green Milk from Planet Orange
just as demented i'm sure

rich

On 2/19/09, Henry Musikar <scuffling at gmail.com> wrote:
> A-and:
> "Kojima has just finished his postgraduate thesis on American postmodern
> author Thomas Pynchon at Tokyo University, and there is something of
> Pynchon's playful intersection of trashy pop culture and experimental style
> and structure in Worst Taste's music."
> http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fm20090220a1.html Anybody know this
> band?
>
> Trashy pop culture and experimental style?  Quentin-san?
>
> Henry Mu
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Henry Mu
> Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 6:55 AM
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> 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
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carvill John
> Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 4:48 AM
> Subject: Re: Kill Bill
>
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> << 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.>>
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> 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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