VL-IV: Chap7- Floozy with an Uzi

[kelber at mindspring.com]

Thanks for this, Robin, I LOVE it!!  Is he married?  Who's his agent?

What's so great about this is the band takes Pynchon's media parody of a tough feminist and parodies the media parody.

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>

>
>As previously noted, the Finnish band Lodger set Pychon's "Floozie  
>With an Uzi" to a rather Cake*-like arrangement.
>
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lRQYaV2S6k
>
>*The band, not the food.
>
>On Jan 15, 2009, at 12:29 PM, kelber at mindspring.com wrote:
>> . . .The Floozy with an Uzi and a Trans-Am is a media-feminist, a  
>> proto-feminist because she carries a gun, AND she's a hot babe.  If  
>> we can groove to the sight of a sexy chick with a gun, we must (by  
>> inference) be feminist.
>
>The ass-kicking Kunoichi Sisterhood reminds me more than a little of  
>Russ Meyer/R. Crumb fantasy gurls. Like Frenesi—and much of Vineland— 
>their presence servers to irritate the true believers in Leftist  
>causes by displaying all too accurately just how much of the energy of  
>these causes came out of fantasies developed by the conglomerate  
>empires of Hollywood and the Tube.
>
>