Best Essay on Inherent Vice Yet

[rich]

Bill is a great guy and he plays bass, too. his band did almost play
Roundabout when I shouted out a request at one of his shows. His
guitar player could play anything. As he's self-described them a mix
of Coltrane and Red-era Crimson.

look fwd to reading the IV review.  thx for posting link

rich

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 9:55 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> LA's sprawl is truly awful.  Visiting my stepson a few weeks ago,
> arriving at LAX about 2:30PM on a Thursday, bumper-to-bumper for
> nearly two hours just to get to Burbank.  Yikes!
>
>> 'Pynchon's Coast: Inherent Vice and the Twilight of the Spatially Specific'
>> by Bill Millard>
>> The way California was physically developing in 1970, the way the U.S. has largely continued to develop-sprawling laterally to an extreme degree, maximizing energy consumption and vehicular miles traveled, locking much of the population into the addictive network of homeowner debt, spewing greenhouse gases, postponing accountability for the population-wide insistence on maximal convenience, and generally mismanaging its physical inheritance for private profit-demonstrates a systemic inherent vice, well beyond what any individual can influence.
>