Tim & Eric videos

[Keith Davis]

Just watched this video. It's hilarious. Ok, I'm a percebe...


On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 6:57 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de
> wrote:

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> > And then, since when has P or his publisher been seriously concerned
> with marketing his *books*, really?<
>
> In case of IV there was serious concern; Pynchon even gave his own voice.
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> On 05.09.2013 17:30, Tyler Wilson wrote:
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>> I’ll admit, too, that the trailer does little for me. But then, why
>> should it? Myself, everyone on this list, is going to pick up a copy. And
>> then, since when has P or his publisher been seriously concerned with
>> marketing his *books*, really?
>>
>> I’ve no idea how quickly this thing was put together, so I may be off
>> here, but: it feels very much like a response to the first ‘graph of Boris
>> Kachka’s 8/25 piece:
>>
>> “Let’s get a few things straight. First of all, it’s pronounced
>> “Pynch-ON.” Second, the great and bewildering and, yes, very private
>> novelist is not exactly a recluse. In select company, he’s intensely social
>> and charismatic, and, in spite of those famously shaming Bugs Bunny teeth,
>> he was rarely without a girlfriend for the 30 years he spent wandering and
>> couch-surfing before getting married in 1990. Today, he’s a
>> yuppie—self-confessed, if you read his new novel, Bleeding Edge, as a key
>> to the present life of a man whose travels led one critic to reflect:
>> “Salinger hides; Pynchon runs.” Now Pynchon hides in plain sight, on the
>> Upper West Side, with a family and a history of contradictions: a child of
>> the postwar Establishment determined to reject it; a postmodernist master
>> who’s called himself a “classicist”; a workaholic stoner; a polymath who
>> revels in dirty puns; a literary outsider who’s married to a literary
>> agent; a scourge of capitalism who sent his son to private school and lives
>> in a $1.7 million prewar classic six.”
>>
>> http://www.vulture.com/2013/**08/thomas-pynchon-bleeding-**edge.html<http://www.vulture.com/2013/08/thomas-pynchon-bleeding-edge.html>
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>>
>> And while the trailer may not be about the *book*--and I haven’t had the
>> honor of reading it yet, so can’t say for sure--it is very much about the
>> internet and what passes for “phenomena” on it. The book too is very much
>> about the internet, I gather. And this is very much the kind of indirect,
>> not-obvious, way P works. And it duz create buzz.
>>
>> Anyway, the more I mull it over, the smarter it seems. Even though my
>> first reaction was “this is embarrassing.” I think the real question is:
>> embarrassing to *who* and *why exactly*? There’s some relevant
>> self-knowledge somewhere down that track..
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>> T
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>> > Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2013 23:15:04 +1000
>> > Subject: Re: Tim & Eric videos
>> > From: sundayjb at gmail.com
>> > To: markekohut at yahoo.com
>> > CC: pynchon-l at waste.org
>> >
>> > But it's completely antithetical to Bleeding Edge, and Pynchon's
>> > writing in general. Not in a dialectical way...
>> >
>> > The trailer really feels like the work of someone who not only hasn't
>> > read this book but hasn't read anything by this author. Normally I'd
>> > champion that original position but I can't figure how this thing came
>> > about. Is the dude Jackson Pynchon, perhaps? I can honestly say that
>> > the trailer has almost nothing to do with the novel...
>> >
>> > On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 10:15 PM, Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
>> > > O yeah......this way it is REAL! ....so the doers say...
>> > >
>> > > Sent from my iPad
>> > >
>> > > On Sep 5, 2013, at 8:00 AM, Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> > >
>> > >> Someone who knows (some of) this kind of online stuff told me that
>> the Bleeding Edge trailer is in
>> > >> An online tradition. Perhaps started by Tim & Eric YouTube and
>> similar: willfully low-production value....point of that is part of the
>> irony....which he describes, as the trailer is, as " irony squared"
>> > >> This is hardly worth doing better because.....why?....who has
>> time....it is just for fun anyway.....
>> > >>
>> > >> Sent from my iPad
>>
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