Bleeding Edge: Promo video for the German market

[kelber at mindspring.com]

It's sad that anyone thinks that the best way to get people to read Pynchon is to hook them in with a video. The best form of advertising would be to hire some kids to chalk-scrawl on walls and sidewalks the muted horn image with the subscript: B.L.E.E.D.I.N.G. E.D.G.E.

Laura


-----Original Message-----
>From: John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com>
>Sent: Aug 3, 2014 10:45 AM
>To: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
>Cc: Perry Noid <coolwithdoc at gmail.com>, Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de>, pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: Bleeding Edge: Promo video for the German market
>
>Terrible. TERRIBLE.
>
>But asking publishers to make A-grade movie trailers on any novel's
>marketing budget is equally terrible.
>
>In the 90s you had your Baudrillards and Delillos forecasting that
>shit like this would replace the work itself. Maybe it's a saving
>grace that that they can't afford to. Pynchon's writing is hardly
>pro-advertising.
>
>But f--k, how hard is it to sit through either the German or American videos?
>
>On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 12:39 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Not as terrible as the one set in New York, featuring (I think) his son.
>> THAT was terrible, in a similar but worse way.
>>
>>
>> On Sunday, August 3, 2014, Perry Noid <coolwithdoc at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Maybe you need to be German to get it. That was terrible
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 4:02 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen
>>> <lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EDo38geLgo
>>>>
>>>> "So, where is Horst?"
>>>>
>>>> Too many notes and not really funny.
>>>>
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