Bleeding Edge: Promo video for the German market

[alice malice]

What's sad about it? I don't understand. The video hooks them, they
read BE. The muted horn is like, I don't know, 50 years old and,
well...chalk on the sidewalk is all hipster and whatever but it
wouldn't hook anybody who wasn't gonna get hooked. BE and IV are books
that can pay for the financial disaster that a work of art, something
like Against the Day, often is. Or an would be, or almost work of art,
like Vineland is. OK, it's Pynchon and he has it better than so many
artists cause he's got great work out there and money and success and
so on, but still, he's not about to Melville himself into some obscure
corner of Manhattan.

On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 11:43 AM,  <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
> 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
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> -----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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