Re: Album sleeve notes don’t have to be boring: Just look at those written by Thomas Pynchon, Hunter S Thompson and other literary greats

[jochen stremmel]

Sorry, David, what I meant was the speech pattern of a sentence like:
These two men are the freest, loudest, swingin'est white motherfuckers to
ever jaw-cleave an industrial strength reed.
sounds way off everything Pynchonian I've ever read, in my ears at least.

And I'm sure each and every Learnéd Dog would come to the same conclusion.

2015-08-10 19:59 GMT+02:00 David Ewers <dsewers at comcast.net>:

> I think I agree with you, even though the 'I can't be bothered with giving
> you a complete thought' business kind of hurts my head.
>
> On Aug 10, 2015, at 9:46 AM have a nice day, violet wrote this message:),
> jochen stremmel wrote:
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> never
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> 2015-08-10 18:07 GMT+02:00 David Ewers <dsewers at comcast.net>:
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>> I've got an album jacket (I lost the vinyl many years ago - ? - ; the
>> jacket now holds the copy of White Light/ White Heat I've had since I was a
>> kid...) by an outfit called Barefoot In The Head (Jim Sauter, Don Dietrich,
>> Thurston Moore; Forced Exposure 1990; FE-015).  I've wondered for many
>> years whether the Pynchon liner notes on its back side are legit.  I tried
>> sending photos of them but I don't think they made it through the
>> visiferous aether, so here they are:
>>
>>
>> One night Johnson, Coley and I were sitting in the backyard with a bucket
>> of sangria and a few bongloads of some very righteous boo.  I'd brought out
>> a box of my live Sonic Youth tapes and we were arguing about Ranaldo's
>> tongue vectors in the third quadrant of "Society Is A Hole" (Folk City, NYC
>> 12/1/82) when one of T. Moore's downstrokes caught our attention.  We ran
>> the tape and listened to the passage a few times.  The subtly monstrous and
>> mindless GUSH with which T. Moore hit the "E" chord made it obvious that
>> his playing was not coming out of a complete spiritual void.  This was a
>> real revelation.  It meant that he was capable of actually unclenching his
>> brain and loosing demons of soul creativity.
>>         Because we hate to see anyone lackeyed to the jive-ass,
>> pop-structure, white-man a-motionalism, a plan was immediately sprung for
>> freeing T. Moore from the shackles of Peggy Lee-descended dogshit that were
>> obviously off his TRUE HUMAN FORCE.  Deciding which hominid cudgels might
>> best be wielded against these procedural chains was a lead pipe cinch.  Who
>> but Jim Sauter and Don Dietrich?  These two men are the freest, loudest,
>> swingin'est white motherfuckers to ever jaw-cleave an industrial strength
>> reed.  Their work with Borbetomagus has long been a raucous fountain of
>> tonal explosion and aesthetic purity, as well as a black-gloved fist up the
>> diz of all conservative musical architects.  If anyone could blow the lock
>> off of T. Moore's creational emo-safe, Jim and Don were it.
>>         The rest was a snap.  I had my agent get in touch with all the
>> parties.  She explained the points of our proposal in no uncertain terms.
>> The results are presented here.  Two free men meet a slave.  Everyone goes
>> home barefoot.  Right-fuckin'-on.
>>
>> --Thomas Pynchon
>>   Somerville, MA
>>   January, 1990
>>
>>
>>
>> What do you all think?
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>> On Aug 7, 2015, at 12:02 PM Jolly good day we are having, Dave Monroe
>> wrote:
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>> http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/album-sleeve-notes-dont-have-to-be-boring-just-look-at-those-written-by-thomas-pynchon-hunter-s-thompson-and-other-literary-greats-10445086.html
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