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

[Joe Allonby]

Why was it written from Somerville? I doubt he was guest lecturing at
Tufts. It reads like a parody of the rising Somerville hip culture that was
seen as inferior to Cambridge and trying waaaaay too hard.


On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 3:16 PM, David Ewers <dsewers at comcast.net> wrote:

> Right on, Jochen.  Sorry for my [pet-]peevishness.
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> On Aug 10, 2015, at 11:30 AM have a nice day, violet wrote this message:),
> jochen stremmel wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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>> 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?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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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