Pynchon-l Digest, Vol 95, Issue 8

[Mike Jing]

A beautiful song, I might add. And I love Mark Knopfler's work.

On Wed, Dec 10, 2025 at 11:13 PM Mike Weaver via Pynchon-l <
pynchon-l at waste.org> wrote:

> Hi Charles - I hope yr well.
>
> Can't view that vid in the UK
>
> Sailing to Philadelphia  - Mark Knopfler
>
> Wiki: The title track is drawn from Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon.
>
> There you go.
>
> cheers
> Mike
>
> On 10/12/2025 12:53, Charles Albert wrote:
> > Was anyone else aware of this?
> >
> >
> > https://youtu.be/GGgZ5aimDbM?si=sOTGHtIZ0WbJ90xF
> >
> >
> > love,
> >
> > cfa
> >
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> >>     1. Dijon & GR (Erik T. Burns)
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> https://www.vice.com/en/article/dijon-reveals-the-beloved-novel-that-caused-him-to-fall-into-a-psychosis/
> >>
> >> Dijon Reveals the Beloved Novel That Caused Him to Fall Into a
> ?Psychosis?
> >>
> >> Dijon, who recently performed on ?SNL?, says that a friend had to urge
> him
> >> to stop reading Thomas Pynchon?s novel ?Gravity?s Rainbow?.
> >>
> >> While making his new album, Baby, singer/producer Dijon found
> inspiration
> >> in Thomas Pynchon?s beloved postmodern novel Gravity?s Rainbow.
> However, he
> >> had friends begging him to stop because it was causing him to spiral
> into
> >> ?psychosis.?
> >>
> >> ?I was having a really hard time with the record,? Dijon recently told
> >> Pitchfork. ?Like, psychosis-level s***.? One of his friends has to step
> in
> >> and urge him to put the book down. At least for a while. ?You shouldn?t
> do
> >> that, it?s so paranoid,? Dijon remembered the friend telling him. ?And
> he
> >> wasn?t wrong.?
> >>
> >> The singer went on to describe experiences driving home from studio
> >> sessions, crying. He recalled listening to Anita Baker?s ?Caught Up in
> the
> >> Rapture? and feeling sadness over the thought that he couldn?t achieve
> that
> >> level of art. ?Music is so f***ed,? he contemplated, ?and my music is so
> >> bad.?
> >>
> >> Elsewhere in the interview, Dijon opened up a bit about his production
> >> process. ?I love first-take s***,? he confessed. ?You take all these
> >> sources and try one pass of just muting s***, and then it?s like: ?That
> >> sounds good.? Then we don?t touch it anymore. Once there was some sort
> of
> >> inspired thesis behind what was happening, and I knew it didn?t sound
> like
> >> much else, it was really more about completing the arc.?
> >>
> >> Bon Iver?s Justin Vernon believed there was no way Dijon would ?fail?
> >> Pitchfork also spoke with Justin Vernon, founder of indie-rock band Bon
> >> Iver. Vernon and Dijon are close friends. Dijon was struggling with his
> art
> >> during the making of Baby, but his friend was very confident in him.
> >> ?There?s no way this guy?s going to fail,? Vernon recalled thinking to
> >> himself. ?He cares too much, and it has too much swagger.?
> >>
> >> ?What he?s doing is truly trying to reorganize the world in his vision,?
> >> Vernon went on to say. ?You could tell that he was struggling with
> trying
> >> to find what it was, and it?s serious. When you?re working your whole
> life
> >> on something, it gets pretty scary. Also, it?s like, he?s got the kid on
> >> the way, he?s got this pressure. But it was never pressure to succeed.
> It
> >> was pressure to make something good.?
> >>
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