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Posted by mahatma chani on 2009-01-15 11:14:53 +0000

Haven't read any of them. Tried, and failed on all accounts.

Posted by virtue on 2009-01-15 14:46:55 +0000

Quit hiding your over-intellectuality under a bushel, tgl. else I'll have to start referring to you as the Soc man. Although lately it seems like everyone can out intellectualize me. Unfamiliar with Moby Dick or any reinterpretations there of, though I wouldn't mind a split screen pseudo animated Ulysses a la the last couple of Linklater flicks. I have neither tried nor completed GR. People tell me I'd like it. I'd probably like Moby Dick, too.

Posted by virtue on 2009-01-15 14:47:38 +0000

Ok, fine I lied. I'm familiar with a song named Moby Dick by a little band by the name of Led Zeppelin. Some of you might've heard of them.

Posted by tgl on 2009-01-15 15:10:19 +0000

I've been stalled at ~550 pages in GR. pchippy might be the one to re-interpret GR as schmaltzcore. Although, Pynchon throws a lot of schmaltz around himself.

Posted by MF DU on 2009-01-15 15:47:32 +0000

road trip? Torche, Boris are also excellent. Mastodon and Neurosis as well - you would have to have issues not to go to this show if you were from the GA area.

Posted by mahatma chani on 2009-01-15 17:25:53 +0000

TGL, I think Pchippy would agree: "The Crying of Lot 49" is super rewarding. I stalled somwhere around the middle where Slothrop gets so high he thinks he's Superman and starts wearing tights.

Posted by TheFullCleveland on 2009-01-15 18:12:35 +0000

I've never been to GA. I'd go.

Posted by TheFullCleveland on 2009-01-15 18:15:24 +0000

If I could. Turns out I'll be elsewhere in the South (Bradenton, FL) on that day, living the retired life with my parents. Manatees! Mangroves! Roseate Spoonbills!

Posted by dyedon8 on 2009-01-15 23:05:45 +0000

"Double Nickels On The Dime" (at least side Watt) is the best musical interpretation on "Ulysses" to date.

Posted by tgl on 2009-01-16 00:09:43 +0000

You're right! I guess that leaves "Gravity's Rainbow". That'll be my sophomore album... "Hard On".

Posted by dyedon8 on 2009-01-16 00:32:02 +0000

I'll put 'em both out in 2009.

Posted by pchippy on 2009-01-16 10:37:43 +0000

Does any concept album actually "interpret" anything, at least in the sense that one speaks of "interpreting" a difficult book? Seems to me that a "concept album" is usually a collection of thematically-linked songs, sometimes arranged into a sort of narrative. Come to think of it, that's pretty much what Gravity's Rainbow already is. Any concept album based on it would be a jeu d'esprit, not an interpretation. At least not an "interpretation" in the literary sense of the word.

Posted by MF DU on 2009-01-16 10:52:18 +0000

Also not able to gain clearance, but that bill is insane.

Posted by tgl on 2009-01-16 12:47:45 +0000

Attempting to transpose art from one medium to another involves some interpretation.

Posted by MF DU on 2009-01-16 15:09:57 +0000

All right - that does it. This is now on my 'to read' list. People have been telling me to read Pynchon for a long time...

Posted by tgl on 2009-01-16 15:45:59 +0000

Please note Slothrop (and his tights) are part of GR, not The Crying...

Posted by MF DU on 2009-01-16 16:10:11 +0000

If I saw it on wikipedia - it must be true...

Posted by ConorClockwise on 2009-01-16 16:13:45 +0000

Interesting. I would have said Sonic Youth's "Evol", but Watt plays on this too!!!

Posted by dyedon8 on 2009-01-19 19:29:57 +0000

Ulysses book club.

Posted by MF DU on 2009-01-21 17:46:03 +0000

Who would that be, scooping the hipsters @ pitchfork by approx 8 days? That would be rideside. Although I must admit, I love their subtitle: If you're a metal band and you're not playing this, you probably suck

Posted by MF DU on 2009-03-03 18:28:48 +0000

Mastodon last week: More Photos from last week's Scion festival here.

Posted by Miriam on 2009-03-04 04:05:38 +0000

Wait...you were in Atlanta and didn't tell me you were South of the Mason-Dixon?! Shame, shame.

Posted by MF DU on 2009-03-04 13:55:39 +0000

Just wishful vicarious reporting (reposting I should say - not my content.) I was in the urban mecca of Monson the whole time! :)

Posted by Miriam on 2009-03-04 14:24:09 +0000

Whew! For a minute my feelings were about to get hurt. Does look like a sick show!