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Oct. 19th, 2004 09:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ltmurnau'Cause it's been going around, and around... looks as if I am an eclectic fellow. These really are things I am interested in, I'm not just being cute.
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Date: 2004-10-19 10:20 am (UTC)Combining two of your "unusual" interests, I saw Laurie Anderson's The End of the Moon performance earlier this month. She told a story about Thomas Pynchon, which I have lifted, more or less, from http://www.transmitmedia.com/svr/vault/anderson/ander_transcript.html:
Anderson said she "...wanted to make an opera of Gravity's Rainbow. I wrote to Thomas Pynchon and asked him if that would be OK. Now I didn't really expect to hear back: he's a famous recluse. But eventually I did receive a short reply. It was a funny letter. He said, 'You can do it, but you can use only one instrument: the banjo.' And so I imagined arias and arpeggios accompanied by ... a banjo. I suppose it was his polite way of saying, 'No. You can not do this.'"
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Date: 2004-10-19 10:46 am (UTC)Laurie Anderson and Thomas Pynchon, now that would be an interesting combination. And there are lots of different sounds you can get out of a banjo once you take it apart. But I suppose Mr. P would think that cheating.
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Date: 2004-10-20 11:47 am (UTC)Zhou Enlai is dead sexy!
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Date: 2004-10-20 01:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-20 10:38 pm (UTC)although my view is very biased because he promoted the "hotel school" of traditional chinese painting. some of my favourite artists were in this school.