Speaking of commie kitsch, I was floored the other day when I saw a banner ad for theCheStore.com. Looks like I need to get cranking on my latch-hook Che before the movie comes out in 2005.
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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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.'"