Monday, October 3
Lit Rock
(not to disparage guys, but please don't take that as a sentence.)
ever since Colin Meloy described Kate Bush as the queen of it, i'm quizzical as to whether it's really a thing. stormbrain let's list:
• C.M. and the 'brists(sic) duh 'cuz of "Song for Myla Goldberg" and some obvious Moby Dick snatches (though M.D. is a little too easy of a pop trope - from Laurie Anderson to Mastadon to the Sun Destroyers - not to mention Herman's idiot grand-nephew-or-whatever himself - to really be fare gaim.)
• K.B. okay, well she did write freaking "Wuthering Heights"
• Morrissey/Smiths; Wilde is on his side, not to just enlist anyone who ever scribed a literary lyrical namecheck, but this is a special case because a conversation with Rich about it was how this particular thought-train got started, and apparently Mozzer talks about Oscar in interviews and stuff. [sidelist: weirdo nickname names like that which nobody seems to actually use except in print - mozzer (always makes me think mozzerella), macca, macphisto (had forgot that one), jacko, jojo (richman).]
• U2 is friends with Salman Rushdie; they wrote a song for his silly rockstar book, and he played on stage with them once or something.
• Douglas Adams played guitar on stage with Pink Floyd for his birthday
• the Nick Hornby/Marah thing
• Rick Moody/Magnetic Fields. or was that just that one thing? and who was it that wrote lyrics with Warren Zevon or something?
• Leonard Cohen writes books. Patti Smith and Jim Carroll. (and um Jewel.)
• Madonna's childrens books.
• The Big Wheel (Bruce Thomas)
• James McMurtry (rocker), son of Larry McMurtry (writer)
• Stephin Coates or whatever his (the real) name is, and the Glenn Duncan novel
• right, apparently the Walkmen are writing a novel (together?)
• the Hold Steady are bandied about as narrativists, and maybe Okkervil River. but now we're just talking "literary" as an adjective.
• what's this nonsense about Radiohead and Joyce?
• Dylan? and who? ("mine have been like Verlaine's and Rimbaud's")
• I know I said not to do this, but since Gabe is currently proclaiming it the best book ever: "Raskolnikov felt sick..."
• NMH and Diary of a Young Girl doesn't count, right?
• Zeppelin/Tolkein, hah.
this is getting hard, and tenuous. any other connections you wanna make? the two arenas seem pretty disparate, surprisingly even.
meet me on my vast veranda
my sweet untouched miranda
ever since Colin Meloy described Kate Bush as the queen of it, i'm quizzical as to whether it's really a thing. stormbrain let's list:
• C.M. and the 'brists(sic) duh 'cuz of "Song for Myla Goldberg" and some obvious Moby Dick snatches (though M.D. is a little too easy of a pop trope - from Laurie Anderson to Mastadon to the Sun Destroyers - not to mention Herman's idiot grand-nephew-or-whatever himself - to really be fare gaim.)
• K.B. okay, well she did write freaking "Wuthering Heights"
• Morrissey/Smiths; Wilde is on his side, not to just enlist anyone who ever scribed a literary lyrical namecheck, but this is a special case because a conversation with Rich about it was how this particular thought-train got started, and apparently Mozzer talks about Oscar in interviews and stuff. [sidelist: weirdo nickname names like that which nobody seems to actually use except in print - mozzer (always makes me think mozzerella), macca, macphisto (had forgot that one), jacko, jojo (richman).]
• U2 is friends with Salman Rushdie; they wrote a song for his silly rockstar book, and he played on stage with them once or something.
• Douglas Adams played guitar on stage with Pink Floyd for his birthday
• the Nick Hornby/Marah thing
• Rick Moody/Magnetic Fields. or was that just that one thing? and who was it that wrote lyrics with Warren Zevon or something?
• Leonard Cohen writes books. Patti Smith and Jim Carroll. (and um Jewel.)
• Madonna's childrens books.
• The Big Wheel (Bruce Thomas)
• James McMurtry (rocker), son of Larry McMurtry (writer)
• Stephin Coates or whatever his (the real) name is, and the Glenn Duncan novel
• right, apparently the Walkmen are writing a novel (together?)
• the Hold Steady are bandied about as narrativists, and maybe Okkervil River. but now we're just talking "literary" as an adjective.
• what's this nonsense about Radiohead and Joyce?
• Dylan? and who? ("mine have been like Verlaine's and Rimbaud's")
• I know I said not to do this, but since Gabe is currently proclaiming it the best book ever: "Raskolnikov felt sick..."
• NMH and Diary of a Young Girl doesn't count, right?
• Zeppelin/Tolkein, hah.
this is getting hard, and tenuous. any other connections you wanna make? the two arenas seem pretty disparate, surprisingly even.
meet me on my vast veranda
my sweet untouched miranda
