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was displeased with Insect Trust's initiative. A lawyer representing the writer contacted the band and <strong>to</strong>ld them<br />
Pynchon wanted the LP withdrawn. After some negotiation, the band agreed <strong>to</strong> s<strong>to</strong>p performing the song live,<br />
and Pynchon withdrew his threat of legal action. As far as we know, this is the only time a Pynchon song has<br />
been performed and/or recorded.<br />
Pynchon's songs in <strong>Vineland</strong> are arguably his best. If only we knew the tunes!<br />
Songs In <strong>Vineland</strong><br />
Little Grass Skirt ( 63)<br />
Wacky Coconuts (66)<br />
Floozy With an Uzi (104)<br />
Just Like a William Powell (162)<br />
Kick Out the Jambs (191)<br />
Thana<strong>to</strong>id World (224)<br />
Another Cheap Romance (281)<br />
Lawrence of Arabia (309)<br />
Daughters of the Road (331)<br />
The Tube (336-337)<br />
Es Posible (356)<br />
Like a Meat Loaf (363)<br />
Movies in <strong>Vineland</strong><br />
Film and filmmaking was a major theme in Gravity's Rainbow -- and clearly, Pynchon's interest in the<br />
cinema has not flagged. There are more explicit film references in <strong>Vineland</strong> than in any previous Pynchon<br />
novel. This tends <strong>to</strong> underscore the possibility that the novel is, in fact, itself a movie. Some of the films are<br />
imaginary "movies for TV" -- usually in the form of The Something-or-Other S<strong>to</strong>ry with Somebody-or-Other.<br />
Real movies are invariably followed by a bracketed date -- probably a satirical takeoff on academic film<br />
criticism.<br />
Return of the Jedi [1983] (7)<br />
The Clara Bow S<strong>to</strong>ry -- with Pia Zadora (14)<br />
Friday the 13th [1980] (16)<br />
Gidget [1959] (17)<br />
The Frank Gorshin S<strong>to</strong>ry -- with Pat Sajak (48)<br />
Hawaii [1966] (62)<br />
The Hawaiians [1970] (62)<br />
Gidget Goes Hawaiian [1961] (62)<br />
Godzilla, King of the Monsters [1956] (65)<br />
Mondo Cane [1963] (96)<br />
Flight of the Phoenix [1966] (96)<br />
2001: A Space Odyssey [1968] (178, 294)<br />
Psycho [1960] (187)<br />
Ghostbusters [1984] (190)<br />
20,000 Years in Sing Sing [1933] (294)<br />
Young Kissinger -- with Woody Allen (309)<br />
The G. Gordon Liddy S<strong>to</strong>ry -- with Sean Connery (339)<br />
The Bryant Gumbel S<strong>to</strong>ry -- with John Ritter (355)<br />
The Robert Musil S<strong>to</strong>ry -- with Peewee Herman (370)<br />
Magnificent Disaster -- an imaginary basketball movie for TV, with Sidney Poitier as K.C. Jones, Sean<br />
Penn as Larry Bird, Paul McCartney as Kevin McHale, Lou Gossett, Jr., as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Michael<br />
Douglas as Pat Riley, and Jack Nicholson (no<strong>to</strong>rious round ball fan) as himself. (371, 377)<br />
Cool Names<br />
One of the greatest pleasures in reading Pynchon is his genius for creating outrageous/clever/amusing names
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