Friday, September 25, 2009

Oh, the music references in Inherent Vice

Gee, except for the one drunken post I didn't say much about Inherent Vice - but let me say this: Pynchon's musical references are a blast and I can't tell when they blur from real to made up. My two favorite real ones (real as in I remember them from the first time around and there they are in the book) are to Thunderclap Newman's Something In the Air, and more generally, to Wildman Fischer (who's tune I remember best is Merry-Go-Round).

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