Young Southpaw: You’re a big Rush fan, right?
Bo Butler: This is true.
YS: What do you think Tommy P (Thomas Pynchon) makes of Rush?
BB: That’s a really good question. Almost impossible to answer. But...my guess is, we talked about Inherent Vice, there’s a lot of songs mentioned in Inherent Vice, and my guess is that those songs are what Thomas Pynchon listens to, for the most part. Or at least of those genres. There’s some crossover, in a weird way. Their drummer, Neil Peart, his dad listened to a lot of Sinatra and those kind of things, and you see some of that come up in Inherent Vice, but I don’t know that Thomas Pynchon has ever listened to Rush. But I think since I like Thomas Pynchon and I like Rush, I think Thomas Pynchon would also like Rush.
YS: Like the transitive property. Though we all know how him and mathematics works, I can’t guarantee it.
BB: I think it works the same way.
YS: And Neil Peart you mentioned, he was a big reader. I was thinking like what if ‘Tom Sawyer’ was originally called ‘Tom Pynchon’? Scans the same. And ‘catch the mystery’ would certainly apply.
BB: That is true. Honestly, I think the whole thing would still apply. But...it would be hard to sing. “Today’s Thomas Pynchon, mean mean pride...”, it just doesn’t work.
YS: Yeah. That’s probably why they changed it, ya know?
BB: Yeah, probably. Just went with a different character.
YS: Cause Tom Sawyer has never really made sense to me in that song either. ‘Modern-day warrior’.
BB: Me either. I’ll be honest.
YS: Now are you holding out hope that Pynchon will write a Rush biography one day?”
EPISODE 57 - LOU MATHEWS & JIM GAVIN
EPISODE 56 - MIKEY GEORGESON II
EPISODE 55 - RACHEL LOVE
EPISODE 54 - LANA BASTAŠIĆ
EPISODE 53 - MØTRIK
EPISODE 52 - PHILIP JEAYS
EPISODE 51 - MIKE CARLON
EPISODE 50 - ANTON BARBEAU II
EPISODE 49 - JOHN HIGGS II
EPISODE 48 - BREATHLESS
EPISODE 47 - BRECHT EVENS
EPISODE 46 - THE CATENARY WIRES
EPISODE 45 - FIGHTMILK
EPISODE 44 - REGGIE CHAMBERLAIN-KING & BRIAN SHOWERS ON CONALL CEARNACH'S 'THE FATAL MOVE'
EPISODE 43 - STEPHEN COATES
EPISODE 42 - ANDREW SHAW
EPISODE 41 - BEN SIDDALL FROM THE LODGER
EPISODE 40 - PETER BEBERGAL
EPISODE 39 - HEDVIG MOLLESTAD II
EPISODE 38 - STEVE AYLETT
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