Rene said :
Ellroy, who is well known for his contempt
> >for rock music & musicians allegedly
mercilessly lampooned Cave at
one
> >or more of his readings, the story getting back
to Cave who was
> >apparently devastated.
Kevin said :
> He shouldn't be. Pound for pound, he's a better
writer.
Probably. I wasn't game to be the one to say it, though.Some
people on this list (I stress some) may be interested in
Cave's novel, "The Ass Saw the Angel". If you're one of the
people who can't get into J L Burke because of overwriting
you'd better give this one a miss. IMO the ghosts of
Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor & maybe even Jean Genet loom
large & Cave must have worn out his thesaurus but if you
can get past that it's worth a look. He must be the only
truly literate rock/pop singer, aside from Leonard Cohen, I
can think of . Even as a 13 year old rock fanatic I remember
finding the "poetry" of Jim Morrison & Marc Bolan
hilarious.
(Lenny Cohen, whose records I love, is used as the soundtrack
for Robert Altman's movie "McCabe & Mrs Miller" a sort of
noir western -or maybe northern , IIRC it's all shot in the
snow - great movie, great soundtrack, although haven't seen
it in nigh on 20 year).
Jess said :
Did Ellroy do this for any other reason than contempt for the
profession of the fan who wrote him?
As I understand the story, no.I may not have all the facts,
that is the trouble with gossip but that is the story going
round. Rene.
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