The Bad Plus are sponsoring a fun time-waster over at their blog, Do The Math. The idea is to pair a band with a corresponding author. They start us off with 61 of their own examples, including the perplexing one listed in this post's title. Others include:
The Clash--Hunter S. Thompson
Elvis Costello--William Shakespeare
The Eagles--Tom Wolfe
Hall and Oates--Nick Hornby [ouch]
Jewel--Danielle Steele [double ouch]
Stephen Malkmus--Thomas Pynchon
Bruce Springsteen--Norman Mailer
Tom Waits--Charles Bukowski
Wilco--Mark Twain
The Who--Ian Fleming
Yes--H.P. Lovecraft
Click here to read the rest. You can contribute your own suggestions via email to the Bad Plus, or for instant gratification, in the comments here. (Remember -- comments are what makes blogging blogging.)
My contributions:
The Arcade Fire - Mordecai Richler
Godspeed You Black Emperor - David Foster Wallace
Beck - Michael Chabon
Yo La Tengo - Jonathan Lethem
Bright Eyes - Jonathan Safran Foer
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