NABOKV-L post 0011237, Thu, 17 Mar 2005 15:10:24 -0800

Ah! A scan of the archives reveals this was indeed covered 2 years
back. My apologies though anything that encourages people to read
"The Kids Stays In The Picture" can't be all bad, I suppose. It is
the only autobiography I've read that reads like a parody of
unreliable-narrator autobiography novels, whilst maintaining its own
sense of sincerity - i.e. he never blinks. Is he secretly a
self-aware self-parodist? We may never know.
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To make up for the duplication, may I offer this Nabokov sighting?

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000006NPY/qid=1111062487/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl15/102-8290759-2447358?v=glance&s=music&n=507846

The 1998 album by the Smashing Pumpkins, 'Adore', features their
single "Ada adore", about arrogant obsessive love, featuring repeated
uses of the phrases "we must never be apart" and "you'll be perfect
just like me".

In addition, the video to "Tonight, tonight" from their previous album
"Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness" is mostly a homage to George
Melie's 1902 film "A Voyage to the Moon", with the band dressed in
19th Century high-fashions (including top hats etc) and riding comets
to the moon - but it does feature a sequence where they crash back
down into the sea and float around in the deep.

I was wondering if maybe there was an Ada fan in the band, but
Googling draws a blank.

Cheers!
Andy

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