Steal This Band

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Answering phones at a complaint Une-another Strand art project-she begins a hotline romance with professional slogan-comer Carlton Vogelsong, whose initial telephone complaints and later, repetitive utterances during innumerable sex acts with Lucinda, become the lyrics to the songs that will make the as-yet-unnamed band locally famous. The band's signature achievement, a song called "Monster Eyes," begins with "a bass thrum and a chiming guitar figure" (the former played by Lucinda, who, on bass, "possessed all anyone needed: she swung") and comes sometime after "Astronaut Food" and sometime before "Canary in a Coke Machine" in the band's set list.

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Steal This Band

Steal This Band

Theft and plagiarism are at the heart of Jonathan Lethem's rock 'n' roll novel

You Don't Love Me Yet

By Jonathan Lethem

Doubleaay, 224pp., $24.95

BYZACH BARON

Jonathan Lethem's The Fortress of Solitude faded to the sound of Another Green World, Brian Eno...

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