Consider the Brainiac

20Mar06

Consider The Lobster
David Foster Wallace
(Little, Brown and Company)
Although American writer David Foster Wallace (DFW) is known primarily for his fiction (Infinite Jest, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men and most recently Oblivion), I think his non-fiction is best. Anyone who read his 1997 collection of essays, A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, can tell [...]

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What’s My Take?

08Mar06

Saw Cassavetes’s “Love Streams” last night. I thought it was fantastic. Strange, with feverish dream sequences, but charming and moving.
Cassavetes starred as an alcoholic writer who sleeps around. Anna found him repugnant and slowly grew to like him but I was on-his-side from the beginning. He was sleazy, but there was something magnetic and alive [...]

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Animal Collective, March 1

03Mar06

Awful show. Bought tickets for Anna as Christmas gift. Terrible mistake.
A) The show never should have been moved to the Commodore—way too big, even though it sold out
B) It sounded like a really shitty dub show…tons of reverb and droning—argh
c) They are BORING performers.
Damn. Still bought the record though…the record’s great.

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