In Fall 2010 when it all becomes publicly available, that is.
― a passing basscadet (ctrl-s), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 15:54 (fourteen years ago) link
dfw's listening habits, via an interview with his sister:
"he really loved pearl jam." O_o
but also:
"there was a cover of 'our lips are sealed' by fun boy three which he played over and over and OVER again one summer. and he really loved the band madness." :D
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Thursday, 11 March 2010 00:58 (fourteen years ago) link
pearl jam rocks
― max, Thursday, 11 March 2010 00:59 (fourteen years ago) link
the 0_o was less a comment on pearl jam's quality than in trying to imagine dfw rocking out to "daughter" given various (negative) comments in his interview about rock music.
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Thursday, 11 March 2010 01:01 (fourteen years ago) link
his interview about rock music
Which one? Where?
― a passing basscadet (ctrl-s), Thursday, 11 March 2010 01:24 (fourteen years ago) link
counterpoint: totally looks like a pearl jam fan
― rinse the lemonade (Jordan), Thursday, 11 March 2010 01:28 (fourteen years ago) link
actually upon re-reading "negative" is probably a little strong (and he does caveat his opinion):
"DFW: About the only way music informs my work is in terms of rhythm; sometimes I associate certain narrators' and characters' voices with certain pieces of music. Rock music itself bores me, usually. The phenomenon of rock interests me, though, because its birth was part of the rise of popular media, which completely changed the ways the U.S. was unified and split."
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Thursday, 11 March 2010 01:48 (fourteen years ago) link
from another posthumous tribute i learned he was big into section 25 and solo eno in college, which seems about right, really.
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Thursday, 11 March 2010 01:49 (fourteen years ago) link
hmmm. i wanna say i read something somewhere where he said he was into the flaming lips
― Mr. Que, Thursday, 11 March 2010 02:01 (fourteen years ago) link
yah i guess it was in the sonora review
http://www.magicmonads.com/2009/09/sonora-reviews-david-foster-wallace.html
― Mr. Que, Thursday, 11 March 2010 02:02 (fourteen years ago) link
What's the UT connection?
― etaeoe, Thursday, 11 March 2010 02:43 (fourteen years ago) link
dont believe there is one, i think they have similar other writers archived there tho, at least delillo
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 11 March 2010 02:45 (fourteen years ago) link
and Stormin' Norman Mailer
― FIST FIGHT! FIST FIGHT! FIST FIGHT IN THE PARKING LOT! (milo z), Thursday, 11 March 2010 02:51 (fourteen years ago) link
He also wrote in a review about Lost Highway how "You Can Be My Head" would have been an appropriate theme song.
― she is writing about love (Jenny), Thursday, 11 March 2010 13:52 (fourteen years ago) link
oh god this makes me sadder than anything else
http://www.scribd.com/doc/28153758/SuttreeDFWpaper
DFW's comments are KILLING me. Page 19 (of this 24-page paper that DFW eventually graded A+ [actually A+++, but downgraded for "syntax and grandiloquence"]: the student uses the word "concern" twice in a sentence; DFW's marginal note: "Die!"
He was so good.
― a passing basscadet (ctrl-s), Thursday, 11 March 2010 18:37 (fourteen years ago) link
omg the Style Fairy
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Thursday, 11 March 2010 19:15 (fourteen years ago) link
<3 that lil drawing
― david foster ballaz (m bison), Thursday, 11 March 2010 19:21 (fourteen years ago) link
I know right!!!
Student paper: "problematize"DFW: "This is a bullshit academic word. Shun it. Fly it. Trust me."
Salut.
― a passing basscadet (ctrl-s), Thursday, 11 March 2010 19:22 (fourteen years ago) link
wow look at how he graded the shit out of that paper what a virtuoso
― Are Slimes the Jews of monsterdom? (cankles), Thursday, 11 March 2010 19:29 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.superpoop.com/030810/infinite-jest.jpg
― Your body is a spiderland (polyphonic), Thursday, 11 March 2010 19:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Is that BART? I've never seen the seats look so fresh and clean.
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 11 March 2010 19:38 (fourteen years ago) link
canks it's a good zing but really it's not a question of virtuosity so much as how much he actually gives a fuck about this student paper, which when you're staring at a pile of 30 of these at 4am or whatever it's pretty easy to be like "lol u pompous B+" but to the best of my knowledge he never did. like, he really engaged like this with every student paper, even the dum ones, and tried to find what was worth developing and actually, you know, guide his students toward the slightly more thoughtful, better-writing versions of themselves he could see. plus: Style Fairy.
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Thursday, 11 March 2010 19:50 (fourteen years ago) link
i didn't even realise that was intended as a zing, although if i'd bothered to have checked the username i would, i guess
― thomp, Thursday, 11 March 2010 20:01 (fourteen years ago) link
it wasnt really a zing i just think its funny that people are fawning over how he graded papers... he certainly did a good job and all but its like dang man come on
― Are Slimes the Jews of monsterdom? (cankles), Thursday, 11 March 2010 20:10 (fourteen years ago) link
"die!"
― nitzer ebbebe (gbx), Thursday, 11 March 2010 20:40 (fourteen years ago) link
DFW makes me depressed cause I know that no matter how hard I try I am never going to read a book with as much drive and dedication as he did
― but actually it is impossible to have a penis on the body of a mermaid (dyao), Friday, 12 March 2010 00:57 (fourteen years ago) link
but I am glad to see his standards for student papers is not that high
― but actually it is impossible to have a penis on the body of a mermaid (dyao), Friday, 12 March 2010 01:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Really? That was the most brutal A+ I've ever seen.
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 12 March 2010 01:11 (fourteen years ago) link
He basically told the guy to rewrite it entirely.
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 12 March 2010 01:12 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah but he still gave it an A+++?
― but actually it is impossible to have a penis on the body of a mermaid (dyao), Friday, 12 March 2010 01:13 (fourteen years ago) link
he was being supportive and encouraging! which is something that's come out a fair bit after his death. he really did seem amazingly generous for someone with such high standards.
― jed_, Friday, 12 March 2010 01:17 (fourteen years ago) link
I did lol at the big "NICEEEE!" comment directed at the students first overly long footnote
― but actually it is impossible to have a penis on the body of a mermaid (dyao), Friday, 12 March 2010 01:27 (fourteen years ago) link
i only skimmed the essay, so i'm not about to judge it's actual quality (nor am i qualified to), but i think the best kinda teaching brutally rakes students over the coals and then tells them that they ~still~ did an outstanding job (provided that they actually showed effort, u know). raises expectations, outlines what those expectations probably are, assures the student that they are capable of meeting them imo
― nitzer ebbebe (gbx), Friday, 12 March 2010 01:39 (fourteen years ago) link
agree with that!
― jed_, Friday, 12 March 2010 01:44 (fourteen years ago) link
kinda feel like he'd have been aghast at someone putting papers he graded on the internet, and that happening after he's died just makes it more tacky. at least w/ the unfinished novel it's something he intended to show the public at some point.
― some dude, Friday, 12 March 2010 01:48 (fourteen years ago) link
but the paper belongs to the student?
― but actually it is impossible to have a penis on the body of a mermaid (dyao), Friday, 12 March 2010 01:51 (fourteen years ago) link
sure, but the student's still kind of a dick for putting it online imo
― some dude, Friday, 12 March 2010 01:56 (fourteen years ago) link
enh, i'd 100% agree with you if it just ended up on the internet without any of the involved parties' consent, but the student putting it up isn't really a dick move imo. chances are that they fucking adored DFW and wanted to show the world that he was a thoughtful and considerate and dedicated instructor. he might have never wanted the world to know that he was a style fairy, but it's not like his legacy (or w/e) is in any diminished by our knowledge that he was!
― nitzer ebbebe (gbx), Friday, 12 March 2010 01:59 (fourteen years ago) link
^^agree with this
we don't really have any evidence that DFW made some sort of kafka-esque declaration before he died (unless someone wants to point me to one)
― but actually it is impossible to have a penis on the body of a mermaid (dyao), Friday, 12 March 2010 02:03 (fourteen years ago) link
man i miss this guy
srsly the only "famous" person death that really, genuinely bummed me out.
― nitzer ebbebe (gbx), Friday, 12 March 2010 02:07 (fourteen years ago) link
ehh i understand and i'm not being totally hardline and humorless about this, nor do i think DFW had any Kafka-ish attitude about his unpublished work etc. or that this has any effect on his legacy. i'm just saying if one of his fans was lucky enough to be in one of his classes, they could stand to be cool about it and not show the guy's little feedback notes to everyone in the world, and the fact that they only did so now that he's dead seems even more gross to me. i realize once a great author is dead people tend to dig up personal correspondence and all sorts of shit, and this isn't quite that, but a little more restraint and decorum would be nice imo.
― some dude, Friday, 12 March 2010 02:23 (fourteen years ago) link
u crazy
― zvookster, Friday, 12 March 2010 02:33 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2010/03/whats-in-the-david-foster-wallace-archive.html
“Unfortunately,” Schwartzburg said, “there does not appear to be a copy of ‘The Corrections.’ ”
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 14 March 2010 00:40 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.lds.org/images/Manuals/tchg-pix.nfo:o:f1e.jpg
― How to Make an American Quit (Abbott), Sunday, 14 March 2010 01:23 (fourteen years ago) link
oh man wrong thread, I'm so sorry
― How to Make an American Quit (Abbott), Sunday, 14 March 2010 01:24 (fourteen years ago) link
not entirely inappropriate
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 14 March 2010 01:52 (fourteen years ago) link
instant lolololz! thnks Abbott!
― a passing basscadet (ctrl-s), Sunday, 14 March 2010 03:05 (fourteen years ago) link
― a passing basscadet (ctrl-s), Thursday, March 11, 2010 2:22 PM (3 days ago)
lol and then he taunts him with that very word down the page when offering him advice on something else
― k3vin k., Sunday, 14 March 2010 05:01 (fourteen years ago) link
hahaha AND a couple page later!
― k3vin k., Sunday, 14 March 2010 05:03 (fourteen years ago) link
so has anyone else pre-ordered this - http://www.amazon.com/Although-Course-You-Becoming-Yourself/dp/030759243X/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1271100674&sr=8-5
― just sayin, Monday, 12 April 2010 19:33 (fourteen years ago) link