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― *rad hug eomticon* (Control Z), Saturday, 1 December 2012 20:33 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.amazon.com/dp/193822101X/
― markers, Tuesday, 11 June 2013 21:56 (ten years ago) link
lipsky's asides in Although of course... are so distracting and irritating. He just can't seem to distinguish between empathy and flattery, which reflects rather poorly on him. If he'd read the book/essays, which he quotes from and refers to, so he must've, he sure didn't seem to connect much with it/them. And the repeated questions that basically boil down to, "c'mon, just admit that it's awesome to get this much attention." Kinda wanted to punch him.
― john. a resident of chicago., Friday, 25 October 2013 02:56 (ten years ago) link
We all have our little solipsistic delusions, ghastly intuitions of utter singularity: that we are the only one in the house who ever fills the ice-cube tray, who unloads the clean dishwasher, who occasionally pees in the shower, whose eyelid twitches on first dates; that only we take casualness terribly seriously; that only we fashion supplication into courtesy; that only we hear the whiny pathos in a dog’s yawn, the timeless sigh in the opening of the hermetically-sealed jar, the splattered laugh in the frying egg, the minor-D lament in the vacuum’s scream; that only we feel the panic at sunset the rookie kindergartner feels at his mother’s retreat...Solipsism binds us together...That we are, always, faces in a crowd.
― c21m50nh3x460n, Monday, 4 November 2013 02:00 (ten years ago) link
http://www.thewrap.com/jason-segel-david-foster-wallace-jesse-eisenberg-the-end-of-the-tour
Jesse Eisenberg and Jason Segel are attached to star in Anonymous Content’s “The End of the Tour,” multiple individuals familiar with the project have told TheWrap.Segel will play David Foster Wallace, the author of “Infinite Jest” who committed suicide in 2008, while Eisenberg will play Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky.
Segel will play David Foster Wallace, the author of “Infinite Jest” who committed suicide in 2008, while Eisenberg will play Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky.
― Number None, Thursday, 12 December 2013 00:23 (ten years ago) link
what? noooooooo
― festival culture (Jordan), Thursday, 12 December 2013 00:24 (ten years ago) link
i can only shudder and hope that i never hear about this again
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, 12 December 2013 01:07 (ten years ago) link
http://apps.startribune.com/blogs/user_images/tillokm_1395171851_segel.jpg
― Number None, Wednesday, 19 March 2014 09:49 (ten years ago) link
ughghhh
(to the movie itself, as well as this image)
― augh (Control Z), Wednesday, 19 March 2014 10:18 (ten years ago) link
stab stab stab stab stab
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 19 March 2014 14:53 (ten years ago) link
what was that movie where he was a bro, wearin cardigans, hangin out in la? i can see maybe that segel hitting the right beats, striking the right tone, but THIS one, man
― j., Wednesday, 19 March 2014 14:57 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/CFV1tVu.jpg
― 龜, Sunday, 18 May 2014 00:25 (nine years ago) link
i cant see what that is
― just sayin, Sunday, 18 May 2014 00:33 (nine years ago) link
DFW's copy of Ulysses
― 龜, Sunday, 18 May 2014 00:34 (nine years ago) link
denied, http://bookhaven.stanford.edu/2014/05/yes-david-foster-wallace-read-ulysses-how-do-i-know/
― schlump, Sunday, 18 May 2014 00:39 (nine years ago) link
always nice to confront marginalia thoughvery homeland
― schlump, Sunday, 18 May 2014 00:40 (nine years ago) link
wow @ these poems by Mary Karr, in the NYer and the Hairpin. I only glanced at them briefly, without actually reading them, but... :(
― augh (Control Z), Monday, 15 September 2014 20:03 (nine years ago) link
more like david fosturd wallace
― ienjoyhotdogs, Monday, 15 September 2014 20:31 (nine years ago) link
ahaha zing
― augh (Control Z), Monday, 15 September 2014 20:33 (nine years ago) link
dud
― ☝ (am0n), Monday, 15 September 2014 21:36 (nine years ago) link
so the Segel/Eisenberg movie is actually getting good reviews
― Number None, Sunday, 25 January 2015 14:15 (nine years ago) link
http://www.reddit.com/r/davidfosterwallace/comments/3695i5/i_found_the_real_1987_late_night_with_david/
interesting reading it again after watching the interview
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Monday, 18 May 2015 08:24 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqUa5sYHC9s
― Number None, Wednesday, 27 May 2015 14:19 (eight years ago) link
segal doesn't sound Midwestern enough
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 27 May 2015 14:26 (eight years ago) link
ughghgghhhhhhhhhh
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Wednesday, 27 May 2015 14:46 (eight years ago) link
can everyone just agree not to watch this terrible movie
looks like a story about the emotional journey of some MFA student
― rap is dad (it's a boy!), Wednesday, 27 May 2015 14:59 (eight years ago) link
I'm not sure why someone would make this film.
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Wednesday, 27 May 2015 15:56 (eight years ago) link
I found this book super-moving and I think I will probably see this movie, though I might cry.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 27 May 2015 16:14 (eight years ago) link
xp in purely economic terms it has to have been really cheap to produce and will easily be profitable
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 27 May 2015 16:48 (eight years ago) link
I was just thinking abt that mr squishy could prob be adapted into a cool movie but there obv u need his estate's ok is my understanding
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 27 May 2015 16:49 (eight years ago) link
co-sign re: finding this book super movingalso while i was reading it i was listening to rem
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Wednesday, 27 May 2015 23:30 (eight years ago) link
haha how would a mr squishy movie even work??
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Thursday, 28 May 2015 00:09 (eight years ago) link
they should make a movie of the published edition of his commencement speech
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 28 May 2015 00:12 (eight years ago) link
I feel like they'd have to come up with a new ending for one thing.
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Thursday, 28 May 2015 00:13 (eight years ago) link
die REM, just die already
― calstars, Thursday, 28 May 2015 00:24 (eight years ago) link
By the way, the REM song they use is "Strange Currencies," which is a) a great song, the good version of the thing "Everybody Hurts" is a terrible version of; and b) a real-life favorite of DFW.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 28 May 2015 02:59 (eight years ago) link
eephus otm strange currencies is impecxable
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Thursday, 28 May 2015 05:17 (eight years ago) link
haha rem is like the least stupid thing about this
― adam, Thursday, 28 May 2015 11:45 (eight years ago) link
Early reviews have been surprisingly positive. I'm willing to give it a chance.
― circa1916, Thursday, 28 May 2015 12:05 (eight years ago) link
The problem might be that segal is a comic actor and this is a serious role ?
― calstars, Friday, 29 May 2015 00:16 (eight years ago) link
My girlfriend, who has never read any DFW, saw the trailer for this and thought it looked really good. Yeah, so I bought her a copy "Of Course" as a present. She reads literally about 100 books a year.
― rap is dad (it's a boy!), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 18:05 (eight years ago) link
― calstars
Maybe, but DFW was comedic. At least he definitely tried to be. Honestly I think the problem is that Segel always plays dorks. I mean sure DFW had nerdy tendencies (he was a writer for Christ's sake) but I never understood that to be essential to his identity. I think maybe riding the nerd wave would have been too easy for someone as self-critical as David. or too boring on a conceptual level. Or too exclusionary. I see Segel in this and I'm just like welp, the nerd's won again. Go ahead and have this one too.
― rap is dad (it's a boy!), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 18:08 (eight years ago) link
I don't know if it's that Segal's a comic actor, I think it's that the whole thing scans as famous actor vanity project brand extension, the type of thing that one surmises that Wallace detested.
― intheblanks, Wednesday, 10 June 2015 18:28 (eight years ago) link
Also, biopics have a justifiably bad reputation, generally engaging in a type of flat reductionism that people probably don't want to see applied to someone they view as an immense, very complicated talent.
I'm not saying this is necessarily that kind of flatly reductive biopic, but that the historical record gives people reason to be skeptical. The "Segal is great as DFW!" headlines out of film festivals probably fuels that fire.
― intheblanks, Wednesday, 10 June 2015 18:32 (eight years ago) link
Any famous actor in a biopic is going to be met with skepticism. But I get the feeling there's something particularly cringe worthy about Segel's “brand” that's being extended here. If that's what's even going on, or whatever. I haven't read this book, but I hope an actor being comedic isn’t the problem. I'd hope there would be some funny moments in it!
― rap is dad (it's a boy!), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 19:12 (eight years ago) link
I think this has the ability to avoid the "flatly reductive biopic" pitfall by not really being a proper biopic. I'm assuming a huge chunk of the dialogue in this is lifted straight from Lipsky's tapes.
― circa1916, Wednesday, 10 June 2015 19:26 (eight years ago) link
I guess him being a comic actor is at least part of it, in that the "comedic actor proves their dramatic chops" thing is, at this point, an eye-rolling cliche. Having that on top of the "Oscar-bait biopic" vibes probably does make things worse.
― intheblanks, Wednesday, 10 June 2015 19:34 (eight years ago) link
@circa1916 I actually agree that it could be good, I just understand the skepticism.
― intheblanks, Wednesday, 10 June 2015 19:35 (eight years ago) link
i think my problem with the trailer is that jason segel sounds too much like jason segel. I wasn't expecting him to mimic DFW's speech patterns I guess, but I just associate his voice with the other characters he's played before.
― Roz, Wednesday, 10 June 2015 22:42 (eight years ago) link