Tasha, you sold me with the Michael Chabon comparison. I read The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay earlier this week, and it was, well, amazing. Fun and funny and vivid and heartbreaking.

So far, every time I think I have a handle on how to feel about a character Franzen totally flips my perspective. I'm at the part right now where Enid is cooking her "Dinner of Revenge" for Alfred and having totally hated her in previous chapters for her attitude towards her kids (especially Denise), I'm feeling…

Plowing through is the way to do it. It's really not difficult, compared to, say, Pynchon (to whom he is most often compared for no reason I can discern other than they both fit into the vague categorization of "postmodern" and they use really big words and wrote big books), but it has a dense enough narrative that…

Movie of the year so far. Can't wait to pick up the blu-ray.

I finished Infinite Jest and it might have supplanted Gravity's Rainbow as my new favorite book. If nothing else, it has the absolute best and most endearing cast of characters in any novel - maybe any narrative work of art, period - I've ever come across. The Incandenzas, Joelle van Dyne, Kate Gompert, Don Gately,…

Oh, I liked 2666 enough. I just, to that point (yes, 900 pages in), had no idea where it was really going or what it all meant. Plus the fourth section was pretty brutal and reading all that again doesn't exactly make for fun times.

If anybody is considering picking this up, wait for the Barnes & Noble Criterion sale that will begin on July 9th. I've been meaning to see this for years so I'll probably be snagging it.

Having made my way about 660 pages into the novel before disastrously setting it down a few months back and feeling utterly lost upon picking it up, and with nothing else occupying my free time as it were - being unemployed and lazy and in a bit of a rut when it comes to watching films, ostensibly my primary passion -…

I also picked an Emmylou song, but it's her cover of the Flying Burrito Brothers' "Wheels."

My favorite Television song. Never have managed to track down a live version on any of the many bootlegs I've acquired. Great choice.

Seriously - The Secret of Monkey Island? Ice-T? Come on.

Not to be too much of a judgmental asshole but I kinda wanna slap the shit out of anybody who feels the fresh take Shakespeare needs is Joss Whedon. Gag me.

Thomas Pynchon is way more interesting than Arrested Development. And I really like Arrested Development (though I'm only a bit through season 2 so far).

Inglourious Basterds. Went in expecting awesome revenge movie about killing Nazis, got…well, awesome revenge movie about killing Nazis, but one that made me painfully aware of my own bloodlust.

This is, in my opinion, one of the most underrated movies in recent memory. I still haven't seen a couple of Mann's bigger films (namely, The Insider and The Last of the Mohicans) but I'd put this right after Heat as my favorite of his. There's a really great writeup here:

Upstream Color is great, but does anybody else think Primer sucks?

I saw it on Thursday night and fucking loved it. Been hyping it for a year and it didn't disappoint. I dunno if it's frowned upon to pimp your own reviews here, but: http://mymoviemusings.wordp…

To add to this, if I try to change anything at all in my profile, I'm prompted to enter a valid email address. It's like navigating Kafka's Trial.

Apropos of nothing, can somebody help me out of the hellish feedback loop I'm stuck in? I login through facebook, which doesn't work at work because facebook is blocked. So I login here to try and change my password, but I can't do that without my current password. But I don't HAVE a current password, since I just…

There are Dark City haters?