I'm not saying you're entirely off the mark, but I think Dharma Bums stands up a lot better than On the Road. I'm also not willing to write off Ginsberg and Burroughs, both of whom can repay the occasional revisit.

I have some interest in rereading it, because I've gotten over my annoyance at Eggers' hipster status and come to appreciate him through his recent work, and this time around, I'd get all the Bay Area references from having subsequently lived there. But I still guess that a reread of this book would mostly annoy me.

I had no idea he did acoustic music.

I'll give a different set of suggestions: If I made a best of Negativland, it'd inevitably be almost all tracks from Free and Escape From Noise, which are both great albums that integrate their bizarre sampling into a range of strange but mostly memorable songs. Really fascinating longer-form experiments to check…

Car Bomb is like NoMeansNo or something. I always wished they'd gone for that sound again on more than just that short song.

I don't think those Time Zones samples are from there. Just the "communism is good" bits from Christianity Is Stupid.

I think it was in remission for the vast majority.

Further unsupported proclamations of your rightness are even less impressive than the first one. You made a claim, someone pointed out that it needed support, and you've gone on to do anything but offer some.

Likely true, but I'm an avid reader as is, and it's as germane to this conversation as my shoe size and eating habits.

Nor do you need to.

I'm content to point out the shallowness of what you're doing, thanks.

The article did a pretty good job of demonstrating wrong things that Corgan said.

And you guys wanted to disagree with the guy who said that Youtube is the devil.

You're also not providing citation.

"Look, I'm sixty years old — and that's 720 months! Thousands of days! Millions of seconds! And these data regarding the spread of this cancer in my body only cover the last few weeks!"

Dopey age jokes aside, that's pretty awesome.

This is the big irony of this whole conversation, that no one has brought up the latter seasons of the TV show except to dump on them. Like those seasons or not, effectively what they did was went out of their way to undo the sort of dehumanized characterizations that everyone is complaining about.

God knows it isn't already in every second or third comment on the page.

I read a biography of William S. Burroughs with a great story about a 1970s attempt to film Naked Lunch starring Hopper. The attempt was sunk by, among other things, the fact that Hopper was so messed up that he didn't even seem to understand that they were working on a movie.

Jack Nance in Eraserhead.
Also, you couldn't recast pretty much any of the characters in Blue Velvet.