I would have guessed Bleeding Heart Show, personally, as it was in a commercial for some online university. Also, I think I like all their songs. Whelp, that's pretty boring, I'll see myself out.

Cause shit floats 😉

I love it!

Naw, still do that.

Good luck!

I'd say that sums it up nicely and I'm glad you like it! My wife and I were listening to that and some old Songs: Ohia while we cooked breakfast and it really is perfect cloudy Sunday music.

I threw up in my mouth reading that. Ugh.

A. What the fuck is the Landmark Forum? B. That sucks, man, sorry.

Pynchon reminds me more of Flann O'Brien style than DFW, personally, especially in his essays and short stories I just don't see the peas in a pod kinda connection a lot of people do. BTW, how good does Jason Segal look as DFW? I'm really excited about that movie!

I haven't seen Inherent Vice yet, but I'm worried I'm going to be looking for Pynchon in crowd scenes to the detriment of my actually following the story!

He's not for everybody! (No snark or smugness, since I'm typing it)

Um, seriously, Bruiser? Go talk to somebody, man, we already lost the real Bruiser and we can't lose you, too.

Well, that is going to definitely throw some salt in your enjoyment, then. Cheers!

Except "Gravity's Rainbow." Also, the rest of it 😄

All this time they've been trusting a big butt and a smile with no one to show them the error of their ways!

The new Elephant Micah is really good, sparse but haunting. Go-Betweens reissue just came out: power pop perfection (well, rough GBV kinda perfection, lol)

How do you do that? I am woefully crappy at all this stuff.

Have you seen "Mean Machine"?

Watched the movie "Boyhood" which I enjoyed immensely. A few scenes were a bit over the top on schmaltz, but overall very well done movie. As for music, listened to the first two Arctic Monkeys LPs pretty much constantly (they're like the Stone Roses for me, every few months I have to binge) and picked up copies of…

I'm not a fan of his novels, either. "How to be Alone" and some essays struck me hardest, for sure. Thank you for your comment, too, I've never had a friend kill themself, per se, but I've lost two to meth and anorexia, respectively. It feels exactly like you said.