Both great books. Make sure you push on with the Bolaño. Everyone I know who has read it (including me) hits a wall about halfway to two-thirds of the way through the novel. But the ending(s) are worth it.

I'm reading Pynchon's "Against The Day": A Corrupted Pilgrim's Guide, a collection of essays about the novel.

I had problems with both, but yeah, I liked Ghostwritten more. It's also one of the few books that everyone I've recommended it to read it and enjoyed it.

Love Love Medicine. It really restored my faith in fiction at a time when it seemed like everything was about college professors having affairs in the suburbs.

Invisible Cities is great: poetic, inventive, ethereal. But as far as I'm concerned, you can't go wrong with anything by Calvino.

Warren, that's really all you need.

The appeal of this movie eludes me. After hearing about it for years, when I finally saw it, I was bored. I guess my expectations were too high.

(singing the end of the theme song) WKRP in Cincinnati…

Last book finished was Otherwise Known As The Human Condition, a collection of essays by Geoff Dyer. Some critics I fight and resist the entire time I'm reading them, because of either statements made or their tone. With Dyer I just wanted to follow his thoughts and learn more of what he had to say.

Agreed and amen.

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Excellent article about an important and unique show, Brandon.

Agreed. To be honest, the complete MH, MH on dvd was one of those things I wished for but never thought I'd live to see.

How about "plush shag carpet?"

I saw them play in Central Park shortly after releasing "Murray Street." Memories of 9/11 were definitely in the air and even a non-fan like myself knew that it was a great show.

Murray Street is my favorite but I have to admit I don't like Sonic Youth that much.* I just don't respond to the stuff that Sonic Youth fans like (the first couple of Geffen albums). On the other hand, I think their cover of the Carpenter's "Superstar" is transcendent.

From what I've read (so consider how reliable that is), he's a fairly normal guy; he was creeped out when he found out Leland was Laura's killer.

Yeah, clumsy as it is, I prefer referring to the episodes by the numbers. I think those titles are pretty lame.

It also contains one of those happy accidents that seem to surround Lynch. Dana Ashbrook wasn't supposed to be in the final scene but happened to stop by the set that day to pick something up. Lynch saw him and had him do that great bit of Bobby looking both confused and sad while sitting at the bar.

Agreed. When I watch an episode of Twin Peaks from its peak, I'm struck at how it still is unlike anything else on television, despite how influential it has become.