I'm Canadian, and Thanksgiving is also my birthday. It's also the day after the debate, so here's hoping the news will be consumed with another Trump meltdown/possible impeachment (?) from being the nominee. Truly the best birthday present.

Needle in the Hay by Elliott Smith will always, always make me feel something. Even before it was used to soundtrack a suicide in The Royal Tenenbaums, it had a powerful dark heart beating within it.

I like Ewan MacGregor, but damn, he's no Swede Levov. Aaron Eckhart maybe though.

I remember reading Brief Interviews quote awhile ago (maybe 7 or 8 years) and absolutely hating it. It was my first DFW and I wasn't sure it'd be my last. Then, about a year ago, I made a bunch of booknerd friends on Instagram who couldn't stop talking about DFW. I caved, and listened to Broom of the System in…

I just started The First Bad Man by Miranda July. So far I love it. She skirts a fine line between weirdness for its own sake and using it to shine a light on anxiety, isolation, and loneliness, but so far she hasn't stumbled.

VALIS was pretty damn great, but I think I'm going to have to go with Ubik. It's one of my favourite novels of all time.

A Little Life has been slowly and consistently destroying me for the last month or so. I have about 250 pages left. Never before have I been so afraid of finishing a book, but also wanting to get it done as fast as I can (this is praise).

Bleeding Edge turned out to be one of my favourite Pynchon novels. I enjoyed it more than IV, and I loved that one too. City of Mirrors looms over my To Be Read pile as well, and I have to tell myself to temper all expectations. We shall see. The Familiar Vol. 3 is next on the docket for me, after I finish A Little…

Without a doubt, Werner Herzog.

Watched most of Lady Dynamite, and damn if Maria isn't killin it. The show is really firing on all cylinders, and I absolutely love to see all of the supporting players given room to breathe. Also watched Mistress America last night. I dug it. It was less tied to plot than While We're Young, and Greta Gerwig is a…

They still do!

Completely! He's so damn irreplaceable.

I've lived on Vancouver Island my whole life, and The Hip have always been popular in my lifetime (I'm 34 now). I wasn't into them until I was around 17, but most of my friends were listening to them earlier. In college they were pretty popular, but not as much as in the late 90s. They got drowned out by the rap-rock…

Yup, same here. It was solemn as hell.

Interesting. Well I'm excited to finally get my hands on it. Having read The Passage and The Twelve right when they were published, it seems like forever since I've been in that world. I'm going to need to do a quick catch up for sure. Any word on when it's coming out?

I've heard this sentiment from a lot of people that have read it, and so far I'm in no position to argue otherwise. I'm really liking it.

I liked The Passage and really enjoyed The Twelve….how is City of Mirrors holding up comparitavely?

Yeah I have a weird relationship with audiobooks as well. I haven't listened to many, and there are some I've disliked, but, and this may sound odd, it's the only way I can get through David Foster Wallace's books. Listening to Broom of the System was a delight, but reading (or attempting to) was a slog. For me, DFW…

I just finished The Café of Lost Youth by Patrick Modiano, which was a lovely little sketch on memory, friendship, and loss. The AV Club review certainly did the book justice, and it was a quick read, clocking in at 118 pages.

God Slaughterhouse 5 is such a great novel that warrants rereads upon rereads.