Yeah I thought V was easier to get through than Gravity's Rainbow. I had a friend in college who was convinced (based on nothing) that V was the book they based the 80s tv show on.

I think part of that is just people who are proud of themselves for actually finishing Infinite Jest. I'm sure if you ask people about Gravity's Rainbow, and they actually read (and finished) it, you would get really strong reactions as well.

Just based on the picture he looks sort of like him, only a little less scruffy.

I went to a reading of his once (at a Barnes & Noble in Union Square) and someone asked a really detailed question about the plot of Infinite Jest (the kind of question a person with limited exposure to daylight would ask) and DFW simply replied, "I think you're missing the point." He actually seemed like a pretty…

Ask Thomas Pynchon.

Do you play this game with a funnel?

I don't know if the Pogues really want to associate themselves with alcohol. Might be bad for their image.

Bunk's Bourbon

I think Overnight Sensation is superior to Apostrophe. I remember asking people for advice and they all pointed me to Apostrophe, which I liked a lot. When I then got Overnight sensation and asked these same people about it, they didn't even know it. They all just had Apostrophe and Hot Rats.

Its been a while but I remember reading about how both the Mothers and Velvet Underground were on the same label (verve) and were considered to be too similar to release their debut albums so close together. So the Mother's got released and VU's album was delayed. I know that they weren't fans of each other.

Overnight Sensation or Apostrophe. Just keep in mind that these two albums are just one small phase in a genuinely varied career. Of the two I like Overnight Sensation more but they are pretty similar. It compresses a lot of Frank Zappa's uniqueness into relatively short songs with lyrics and vocals, and has some of…

As someone who loved Bottle Rocket, and to a lesser extent Rushmore, and was then steadily disappointed with his subsequent films (they're not bad just progressively worse and less human than Bottle Rocket and Rushmore), his last one was a pleasant surprise.

My ears, the earplugs do nothing.

Yeah but he's only on it for about 30 seconds. But seriously, Barman is a million times better than this clown.

MC Paul Barman needs to watch his back

It was sort of the same for me. I grew up in the 80s so Chicago and even worse, Peter Cetera, were ubiquitous and represented all that I hated about Top 40/Radio music. A girlfriend of mine's father at one point told me that Chicago and Blood Sweat & Tears both had talented jazz trained drummers. I was completely…

No no. I hear that he's actually a really nice guy who just happened to get tasered by his personal assistant.

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Don't repeat that statement in a room full of Vassar graduates. In fact, just avoid Vassar graduates altogether….

Yeah but the musical didn't keep releasing albums that got cheesier and cheesier.