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i know… the worst guy you ever met had half this book stuffed in his messenger bag and made out like he was a genious for reading what seems like the longest book of all time. fuck that guy. it’s genuinely a good read. take it slow, dont feel pressured to get through it quickly. there‘s enough bouncing around from character to character that it doesn’t stagnate. i read it on several 5 hour plane rides over ~2 years and have had a tender place in my heart for it ever since. it’s also afaik the place where my Capitalizing for Emphasis comes from. reading it now is extra neat bc of how many little things dfw got right about the future. did i say neat i meant scary
Feb 28, 2024
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I read all ~750 or however manny pages in 3 days, it sucks you in like you're a character in it
Feb 22, 2025
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as someone without an attention span this was a real page turner (it’s out there for free on genius.com I read it there no pages only scrolls) .. fiction peopel read it non fiction people read it even more - IT’S AN ESSAY ❤️
Apr 28, 2024
I’m reading infinite jest right now. I’ll have more to say it once I’m done with it in a little while. But I picked up a copy from a used bookstore with pic related jacket. It’s so much better than literally every other reprinting. The shade of blue, the typeface, the clouds. It’s so simple & elegant while also being so iconic and instantly recognizable. Funny enough, it’s a great example of how good graphic design & marketing can encourage desire. Everything. It’s great.
The book’s really good too. Lives up to the hype so far. The part where they find that paranoid schizophrenic terrified of machines putting radioactive fluid in is brain and burying him alive & they decide to study him by putting radioactive fluid in his brain & functionally burying him alive inside a P.E.T scanner made me lol
Feb 26, 2025
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time frame's approximate buuuut you know it when you hear it. think "poker face". there is so much space and everything's so dry... there is no lushness... the drum samples are unbelievably flat... and yet! and yet! it works so well! the economy of production makes any pop singer's vocals soar even higher than they would otherwise, and really pares the machine of a pop song down to its bare necessities... which is why i think we got so many bangers in this period. there's a lot of good stuff to get into even if it's just for nostalgia
Feb 11, 2024
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im unemployed and in art school at 30. it's never too late to not do marketing
Feb 8, 2024
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tbf i'm still working on this but: many ppl have the tendency to like, put themselves out in the world with an attached asterisk like "oop! sorry i exist! oop! sorry if you don't like me, i'm working on being the universally beloved human object! oop!" and thusly pre-apologize for every mildly annoying or perceptually uncouth action they will ever take. none of that shit. assuming one is regular and not trying to like, destroy the lives of everyone around themselves, one does not need to constantly explain and apologize for their actions. trust people to tell you if you suck, because They Will.
same goes for art obvs. don't apologize just make it and if people think it sucks they'll tell you.
Feb 8, 2024