Enter the Void
Hi, my name is Dan, and this is not for you.
"A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now."
Most of my posts are film, music and television related, with the occasional non-sequitur about my personal life.
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21stFebTue
miss you.
6thFebMon
“ Past a certain point, impressiveness is corrosive to the psyche. ”
- David Foster Wallace in the essay “Tennis Player Michael Joyce’s Professional Artistry As A Paradigm of Certain Stuff About Choice, Freedom, Limitation, Joy, Grotesquerie, and Human Completeness.” (via seafaringwoman)
28thJanSat
“ Plus there’s the autobiographical fact that, like so many other nerdy, disaffected young people of that time, I dreamed of becoming an ‘artist,’ i.e., somebody whose adult job was original and creative instead of tedious and dronelike. My specific dream was of becoming an immortally great fiction writer à la Gaddis or Anderson, Balzac or Perec, & c.; and many of the notebook entries on which parts of this memoir are based were themselves literarily jazzed up and fractured; it’s just the way I saw myself at the time. ”
- David Foster Wallace, The Pale King
15thJanSun
“ And it is this, I think, that makes Kafka’s wit inaccessible to children whom our culture has trained to see jokes as entertainment and entertainment as reassurance. It’s not that students don’t “get” Kafka’s humor but that we’ve taught them to see humor as something you get — the same way we’ve taught them that a self is something you just have. No wonder they cannot appreciate the really central Kafka joke — that the horrific struggle to establish a human self results in a self whose humanity is inseparable from that horrific struggle. That our endless and impossible journey toward home is in fact our home ”
- David Foster Wallace (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
2ndJanMon
“I’d like to be the sort of person who can enjoy things at the time, instead of having to go back in my head and enjoy them.”-David Foster Wallace
(Source: palequeenliteraryquotes)
16thAugTue
“Borders is closing” purchase.
1stAugMon
misterchu asked: Yes. Today a fisherman who hunts lobsters here in Maine asked Mister Chu if Mister Foster Wallace had a boat. It is probable that he did not know of him. It was a strange moment (and one that Mister Wallace himself, more than the fisherman, would have likely appreciated).
Be well.
25thJulMon
need u now.
22ndJulFri
u r mine.
(catharsis)
1stJulFri
aisles: “The first time I lay actual eyes on the real David Lynch on the set...
“The first time I lay actual eyes on the real David Lynch on the set of his movie, he’s peeing on a tree. I am not kidding. This is on 8 January in West LA’s Griffin Park, where some of Lost Highway’s exteriors and driving scenes are being shot. Lynch is standing in the bristly underbrush off the…
