Monday, August 22, 2011

NPR, The Decemberists and 'Infinite Jest' complete intellectual poseur bingo





NPR's All Songs Considered posted a first look at The Decemberists' video homage to David Foster Wallace's magnum opus "Infinite Jest" directed by the co-creator of "Parks and Recreation" today, which is literally the twee-est nerd sentence I've ever written. The only way this thing could get any closer to the Platonic ideal of smug intellectualist posturing is if they managed to work in a Mcsweeney's reference, which, for all I know, they may well have.  In keeping with the thematic tone of the occasion I stopped watching the video about a third of the way through and pretended like I finished it in front of all my friends in the MFA program.

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3 comments:

said...

I like the part where the tennis ball hit the t-shirt that said "power plant," because it really made me think about everything, you know?

Give me Kreayshawn or give me death.

said...

I prefer not to think about everything.

said...

i liked this movie better when it was matthew broderick vs. a computer from the 80s.

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