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A podcast about literary fiction and the world of books, with hosts Matt Bucher and Dave Laird. [Logo by Chris Ayers]
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Wednesday Jan 25, 2017
Wednesday Jan 25, 2017
As is the tradition, Dave and Matt take a minor detour (at times) from the usual topic of David Foster Wallace to discuss their personal highlights and favorite literary and pop cultural items of 2016.
Show notes:
00:27 - The Nightmare: 2016
02:08 - Matt knows books, Dave knows everything else
03:29 - Phone addiction
04:02 - Personal years in review
09:52 - Go to the 2017 David Foster Wallace Conference
11:15 - Sports, or lack thereof
14:59 - The International DFW Literary Society (dfwsociety.org)
21:20 - Matt’s favorite books of 2016
30:54 -Dave’s favorite books of 2016
38:04 - Netrunner Worlds and Dave’s appearance on Boards Alive - (starts 1:24:39)
38:59 - More of Matt’s favorite books (and a footnote about Bill Gates)
41:54 - The proliferation of monographs on DFW
42:40 - Dave’s favorite music of 2016 with Great Concavity bonus playlist
53:44 - Our favorite films of 2016
59:02 - More of Matt’s favorite books of the year (mostly biographies)
1:09:03 - 2016, the 20th Anniversary of Infinite Jest
1:12:50 - Television in 2016
1:22:53 - Board games in 2016
1:27:48 - Passing over video games
1:28:03 - Wrap up
Matt Bucher contact
Twitter & Instagram: @mattbucher
Website: mattbucher.com
Dave Laird contact
Twitter: @dave__laird
Instagram: @davelaird
Email us: concavityshow@gmail.com
Wednesday Jan 04, 2017
Wednesday Jan 04, 2017
In this episode we speak with the multi-talented writer and musician Andrew Savage of the band Parquet Courts. Their song “Instant Disassembly” opens and closes each episode of our podcast, but more importantly, Andrew is a super-literate dude who is capable of expounding on almost any topic.
Here is the video that Dave mentions of George Saunders’ appearance on The Charlie Rose show: https://charlierose.com/videos/23703 (DFW discussion starts at 40:54).
Check out Parquet Courts on Spotify or Apple Music or YouTube or just shout their name out the nearest window.
Their official website is https://parquetcourts.wordpress.com/
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Show notes
01:54 - Why Dave chose “Instant Disassembly” as our intro song
01:55 - Thematic relation between DFW’s writing and “Instant Disassembly”
01:56 - There’s ennui but it’s also a really bitchin’ song
02:45 - Madonna’s “Like a Prayer”
03:46 - Bookworm’s theme song
08:35 - Growing up in Denton, Texas
09:53 - Austin Brown
13:30 - The Marked Men
14:40 - The Parking Lot set in Charlottesville
16:53 - Where did we play in Vancouver
18:49 - Parquet courts in The Garden and basketball
20:08 - Influenced by fiction
22:14 - Coming to Wallace, an intro thereto
23:52 - IJ/DFW influences everything
25:31 - The anxiety of influence, nah
29:56 - What to hold back
32:12 - Trump is a germaphobe
33:23 - The labor issues of being a musician
36:08 - New Sincerity discussion
39:13 - Parquet Courts and the Irony of Blah Blah Blah
43:45 - What makes a good performance
44:41 - Smaller venues
46:13 - Dealing with cynicism
48:12 - Favorite Wallace stuff
51:30 - The Depressed Person: parody or not?
55:30 - The existential angst of the modern condition
57:03 - We’ve all got holes to fill
58:40 - In search of lost time
1:02:00 - Listening to music the way we read
1:03:49 - The Big Ship on repeat
1:05:00 - Cate Le Bon
1:06:01 - Opposite Sex from New Zealand & Hamlet
1:07:40 - Glasgow has a grid system
1:08:56 - Favorite books & movies - Knausgaard
1:10:43 - Eva Hesse’s diaries
1:13:01 - A movie discussion ensues
1:14:19 - The song North Dakota
1:17:23 - How to finish things
1:28:30 - Easter egg