Episode 23 - Discussing David Foster Wallace with Andrew Savage of Parquet Courts from Concavity Show

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Episode 23 - Discussing David Foster Wallace with Andrew Savage of Parquet Courts

1 hour 28 minutes Posted Jan 5, 2017 at 4:30 am.

Why Dave chose “Instant Disassembly” as our intro song

Thematic relation between DFW’s writing and “Instant Disassembly”

There’s ennui but it’s also a really bitchin’ song

Madonna’s “Like a Prayer”

Bookworm’s theme song

Growing up in Denton, Texas

Austin Brown

The Marked Men

The Parking Lot set in Charlottesville

Where did we play in Vancouver

Parquet courts in The Garden and basketball

Influenced by fiction

Coming to Wallace, an intro thereto

IJ/DFW influences everything

The anxiety of influence, nah

What to hold back

Trump is a germaphobe

The labor issues of being a musician

New Sincerity discussion

Parquet Courts and the Irony of Blah Blah Blah

What makes a good performance

Smaller venues

Dealing with cynicism

Favorite Wallace stuff

The Depressed Person: parody or not?

The existential angst of the modern condition

We’ve all got holes to fill

In search of lost time

Listening to music the way we read

The Big Ship on repeat

Cate Le Bon

Opposite Sex from New Zealand & Hamlet

Glasgow has a grid system

Favorite books & movies - Knausgaard

Eva Hesse’s diaries

A movie discussion ensues

The song North Dakota

How to finish things

Easter egg

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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

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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