I thought it was interesting to hear a well-balanced person's take on the grocery store part of the commencement speech. I heard it and I was like, "Yeah! I hate the supermarket. Fuck those people, buying food to eat with their happy families. Pfft. I'm gonna go home and drink mouthwash." Now I realize it's another thing to talk about when I get to therapy.

It was a very humanizing piece, to see the man called a miserably depressed asshole because I've read a lot of analysis on his work but not so much on the guy except he was a perfectionist. Not that I'm punching up at a popular dead guy, but the author is right that a lot of his complexities are set to be lost as he becomes a combination of his work and a mythical figure.

I watched Montage of Heck and it was a very humanizing portrait of Kurt Cobain's early years that I'd not heard about, but seeing his journal entries and comparing that to the lyrical content of his music, the guy did not have a lot to say and captured a zeitgeist more than being a genius. I don't think he could have sustained his trajectory. I really like Nirvana but not in the way I like other artists who have deeper lyrical content.

I like Nirvana and I like some DFW I've read, the thing is David Foster Wallace will never get a Montage of Heck documentary made about his formative years and struggles. He doesn't have that wide appeal to have multiple biographical works made until one seems reverant and also honest. This article will probably be the closest thing to that and he'll be remembered for a couple major works and whatever readers and academics choose to remember about the man that reinforces how they interpret his work.

I kinda went off on a tangent. He'll get some biographies written but I'm not sure they'll be unflinching.