In the never-ending battle for the title of Most Narcissistic Alternative Pop Culturalist, query who is the current leader: Tim DeLaughter or Dave Eggers.
Why do I ask? Well, I saw Polyphonic Spree on Halloween and I just finished A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. (Don’t take the link as an endorsement of Amazon as a merchant. Except for their new mp3 downloads, which kick ass, I’m very anti-Amazon as a merchant. However, as a source of information, Amazon rocks.) I enjoyed the P-Spree show until they played their horrible cover of Lithium and then when Tim started talking. Once he started talking, I wanted to throw up he was so obnoxious.
It took me over a year to read “AHWoSG.” I mean, I read quite a bit of other stuff during that time–I had to keep putting AHWoSG down–but, still, it took a year. I don’t mean to hate on the book… there were a lot of things I liked about it. But Mr. Egger’s narcissism cannot seriously be doubted. Actually (and how narcissistic is this?), he repeatedly calls attention to it in the book. It makes me find him interesting and want to vomit all at once. Much how I feel about P-Spree. Was DeLaughter so into himself in the Tripping Daisy days? I certainly don’t remember TD that way…
Let’s do it once…
