- 'Infinite Jest' Imbues Decemberists Video by Michael Schur - NYTimes.com
"It is a project that so fully combines Mr. Schur's favorite book -- the first he ever read that he felt was written the way he thought and spoke -- and favorite band, he says he would have been crushed if anyone else had gotten the assignment.
"If Scorsese had directed it," he said, "I would have been like, why does he get that gig?"
The video, which makes its online debut on Monday, depicts the playing of Eschaton, a game invented by Wallace that he describes about 325 pages into "Infinite Jest.""
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