As you may have seen, the indie-cum-mainstream rock outfit the Decemberists recently partnered with Michael Schur to make a video for the band’s “Calamity Song” based on the Eschaton throwdown scene from Infinite Jest, in which the Enfield Tennis Academy’s younger students enact—with tennis rackets & 5 megaton tennis balls—the thermonuclear self-destruction of the modern world before it all collapses into a “degenerative chaos” of punching, tackling, barfing…and a head smashed through a computer monitor.

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