Better Than Friday - 27 - The Finest Wines Available To Humanity (Patreon)

Good afternoon everyone, thanks for supporting the show. 

Here's some stuff to enjoy on your weekend. 

1 - A recent impulse buy - 'The Man Without Qualities' by Robert Musil 

Apparently this is an unfinished novel. 

It has been recommended frequently on the show. It looks enormous, so it will take some time, but I'm looking forward to it. 

This is the end of Musil's bio on Goodreads:Musil collapsed in the middle of his gymnastic exercises and is rumoured to have died with an expression of ironic amusement on his face. He was 61 years old.

The Man Without Qualities (German: Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften; 1930–1943) is an unfinished modernist novel in three volumes and various drafts, by the Austrian writer Robert Musil. It is typically considered to be one of the most significant novels of the twentieth century.

The novel is a "story of ideas", which takes place in the time of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy's last days, and the plot often veers into allegorical digressions on a wide range of existential themes concerning humanity and feelings. It has a particular concern with the values of truth and opinion and how society organizes ideas about life and society, though the book is well over a thousand pages long in its entirety, and so no one single theme dominates.

- Wikipedia

2 - "We want The Finest Wines Available to Humanity. We want them here, and we want them Now!" 

Withnail and I is one of my favorite comedies. 

Richard E. Grant is fantastic. 

3 Just to satisfy my curiosity, I found the finest wines available to humanity... 

Apparently Screaming Eagle is where it's at...

4 "Gangbanged by a pack of Marshmallows" - Nick Cave on The Pop Group 

I love that phrase. 

Also, if you haven't had the pleasure, The Pop Group was one of the greatest post-punk bands. 

She is Beyond Good and Evil is a classic.

5 Phenomenal Ambient/Drone/Garage  

Found this from a Spotify playlist by the guys from Uniform...Goes along strikingly well with that piece I read from 'Pornografia' taking place inside the church...

Sounds like Neil Young's Dead Man Soundtrack meets The Black Angels. 

I really like the trees in Austin.