Better Than Friday - 30 - We're All Going To Die (Patreon)

Hello everyone, hope you're having a relaxing Friday. 

Apparently, it's pure chaos over here.  

I'm moving back to the Pacific Northwest. 

Texas turned out to be a mild-catastrophe, a job offer fell through due to Coronavirus...so, off we go. And it feels like it's for the better. 

In the midst of all the chaos, avoiding people and the outdoors (a talent I've honed for years that has miraculously revealed its purpose along with my OCD handwashing), should you need anything to read while the world is ending, I've been trying to put all the books I recommend in... 

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Have a fantastic weekend. 

And Don't Die please, thank you. 

1. Night Train To Lisbon 

An interesting mystery that gives me 'The Club Dumas' or maybe 'The Name of the Rose' vibes...I enjoy books about books.

A gift from a kind fan, it's been a long time coming but I'm looking forward to finally reading it. 

There's also a film adaptation with Jeremy Irons (I haven't seen it). 

From Goodreads

Raimund Gregorius is a Latin teacher at a Swiss college who one day—after a chance encounter with a mysterious Portuguese woman—abandons his old life to start a new one. 

He takes the night train to Lisbon and carries with him a book by Amadeu de Prado, a (fictional) Portuguese doctor and essayist whose writings explore the ideas of loneliness, mortality, death, friendship, love, and loyalty. 

Gregorius becomes obsessed by what he reads and restlessly struggles to comprehend the life of the author. His investigations lead him all over the city of Lisbon, as he speaks to those who were entangled in Prado’s life. Gradually, the picture of an extraordinary man emerges—a doctor and poet who rebelled against Salazar’s dictatorship.

2 The Oldest Known Melody (Hurrian Hymn no.6 - c.1400 B.C.) 

Woah. What can I say? 

3. Easy Languages 

I believe this was recommended in a comment by a viewer. 

It's a Youtube Channel featuring interviews with various residents on the streets of various cities in various languages. 

It seems like it would be very useful for those learning a new language.

4. Hiring a Book Editor 

If you're a writer or aspiring editor, you may find this channel useful. 

5. Slow Death by Flamin Groovies 

This song came up on my Spotify the other day, and now I'm wondering how I missed the Flamin Groovies.

This live version is punchy, really digging it. 

A comment on the video said that the musician Webb Wilder said the Flamin Groovies were "the greatest thing the Stones never did."

Still image from actual footage of me waiting for death poolside in Austin Texas.