Better Than Friday - 64 (Patreon)

Good morning ya'll, hope you're well. 

Happy Halloween and thanks for the support.

1. Book I'd Love to Read - Antkind by Charlie Kaufman 

I can't think of a Charlie Kaufman film I haven't enjoyed, and a novel by him, about a film sounds excellent. 

B. Rosenberger Rosenberg, neurotic and underappreciated film critic (failed academic, filmmaker, paramour, shoe salesman who sleeps in a sock drawer), stumbles upon a hitherto unseen film made by an enigmatic outsider—a film he’s convinced will change his career trajectory and rock the world of cinema to its core. His hands on what is possibly the greatest movie ever made—a three-month-long stop-motion masterpiece that took its reclusive auteur ninety years to complete—B. knows that it is his mission to show it to the rest of humanity. The only problem: The film is destroyed, leaving him the sole witness to its inadvertently ephemeral genius.All that’s left of this work of art is a single frame from which B. must somehow attempt to recall the film that just might be the last great hope of civilization. Thus begins a mind-boggling journey through the hilarious nightmarescape of a psyche as lushly Kafkaesque as it is atrophied by the relentless spew of Twitter. Desperate to impose order on an increasingly nonsensical existence, trapped in a self-imposed prison of aspirational victimhood and degeneratively inclusive language, B. scrambles to re-create the lost masterwork while attempting to keep pace with an ever-fracturing culture of “likes” and arbitrary denunciations that are simultaneously his bête noire and his raison d’être.A searing indictment of the modern world, Antkind is a richly layered meditation on art, time, memory, identity, comedy, and the very nature of existence itself—the grain of truth at the heart of every joke.

- Amazon

2. I'd rather be in Bergen 

A short piece about the literary scene in Bergen Norway featuring Tomas Espedal and Karl Ove Knausgard. 

Sent to me by a cool fan named Tobias.

3. 13 Halloween Songs from the 1920's & 1930's 

Setting the mood. 

4. Liquid Death Sparkling Water 

This was an amazing gift from a friend/patron of the show. 

Thanks Brian, you know me too well.

5. Vincent Price vs Peter Lorre in Wine Tasting Contest 

"You do it your way and I do it my way, huh?"

How have I never seen this? 

From Tales of Terror (1962) - The Black Cat

You gotta love people who go all out for the holiday. That's a Pumpkin Tree.