Better Than Friday - 78 (Patreon)

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

Shot the Gravity's Rainbow review today - Long time coming (took maybe a year or so to read?)

Thanks for the support and hope you have a great weekend. 

1. Antonio Tabucchi - Stories with Pictures 

This arrived from Archipelago in the mail the other day. I've never read Tabucchi but he was an expert on and translator of the wonderful Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa, very much looking forward to it. 

A masterful collection about intimacy, loneliness, and time, each inspired by different works of art, spanning the entirety of the great Italian writer's career.In Stories with Pictures, Antonio Tabucchi responds to photographs, drawings, and paintings from his dual homelands of Italy and Portugal, among other European countries. The stories in this collection spring forth from the shadows of Tabucchi's imagination, as he steps into worlds just hidden from view. From inscrutable masks of pre-Columbian gods, stamps of bright parrots and postcars of yellow cities, portraits of devilish Portuguese nuns, the way to these remote landscapes appear like a "train emerging from a thick curtain of heat." As we peer through the curtain, what we find on the other side rings distinctly human, a world charged with melancholic longing for time gone by. "Sight, hearing, voice, word" Tabucchi writes, "this flow isn't in one direction, the current is back and forth." Reading these stories, one feels the pendulum current, and the desire in this remarkable author to hold the real in the surreal.

- From Amazon

2. Radical Reads 

Recommended book lists from famous musicians, writers, scientists, filmmakers and so on. 

Good for getting ideas for the to be read list...

3. Top Albums According to Pierro Scaruffi 

A recommendation from friend and patron Emanuele - Thanks!

I certainly appreciate many on this list. 

4. Great track from a nearly lost 80's band.  

Synth-pop stuff that got stuck in my head. I dig it. 

5. Christopher Lee on Sword fighting 

"I don't think I've done a single swordfight with an actor which I hadn't been carved up..."

Picked this up recently. 

Written by Diane Bataille, the wife of Georges.