Better Than Friday - 95 (Patreon)

Good afternoon ya'll, hope you have a nice weekend with some great weather. 

Thanks for your support. 

1. Book in the pipeline: Cathedral of Mist - Paul Willems 

A recent gift from a fan of the show, looking forward to reading. 

First published in French in 1983, The Cathedral of Mist is a collection of stories from the last of the great Francophone Belgian fantasists: distilled tales of distant journeys, buried memories and impossible architecture. Described here are the emotionally disturbed architectural plan for a palace of emptiness; the experience of snowfall in a bed in the middle of a Finnish forest; the memory chambers that fuel the marvelous futility of the endeavor to write; the beautiful woodland church, built of warm air currents and fog, scattering in storms and taking renewed shape at dusk, that gives this book its title. The Cathedral of Mist offers the sort of ethereal narratives that might have come from the pen of a sorrowful, distinctly Belgian Italo Calvino. It is accompanied by two meditative essays on reading and writing that fall in the tradition of Marcel Proust and Julien Gracq.Paul Willems (1912–97) published his first novel, Everything Here Is Real, in 1941. Three more novels and, toward the end of his life, two collections of short stories bracketed his career as a playwright.

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2. It's Friday Theeen 

This is just about one of the best damn things ever created. 

That guy is a great dancer.

3. Old Man and the Sea Animation

Beautiful. 

A good accompaniment to the book. 

Not a fan of the voice work, but stunning visuals.

4. Manu Chao 

Stuck in my head lately. 

Years ago I was listening to this on a trip to Spain. 

The whole album is great. 

5. One of my Favorite coffee companies

Consistently terrific, I stopped by the fantastic Craft Kafe in St. Pete on my trip and picked up a bag of Ethiopia Hambela Kirite. 

Onyx is a great coffee company out of Arkansas. Terrific stuff. 

The gorgeous Lake Lacamas here in Washington state. 

Blackberry (white flowers in the foreground) season is coming and there's tons of 'em here.