Better Than Friday - 98 (Patreon)

Good afternoon everyone, hope you have a great weekend, it's going to be hot as hell over here. 

A review of J.G. Ballard's Crash will be up early for patrons soon. Hope you enjoy. 

Meanwhile...

1. A recent gift from a fan - The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati

I've heard about this one for a while. Thank you so much Chris B, this looks great. 

Often likened to Kafka's The Castle, The Tartar Steppe is both a scathing critique of military life and a meditation on the human thirst for glory. It tells of young Giovanni Drogo, who is posted to a distant fort overlooking the vast Tartar steppe. Although not intending to stay, Giovanni suddenly finds that years have passed, as, almost without his noticing, he has come to share the others' wait for a foreign invasion that never happens. Over time the fort is downgraded and Giovanni's ambitions fade until the day the enemy begins massing on the desolate steppe...

- Goodreads

2. The Mail Never Stops 

Seinfeld was great. 

3. Fascinating Instagram Account 

Recent posts include a 3,000 year old shark victim...Woah. 

ANONYMOUS WORKS SPECIALIZES IN AMERICAN FOLK ART

and material culture of the 19th and 20th centuries. Based in Los Angeles, CA, we focus on objects that transcend their forms- the rare and mysterious that combine a strong visual aesthetic with a unique, sometimes eccentric vision.

- From their website 

4. La Mama et La Putain directed by Jean Eustache

The top comment says it all, but I remember this being a great film, very long though. 

Jean-Pierre Léaud is such a prick in this one hahaha

If memory serves he gets a brutal comeuppance in the end though. 

5. One of my favorite driving songs

Drove to Miami through the swamplands listening to this during a thunderstorm once.

I'll never forget it.  

Photos of Grampie fishing for swordfish around the time he met Grammie.