Better Than Friday - 102 (Patreon)

Good afternoon everyone, I know there's been a lack of content for the past couple of weeks, turns out that all these videos I'm working on are sort of finishing up simultaneously strangely, so that should change dramatically by this weekend/next week. 

In the meantime, here's some stuff for you to enjoy over the weekend. 

Hope you're all doing well.

1. A Book I Can't Wait to Read - Either/Or by Kierkegaard 

A recent recommendation by a friend/patron David. 

I'm so late to the game with Kierkegaard, he's been recommended to me since I was like 15. 

I must change this soon. 

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'What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?'"Either/Or" is the earliest of the major works of Søren Kierkegaard, one of the most startlingly original thinkers and writers of the nineteenth century, and the first which he wrote under a pseudonym, as he would for his greatest philosophical writings. Adopting the viewpoints of two distinct figures with radically different beliefs--the aesthetic young man of Part One, called simply 'A', and the ethical Judge Vilhelm of the second section--Kierkegaard reflects upon the search for a meaningful existence, contemplating subjects as diverse as Mozart, drama, boredom, and, in the famous Seducer's Diary, the cynical seduction and ultimate rejection of a young, beautiful woman. A masterpiece of duality, "Either/Or" is an exploration of the conflict between the aesthetic and the ethical--both meditating ironically and seductively upon Epicurean pleasures, and eloquently expounding the noble virtues of a morally upstanding life.This lightly abridged edition fully conveys the vigour and eloquence of the original. Alastair Hannay's introduction explains the philosophical background to the work and places it in the context of its times.

- Goodreads

2. I always liked James Murphy 

I can appreciate Marc Maron, but I've always thought of James Murphy, the mind behind 

LCD Soundsystem, as brilliant. 

That's the only music that makes me dance and cry at the same time. 

Which is really awkward.

3. When Gary Numan was on Top

Jeezo...

4. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia 

I brought this up the other day, then noticed that Nate posted about it in the discord (thanks man!). 

A brutal, strange, dark 70's film directed by Sam Peckinpah, described on Wikipedia as a "Mexican-American neo-Western". 

I saw it years ago at Cinefamily in L.A. and before the film, there was a solo set done by Dylan Carlson of the phenomenal drone band Earth. Terrific. 

I don't miss L.A. except sometimes I do...

5. "Writing this was a kind of shame, every day..." 

A reading by Karl Ove Knausgaard. 

I've never seen this, it's from years ago. Very cool. 

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