Better Than Friday - 112 (Patreon)

Happy October Ya'll, and what a foggy morning to start it off, beautiful isn't it? 

If you wouldn't mind giving your input, I have a quick question.

What topic videos would you like to see?

If you could leave some suggestions in the comments below I'd be very grateful, thank you. 

Have a terrific weekend. 

1. A book coming out in November by Rafael Bernal translated by poet Kit Schluter who also did "The Book of Monelle" by Marcel Schwob  

It's about a man who learns how to speak Mosquito. Looking forward to this...What a synopsis. 

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Never before in English, this legendary precursor to eco-fiction turns the coming insect apocalypse on its head

A bitter drunk forsakes civilization and takes to the Mexican jungle, trapping animals, selling their pelts to buy liquor for colossal benders, and slowly rotting away in his fetid hut. His neighbors, a clan of the Lacodón tribe of Chiapas, however, see something more in him than he does himself (dubbing him Wise Owl): when he falls deathly ill, a shaman named Black Ant saves his life―and, almost by chance, in driving out his fever, she exorcises the demon of alcoholism as well. Slowly recovering, weak in his hammock, our antihero discovers a curious thing about the mosquitoes’ buzzing, “which to human ears seemed so irritating and pointless.” Perhaps, in fact, it constituted a language he might learn―and with the help of a flute and a homemade dictionary―even speak. Slowly, he masters Mosquil, with astonishing consequences… Will he harness the mosquitoes’ global might? And will his new powers enable him to take over the world that’s rejected him? A book far ahead of its time, His Name Was Death looks down the double-barreled shotgun of ecological disaster and colonial exploitation―and cackles a graveyard laugh.

- Amazon

2. Harlan Ellison Interview 

Includes the story of when a guy came to shoot him after Harlan "cleaned him out" during a game of gin rummy. 

Can't wait to read this guy. What an ending haha

Going to read "I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream" soon hopefully. 

3. The other day, I suddenly realized that I saw Peter Steele when I was 14

A hell of a memory that cropped up not long ago. 

I've never been a Type-O-Negative fan, but I saw them when they came through Portland opening for Cradle of Filth when I was 14. I was a huge fan of Cradle of Filth. Yup. 

That show, for the record, changed my life. 

They came out wearing orange jumpsuits. It wasn't until now that I realize how important that was, since Steele died some years later. 

Now, almost twenty years later, they came up the other day. Type O Negative it turns out...is terrific. Of course it's absolutely cringey tongue-in-cheek sleazy goth rock, with all the good taste of Glenn Danzig in a Budweiser Halloween Commercial...But you know what?

Man... that dude could belt it out. (wait for 1:06) 

RIP Peter Steele

4. Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia

Which means (I shit you not) 'the fear of long words'.

5. Bitcoin is very volatile so... 

Hahahaha I've never watched Silicon Valley but I love the Napalm Death addition.