Better Than Friday - 129 (Patreon)

Hi everyone. 

I have absolutely no idea what happened but please disregard the earlier post, something got entirely messed up and it had to do with having multiple tabs open while editing this. 

Anyways...

Hope you're having a nice Friday and you get plenty of reading time this weekend. 

We’re heading to an estate sale for the bookstore tomorrow, wish us luck 👍

1. A book by an Australian author, Tim Winton, that I've been told is excellent

Thanks to Kane for the gift, and thanks to Oliver for the reminder. 

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From award-winning author Tim Winton comes an epic novel that regularly tops the list of best-loved novels in Australia.

After two separate catastrophes, two very different families leave the country for the bright lights of Perth. The Lambs are industrious, united, and―until God seems to turn His back on their boy Fish―religious. The Pickleses are gamblers, boozers, fractious, and unlikely landlords.

Change, hardship, and the war force them to swallow their dignity and share a great, breathing, shuddering house called Cloudstreet. Over the next twenty years, they struggle and strive, laugh and curse, come apart and pull together under the same roof, and try as they can to make their lives.

Winner of the Miles Franklin Award and recognized as one of the greatest works of Australian literature, Cloudstreet is Tim Winton's sprawling, comic epic about luck and love, fortitude and forgiveness, and the magic of the everyday.

2. Bunraku Theater 

Fascinating art form. 

This is related to the next review, to be released later this weekend for patrons, 

Murder Most Serene by Gabrielle Wittkop. 

3. Olivier de Sagazan

I found this guy years ago. Disturbing but cool.

Amazing what nightmares you can create with some water, clay, and ink.

4. This is an entire song in made-up English by an Italian singer in the 70's

And apparently...it was a massive hit. It's no surprise why.  

THE SONG AND VIDEO ARE AMAZING.

That kind of choreography is unparallelled.

Thanks Seneca.

5. Michael Richards on playing Chess

Kramer meets his match. 

Fascinating story.

I live here now.