Better Than Friday - 144 (Patreon)

Hi there ya’ll, how’s it going?

Got a review of Lichtenberg’s “The Waste Books” coming either this weekend or early next week.

Have a nice Friday evening. 

Here are some things to mull over...

1. Book I can't wait to read - The Satyricon by Petronius 

Also, somehow I missed Fellini's adaptation. Gotta take care of that...

--------Perhaps the strangest—and most strikingly modern—work to survive from the ancient world, The Satyricon relates the hilarious mock epic adventures of the impotent Encolpius, and his struggle to regain virility. Here Petronius brilliantly brings to life the courtesans, legacy-hunters, pompous professors and dissolute priestesses of the age - and, above all, Trimalchio, the archetypal self-made millionaire whose pretentious vulgarity on an insanely grand scale makes him one of the great comic characters in literature. Seneca's The Apocolocyntosis, a malicious skit on 'the deification of Claudius the Clod', was designed by the author to ingratiate himself with Nero, who was Claudius' successor. Together, the two provide a powerful insight into a darkly fascinating period of Roman history.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.- Amazon

2. The Portland woman who wrote the book "How to Murder Your Husband" has been found guilty of... 

Shocking. 

3. Anna May Wong in "When Were You Born?" 

Caught this while staying at our hotel in Hood River. 

Check out the opening cameo from the bizarre mystic personality Manly P. Hall in the beginning advocating for astrology as a science. 

4. Rancheras 

Loving this compilation.

5. Women - Narrow With the Hall

I listened to this on repeat in my early 20's.

A short-lived, ambient, and discordant group with the ability to create one of the loneliest sounds of complex beauty. I'd never at the time and still haven't heard such bizarre harmonies and melodies, like The Beatles starving to death in winter stuck in a 1970s lower east side apartment in NYC with the Velvet Underground.

It was the soundtrack to my only trip to Montreal. That was the first time I visited a place where if I realized if I were outside long enough, I could die. Next time that happened was Detroit. I’m done with cold weather.

But it was a gorgeously austere city to look at, under all that snow, illuminated by the tungsten street lights with the French movie theaters. I'll go back someday.