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Better Than Friday - 234 (Patreon)

Published:
2024-03-09 04:24:26
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2024-03-22 12:51:36
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2026-09
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Hi there Friends - How's it going?

Posted the public version of the Gass review today if you haven't yet had the chance to watch. Really loved that collection. 

Have a great weekend and thanks so much for your continued support. 

1. Book about Artaud and his journey to Mexico to be reviewed...(Paid Link)

What looks to be a great book about Artaud's legendary pilgrimage translated by Stuart Kendall (please see item below). 

More about the book here. 

2. Stuart Kendall (Bataille Scholar/Translator) on Georges Bataille and Nietzsche 

Really enjoyed this conversation. 

Kendall is an outstanding translator of the work of Georges Bataille.

I underlined most of his translation of Guilty (Paid Link), an incredible book.

3. The most incredible Alice in Chains performance 

That voice...Dude

4. BIG Snake... 

The largest Anaconda ever was recently found in Brazil. What a beauty. 

5. It’s Nothing to Me - Sanford Clark 

Truly Bad Ass dark rockabilly track (catch the Gunshots?) from a guy who could count Elvis among his fans. This one was recorded in the studio of Lee Hazlewood.

The Costco Cranes...They're there every Friday evening. 

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Byrnzie

Just ordered that Artaud book. Thanks for the heads-up.

Jeff

Hi Cliff, i love that rockabilly music, there's 3 volumes of it, that will surely be fun to listen to. Here's a list of what i got for my last book splurge, from now on whenever i get more books will be just small amounts at a time, lest i become a lottery winner: 1 - Leopardi’s Moral Fables trans. by JG Nichols (earlier got a bilingual Canti edition Jonathan Galassi trans.) 2 - Orlando Furioso - Ludivico Ariosto trans. by Guido Waldman 3 - Petrarch’s Letters and other works The Petrarch Project, looks like the best way to go, had recently gotten The Canzoniere trans. by Mark Musa 4 - Geoffrey Wolff’s Black Sun, which led me to get all i can of Harry Crosby some in physical format, of diaries, poetry, and some Caresse Crosby, and Malcolm Cowley’s Exile’s Return 5 - John Evelyn’s Diary along with a bio by John Dixon Hunt, this looks like a more down to earth version of Pepys, which i have and never really knew as much as i do now about him, and so will probably dual read these two fellas 6 - Anne Carson’s Wrong Norma upon seeing Leaf by Leaf’s video on it 7 - Emily Wilson’s translations of Homer’s The Illiad and The Odyssey plus their respective audiobooks, speaking of audiobooks i snapped up the Arthur Miller collection from LATW 8 - The Adventures of Simplicius Simplicissimus – Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, J. A. Underwood – classic war literature the kind with a pizzazz 9 - The Manuscript Found in Saragossa – Jan Potocki, Ian MacLean – i love the movie which Luis Bunuel loved a lot too 10 - Conversations with Goethe – Johann Peter Eckermann, Ritchie Robertson, Allan Blunden – i grinned when i saw a quote from Nietzsche saying “The best German book there is” or something like that, well hell yeah, i’m ready to get down with GOETHE, i picked up a 2nd good translation of Faust recently as well by Martin Greenberg 11 - Confessions of an Italian – Ippolito Nievo, Lucy Riall, Frederika Randall – a more racy book from the time of the next one. 12 - The Betrothed – Alessandro Manzoni, Michael F. Moore – i was torn between translation choices, but thought the more recent one has the edge maybe. This is a fave of the Pope’s btw 13 - Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated) (Series Six Book 8) 14 - Delphi Complete Works of Walter Pater (Illustrated) (Delphi Series Eight Book 17) 15 - Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black – Cookie Mueller, Hedi El Kholti, Chris Kraus, Amy Scholder, Olivia Laing – something a John Waters fan needs 16 - Clairvoyant of the Small: The Life of Robert Walser – Susan Bernofsky and 5 short story collections translated by SB, i have most and more in physical format, RW is imo the most delightful prose writer i’ve ever read, well at least that is what i would usually say … first heard of him in a little booklet from a DVD collection of The Brothers Quay short films, from Zeitgeist, they adapted Jakob von Gunten, i didn’t get the ebook of that however, as i need especially just his short stories, and however i LOVE The Robber which isn’t on kindle i would have gotten that if i could have. 17 - The Unfortunate Traveller and Other Works – Thomas Nashe, J. Steane looks like an interesting and unusual Elizabethan writer, the cover shows people hanging from nooses on a tree branch in a woodcut kind of image. 18 - 6 volumes of Samuel Beckett, the fill out his bibliography, recently got the edition of all his Plays 19 - The Sagas of the Icelanders: (penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) - Jane Smilely – my favorite pop artist came from Iceland, so it’ll be for that of coarse, but also for it’s mighty standing in world literature, plus Guy Maddin drew a lot of sustenance from this for his debut feature Tales from the Gimli Hospital, a movie i adore to bits. 20 - Aristophanes: Four Plays: Clouds, Birds, Lysistrata, Women of the Assembly -- Aaron Poochigian -- had recently got a complete plays translated by Paul Roche, but this looks new and exciting 21 - Torquato Tasso’s The Liberation of Jerusalem trans. by Max Wickert – will this be what was quoted from in that infamous slaughterhouse scene in Fassbinder’s greatest film? I’ll find out, it’ll be a great easter egg for me. 22 - Women of the Left Bank: Paris, 1900-1940 – Shari Benstock – a tantalizing cornucopia of names to see if i can find books by them, i love to torture myself when i’ve vowed not to splurge ever again. 23 - The Leopard – Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa, Gioacchino Lanza Tomasi, Archibald Colquhoun – like many i’m an admirer of the Visconti film, so this should be a treat, this is the last splurge so i’m a goin’ cray cray 24 - Vita Nuovo – Dante Alighieri, Mark Musa – also Inferno trans. by Stanley Lombardo 25 - The English Civil War: A People’s History (Text Only) – Diane Purkiss – looks like an iconic title, as well as The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution by Christopher Hill 26 - The Nibelungenlied: Prose Translation trans. by A. Hatto – why not, eh? Gives me a reason to revisit Wagner and Fritz Lang!! I can't resist Tristan with the 'Tristran' of Thomas: With the Surviving Fragments of the Tristran of Thomas translated by the same guy ... and then i have to get Parzival by Wolfram Eschenbach same translator. 27 - last one i think -- The Book of Taliesin: Poems of Warfare and Praise in an Enchanted Britain -- Rowan Williams - translator, Gwyneth Lewis - translator, both the ebook and the audio book narrated it seems by the translators, i'll need to know how to pronounce things here as i will with Homer. 28 - one last thing Giacomo Casanova's The Story of My Life in a cheap edition but over 4,000 pages trans. by Arthur Machen, and the first 2 of 3 volumes on Audible, i don't want to buy anymore credits there so vol. 3 will have to wait. That's it, for roughly 20 hours i've been at this, and i must stop or some of those physical books might be automatically cancelled when they ship. Also i failed to mention i got a cheapie edition of The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini and the audiobook is free for Audible members. And i should mention there's more Petrarch than i said above, even i am slightly embarrassed at how many awesome things i got, another day like this would only happen again if i won the lottery.

Michael Masiello

So here's a sadistic question: Staley or Cornell?