Friday's Five 🖐🏼 #154
Happy Friday's Five,
I'm spending the last few moments in the French countryside before heading to Belgium for a wedding of one of my oldest friends. Hope you had a great week! Mine was super relaxing and I spent it with good friends, stellar wine, and lots of cooking :)
What I'm reading
What would you do if in the moment of dying, you would find yourself in a library filled with books that contain the alternate realities of your life and you could live all of them? This is the premise of Matt Haig's new novel 'The Midnight Library' and I read it in a day. It's beautiful and you can read more about it in this Guardian review.
What I'm listening to
Another month passed by. Goodbye August 2020 and welcome September 2020. Here is my month in music, and perhaps one of your new favorite tracks. Find it on Spotify.
What I'm watching
Ok so in the past few weeks I went back and re-watched the entire series 'Breaking Bad'. And well, it's still as good as (and perhaps better than) the first time I watched it. Binging a series gave me a way to stick with an ensemble of characters and see them develop over time. How great are the characters of Gus Fring (Giancarlo Esposito), Michael Ehrmantraut (played by Jonathan Banks), and Saul Goodman (played by Bob Odenkirk).
What I'm thinking about
"The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something." – Kurt Vonnegut in 'A Man Without A Country'.
What else?!
My friend Matze just released his very first book. It's a collection of insights, thoughts, and experiences from some of the most creative people he's interviewed in his podcast 'Hotel Matze'–one of Germany's most popular interview podcasts. I had the chance to read it during it writing process and I urge you to get it. I'm proud of you, my friend, thank you for writing it. Find 'Die Schule meines Lebens' here.
Thanks for reading, have a great weekend!
David
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