Happy Friday! ☀️
Big milestone. Today I publish the 300th edition of Friday’s Five. That’s 300 weeks with no Friday skipped since starting this short newsletter almost 6 years ago. I’m grateful for all of you for reading this newsletter and reply with your tips from time to time. Thank you!
What I’m reading 📖
Doug Levitt is a singer songwriter who suffered a tragic loss when he was 16 years old. For more than 15 years, he’s been travelling the US on Greyhound busses to perform in regular venues, prisons, shelters, and veteran hospitals. On his 150,000 miles journey on a bus he captures the stories of the people he meets and released his first album to share these stories. Read more here and watch a trailer for his album.
What I’m listening to 🎧
Two years ago at Mit Vergnügen’s 11th anniversary party at Michelberger Hotel we all danced our post-pandemic rust off to a producer duo that ignited one of the best nights I had had in a while. Berlin-based Gheist play incredible live shows and win over the crowd one party at a time. This week, Matze and I remembered the night and I listened to them all week. Their album is called ‘Zukunft’ and the standout track for me is ‘Decourse’.
What I’m watching 📺
Silo is a new show on Apple with a unique setting. In a post-apocalyptic world where it’s unclear what has happened a decade earlier, we find an entire community living in a giant underground silo, hundreds of stories deep. Guided by a constitution known as ‘The Pact’ and regulations meant to protect them, some community members start getting suspicious and the search for the truth begins. Watch the trailer.
What I’m thinking about 🧠
Through each one-stop-light town, each blighted-on-one-side-gilded-on-the-other metropolis, through successive presidents and parties in power, I’ve seen an America that might sound like it contradicts much of the news, but doesn’t—it’s an America that is greater than the sum of its differences. It’s the beauty of a country passing by on the bus, like moving murals, and is matched by the resplendence and resilience of the Americans traveling aboard it. - Doug Levitt
What else?! 💯
This year, Tom Hanks delivered the Harvard commencement speech and just like we know commencement speeches, this one is filled with great stories, wisdom, and inspiration. Watch it here.
Thanks for reading, have a great weekend!
David
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