Friday Fixations

What I'm into right now

Happy Friday, my fellow suffering beings. Each week, I share two things I’m digging right now (books, TV shows, movies, music, and the like) plus one online video of nearly zero cultural merit.

• Kneecap (on Netflix). This movie is pure pleasure—like a bump of the shniff peddled by its protagonists (and without the hangover). It’s the fictional retelling of the story of a real-life Irish-language rap group called Kneecap. It’s got a Guy Ritchie feel but with a gooier center. Plus the music is legit good.

  

• Martyr!, by Kaveh Akbar. An engrossing, funny, and poignant novel about a young Persian-American dude searching for purpose. Like Kneecap, it’s got lots of debauchery. But this is genuine literature, filled with meaning and micro-felicities.

• What rough beast is this?

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