Talk about being impulsive, in the span of 10 minutes (time included to purchase a domain and hosting) I ventured into the now-conventional world of having a personal blog. I think I have finally passed the stage where I was over looking and scrutinising every little css and php code (thanks to uni’s gruelling last few assignments) that I decided to finally get in touch with my creative bone.
I don’t consider myself a great writer, or a writer at all, but I think the opportunity to hack into another wordpress design appealed to me. And in that spontaneous moments that stirs inside me, I decided to release some of my so called ‘knowledge’ into whoever will read this blog. I’m new to this game where I am quite usually am happy to sit along and be a reader of many many blogs that my igoogle is filled with.
The idea to call this blog Norwegian Wood is by far not based on ideas or some higher form of stupid wanky intentions that I simply do not care to justify. I like the sound of it. The Beatles have a song called Norwegian Wood and Haruki Marukami has a book called Norwegian Wood which is about the Beatles song Norwegian Wood. I intend to read that book as I am a fan of Marukami’s tales of spiritual/sexual awakenings/journeys.
The Beatles in their Norwegian Wood heyday
Haruki Marukami’s Norwegian Wood which is on my to read list
On the subject of being impulsive, I paid Borders a visit as I have come to realise that without uni I have a damn lot of time to spend – not really actually, I guess I like the idea of having time to waste. I managed to pick up some cheap foreign movies and some surprisingly cheap cheap novels. Bargain bin treasures included Wong Kar-Wai’s In The Mood For Love and Godard’s Vivre Sa Vie. Scored!
One of the beautiful scenes from In The Mood For Love
A scene from Vivre Sa Vie (My Life to Live)
Penguin’s new take on popular cult novels is basically “intelligent books at a low price”. That price happens to be $9.95. Absolute bargain for Hunter S. Thompson’s Kingdom of Fear and Jonathon Safran Foer’s Everything is Illuminated! How can you go wrong with titles that are cult classics as well as quality design? That was the best $41.88 spent at Borders. Have a look at some of the delicious titles on offer for just under a lunch meal:
http://www.popularpenguins.com/
