Rain, rain, rain

Lately it´s been raining all the time so yesterday while I was lost in some very deep meditation I got this really strange thought that could be taken as a prediction. The thing was that I was thinking of all the amazing art, literature, and photography that is created daily in the internet by unknown people.

For example, a lot of interesting blogs are written by people that use false names or nicknames and hide their identities for security reasons but somehow they stop blogging and we are left only with amazing things that they created. Like how Caravaggio was ignored at his time, there may be amazing art that may go unnoticed at the moment but in the future it will be refound and then we´ll find many "nicknamess" instead of the real names of this great artists in history books. What a fun thing to think!! Imagine a kid in the future learning about a new form of art created by "devil101". haha! So funny!!!

meanwhile...

I´ve been reading "Kafka on the shore". It´s really good so I´ll do a review later. I´ve been really busy with school so I haven´t been able to read a lot. : (

But instead I´ll give you a really good blog recommendation that I just found out. It´s in swedish though but you can use google translate!!! It´s fokis.se. She´s really girly and japanese like. Check her out!

Artistic Inspiration

I´ve been checking out some blogs about art but this one really got me.

It´s from Audrey Kawasaki a nortamerican artist born in California. What I like about her paintings is that they have a shoujo manga feeling to them but at the same time they communicate really deep feelings. Here are some of my favorite paintings.

Really amazing! isnt it? I love how she uses the wood in her paintings.

The Giver - Lois Lowry

Plot summary: In the "ideal" world into which Jonas was born, everybody has sensibly agreed that well-matched married couples will raise exactly two offspring, one boy and one girl. These children's adolescent sexual impulses will be stifled with specially prescribed drugs; at age 12 they will receive an appropriate career assignment, sensibly chosen by the community's Elders. This is a world in which the old live in group homes and are "released"--to great celebration--at the proper time; the few infants who do not develop according to schedule are also "released," but with no fanfare. Lowry's development of this civilization is so deft that her readers, like the community's citizens, will be easily seduced by the chimera of this ordered, pain-free society. Until the time that Jonah begins training for his job assignment--the rigorous and prestigious position of Receiver of Memory--he, too, is a complacent model citizen. But as his near-mystical training progresses, and he is weighed down and enriched with society's collective memories of a world as stimulating as it was flawed, Jonas grows increasingly aware of the hypocrisy that rules his world. With a storyline that hints at Christian allegory and an eerie futuristic setting, this intriguing novel calls to mind John Christopher's Tripods trilogy and Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Match Girl.

Personal Opinion: I really like this book. I love the way the author transports you to a different world. You can feel the feelings of the main character and symphatize with him. His problems gain a new level when you can feel them as your own. Since I read this book, I´ve been trying to find other books written by her like "Gathering Blue". I really recommend it to you.

Final Rating: 10/10

German bands!

Niemals - Farin Urlaub Racing Team 

 

The other day I was lookinf for the lyrics of some german song I liked and somehow I reached this playlist from a user on last.fm from his favorite albums of the year and I found this great music. I immediatly crated a great!!! playlist on grooveshark and if you want you can find it HERE!!!

Allein zu zweit - Lacrimosa

 

This one is really like symphonic rock but it´s really easy to sing along which I love to do (only if you know how to speak german...) and it also has great background music. Very instrumental... I love it!

Perfume - Patrick Suskind

Plot summary: It´s a very dark story based on the story of a killer. Grenouillle is a very interesting character living in 1700´s France. Born in Paris and from the start is feared by people because he doesn´t have a smell. He has a supernatural hability to smell everything and every smell is stored perfectly is his memory. He decides be a perfumer and astonishes his mentor almost inmediatly with his habilities. He sets out to learn every kind of habilities to create the best perfum that will make everyone love him. But to make that perfume he won´t care if someone´s life stands in the way to obtain it.

Opinion: I particularly like every kind of dark novels but this one is written in a way that makes you want to know what is going to happen. It also makes you root for Grenouille when you hear his description of life and it doesn´t even surprise you when he decides to take a life. It tells many methods the used back then to make perfumes and picture very well the life of poor people in Paris. Makes you pay attention to the smells around you that we tend to forget.

Final rating: 8/10

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favorite music

My favorite two songs of today are:

elite - kent : a very good song that I couldn´t get out of my head today. But it´s in swedish tough. I love to sing it all the time.

Wild World - Cat Stevens: It´s from the mtv show "Skins". I was watching the some episodes from Skins the other day and then decided to created a playlist of all the songs I liked on Grooveshark. You can find it here skins!

Btw, I´m currently reading "Perfume, The Story of a Murderer" like I told you earlier. It´s an amazing book but we´ll leave the description for later. hehe

New Project!

Dear beloved readers,

Well, I just decided to create this blog and start a new project. The project is created out of my eternal boredoom. It´s a very ambicious project that I´ve been tempted to engage myself into from a very long time. The thing is that I´m going to read 1000 books from the list "1000 books to read before you die". Maybe I alredy read some of them but who cares! I´m also going to give a summary of the book and what I think about it. So you get a description and I get a very useful journal to keep track of every book I´ve read.

One of the first I´m going to read is "Perfume" by Patrick Suskind.