time passes
[aug 23 2003, 23:06]
i've had time. a lot of time, actually. possibly more time than should be given to a single human being (where 'single' in that case is intended to be understood in two different ways). more time to ponder than i would have thought. and more things to ponder.
let's first get over the usual stuff: the weather was really good (not that hot, almost no rain) over there in denmark, the sea was quite nice and there were no special remarkable events. none. but still...
i wrote quite a lot of stuff. mostly poetry because i figured that i need a keyboard to write good stories. i just have too many ideas in my mind and i'm a lot faster writing on a keyboard than with a pen. i know it sounds strange but i can get my ideas down a lot more fluently when i use a pc.
poetry is something different. after the initial rush of words (the first really really rough version), i change bits and pieces of my poems really often and thus... that's also possible on my palm ;o)
i also wrote a short story (yes, on paper...) but, well, i'm not sure whether i'll publish it anywhere. it's just too... well...
the time i've been having over the last two weeks was mostly spent with reading. i've got two really good books and a really bad one (apart from the usual and widely-known stuff). first the bad stuff:
'the truth' by terry pratchett. as you might now, i'm a huge pratchett-fan and i even translated one of the plays written by steven briggs that base on a discworld-book into german. in fact, the play i translated was 'the truth' and thus i already knew a lot before even starting to read this book. if you're a pratchett-newcomer, read something else. virtually anything else (except for 'the dark side of the sun' perhaps, that's quite strange, too). pratchett's a genius but that book is just a little too... well, to full of different ideas. it may have been the translation, too (i read the german version) but i thought that i translated some stuff better than the great (bowing really low) andreas brandhorst. sorry for that. my taste ;o)
'good omens' by terry pratchett and neil gaiman is the first of the really good books and a transition between the first one ('the truth') and the next one. read on and you'll understand, why. the book is about the end of the world, the apocalypse, about the employees of both sides trying to... well, actually trying to prevent it from happening, against the will of their bosses. that book has incredibly funny conversations and a really great (and, obviously thanks to mr. gaiman, a little darkish) feel. thumbs up for that one.
'american gods' by neil gaiman is the second really good book and possibly the one that least people i know would like. it's historic, mysterious, a little horror'ish, funny and, well, just everything in a really good mix. don't read the short description on the back, though, what you read there is handled on the first couple of pages and is just the introduction to the really amazing story. what impressed me most, probably, was the amount of detail to which gaiman researched. i can't (and won't) check everything but there were so incredibly great allusions (and often also direct references) to greek and nordish mythology and even to german children's-stories (although that belonged to the possibly darker sides of the book). what struck me most about the plot was the amount of normality that everything has, although so many incredible things are happening. i love this kind of stuff.
everybody can watch the x-files and say 'yes, that's pretty weird, isn't it?' and the characters in the x-files will agree. but if you read for example this book or watch certain movies (donnie darko is an amazingly beautiful, horrifying example for this)you see characters that get torn into completely unrealistic situations although everyone else, the whole world basically, acts as if it were the most natural thing to happen. i suppose no book as 'american gods' and no movie as 'donnie darko' has left me that, well, pondering, that unsure whether... well, whether that's not the way everything really is.
i mean, i know that i'm really easy to influence by well-done movies and books but these things just really appeal to me.
the single dark spot on the white blanket.
the polar star that shines so brightly different in the black sky that everybody can see it.
and in a little reference to the start of the project for which i got the idea in these two weeks, too, i could say 'hello world' and be sure that this is the only thing that will ever count.
it was good to be gone but it's good to be back.
charon
song of the day: afi - girl's not grey
let's first get over the usual stuff: the weather was really good (not that hot, almost no rain) over there in denmark, the sea was quite nice and there were no special remarkable events. none. but still...
i wrote quite a lot of stuff. mostly poetry because i figured that i need a keyboard to write good stories. i just have too many ideas in my mind and i'm a lot faster writing on a keyboard than with a pen. i know it sounds strange but i can get my ideas down a lot more fluently when i use a pc.
poetry is something different. after the initial rush of words (the first really really rough version), i change bits and pieces of my poems really often and thus... that's also possible on my palm ;o)
i also wrote a short story (yes, on paper...) but, well, i'm not sure whether i'll publish it anywhere. it's just too... well...
the time i've been having over the last two weeks was mostly spent with reading. i've got two really good books and a really bad one (apart from the usual and widely-known stuff). first the bad stuff:
'the truth' by terry pratchett. as you might now, i'm a huge pratchett-fan and i even translated one of the plays written by steven briggs that base on a discworld-book into german. in fact, the play i translated was 'the truth' and thus i already knew a lot before even starting to read this book. if you're a pratchett-newcomer, read something else. virtually anything else (except for 'the dark side of the sun' perhaps, that's quite strange, too). pratchett's a genius but that book is just a little too... well, to full of different ideas. it may have been the translation, too (i read the german version) but i thought that i translated some stuff better than the great (bowing really low) andreas brandhorst. sorry for that. my taste ;o)
'good omens' by terry pratchett and neil gaiman is the first of the really good books and a transition between the first one ('the truth') and the next one. read on and you'll understand, why. the book is about the end of the world, the apocalypse, about the employees of both sides trying to... well, actually trying to prevent it from happening, against the will of their bosses. that book has incredibly funny conversations and a really great (and, obviously thanks to mr. gaiman, a little darkish) feel. thumbs up for that one.
'american gods' by neil gaiman is the second really good book and possibly the one that least people i know would like. it's historic, mysterious, a little horror'ish, funny and, well, just everything in a really good mix. don't read the short description on the back, though, what you read there is handled on the first couple of pages and is just the introduction to the really amazing story. what impressed me most, probably, was the amount of detail to which gaiman researched. i can't (and won't) check everything but there were so incredibly great allusions (and often also direct references) to greek and nordish mythology and even to german children's-stories (although that belonged to the possibly darker sides of the book). what struck me most about the plot was the amount of normality that everything has, although so many incredible things are happening. i love this kind of stuff.
everybody can watch the x-files and say 'yes, that's pretty weird, isn't it?' and the characters in the x-files will agree. but if you read for example this book or watch certain movies (donnie darko is an amazingly beautiful, horrifying example for this)you see characters that get torn into completely unrealistic situations although everyone else, the whole world basically, acts as if it were the most natural thing to happen. i suppose no book as 'american gods' and no movie as 'donnie darko' has left me that, well, pondering, that unsure whether... well, whether that's not the way everything really is.
i mean, i know that i'm really easy to influence by well-done movies and books but these things just really appeal to me.
the single dark spot on the white blanket.
the polar star that shines so brightly different in the black sky that everybody can see it.
and in a little reference to the start of the project for which i got the idea in these two weeks, too, i could say 'hello world' and be sure that this is the only thing that will ever count.
it was good to be gone but it's good to be back.
charon
song of the day: afi - girl's not grey