Yesterday i went and took the train from Port Talbot to Cardiff, it was still raining. But i am born and bred in Norway, so didn't put me off in the slightest and i desided to take a walk around town.
I got lost of course, but that doesn't really matter. I mean, if you don't know where you're going then how can you be lost? Well, i can, but then i found Borders, a book/dvd/cd shop, and desided that this was were i was going all along, and that my sense of direction was brilliant. Denial, what a fine thing it is^^
So, i found Borders, walked up to browse the dvd section, and it felt like i'd walked up the stairway to heaven. On a shelf in the middle of the room i found all the films that has ever been made by Studio Ghibli, and that's something you don't see every day. You might not have heard of them, but have you ever seen 'Howl's moving castle?' Also a brilliant book by Diana Wynne Jones i might add Or 'Spirited away,' which in Norway has the title 'Chihiro og heksene.' Those two films are both Studio Ghibli, and directed by the formidable Hayao Miyazaki.
Check it out, seriously: http://www.onlineghibli.com/
And i also took the liberty of 'borrowing' a link from Neil Gaiman's blog, to a very funny news story: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/aug/08/usa
About a very strange, obsessed cheerleader..
Well, anyway i bought three films, it was all i could afford (i had to go hungry for the rest of the journey, but it was worth it). Yesterday i saw the first one, 'Tales from Earthsea,' and realised that i've actually read the book behind the film several years ago. Brilliant, because the film is a perfect adaption, the author couldn't have done a better job herself (her name is Ursula K. Le Guin, and she's verrry good).
I got lost of course, but that doesn't really matter. I mean, if you don't know where you're going then how can you be lost? Well, i can, but then i found Borders, a book/dvd/cd shop, and desided that this was were i was going all along, and that my sense of direction was brilliant. Denial, what a fine thing it is^^
So, i found Borders, walked up to browse the dvd section, and it felt like i'd walked up the stairway to heaven. On a shelf in the middle of the room i found all the films that has ever been made by Studio Ghibli, and that's something you don't see every day. You might not have heard of them, but have you ever seen 'Howl's moving castle?' Also a brilliant book by Diana Wynne Jones i might add Or 'Spirited away,' which in Norway has the title 'Chihiro og heksene.' Those two films are both Studio Ghibli, and directed by the formidable Hayao Miyazaki.
Check it out, seriously: http://www.onlineghibli.com/
And i also took the liberty of 'borrowing' a link from Neil Gaiman's blog, to a very funny news story: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/aug/08/usa
About a very strange, obsessed cheerleader..
Well, anyway i bought three films, it was all i could afford (i had to go hungry for the rest of the journey, but it was worth it). Yesterday i saw the first one, 'Tales from Earthsea,' and realised that i've actually read the book behind the film several years ago. Brilliant, because the film is a perfect adaption, the author couldn't have done a better job herself (her name is Ursula K. Le Guin, and she's verrry good).
A picture of prince Arren, the
main character in 'Earthsea'.
So here i am, back in Bulford, restless and in the i want adventure-and-campfire-feelings-it-is-summer-for-god's-sake mood, but i have to be patient, nothing happens this week.
That is, unless i make something happen... Nah, i've got to read through my book one more time, add chapter titles and fix Everything. The poor beta readers are waiting for me to email it to them, a feel guilty as a dog with his head in the bin, but i refuse to send out something that isn't readable. So if any of my readers read this, i do apologize.. I will send it to you, and it will be worth the wait. Promise.
2 comments:
Her regner det også for tiden. Men i dag er det forløbig overskyet. ^^
Ah, rain.. i love rain, it is something about it, which i just adore. anyways; i bet your book is good, very good. and, i admire you for actually writing a book. i am struggeling with it.. haha, haven't gotten that fare, buuut, all in time, all in time : D
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