Saturday, June 05, 2004

Weekend Notes

It's the weekend. And the weather here has a penchant of raining on work mornings while trying its darnest best to be hot like hell on the weekends. Nothing much happened today; I did crash at 9 pm last night and woke up in time to watch Coupling, which I mistakenly took for the UK one. Instead they were showing the crappy, and I really do mean CRAPPY U.S. version. Why in god's name do they think that they would do as well as the UK version with the exact same words in a different accent!!?? This is well beyond my understanding and I spent the time finishing my Murakami (Wild Sheep Chase) instead.

While admittedly it was not as good as Norwegian Wood but Wild Sheep Chase still has the classic Murakami touch: the irreverence, the sudden plot twists, the lone male in a new environment..etc. It was still pretty good though, although I very much prefer Norwegian Wood. Next up, I will be reading Dance Dance Dance. This won't be available at the school library so I guess I have to shell out money for it.

On a happier note, I got my Northern Exposure DVD! And god! the parka packaging is out of this world!! Although admittedly, it really is quite expensive considering the 1st season of NE had only 8 episodes. And the interior of the DVD really is cheap-looking. There aren't any nice inlays detailing the history of the series, for example. It looked like a bootleg, in fact! But then I'm mindful that gripes are not acceptable here. I did wait for so long for the DVD Boxset, and here's to more boxed seasons of NE to come!

posted by Sharon K at 4:15 am