Le Weekend

This weekend, we had breakfast with two charming individuals in Triple-X at about 5AM sunday morning and talked at length about politics, race, the sleaziness of human nature and literature.

"Julius", poet, wordsmith extraordinaire and his friend C. shared some of Alice Walker's poetry from her book "Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth" Also, we talked about Murakami, one of my favourite authors and his short story "On seeing the 100% Perfect girl one beautiful April morning", which is the most tragi-realistic thing I've read in a while. It's a love story of sorts.

Murakami's work is very easy to relate to despite the cultural differences (Murakami is Japanese), he is heavily influenced by Western music, especially jazz. He usually deals with issues like, adolescence, love, death, longing...But there's a lot of wit and humor in the manner he approaches them.

I would recommend picking up "Norweign Wood", his biggest hit in the west.