The Look v02

May 20, 2006

It’s too early to be changing this blog’s design, but I changed it anyway.  When the first was called Sappy Summer (with the blues and the greens), this time I’d just call it Sunset.

Why orange?, I asked myself.  Well, it wasn’t intended.  It just happens that I got a good header and background combination.  I would have opted for yellow, since I think its becoming the IN color these days, and blue, but I already did the blue (with the green) and I think the blog would look too bright to make yellow as the background.  I was surprised myself when I realized that the orange scheme they have here is not the brilliant kind.  It suited well with the header, so I’m pleased with that.

I like orange, actually.  It’s like a “borderline color”.  It got some of its shade from a lighter kind of tan, gold, and yellow.  I’m an ignoramus when it comes to blending colors to produce a new one, and I swore I never memorized the color wheel, too, but that is the orange that I like and you are seeing here.

The tag line is taken from a Mr. Big song entitled “Goin’ Where the Wind Blows”.  I love that song the moment I heard of it the first time…which was yesterday.   My brothers and I were huge Mr. Big fans and listening to their music again brought back high school years with them in our humble abode, wasting the afternoon away in front of the radio.  *sigh*  Makes anyone feel younger, doesn’t it?    The complete lyric of the song is posted below.

As for the watermark, well, I initially picked the dune fences.  I thought it looked perfect, but again, I don’t feel its connection to the whole look.  It could have foreshadowed that of being bounded.  Limited by my own life principles, beliefs, and faith, which is actually a good great thing.  But by replacing it with candles, I decided, it would remind me of light. Either representing people as guides, enlightenment for our human aspects, or simply the “arrow” to the right way to go.  Not to mention that the colors were totally sync. Everything just looks…nice.

I love what I see now.  I’m sure you, too, will love hearing the Mr. Big song after downloading it here.  

“Goin’ Where the Wind Blows”

Someone said life is for the taking
Here I am with my hand out waiting for a ride
I’ve been living on my great expectations
What good is it when I’m stranded here
And world just passes by?

Where are the signs
To help me get out of this place?

If I should stumble on my moment in time,
How will I know?
If the story’s written on my face,
Does it show?

Am I strong enough to walk on water?
Smart enough to come in out of the rain?
Or am I fool going where the wind blows?
(Where the wind blows)

Here I sit halfway to somewhere
Thinking ’bout what’s in front of me
And what I left behind
On my own, supposed to be so easy
Is this what I’ve been after
Or have I lost my mind?

Maybe this is my chance
And it’s coming to take me away, yeah

If I should stumble on my moment in time,
How will I know?
If the story’s written on my face,
Does it show?

Am I strong enough to walk on water?
Smart enough to come in out of the rain?
Or am I fool going where the wind blows?
(Where the wind blows)

Here I am,
Walking naked through the world
Taking up space
Society’s child
Make room for me,
Make room for me,
Make room for me…

(Solo Gitarre)

Am I strong enough to walk on water?
Smart enough to come in out of rain?
Or am I fool going where the wind blows?
(Where the wind blows)

Yeah
Yeah
Goin’ where the wind blows
(Na nana na na na)
Yeah
(Na nana na na na)