painting over afterdark.

Don't like the book cover? Paint over it!
Which is what I did
Haruki Murakami is one of my favorite writers.
I collect all his books (all english versions, most chinese versions, some japanese versions) and read and read and read. For nearly two decades now.
But.
A year ago I couldn't continue with reading "After Dark" after a few pages.
It's the australian version of the book cover.
It's freaking distracting and severely put me off!
Murakami's stories are superb mood pieces: mundane, strange, surreal, psychological, metaphorical, metaphysical, lonesome, magic.
so.
why a photo of an ero chick on the book cover?
I'm so not a fan of the australian versions of the current batch of most of his bookcovers.. .. they look like cheap erotic books!
They look like cheap erotic books.
It's so misleading! D:
So I had to paint over it.
See the black acrylic paint with the minimalistic eerie texture? The jazz and black coffee in the witching hours feel?
Doesn't that suit the mood perfectly?
And I happily read the book.
Last night. close to midnight.
Sipping black coffee.
Listening to Curtis Fuller's old jazz tune "Five Spot After Dark".
Setting the mood.
After Dark.
story took place and time between midnight to 7am.
the witching hours where dreams and realities swapped places, the line between physics and metaphysics blurred.
a young jazz trombonist orders a chicken salad at 11:56pm.
at midnight, statics appears on an unplugged tv set in a darken room.
a loveho named Alphaville.
a pencil, with an eraser, stamped with the name veritech.
4:09am. feeding stray cats in a small park.
a cricket running away from the past.
a deserted mobile phone ringing from a 7-eleven dairy shelf.
soon the morning comes.