Paul Wicking, author of this website
The blog you are reading is created, designed and maintained by a guy called Paul Wicking. Or me, if you like. Residing in what was described as follows in the original first printing of Encyclopædia Britannica;
“NORWAY, a kingdom of Europe, situated between 4 and 30 east longitude, and between 58 and 72 north latitude, bounded by the Atlantic ocean on the North and West, by Swedish Lapland and other provinces of Sweden on the east, and by the sea called the Categate and Schaggeric on the South. It is a cold, barren country, subject to Denmark.”
Since this was published somewhere in the years 1768 through 1771, Norway has become its own kingdom. It is still cold and barren.
I am born in the Year of the Monkey according to the chinese, or 1980 as you would say if you follow the gregorian calendar like large parts of the rest of the World do. I have a passion for literature and movies, specifically within the science fiction and fantasy genre – although I do read the occasional spy story and usually feel quite passionate about my reading then as well.
I am also a very big fan of music, and I have spent incredible amounts of resources on music the latter years. Together with a very good friend I have built a massive international website called Maiden Norway, dedicated to Heavy Metal legends Iron Maiden. I also used to manage his band, Krakow, untill the fall of 2008. They are doing quite well now and their first album is expected fall 2009. Rock on guys! In addition to this I have taken up playing the guitar myself, although not really at more than an amateur level. All of this has presented me with opportunities to travel quite a lot the last couple of years, all over Norway, to England and to the continental Europe.
I work at a store called Spaceworld inside a huge mall called Åsane Storsenter in Åsane, a suburb to Bergen. We sell various electronic gizmos, cell phones, computer and console games, movies and computers and associated hardware stuff. I’ve worked in different stores throughout the years, and also been into other kinds of work, always returning to being in a store for some reason – I do love it when it is busy and I’m not crazy about it when it is slow, it is a nice way to earn a living though, you get to meet tons of people and I’ve been blessed with really nice coworkers.
This weblog was created on June 18th 2008. The main focus will be music, lyrics, texts, thoughts and ideas. I expect my readers to consist of close friends and absolute strangers. I’ll post updates somewhere between every day and every week, time permitting. The reason I’m doing this is to gather everything in one place for myself.