Another circle around the sun

2010 is almost over, so it is time to reflect over what kinda year it has been and what is to expect from 2011.

2010 has been a year that has brought me new friends aswell as a year where I have reconnected with some old ones, but I have also realized that even because you have know someone your entire life it doesn't necessarily mean that you are gonna be in their lives forever, atleast not in a way you used to be - and do you know what? That is okay to, a bit sad when the thought first dawned on me, but I realized that I have alot of other amazing people in my life and so does this old friend of mine and if we are not the best of company for each other right now it does not matter and who knows maybe next year at this moment I will reflect back and we'll be as close as ever - who knows??

Like I said I have reconnected with an old friend this year too. Everyone has friends that they have known for a long time, but not really know. I have a few friends like that, but sometimes this year one of these friendships of mine changes. I am not really sure why, when or how it happened but I am glad it did 'cause 2010 brought me a new close friend :)

If you follow my blog or know me personally, you'll know I am also a music/movie buff so I also consider the year in art.

A lot of great albums has been released this year here is a few of the best ones that poops into my mind:

Great Big Sea - Safe upon the shore http://www.greatbigsea.com/store/
Sean McCann - Lullabies for bloodshot eyes http://greatbigsean.com/site/?page_id=7
Katie Melua - The House http://www.amazon.co.uk/House-Katie-Melua/dp/B003AXNSNU
The Avett Brothers - I and love and you http://www.theavettbrothers.com/us/shop
De Eneste To - De eneste to http://deenesteto.dk/

2010 has also been a good movie year. The ones that left an impression on me is:

Robin Hood (my fav actor in an impressive movie. It is stunning, funny and exciting).
Shutter Island (I loved the book and the movie is even better - DiCaprio is a great actor)
The Back-up Plan (Cute, sweet, funny - proved to be one of the best chick flicks I've seen)
Odine (no words - need to be watched. Truely a beautiful film in every sence of the word)
Inception (one of the best action movies I've seen in a while)

Besides my new fav tv-show aired for the first time in 2010: Hawaii Five-0




Other amazing experiences I've gotten in 2010 is counting:

Rasmus Seebach concert in Århus with a friend of mine (after letting her torture my hair ;)) It was a great night and something I diffinatly want to repeat.




Seeing Julie Nord exhibit in Aros really left and impression on me and she is now one of my favorite artist and I really hope to see more of her exhibtions in the future.

U2 concert in Horsen. Eventhough I am by no means a U2 fan, I do think they have made a few good songs and since my sister paid my ticket I wasn't about to turn this experience down and an experience it was. They played some great songs and the light show was extraordinary plus it was great to see my sister experience her favorite band live for the first time.

And the baptism of my best friend beautiful baby-girl:

2010 also brought a few tears. My brother left our hometown and moved 180 km to Fanø to live with his girlfriend which is great for him, but has been a bit wierd and hard on me. I am getting use to not having him so close anymore and I am really happy for him.
Other tears 2010 has brought is also in relation with brother. His girlfriend was diagnoised with an in-operable brain tumor and she is now undergoing treatment ( I hope 2011 will be the year she is declaired healthy).

2010 has also made me question myself - who I am and what I want with my life. I realiezed that I am not sure, so I decided to put college on hold for a while untill I figure it out. Which is what 2011 hopefully will be for me - a year of self discovery and soul searching :)

The last thing that has happend to me in 2010 is a good one without a doubt. I have alway loved writting but I had kinda forgotten about that for a few years, but this year I remembered which means I have begun to write poems and short stories again, but it also means I started up this blog.

2011 will bring more writting, but also lots of moments with my friends. So last but not least I wanna wish you all a very HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

The movies Christmas wouldn't be the same without

I was watching Love Actually with a friend of mine earlier today and she said that, that was her favorite Christmas movie and Christmas just wouldn't be the same if she didn't get to watch it and I realized that I have a few movies like that myself.

For as longs as I can remember I have loved the movie It's a wonderful life and I watch that one every Christmas before Christmas eve and I've gotta confess my Christmas spirit doesn't settle in before I've sat down under my blanket with a cup of hot choco. This ending brings a tear to my eye every time. What a wonderful movie:



But there is also a few newer movies that I love watching either before Christmas or during. One of the is The Santa Claus - just because it is funny ;)



Another one is The Holiday - because it is sweet and really christmassy and because it has my favorite actress (Kate Winslet) in it. It is a romantic chickflick when they are best. And when this movie come on telly Christmas has begun for sure:



But the one movie that is a Christmas must for everyone is A Christmas Carol. This amazing Charles Dickins tale (I also read the book once a year btw. and it is highly reccomended) has been filmed more than once, but I certainly have a fav version and this is it:



May your Christmases past have been good, your Christmas present great and all you future Christmases be WONDERFUL ;D

The things that makes Christmas, Christmas ;)

So what does make Christmas Christmas?? Well I guess it is a bunch of things really, but I do have a few things that spring to mind that makes Christmas Christmas for me. The obvious ones are being aroung family and friends. Feeling the love and watching the beautiful Christmas decorations light up the cold December nights. The freezing cold, the snowcovered ground and the warmth inside the houses while drinking hot choco :)



But one Christmas wouldn't be the same without for me is the Christmas shopping which has to be done in Aarhus, and not untill December has begun. Why?? Because Aarhus is an amazing place to be in December and if you haven't found your Christmas spirit yet, chances are you will find it while shopping for presents for the people you love in this beautiful city.


Another things is a tradition that has been handed down to me. I remember when I was a small kid watching my sister decorate the Christmas tree, but as I grew older and my sister moved out of my parents house this torch was handed on to me and eventhough I don't live at my parents house anymore I am still the one decorating the tree and I've got to say doing this ritual is not something I would give up for anything. I decorate it every year on the 23rd of December and it gives me a feeling of Christmas being very close.

While decoration the tree I listen to Christmas music and the songs and artist vary from year to year but there is a few songs that this ritual just wouldn't be the same without. One of them is Silent Night which is my favorite Christmas song for sure, which artist that gets to sing it vary. This one I chose for you is by Bruce Guthro.



Another song that I loved listening to this year was Ronan Keating's It's only Christmas which has also gotten to be one of my favorite Christmas tunes this year:



And the last one I wanna share with you and that has been played more that once this Christmas and for the last 5 Christmases is a song by my favorite band Great Big Sea and it is a traditional one from their beautiful home in Newfoundland and I just love this song, it's spirit and energy.



So once again I wish you a merry Christmas. Enjoy the last few days of your holiday. The new year is coming soon ;)

I wish you a merry Christmas :)

I'm taking the time in between christmas dinner and opening presents to wish all of you blog people a very merry Christmas. I hope you'll all have a wonderful christmas eve and a merry Christmas morning no matter where in the world you might be :)


Cheers and X-mas hugs from me <3

New Year's resolution # 1

Not sure there will be more but who knows ;) Well anyway I have decided to take up a challenge of an online bookclub. It is a challenge to read 12 books of 12 different genres within one year.




My friend Theresa (http://girlbirdie.blogspot.com/) convinced me to take this up and I think both of us will enjoy this one. A great way to challenge yourself to read something you otherwise never would pick up.

Join us???

I'm not gonna be a crucifix pin cushion

You might be wondering about the headline of this blog post - but I thought it was kinda fitting since I forgot to tell you about one of my fav shows on my previous post and it is a line from the lyrics to this shows teamsong.

The song is "Oh Yeah" by Great Big Sea:



and the show is "Rebuplic of Doyle":

This show is shot in Newfoundland and it is staring local actor Allan Hawco as the PI Jake Doyle.

Hawco is a great actor and the show is both amusing and exciting, besides the locations are amazing. I love this show and I am looking forward to second season of the show airs sometime after christmas.

Here is a preview from the previous season, which should give u a general idea of the pace and humour of the show:

If this caught your interest you will be able to watch a few of the episodes for free on this site:

http://www.casttv.com/search/Republic+of+Doyle/1

Enjoy <3

The best shows on TV!!!

Okay I've got to admit I love TV shows - maybe even more than I love movies.
Why??
Well because you get to now the characters better I guess, and because you see the changes in them slowly over weeks instead of over only a few hours. Don't get me wrong I love movies too, but there is just something about being able to follow a show and it's characters week after week and look forward to what will happen next.


Over the years I have had a lot of fav Tv-shows some of them being teen shows like The OC and Dawson's Creek, when I was growing up others have been TV dramas like ER, comedies like Friends, family dramas like Gilmore Girls and science fiction shows like the X-files, but in this blog post I wanna talk a bit about the shows that are around today - and there really are lots of good shows out there at the moment and it is impossible to watch them all just because you thing they are good (which is one of the troubles with TV-shows I guess).

Some of the shows I like to watch on occasion are doctor shows like House and Grey's Anatomy where House is clearly my fav one. Grey's has always only been a show I have been watching once in a while if I was bored, but it is a good show. House was a show I followed regulary up until the 3rd season where I think a bit to many changes was made for my liking, but I I've gotta say it is a good show and I still tune in once in a while.

There are also good family dramas out there like fx. Brothers and sisters - again not a show I am to familiar with but one I like to watch if I see it is on and I have nothing better to do (or if I need a good excuse not to do the dishes right this moment ;))

Another great show that I have been watching from the get go - but I am not that good at following weekly anymore is Medium and that is by no means because it is a bad show, but just because as I said earlier there are just to many shows out there and I am not able to follow all of them even though I would like too. Medium is a bit sci-fi and a bit detective and a bit family - a great mix and I usually catch up with it when it is released on dvd or re-runs are on TV.

Another show I used to follow was Numbers but for some reason I just kinda lost interest in that one, but I guess that happens once in a while. I really don't have anything bad to say about it - and I am not sure why I stopped watching. Maybe because I am really bad at math and all the numbers just got to much?? Don't know - maybe :)

A cop show I also watch on occasion and actually think I would really love if I had more hours in the day and time enough to follow yet another show is The Mentalist. The idea is original and the show is exciting and fun, besides Simon Baker is a great actor.

There are also a lot of great comedy shows out there. One I watch once in a while is The Big Bang Theory. That is a really funny show and luckily one you don't have to follow to enjoy :)

But now to my top 5 fav shows (and they are of very different genres so you might find one you like among there ;))

5. Is a comedy show and it is called How I meet your mother and is actually not a show I watch every week, but it is in my opinion the best comedy show out there at the moment(and my fav part is the character Barney) and it is diffinatly worth to take a look at:


4. The next show is also one I used to watch regulary but I has gotten a bit away from the this last season, I do fully intend to catch up though. It is a crime/lab show and it is called Bones. The reason why I like this Crime/lab show over all of those others out there is the characters. A lot more work is put into the character building than on any other crimelab show I have ever seen, besides the experiments in the lab are usually very amusing. Take a look for yourself:


3. This next show is also a crime show but in a very different way that Bones. This FBI team takes us into the mind of the criminals and uses psychology to catch the killers and the way the show is shot is genius. It has been a fav of mine from it started almost 6 years ago and I don't think I'll stop watching any time soon (eventho this too has gotten a way for me this season - but once again I will catch up). It is also hard to choose which part of the show to show you, becuase it has gone on for so long and is full of great characters, besides it is also a show that uses a lot of quotes from famous writers and other historic figures which I love. Any way this is the clip I choose:


2. This next show is a sci-fi show and it has been one of my fav shows on TV since it started 5/6 years ago and it is not your every day Sci-fi show, actually it reminds me more of old horror flicks at times. The name of this one is Supernatural and it is about two brothers hunting down supernatural creatures and killing them. It is exciting, scary and funny all at the same time. The shows is carried by only two actors Jared Padelecki (which you may know from Gilmore Girls)and Jensen Ackles (from Dark Angel and Smallville) and they both do a great job with the comedic sides of their characthers as well as the dramatic ones. This is a show that I am really confindent will never start to bore me and it is diffinatly worth you looking into. This clip shows a bit of the shows scary sides aswell as the funny ones:


1. The last show on my list is one brand new and has in my opinion got it all. It is fast, exciting, funny and if full of great actors. It is only 12 episodes into it's first season, but you still might know the name of it since it is a remake of a 70s Tv-show. It is called Hawaii Five-0.
It is a cop show and it was big in the 70s (according to my mom) and it even had cult phrases like Book 'em Danno. It didn't know the phrase or the show untill I started watching the new one but my mom says it looks just as good as the old one.
Since I have not watched the old one I can not judge there all I know is I think it is the best show on tv at the moment. The story line is great and the cast is amazing and counts guest appearences like Balthazar Getty (Alias) and James Masters (Buffy, Angel) not to mention the regulars:
Daniel Dae Kim (from Lost), Scott Caan (son of James Caan and know from the Ocean's movies) and Alex O'Loughlin (from tv-shows like Moonlight and the romantic comedy The back-up plan). U have chosen a clip that shows a bit of the action in the show and a lot of the fun. In any case it is a good indicater of the style and it is deffinatly worth you checking out:


Any way this is the shows I enjoy watching, maybe you will find a bit of inspiration here if you are searching for a new show to follow or maybe I just helped you remember a show you once loved to watched, I know I just remembered a few myself :)

Talent on display

I have a sister with a great talent, she is able to draw just about everything you put in front. Amazing..

She is able to draw potraits of people as well as animals, and I am very proud of her and a wee bit jealous of this gift of hers, but hey not everyone can have the same talent so I think I'll stick with writting. :)

Anyway this post is dedicated to my sister Mona Frandsen and her art :)

I have chosen a few of her pictures to display for you here. Enjoy:

My sister has been painting and drawing pictures of animals for as long as I can remember and I think that this one is an oldie ;)



This one is an oldie too. My sister drew this one for our aunt, a few years back and it is of my grandparents dog. Dog, aunt and grandparents are sadly all past away now.

This one is of canadien singer/songwriter Alan Doyle of Great Big Sea. She did this one as a gift for me, since he is my fav singer.

This last one is of Mona's own fav singer Bono of U2.

I think my sister is a very talented woaman and I am very proud of her. I hope you'll like her pictures as much as I do.

Chick flicks - The good vs. the bad

Let's face it there are tons of chick flicks out there, some are cute, soom are great and others are... well horrible!!

When I was younger I was not one to watch to many movies that falls under the category chick flicks but as I have grown older I actually injoy them ... well some of them. I have spend the last few days being sick and what better way to pass time than to whatch a few chick flicks (this made me realieze how many good as well as bad ones that are out there). Here is a few ones I really hated (not all of them been watched over the last few days I might add ;)):

Dr. T and the women:



Way to many characters (almost impossible to keep track of) and the plot does not work (if there even is one :S)

Divine secrets of the Ya ya sisterhood:



Simply? Boring and way to long!!!

At first sight:



Proof that even chick flicks can be to cheesy. I am actually not sure why I didn't like this one, maybe poor acting?? I don't know...

The price and me - the royal wedding:



Okay I like the first one of these, but this one is stupid, annoying and down-right insulting and yes I am danish so I know what I am taking about when I say it is diffinatly by no means acurrate.

But as I said there are also alot of good ones out there and here is some of my fave ones

The Notebook:



A sweet story of love that conquers everything :) Gotta love it. The ending is a bit to long, but I forgive the movie because everything else is great :)

Sweet November:



A cute life-affirming story. Every day counts and I actually cried in the end of this one ;)

The back-up plan:



Does guys like this really exist? I sure hope so and if they do... I want one, even if he does smell like cheese ;)

Definitely, Maybe:



Well this movie is just adorable. It is the story you kinda already know the ending to and I surprises you anyway ;) Gotta love it :)

So there you have it.. chick flicks - the good and the bad :)

Sick day with chick flicks....

I hate being sick (and I have gotten the flu ) :( .... so now it is time to do my best to cheer myself up and I think a few chick flicks might do the trick.

I picked out 3 movies and getting ready to spend the rest of my day in bed (maybe with a good cup of tea)

The first one I picked out is an "oldie." I have had this one for a while but haven't seen it for a few years since I bought it and I remember it to be quite good.

The lake house (with Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves):



This next one is a bit newer but I have had it laying around for a few months now. I just haven't gotten around to watching it yet, but I've got a feeling today might be the day.

Ghots of girlfriend's past (with Jennifer Garner and Matthew McConaughey):



And the last one I have found is quite new and one I really look forward to watching after seeing the trailer online.

The back up plan (with Jennifer Lopez and Alex O'Loughlin):



So hopefully I will have an okay day after all :)

I'm here

I've just finished watching an incredible short film. So if you find yourself with 30 minutes to spare in this busy month of December then you should sit down in front of your computer and wacth "I'm Here".

It is a sweet, beautiful and heartwarming movie about meaning something to someone and how it is the only thing that proves you are here, but also a movie about sacrificing everything for someone you love.

I'm Here means being there for someone as much as it means feeling loved proves to yourself that you really are here.

Did this peak your interest? For a short periode of time you can watch the movie online here: http://www.imheremovie.com/ and all you have to do is connect to your facebook profile! It is well worth your time and you will no regret it!

Merry christmas everyone

Sean McCann (left - picture taking by Roxanne Diamond) just shared an awesome christmas present with all of his fans - a new christmas song and he also showed of the cover of his new cd: Son of a Sailor. I look forward to listening to the album when it is released in 2011 - but the song is without doubt the best gift and is as of now one of my fav christmas songs.

If you want to you can listen to it (and even download it) on his website:

http://www.greatbigsean.com/

I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

Danny boy

I've always liked this song but I really started to love it when I heard it with Sean McCann. He's truely got an amazing voice and he displays it perfectly with this song.

Listen and be impressed by the amazing Sean McCann:

It's the season to be jolly

Snow has fallen and Denmark is painted white. This sunday was the first of advent which means the christmas season has begun. Decorations are appearing everywhere and lights brighten the cold winter nights and happy beautiful songs stream out of the radio.

I have as always imbraced my fav holliday (yep all of december is kinda a holiday for me) especially since the snow is here early this year. I know that a lot of my friends dislike the snow but I find it beautiful and calming. Everything slows down as soon as the snow arrives and the days and nights seems brighter becuase of the shinny white ground. I love the snow for it's beauty, for the fun it brings and also because it is almost the only kind of wheather we have in Denmark that slows us down and reminds us that it is not us that are in control - it is mother nature. We have no real hurricanes, no twisters, no earthquakes and no tsunamis, so what is a little snow once in a while?

Well back to christmas... I have not yet started my decorating but I guess I will sometime this week. My mom gave me an advent wreath today and I lit my first candle (a day late) a bit earlier today, which made me truely feel that christmas is here.

The next thing on my mind is christmas music. There are lots of good music in the radio in Denmark every year, but it is also kinda the same songs we hear every year so I'll try and make my own christmas cd this year. I already have a few ideas for some great songs (that is never or rarely played on the radio here).

Here are a few of my ideas so far:

Angels in the snow by Amy Sky.
http//www.youtube.com/watch?v=uELIAMWNiZs
She is a canadian singer with a beautiful voice and the song is amazing!

Little drummer boy with Ronan Keating and Stephen Gately
http://http//www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7Vu93ugUAE
Because I've loved this song since I was a little girl and Ronan Keating was my fav singer once and I still think he is great, besides this is the last song Stephen Gately got his vocal track on before he died in October 2009.


The marvelous toy by country legend John Denver:


Because it is fun and he is a great musician.

Silent Night - by the amazing Sinead O'Connor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87q5dmW6zDg
Just because this irish singer has one of the most amazing voices I've ever heard and because this song is one of the most beautiful chistmas songs of all time.

Deck and Halls by James Taylor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihwLr4iyRPE
Becuase it is a great sing-a-long christmas song (and I always think of a funny moment from the OC when I hear it) and James Taylor's version because it is one of my fav ones - way better than Crosby's that's for sure.

And ofcourse a few songs by my fav band. Unfortunatly they have not made any christmas songs for quite a while now but I do have a few.
This one is called Mummer's Carol and the band is Great Big Sea:

And this next one is called 7 joys of Mary and it is the one I'm gonna leave you with tonight. Listen to the songs, let the spirit of christmas find you and be jolly :D

If you have any great ideas for my christmas cd I would love to hear your ideas :)

Snow is falling all around me

The first sign that christmas is just around the corner has now hit Denmark and painted it white and what a beautiful sight it is:

And yep I got to admit I am one of those hopelessly romantic people who just loves the snow and awaits it arrival every year not matter what troubles it might course this time around. Come on a little challange is only fun and look how stunning Denmark is covered all in white:

And for that very reason this is one of my fav christmas songs. So merry christmas everyone ;)

It's a beautiful day....

Let the best man win... and so he did. The winner of Australian X-factor 2010 is named Altiyan Childs.

He was truely on fire last night preforming the Kings of Leon song that almost got him send home early on and the words of his mentor Ronan Keating almost had him reduced to tears:



The last song Altiyan choose to sing at the x-factor was U2's beautiful day which proved to be very fitting:



That Altiyan won means he will be the won to record the single Somewhere in the World and I for one will diffinatly be looking out for it. Way to go Altiyan and Ronan.

Somewhere in the world

So this is it. The Australian x-factor has come to an end and the votes will be counted and the results will be revealed tomorrow.

As you may know I have been following this show on youtube since it's beginning and I have had my own choice for a winner from the beginning. Fortunatly he is still here. In the great final. In case you don't know who he is look at him preforming at the grand final:



and he also does an amazing job with Bon Jovi's Like a Prayer (actually a better one that Jovi himself in my opinion):



If you have read my previous blog on the australian x-factor you might remember Altiyan forgetting the words to Kings of Leon's Sexes on fire. Ronan Keating brought him trough anyway and Altiyan proved Ronan was right to do so and if you were ever in doubt take a look at this:



The last song I want to show you is the winning song. The song that who ever wins x-factor will get to record and release as a single. To be fair here is the other finalists singing the song.

Sally Chatfield:



Andrew Lawson:



And last but not least Altiyan Childs. The guy that should get to release this single. He is without doubt the best proformer and his voice is right for the song. He is simply the best of the 3:



If you live in the UK or Australia vote for Altiyan Childs and if you do not keep your fingers crossed with me. Altiyan should win this year's Australian X-factor that is for sure.

You forget me not

A friend of mine introduced me to this app on facebook called picnik and it is actually pretty funny. You can redo your pics, put in text, frames and stickers. Here is some of the work I've done so far:

This first one is of me and my best friend Katja and the words are from a Betty Midler song

And this next one is of Alan Doyle and Sean McCann of Great Big Sea - the lyric is also from a Great Big Sea song.

And this one is one I did for a friend of mine. The boy in the picture is her 4 year old son and the words is from an Amy Sky song.

And this last one is of my mom and me. The lyric is from her fav song and I thought them to be very fitting for the picture aswell. If u like what you see or just think you could do better like picnik of facebook and get going.

I'm gonna live you tonight with my mom's fave song: Sweet forget me not by Great Big Sea.



And it sure is a lovely song isn't it?

Aussie x-factor champion

Normally I don't even watch many talent shows (or I do but I never really follow one contestant or show just watch when nothing else is on), but this time I do.

By coincidence I stumbled across the Australian x-factor when I was reading my twitter feeds and thought I would look it up, since Ronon Keating was one of the judges.

Ronon Keating was my absolute fav singer when I was a kid and a teen, and I still buy his cds and love listening to his music eventhough I don't listen to nearly as much pop as I did when I was younger, but Ronan has an amazing voice.
But is actually another coincidence it is his last contestant that has impressed me enough to keep following the show on youtube (it is not airing in Denmark).

His name is Altiyan Childs and this is one of his first appearences on the show:



I know, not to impressive, but you got to admit his voice is pretty good and he has charisma. Ronan Keating did see something in this guy from the get go that most people didn't and what do you know?He was right!

His first few live shows were good but he didn't really start to come in to his own before the 4th live show were he sung Bon Jovi's "Like a prayer" but it wasn't untill the 5th show he really started to impress me. This is him singing U2's "Beautiful day":




And thoughout the next couple of shows he only continued to get better. This is him doing Survivor's "Eye of the Tiger.":



But this guy actually also did Bryan Adams classic "Summer of 69" justice and at the same time he showed himself able to put on just a good of a show with an instrument in hand as he does without it:



This sunday Altiyan put on two amazing preformances whic send him through to the final 3. I can't vote for him since I am not an aussie myself, but if you are. Lend this guy a hand. He deserves to win that is for sure. Still not convinced? Then look at these last two vids of Altiyan singing his heart out and judge again :)

This is the very moving "The living years":



and this is Altiyan rocking the show with Bon Jovi's 80's hit "Blaze of Glory" the title track of the movie Young Guns:



He's good talent right??

Bookworm???

Okay a note has started to go around Facebook of 1oo books BBC thinks most people have only read 6 of. The list is a bit wierd though, but check it out and see how many you get: http://www.librarything.com/topic/61828w.librarything.com/topic/61828

Out of these books I've read 30, but still think it is composed in a rather wierd way. It lakes quite a few books, newer aswell as older and where has all the classic horror stories gone? Oh well it is fun and quite a good inspiration. There's a few books on there I wanna read either because I never read them and they sound interesting (oh yep I was nerdy enough to look up almost all the ones I did not know) or because I haven't read them in ages. Food for thoughts to my bookclub :)

Which brings me too, what I am reading now. As I said before I am in a (newly started) bookclub and we are on our first book. It is by Elizabeth Gilbert and it is called Eat, Pray, Love. It is about a woman leaving everything behind as she goes out into the world trying to find herself. I haven't read a lot of it yet, but it is very promising so far. If this has peaked your interest you can read more about both the author and the book on this website: http://www.elizabethgilbert.com/eatpraylove.htm

This book was not my own choice and not something I would normally read on my own, but there in lies the challange of a bookclub. Eat, Pray, Love was recommended by a friend of mine and I am looking forward to our first discussion about the book.

Eat, Pray, Love has been made into a Julia Roberts film which is running in the danish cinemas at the moment and who knows maybe we'll swing by and make our own judgemenst as if the movie lives up to the book :)

Here is the trailer to the movie in case you are interested:

What are you reading at the moment?? Drop me a note if you want to, I would love the inspiration.

I just wanna let you know...

Okay usually I don't do two posts one the same artist followed by each other, but since I got Scott Grimes' album Livin' on the run a few days ago and his newest album Drive today I wanna do this one while I am in the right frame of mind for it. Besides I don't think I'll be able to do a better job than right now since I have been listening to the man all day long today.

This is, as I just said, a review of Scott Grimes' album Drive:

Earlier today I tweeted my last review to Grimes and told him I would be doing this review too and he kindly reminded me to consider that this album is a demo record done in his livingroom and so I will do just that.

The album is a demo record, which means it's only contains 7 songs where as Livin' on the run has 15. The other sign that this is a demo record it that the style is way more stripped down that Scott Grimes previous record, but that does not hurt his style or his voice the slightest bit. Besides I actually like "Guerilla" recording as I've heard Alan Doyle of Great Big Sea call songs recorded in livingrooms, dressingrooms and in the back of tour busses. The recording style does not define an album (not in my opinion atleast) the artist does and both Harris (who worked on Drive with Scott) and Grimes are very talented.

Hide is the first song on the album and my opinion also the perfect song to release as a single. This is the song was the second Scott Grimes song I ever heard and it was the one that really made me fall in love his music and voice in the first place. The fact that he uses his friends (look closely and you will spot Russell Crowe along with his sons and his two co-merry men Alan Doyle and Kevin Durand) and fans in the video just makes it even better:

There is a red lining through the lyrics in this album aswell, but it is sadness this time more than it is hope. I don't feel that the persons in these songs are overcome by it by it is something they struggle with and someting that defines if not them then the album. The characters in these songs are trying to look ahead (Hide), to find some hope (Waiting) or just trying to "hide" how low they really feel (Corner pub). This is truely a beautiful record and ranks among my other fav records witch contains artists like Bruce Guthro, Bruce Springsteen, Great Big Sea, Russell Crowe and Katie Melua (I actually think Grimes' corner pub has a bit of a jazzish sound to it). Well done.

I wanna leave you with one of my other fave songs of this album. Listen to it before you head to the store or to Itunes to buy this record:


Oh and by the way I actually wanna leave you guys with one last song. Also by Scott Grimes but it is not on either of the albums, but if you love it as much as I do, you can buy it on itunes.



Cheers everybody, have a good night and thanks for reading my opinions on this great artist.

We were young and wild and hopeless and free

A few days ago I got a new album. It is not new but it is too me and I loved it so much I thought i deserved my attention on this blog. The album is called "Livin' on the run" and is by Scott Grimes.

I have know this guy for quite a while, but I knew him an actor. He played the very funny (not always by choice) Achie Morris in ER, where he did an amazing job and in my opinion only made the show better. I had no idea he was a singer too though untill he appeared in Robin Hood (the 2010 movie) as one of the merry men. Promoting this movie I heard him sing Beautiful Girls (by Sean Kingston) along with Russell Crowe (Robin Longstride), Kevin Durand (Little John) and Alan Doyle (Allan A'Dayle) and it dawned on me it couldn't possible the first time he used his voice for singing so I decided too look him up online and on youtube I found what I was looking for:


This song is amazing and is actually from the album I am doing this post about. Sunset Blvd is a beautiful song with both amazing guitar and piano sounds. This song displays Grimes' voice beautifully and like the other songs on the album the song proves Scott Grimes sings just as well as he acts!

Before doing this post I was listening though the album again and I noticed that alot af the songs has a Bruce Springsteen sound to them, which can never be a bad thing. Actually the first song of the album Livin' on the run (which is also the titel track) even has a Springsteen hommage incorporated:

And all those dreams of singin' to the second row
Baby you were born to run (this line being from the wellknown Springsteen song Born to run)
I got this time upon my pocket, and my love for you
And I'll be having fun

I for one prefer the more Springsteen rock sounding songs one the album to the more pop sounding song as You come around, but there are none of the songs I dislike. The album to me feels whole with a red lining running through it.

This red lining is: Hope, freedom, dreaming and also rememberace. The first songs is very much about living in the moment but this swifts with Carrie that is a is about remembering. Carrie is not the first sad song on the album I saw you is. But this song is about the present to and about letting go of a love eventhough it hurts.

I think all Scott's songs on this album stays true to reality, but there also is a ray of hope of something better in all of them or a dream of something more even in the sad song on the album. The only song that I feel lacks hope is without you. The only song on the album that allows itself to be sad without painting a light in the distant. A song about drowning in sorrow and allowing yourself to hurt.

The song Hollywood sign shows us life on the other side of the Hollywood sign painting a picture of misunderstood people going about their lives but hope is reintroduced in the last line of Four piece band; a song that is otherwise about growing up and it this process forgetting your dreams:

"Then my senses came to me this one fine day
That you had no ties that bind you was all I could pray"

All in all a beautiful album with wonderful melodies, great vocal tracks and impressive and touching lyrics. Well done Grimes.

Listen to this song "Carrie" and go out and buy the album:

You never leave a love so rare!!

My blog post last night was negative and was something I never had in mind to use this blog for and as I wrote last night that was the first and last of the sort, but once again I would like to dedicate this blog to someone :)
I was just listening to a song by a danish band called De eneste to (the only two) and remembered I am going to a concert with them this winter :)

This is the song I was listening to:




And this is a very happy me holding my ticket for the concert:

And this is my wonderful sister and me:

and we are going to the concert together and I know we will have a wonderful time. So this blog post is dedicated to you Mona :D You are an amazing woman and I am proud to call you my sister :)

Heart of stone??

Okay this is not what i intended to do with this blog when I first started it and it will be the first and last post of the sort, but I just could not let this slip by without commenting on it and since the girl who wrote this blog post: http://farkthis.livejournal.com/8873.html hat inabled comments I decided to do it on my own blog.

First of all I have no idea who either the girl writing the blog is or PK is , but the girl who is under attack is a close friend of mine, but I really also do feel that is besides the point. I know that girl in question is a strong person with a lot of friends but that too is besides the point. I am a big girl just like her but that is not why I took offense to this either. The real reason is online bullying and all the recent cases of suicide that has happened because of it. If this blogger really don't know who my friend is she wouldn't have any idea of how a blog like this was going to affect her. I am all for speaking your opinion on blogs and letting the world know how you feel about everything between heaven and hell, but why would anyone do a blog post like this?

I wanna leave everyone with one last thought: always remember there is a real person behind every photo you use. A person with feeling, family and friends. A person just like you. So before you lash out how would you feel if someone did the same thing to you? I don't think anything bad of the subject of the blog post. It is okay to talk about how people dress, but I really don't see any reason to personalize it like that.

This blog post is dedicated to this woman, who is not only beautiful but also an amazing friend:

I would like to spend some time with you!!

Great Big Sea have released their new single and thereby their new music video. The song is Good People and it is without a doubt one of the best on the album and the one (as my friends and readers might remember) the one I expected it to be.

The song's lyrics are nothing short of heartwarming, the melody is catchy and is beautifully song by Séan McCann. If you don't know it already it is well worth a listen, and if you do then listen anyway and be moved and believe along with me and the Great Big Sea lads that people are born good!!




If this made you wanna buy their cd you can! On: www.greatbigsea.com/store

Under the star(s)...

Ok I know I usually don't write much about danish music or musicians, but last night I was at a concert and I was actually really impressed by him. I've know his music since he reliezed his first single in arpil last year, but he has only gotten better.

Rasmus Seebach, as he is called, has an amazing voice and he is a great preformer. It is not the last time I'll go see one of his shows that's for sure.

And my friend and I had a great time:

Tommy Seebach (Rasmus' dad) died a few years ago, but he was one of biggest musicians in Denmark at that time and it looks like his son is ready to take his place. Last night Rasmus sang one of his dad's song. He sounds a lot like him and this song, Under stjernerne på himlen, (Under the stars in the sky) which is written by his dad for his babysister really moved me:

Uh uh uuh

I'm going to a concert tomorrow night with my friend Theresa:

And we are going to see this guy:




I'm sure we'll have a great time and who knows maybe the night will end with one of these:

Rise and rise again - untill lambs become lions!

Robin Hood was finally released on dvd here in Denmark yesterday. I’ve been looking forward to seeing this movie again for some time now and I finally did last night and it is just as good as I remembered it to be. The movie on the dvd is a director’s cut and 16 min of extra scenes are added with doesn’t hurt the movie at all, on the contrary they make the movie better.

If you haven’t seen the movie yet, It’ll be worth it to check it out. The movie is directed by Ridley Scott and stars great actors like Cate Blanchett, Russell Crowe, Scott Grimes and Kevin Durrand. To those of you who know the Newfoundland band Great Big Sea the movie also stars Alan Doyle and contains a few great songs written by him as well.

Watch it I swear you won’t regret :D

Time to switch to Corb Lund

"I've been Corb'ed" that is what Sean McCann wrote on twitter a few months ago and now I can say the same thing :D
Corb Lund is a candian country musician and he is really good. The first time I saw him was on a youtube vid of him opening for Great Big Sea and immidaiatly I liked him. I checked a few of his cds out and now I can say that I've surely been corb'ed ;D

This is were I first heard him singing I wanna be in the cavalry when Great Big Sea joined their opening act on stage.



Corb Lund's songs are both funny and beautiful and I like both. He's got a great voice and an ability to draw you into his music like he does in this beautiful sad song The truth comes out.



other times he'll just make you laugh and sing along like in this song (Hard on Equipment) ;D



Whatever the mood you are in Corb Lund has a song that fits ;D

Cause he had something to say.....

I've always had a great love for words since I was a little girl. I was listening to music trying to memorize the songs of danish artist when I couldn't have been much older than 3.

I loved it when my sister read out load to me and even before I started writing and reading I was making up stories which i recorded on to an old taperecorder.

Then I got older and I learned to write and started spitting out stories of dragons, witches and horses on paper. Wierd subjects? Yes, I know, but none the less true!

For a while through high school I forgot about this passion of mine, but a few years ago it returned and I started writing poems and today I even write short stories to when ever I get the chance.

So when I like a movie or a song the lines and lyrics has just as much to do with it as the actors and the melody. My point is that I don't often realize this before I sit down and really listen to the lyrics of a song like I did last night.

I already knew both Sean McCann and Alan Doyle of Great Big Sea are some of the best lyricist in the world (at least in my opinion), but this song really moved me more that any lyrics normally do(maybe because it in a way brough my thoughts to my own family and my grandparents).

This song is not yet released but hopefully it will be soon. It is written and preformed by the amazingly talented Sean McCann. Take a listen... and be moved!!

Where the wind cuts like a knife

A few days ago hurricane Igor hit Newfoundland, Canada, where a close friend of mine lives. Almost all newfoundlanders made it though this safely and so did my friend, eventhough the experience has left it's marks and with good reason.
Igor turned over trees, flooded houses, washed out bridges and roads. In other words left Newfoundland in chaos!!
Newfoundland is a place I admire and hope to visit one day and I have no doubt in my mind it's people and cities will recover from this, the worst storm they've seen for years.

The first I've heard of the hurricane hitting NFLD was when i turned on my tv after getting home from school. I was surprised to see this place on the news in Denmark (that does not happen often) and concerned for my friend. The damages to the city offcourse isn't even half as bad as when Katrina hit New Orleans but I felt it hit me harder or at least in a different way. When you know people living where disaster hits you feel a need to help the second you realize something is wrong so maybe gloabalisation, facebook and everything else that binds people together across countries is what is gonna save our world one day. Who knows...

But no doubt the storm was terrible and I feel very lucky to live in Denmark where storms like Igor usually passes by, where earthquakes don't happen and I am still to see a twister...
And living on an Island when a hurricane hits really doesn't look fun does it???



I wrote this poem after reading my friends journal on the day and after I knew she was safe and with her family...

It is called Out of reach - out of control.

When wild winds rushes through
when the sea is roaring
and water is crashing from the sky
When the world she knows is flooding
when her home is no longer safe
and help is hard to find

When you just go by your day
when you turn on your tv
to see streets you recognize in chaos
When you feel trapped worlds away
when all you wanna is help
to linger the pain of a friend

When she fears the sorrow of loss
when she is surounded by family
and still she feels alone
When disaster hits close to heart
when a place so far feels close
and still out of my reach

The magical world of Julie Nord ;D

The first time i discovered this amazing artist was at Aros where her amazing exhibition Xenoglossy was displayed.

Xenoglossy is a term for an occult languagephenomonen where people suddenly in a trancelike state speak a language they have never learn or spoken before.

Julie Nord's paitings varies between black and white pen and ink painting to colorfilled watercolor paintings. Her still is uniqe and brings us into a magical world with cute anima, dolllike girls and flowers to persuade us to move closer only to see the dark shadows lurking in the form of flesheating plants, hybridbeings and skull.

Eventough Julie Nord paintings shows a magical world they also portray the real world and how darkness can be pressent behind the happiest of settings.

This painting shows none of the hybrid beings I talked about but it shows the duality which always exist in her art anyway. The painting looks piecefull when you first see it, but at a closer look you see the grief in the oen of the dogs eyes and the fearfull expression in the other dogs eyes. A fear of the big white void that seems to grow futher and futher into the picture. The girls eyes looks empty and distant aswell and the pot that is tipping over illustrades the surface is about to burst.

Nord often uses this void in her pictures and stands in great contrast to the overwhelming amount of details. The void expresses and emptyness or something that is left unsaid and like in most of ther other pictures are nightcreatures rushing out of the shadows and the flowers the girl is holding are dead and full of skull. The cute animals which drew us closer got the same sad and fearfull expression as the dogs in the painting above.

The duality is also shown in her colorwork, with a little child walking with her carriage on a beautiful summer day, but the doll in the pram tell us another story than what appears to be, a story full of shadow and darkness.

The painting of hybridbeings are another one of Julie Nord's characteristic. The beautiful colors and the absurd being is the constrast in this one, like the sad look in the girls face are a contrast to the light in the ceiling.

This picuture ones again in a real literal sense shows the duality of life. The most life like girl is in the middle of her dark side and her lighter side. To me it illustrutate the two side of one person and the one in the middle shows that noone can see inside us or feel what we are feeling.

A lot of her pictures are a testimony of how a void inside us can scare us and be all consuming, but it is also a way of showing how easy it can be to hide away the darkness and shadows inside within ourself, but nomattter how good we get at hidding them, they'll always be there.

This last painting is one of my favourite ones and I'll leave it and the quote with you without commenting on it. Hope you'll enjoy her art as much as I do :D

"Just before I fell asleep, I dreamt I woke up - lying beside My Self."