Amazing new song..

The song I am talking about is Sadness of a Woman by Russell Crowe and Alan Doyle feat. Danielle Spencer. It is all new and is laying on youtube as a tast of their new album Crowe/Doyle Songbook (availible on itunes now and on amazone on august 9th). I will be giving a full review when I purchase the cd myself. Untill then listen to this one and enjoy :)

Living and Learning

I am a firm believer in the saying: "that which doesn't kill you can only make you stronger," and I my case it hasen't killed me yet.

A lot of stuff has added to me being the person that I am today and even though I've been through things that wasen't fun at the time - there actually isn't one single experience that I'd rather been without. If I haden't moved away from home at an early age I maybe wouldn't have had as strong a relationship with my sister as I have today, if I hadn't lived at Roenbjerghus first I maybe wouldn't have realized how truely lucky I was to live at a place like Fjordbo later and I am sure I wouldn't have been the person that I am today hadn't it been for either of those places. Roenbjerghus destroyed me and Fjordbo picked me back up - but I wouldn't have been as strong and confident as I am today hadn't I gone through what I did.

I am not sitting here feeling sorry for myself and I am not saying that my life has been any harder or easier than others. We all have or challenges and I have had mine.
This past year has made me appriciate my past a bit more - and the character it build in me. A few of the downs has been a fight between a life long friend and me - I doubt our friendship will ever be the same but today we talked for the first time in months and I feel we might be able to have another kinda friendship in the past.

There's been cancer in my family this year and their still is. I've feelt the sadness of not being able to see my brother as much as I used too because he moved away and a friend of mine has been bullied in a very public way (which I recentely noticed is still going on), but there has been alot of good stuff this year too.

Lots of great moments with my best friend and he amazing kids, other great moments with other good friends and me and my sister I feel is closer than ever and it ment the world to me to be able to acompany her to her first U2 concert (her fave band) and see have happy that made her.

Well I actually had a point when I started this post believe me or not ;) What I am trying to say is; it is so easy to only focus on the negative stuff in life and for some reason it is easier for us to stay mad at someone instead of listening and forgiving. I know - I've been there. I am not trying to make myself out to be a saint and this piece of advise is meant for me as much as anyone who feels like they need it:

Let go of the bad stuff in you life. Try and forgive people around you or hey maybe even yourselves. If you look at the brigth sides of life the sun will shine right through and what hurts and seems unfair today might turn out to be what will help you become the person you will become in a few years.

So thanks to everyone who ever hurt me or helped me in the past - you have brigthened my days or you who made the world seem like the worst place to be - all who have ever touched me in a neagative way or a positive, in a huge way or a little easily forgotten way - I am proud of who I am today and you helped me become that person.

I will leave you all with a piece of advice from Alan Doyle - an advice I am trying to remember everyday myself and today I feel like I did - in more ways than one.

So come on people count your blessings not your curses, find the angel in your life and let go of the devils, smile at the simple stuff and the sun will find you for sure :)



blog u later :) Have a great week, look at the bright sides of life and love a little <3

Spring is here???

Oh not yet no - but March is, which means the hope that it will be here soon :) The days are getting longer and hopefully the days will be a bit warmer soon (and the snow might dissapear completly untill next winter too)

March for me means light, a few birthdays and a new reading challenge. This month it is danish female writers (which is a bit difficult since I haven't really read anything by a danish female writer since I left highshcool - not very much atleast). Denmark holds a lot of good writers and I am looking forward to this one. If you got any suggestions - as always let me know.

For the book I read last month - I'll do a blog post about that one too sometime this weekend.

Doesn't spring always wanna make you dance and sing??? ;)

Dance Dance by Great Big Sea:

And my heart set on home

4 days early I recieved Sean McCann's new solo album by mail today and I've gotta say Son of a Sailor is a brilliant piece of work and even better than his previous solo release Lullabies for bloodshot eyes.

Sean McCann is co-founder of newfoundland band Great Big Sea (look them up at http://www.greatbigsea.com/) but last February Sean released his first solo release Lullabies for Bloodshot eyes and now Son of a Sailor.

Lullabies for bloodshot eyes was an amazing album, but I have to say this one is even better.

The title track starts the album of. It is a quiet salute to every fisherman and to the lifestyle. It portrays the loss and hardship you have to endure, but also the beauty and pride of the life. The guitar play is soothing and underlines McCann's voice perfectly.

The second song on the album is called Long Road (lead me on) and this song really shows Sean's ability as a lyricist of with lines like, "this highway is a hammer and I am a rusty nail," and this road is an alter and i am her sacrifice." I love the violin in the background and how can you think the little soldier march in the end can be anything but amazing. It really emphasizes that life on the road is not a choice but a calling.

The third song of the album has got a country sound to it, which suits Sean's voice brilliantly as he showed ones before with the Great Big Sea song Good People and it is one of the more upbeat songs on the album. Jeen O'Brein's voice is also put to use perfectly as she backs Sean in this song which at a second listen is not as lighthearted as it might seems, but is still Sean's version of a happy song - which is fine by me. Sean's lyrics wouldn't just right if there weren't a touch of one might say reality to them cause let's face it noone is happy all the time.

The next song Doing Fine, is a bit darker and the last thing this person is, is doing fine. It is a story about a guy who drinks to much and is no longer able to remember what he did the night before, but one also gets the impression that the drinking is only a symptom and not the problem. Once again the Jeen O'Briens vocals does the song justice and she actually makes the song seem sader somehow. On the musical side the song is very stripped down, which is perfect. To many instruments might have taken some of the pain out of Sean's voice.

Soldier's song is the fifth song on the album and it is not the protest song you might think it is. Protest songs are preachy, but Sean somehow made one that isn't. There is no doubt in my mind Sean is against war, but he doesn't say that outload, instead he shows of his ability protray the soldier's emotions by writting the song as a letter home, him missing his wife and fearing the death lurking in the dark. Again the use of the violin helps emphasize the soldier's pain, and so does Sean's voice. The hurt he portrays actually makes the heart hurt.

The Reply is the most amazing song, I've ever heard. The romance and the miracle of a real life lovestory Sean's grandparents lived. I've been impressed by this song and this story form the first time I heard it and as you might remember i have blogged about it before http://mylife-nothingbutasong.blogspot.com/2010/09/cause-he-had-something-to-say.html The song is now a duet between Sean and Jeen o'Brien which only makes the story more beautiful. I love how stripped down Sean have managed to keep it even on the album and how he let the story and their voices speak for themselves.

The 7th song is also a tip of the hat to the sailor lifestyle, but it is way more upbeat than Son of a Sailor and Sean's shows his legacy of as he sounds just like a sailor. The song's got claping and lots of amazing newfoundland intruments and you can just picture him standing on a deck surounded by his boatcrew with their intruments in hand singing away with his first man Alan Doyle by his side (fellow Great Big Sea man, who produced the album and whoms vocals are very easy to recognize in the background of this song). Listen and I promise you you can't help but clap and dance along.

I just love the guitar play in Hard Living Life and the vocal harmonies between Sean McCann and Alan Doyle. The song is about how amazing bachelor life might seem in the beginning. How fun partying might, it gets old and lonely and how the life you once loved can turn on you and no longer be a choice but almost a curse. A great song and very well written.

Once again a very simple song mucicalwise, but the lyrics has multiple layers. On the surface it is a sailor leaving home, fearing if he'll ever be back - but it could also just be about all the goodbyes life offers you. The people you knew but have changed to much for you to recognize them anymore, to all the people that have died, to all the people you've left behind and maybe the one walking into the bloodred sky is not the sailor, but you? An amazing little song and vocally so empressive. Sean sings with such emphaty he makes yor heart bleed for every person you lost in you life.

Back to you is the last song of the album and is one of the album's more upbeat songs and more possitive ones to, maybe because it was co-written with Murray Foster (Great Big Sea basist). It also has a bit of a country sound to it which suits Sean's voice and the song is about not giving up. No matter how hard things might seem it is never to late to return home where the heart truely lies.

Sean McCann has managed to pick 10 beautiful, but very different song and still make the album sound as a whole, by using strings, madolins and guitar. Sean's got an amazing ability to bring his listeners into the song with him and he brought me a long for 10 amazing stories and let me feel every feeling I ever felt my life in the matter half an hour. Well done Mr. McCann - well done!

If you wanna give the songs a listen or maybe even buy them do so here: http://greatbigsean.com/site/

So I'll just say goodnight with this song:

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

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!!

Row me bully boys....

Just found out "the movie of the year" ROBIN HOOD with Russell Crowe and to those who know Great Big Sea Alan Doyle will be released on sep 21 ;D Can't wait ;D

And to pass the time let's hear Russell and his merry men sing a song ;D