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.
"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
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!!
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 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."
I was visting Aros a few weeks back with a friend of mine. Aros is a modern arts museum located in Arhus. I've been there before and everytime I go I find someting new that impresses me. This time 2 special exhibitions really left a mark on me.
The first one was a photo exhibition by Jacob Holst called Holts' America - Hope, belief and love These are some of my fave shots:
These photos showed the America the artist has experienced throughout the 30 years he lived there. It showed pictures of the how normal it seems to be carrying guns and horrific pictures of how poor some people really are overthere, but it also showed pictures full of compassion, hope and love... Wonderful :D
The other exhibition that really impressed me was by Julie Nord. I'll only show a few pictures of hers since I intent to dedicate a later blog post to her. She really left an impression on me and I'll never forget her name again and her art is now hanging on my wall ;D
Julie Nord is a brilliant artist and I will diffinatly show more of her art in a later blog, where I'll also give my opinion on some of my my fave pictures.
And now i finally got around to it... I got my own profil on youtube started to were i will soem of the videos I have laying on my computer. If you wanna look it up you can find it here:
