By Beatrice Raushill SPS06
When I was thirteen years old I read two books which were the first books that I thought were good. The books are connected to eachother and together they made a big impact on me. The books are called Klassresan and Malin + Rasmus = Sant by Moni Brännström Nilsson. I think the names of the books are rather silly but the stories are very good and they probably affected me so much because I was so young and had not yet read so many serious books.
It is a story about love and problems as a teenager and it ends tragically, so the genre will probably be a tragedy. I have never read those books again so the only memories I have is from the first time. Anyway the first book Klassresan is about a class that soon will quit sixth class and get separated and start at a new school. That was exactly what I had just done and that was why I got interested in that book. The class is going on a last trip together and it is a girl in the class and her life that the book is partly about. The author writes partly from the girls perspective (from her diary) and partly from the classmates’ perspectives. This girl gets along with a boy that is new in the class. He is two years older and does not care about school so much. He is a real bad boy who smokes, drinks and even inhales drugs. Because of that he is a pupil who has not moved up and is now going in her class.
It was really easy to understand the book because the writer describes everything very well. She writes a lot about the characters’ lives in detail so you get to know everything about them. At the same time as I read the book I listened to the radio as I usually do when I read. There were particularly two songs that I remember well, so when I hear them today I think of the acting in the book. I had already experienced something like Klassresan myself and that made it more interesting to read the second book, Malin + Rasmus = Sant, which could be something I was going to experience. The people had changed and were still changing as they started a new school and got new friends. The girl and the boy (Malin and Rasmus) fall in love with each other of course, but they are very different, and some bad things happen in their relationship, such as Rasmus starts to inhale drugs again after a while even though he promised Malin to quit. It was interesting to read about how the classmates changed and I thought that is how real life is. That will happen to me and my friends and other classmates too. I understood how this girl felt in the different situations, all her insecurity and the problems you have as a teenager. It felt good to read about something that was a little like myself at that time.
I also liked the story because it was so cute with all the love, and the love was such a big difference to all other things Rasmus was doing. The love made him change and he stopped doing bad things and spent more time studying. It did not affect my values and tastes so much as I recall it, but just because I was quite young I thought “So this is what life is going to be like?” “Will something like this happen to me too?”. The book changed my idea of life a bit. It was such a great book and a very sad ending, which made the book even better, and it probably affected my heart a little too. I don’t feel like I am burned out on it because I have just read it once. The only thing would be that I think the titles of the books are a little bit childish. I do not feel like an artist, and even if I did, it would not be because of this book. It has not given me any inspiration to be any kind of artist, it was just enjoyable reading.
Monday, December 17, 2007
My favourite work of art
I would say it is probably one of the best bands I know. About four years ago one of my best friends introduced me to Coldplay. I remember that I was a little doubtful, I did not know if I enjoyed the music or not. Usually it is not that hard to decide, but this time it was, which on the other hand is a good sign that the music was special. I had heard their songs before, but I guess I did not make a mental note. Well, after listening to their songs over and over again, just like my friend told me, I began to love Coldplay, their music and their lyrics. Coldplay only consists of guys, but still it is not a typical boyband, like Westlife and Backstreet boys.
When I realized how good they were, and after falling in love with them, the only music I was listening to was Coldplay. I turned up the volume and then I just sat by the computer and enjoyed it. Of course I still do this sometimes, but now I have so much more great music to choose from, so it does not happen very often.
I think that Fix you was the first song I heard, and it is still one of my favourites. Sometimes when I listen to it, I get overwhelmed with joy, and it feels almost like I am walking on clouds. Also, when I am listening to it, I often sing along, and it makes me feel very good. Its great lyrics can make anyone feel good and happy. Your problems seems to be smaller, it feels like everything is going to be alright even though it did not feel that way before. However, I am not sure how long that feeling lasts, probably not very long. Here are a few lines from the lyrics:
When you try your best but you don't succeed
When you get what you want but not what you need
When you feel so tired but you can't sleep
Stuck in reverse
I am presumably not the only on to recognize myself in this text. It is a perfect description of a bad time in your life. The text is actually a little sad, but somehow it also gives hope. I think that is what I like about this song, there is hope. I think that hope is the most important thing to have. But, apart from this song, Coldplay has many other great songs. There is one for every mood, which is great. The only problem is that maybe I have been listening too much to some songs, so now I have to be in a special Coldplay-mood. But when I am in that special mood, Coldplay is the only band I can listen to. This is also when I get crazy and walk on clouds which I mentioned before. I do not think I can say "That is my absolute favourite song!" because there are so many great. And if I would try, it would be more than one in the first place. It is not only Coldplay's songs, it is also their singer. He has an excellent, lovely, very special voice and I just love it. In short, he is a great singer! He is also very good-looking.
I remember when we were on a trip with my class a couple of years ago. One of the guys turned on one of my favourite songs, and I went insane and shone like a sun. Of course I was not the only one to love them, so there were a few more who became happy, not only me! Unfortunately the sound was pretty bad. But we enjoyed it anyway, well, at least I did.
I think that I will always like Coldplay. Maybe not as much as I do right now, but I will probably allways like their music in some way. There are always moments in your life you need music like this, and I think Coldplay will be my first choice.
When I realized how good they were, and after falling in love with them, the only music I was listening to was Coldplay. I turned up the volume and then I just sat by the computer and enjoyed it. Of course I still do this sometimes, but now I have so much more great music to choose from, so it does not happen very often.
I think that Fix you was the first song I heard, and it is still one of my favourites. Sometimes when I listen to it, I get overwhelmed with joy, and it feels almost like I am walking on clouds. Also, when I am listening to it, I often sing along, and it makes me feel very good. Its great lyrics can make anyone feel good and happy. Your problems seems to be smaller, it feels like everything is going to be alright even though it did not feel that way before. However, I am not sure how long that feeling lasts, probably not very long. Here are a few lines from the lyrics:
When you try your best but you don't succeed
When you get what you want but not what you need
When you feel so tired but you can't sleep
Stuck in reverse
I am presumably not the only on to recognize myself in this text. It is a perfect description of a bad time in your life. The text is actually a little sad, but somehow it also gives hope. I think that is what I like about this song, there is hope. I think that hope is the most important thing to have. But, apart from this song, Coldplay has many other great songs. There is one for every mood, which is great. The only problem is that maybe I have been listening too much to some songs, so now I have to be in a special Coldplay-mood. But when I am in that special mood, Coldplay is the only band I can listen to. This is also when I get crazy and walk on clouds which I mentioned before. I do not think I can say "That is my absolute favourite song!" because there are so many great. And if I would try, it would be more than one in the first place. It is not only Coldplay's songs, it is also their singer. He has an excellent, lovely, very special voice and I just love it. In short, he is a great singer! He is also very good-looking.
I remember when we were on a trip with my class a couple of years ago. One of the guys turned on one of my favourite songs, and I went insane and shone like a sun. Of course I was not the only one to love them, so there were a few more who became happy, not only me! Unfortunately the sound was pretty bad. But we enjoyed it anyway, well, at least I did.
I think that I will always like Coldplay. Maybe not as much as I do right now, but I will probably allways like their music in some way. There are always moments in your life you need music like this, and I think Coldplay will be my first choice.
Lords of Dogtown
I have chosen to present a movie that really got my attention the first time I saw it. It is called Lords of Dogtown, and it is a mixture of drama, sport, action and biography. It reaches out to many people, considering it consist of so many different genres.
It is based on a true story about the Z-boys. And who were they then? They were three teenagers from Venice Beach, California during the 1970s, who loved to skateboard. Actually it’s these guys who took skateboarding to a whole new level. Their names are Tony Alva, Stacy Peralta and Jay Adams. You get to follow them from the beginning of their skateboarding and all the way towards their success.
They all grew up in messy families, their parents were either alcoholics, drug users or unemployed. None of them had a lot of money, but it really didn’t bother them because all they wanted to do was to skate. And they were able to do that with some help from a guy called Skip. He runs a surf shop but he is also very interested in skateboarding. He decides to help them to join competitions and other events, and he starts a skate team called the Zephyr team. He says “there are more concrete in the world than there are good waves”. Alva, Peralta and Adams outshine the others at the competitions and sponsorships are thrown at them. And before they know it they are world famous, and they all becomes rivals. But there is one of them who doesn’t let the success go to his head, Jay Adams. While the other two are travelling the globe to promote themselves, he still hang around in Dogtown. He doesn’t really bother because he sees what fame has done to his former best friends. He thinks that they have lost the meaning with skateboarding, and they just do it for the money. Jay refuses to give up the one thing he really loved for some papers with numbers on them!
The first time I saw it, I was hooked. I was sitting at home and had nothing to do so I rented this movie, mostly because I had heard that is was good. So I gave it a shot. Anyway I was completely amazed by it. I don’t know much about how to make a movie but even I can tell that the camera-work is awesome. They have really captured all the brilliant moments in it. I think that they have thought about everything to make it interesting for the watcher. Even the colours are changed to look like you are in the 1970s. And they have chosen the music that was popular back in those days and you recognize at least some of it. In one scene when Tony Alva is falling at a very high speed in a downhill you can really feel the pain.
It brings up what it is like to be a teenager in a world full of uncaring adults. I think everyone has felt left out sometimes in their lives. I know I have, more than once. You feel like you are misunderstood and just small. You will always be a child among older people. Everywhere around you there are people without caring parents with alcohol –or drug problems. You think that everything is good and great one moment and the next everything just falls to pieces. I think that it is really important that you have an interest so you don’t have to be in and around the problems all the time. That would just break you down even more.
I think that the skateboarding helped them to get through. They wanted to prove to their parents that they could manage to do it, and it is also a way to break free I guess. The true reason why they got as good as they got I think is because they were so determined to make it, to be able to show to their parents that they didn’t need them anymore.
This movie is also about relationships between brothers and sisters, children and parents. All of these three guys had either lost a mother or a father, none of them had both of their parents around. They counted on their siblings. If I can’t talk to one of my parents about something I always talk to my brother. Since there is only one year between us I feel that he can relate more to some things than my parents can.
Now I’ve seen the movie so many times that I can’t even remember how many, and I’m not burned out on it yet. Perhaps I will later but as it feels now I don’t think so, because every time I watch it I find something new that I hadn’t noticed before. And that’s how a real good movie should be like. No matter how many times you’ve seen it you will always find something new!
Cecilia Friis smsp06
It is based on a true story about the Z-boys. And who were they then? They were three teenagers from Venice Beach, California during the 1970s, who loved to skateboard. Actually it’s these guys who took skateboarding to a whole new level. Their names are Tony Alva, Stacy Peralta and Jay Adams. You get to follow them from the beginning of their skateboarding and all the way towards their success.
They all grew up in messy families, their parents were either alcoholics, drug users or unemployed. None of them had a lot of money, but it really didn’t bother them because all they wanted to do was to skate. And they were able to do that with some help from a guy called Skip. He runs a surf shop but he is also very interested in skateboarding. He decides to help them to join competitions and other events, and he starts a skate team called the Zephyr team. He says “there are more concrete in the world than there are good waves”. Alva, Peralta and Adams outshine the others at the competitions and sponsorships are thrown at them. And before they know it they are world famous, and they all becomes rivals. But there is one of them who doesn’t let the success go to his head, Jay Adams. While the other two are travelling the globe to promote themselves, he still hang around in Dogtown. He doesn’t really bother because he sees what fame has done to his former best friends. He thinks that they have lost the meaning with skateboarding, and they just do it for the money. Jay refuses to give up the one thing he really loved for some papers with numbers on them!
The first time I saw it, I was hooked. I was sitting at home and had nothing to do so I rented this movie, mostly because I had heard that is was good. So I gave it a shot. Anyway I was completely amazed by it. I don’t know much about how to make a movie but even I can tell that the camera-work is awesome. They have really captured all the brilliant moments in it. I think that they have thought about everything to make it interesting for the watcher. Even the colours are changed to look like you are in the 1970s. And they have chosen the music that was popular back in those days and you recognize at least some of it. In one scene when Tony Alva is falling at a very high speed in a downhill you can really feel the pain.
It brings up what it is like to be a teenager in a world full of uncaring adults. I think everyone has felt left out sometimes in their lives. I know I have, more than once. You feel like you are misunderstood and just small. You will always be a child among older people. Everywhere around you there are people without caring parents with alcohol –or drug problems. You think that everything is good and great one moment and the next everything just falls to pieces. I think that it is really important that you have an interest so you don’t have to be in and around the problems all the time. That would just break you down even more.
I think that the skateboarding helped them to get through. They wanted to prove to their parents that they could manage to do it, and it is also a way to break free I guess. The true reason why they got as good as they got I think is because they were so determined to make it, to be able to show to their parents that they didn’t need them anymore.
This movie is also about relationships between brothers and sisters, children and parents. All of these three guys had either lost a mother or a father, none of them had both of their parents around. They counted on their siblings. If I can’t talk to one of my parents about something I always talk to my brother. Since there is only one year between us I feel that he can relate more to some things than my parents can.
Now I’ve seen the movie so many times that I can’t even remember how many, and I’m not burned out on it yet. Perhaps I will later but as it feels now I don’t think so, because every time I watch it I find something new that I hadn’t noticed before. And that’s how a real good movie should be like. No matter how many times you’ve seen it you will always find something new!
Cecilia Friis smsp06
Cold Mountain!
This is a romantic drama that is very sad, but at the same time a very beautiful story about love and how a man must fight for the woman he love. What does love at first sight mean? That is what this movie shows in a very special way and how much patience you must have if you really love somebody! The story takes place during the American civil war and is about a woman who meets a very special man and they fall in love when they just have exchanged some few words. But just when they get to know each other, he gets a calling and has to go to war, to fight for his country and they have to go different ways. But she expects to see him in just a few month and believes that he will come back for her. But after more than two years without any answer from her letters she loses faith in seeing him again. That’s what love at the first sight is all about. The first time I saw this movie was at the cinema. I had heard that it should be a great movie, so me and my friends went to the cinema. It is one of the best movies I have seen. It catches every viewer’s attention directly from the beginning until the ending. I do not think this movie has affected me in a very special way but in my mind I started to think and really understood that it must have been a very hard situation for the people during this time when it was war, to go different ways knowing that they might not see each other again. It is a very sad story and I felt as being in the movie and in that situation.... you know it is like...when they cry you cry, and when they are happy you’re happy. I do not believe that you become tired of this movie because it is not like other movies. It shows so many different feelings. And I just love the characters in the movie because they are very special and they are so important in the story. Well, I have not got tired of it yet and I have seen it many times I just know that I love to see this movie again.
Sushi for Beginners by Marian Keyes
All right! I guess my favourite novel is Sushi for Beginners. I like to read about women who are in their early thirties, their problems and their happiness. I do not know if it is because I will know what I am supposed to do and what I am not supposed to do when I am in my thirties. and I do not think I am the only one to recognize part of my life wiht theirs.It is a "girly" book so I do not think boys would like it.
I have lots of memories from it, I just read it. I can not point out just a few events in the book, the whole book is so great. But perhaps the strongest memory is when you realize that Clodagh (Ashling´s best friend)is having a secret relationship with Ashling´s boyfriend, and that is tearing their friendship apart. At first you just know that Clodagh is seeing someone and then you understand who he really is and you feel the pain that Ashling must have felt the moment when she sees them together.
I have just read the novel once, but I do not think I will be "burned out" on it for a long time. If you read some other books by Marian Keyes you will see that many of them are about women looking for happiness. All right I said, I like these kind of books but I sometimes I hesitate whethwe I like them or not.
I have lots of memories from it, I just read it. I can not point out just a few events in the book, the whole book is so great. But perhaps the strongest memory is when you realize that Clodagh (Ashling´s best friend)is having a secret relationship with Ashling´s boyfriend, and that is tearing their friendship apart. At first you just know that Clodagh is seeing someone and then you understand who he really is and you feel the pain that Ashling must have felt the moment when she sees them together.
I have just read the novel once, but I do not think I will be "burned out" on it for a long time. If you read some other books by Marian Keyes you will see that many of them are about women looking for happiness. All right I said, I like these kind of books but I sometimes I hesitate whethwe I like them or not.
Thursday, December 6, 2007
CAN’T STAND ME NOW
By LINNÉA ENGLANDER
Have we enough to keep it together?Or do we just keep on pretending (and hope our luck is never ending)...
These lines are from one of my favourite songs Can’t Stand Me Now which detailed the breakdown of the two chaotic front men in the Libertines. They describe the bad situation they were in at that time, which included drugs and the disturbance between the two of them. When you listen to this song and know a little bit about the history of the band you can really feel the hate but also the love that they had for each other.
Nowadays when you hear the name Pete Doherty, you often associate him with drugs and the supermodel Kate Moss. Okay, he has a really big drug problem and he is in an on and of relationship with Kate but the story does not end there.
He is, in my perspective, one of the best writers and musicians in our time. When I heard the song Music When the Light Go Out for the first time I thought that it sounded really weird. I had never heard anything like it. I did not think it sounded good, but in a strange way I liked it. The lyrics were a little bit hard to understand, and I did not really get the point of it. But after listening to it a few times I was in love with the song. I started listening more to the music and after one or two weeks, I was totally possessed of the mysterious lyrics and tunes, and I wanted to know everything about them.
After a long research on every odd and fake page on the internet I got a slight understanding of who they were. Nowadays, when I know almost everything about them, I can really say that the internet is sometimes full of rubbish. Anyway, the information about them made me feel even more interested and after reading through almost every song lyrics I really liked them. You can not write down their whole life story in one single page because it is just so much. But here is a shorter version: Pete and Carl Barat met through Pete’s sister when Carl was studying drama and Pete English literature. After a while they moved in together and then formed a band named The Libertines. Pete explains that a libertine like a person who is free and enjoying life in every sense (just compare to the movie The Libertine).They made a big success in the UK and even in the US. In 2004 the band split up. Pete was kicked out because of his drug abuse the tabloids told us, but I know that it was a little bit more complicated than that.
I can not say which album I prefer most, but the debut Up the Bracket with its wonderful song: The Good Old Days is one of my favourites. The lines:
It's not about, tenements and needlesand all the evils in their eyesand the backs of their mindsDaisy chains and school yard gamesAnd a list of things we said we'd do tomorrowA list of things we said we'd do tomorrow
just make me feel like screaming! I construe that the lyrics are about that you should not care what other people think and say about you because life is more than that.
I especially like the line: a list of things we said we’d do tomorrow because sometimes it really feels like you want to set about doing things, but you just sit and dream of it.
The second album, the self-titled the Libertines with it’s What Became Of the Likely Lads? and the lines What became of the dreams we had?, and What Became of Forever? which tells the story about the cruel breakdown of the deep and sensitive friendship between Pete and Carl and the following collapse of the band, it is really moving and sad.
After reading the book Pete Doherty talking, I must say that I like the first album most, because he tells about the hard times when they recorded the second album, and that they needed security just for being in the same room. So I think the first album, which certainly included some drugs and fights is still more real and sincere than the second, because the whole band was about to split up when they recorded it.
I can go on and on telling you about how great they were, but in some peoples’ eyes they were nothing more that a pair of naive teenagers who wanted a bit of fame and money. Yes, they were young and naive and they wanted money. But who is blaming them? They loved music and poetry and wanted people to hear their work. Which artists do not? And of course they needed money. And where the drugs came in, I do not know. But after reading a lot about them I can just say that it was not Pete who started doing drugs, it was Carl. Even if that is not important I just want to clear that out, since everybody blames Pete for the break-up.
I do not think I will ever feel burned out of them because they have meant so much to me. Even if I feel angrier reading the news everyday about Pete destroying his life with drugs, I know that he is a really kind person who does not want to hurt anybody. He is a poet and a great songwriter and sometimes it feels like that is the price you have to pay.
I will follow Pete through his bad and good times and I will never forget him. For me a Libertines reunion would be almost as good as a Beatles reunion. I think that Carl’s new band Dirty Pretty Things and Pete’s band Babyshambles are really good, but I rather see them together. It is just like splitting up Simon and Garfunkel; both individuals are great alone, for example Art Garfunkel doing Bright Eyes, but, I do not think it could compete with a Simon and Garfunkels song like Bridge over Trouble Water or Sounds Of Silence. Pete’s and Carl’s chemistry are just made to work, even if they have a hard time showing it. I think the drugs are an important player in the game.
In fact, Pete and Carl had a little reunion this year. Pete was playing with his band on a concert and in the middle of the libertine’s song What a Waster, Carl appeared on the stage and they played old Libertines songs, even Babyshambles songs. Pete’s line before Carl came in was: Ladies and gents w/out further ado, I've been waiting for this moment - Mr Carlos Barat! and then after a while he added: nah just kidding, what you expected for 25 quid? So the audience was really shocked when Carl appeared. But I do not know if this reunion is really going to last very long because Babyshambles has just released a new record. But I think there is still hope. In an interview Pete says: I am a libertine and I will always be a libertine, I have got it written on my arm.
P.S. if you want to se the fabulous reunion just enter http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is58uFO-rGc , it gives me goose pimples every time! D.S.
Have we enough to keep it together?Or do we just keep on pretending (and hope our luck is never ending)...
These lines are from one of my favourite songs Can’t Stand Me Now which detailed the breakdown of the two chaotic front men in the Libertines. They describe the bad situation they were in at that time, which included drugs and the disturbance between the two of them. When you listen to this song and know a little bit about the history of the band you can really feel the hate but also the love that they had for each other.
Nowadays when you hear the name Pete Doherty, you often associate him with drugs and the supermodel Kate Moss. Okay, he has a really big drug problem and he is in an on and of relationship with Kate but the story does not end there.
He is, in my perspective, one of the best writers and musicians in our time. When I heard the song Music When the Light Go Out for the first time I thought that it sounded really weird. I had never heard anything like it. I did not think it sounded good, but in a strange way I liked it. The lyrics were a little bit hard to understand, and I did not really get the point of it. But after listening to it a few times I was in love with the song. I started listening more to the music and after one or two weeks, I was totally possessed of the mysterious lyrics and tunes, and I wanted to know everything about them.
After a long research on every odd and fake page on the internet I got a slight understanding of who they were. Nowadays, when I know almost everything about them, I can really say that the internet is sometimes full of rubbish. Anyway, the information about them made me feel even more interested and after reading through almost every song lyrics I really liked them. You can not write down their whole life story in one single page because it is just so much. But here is a shorter version: Pete and Carl Barat met through Pete’s sister when Carl was studying drama and Pete English literature. After a while they moved in together and then formed a band named The Libertines. Pete explains that a libertine like a person who is free and enjoying life in every sense (just compare to the movie The Libertine).They made a big success in the UK and even in the US. In 2004 the band split up. Pete was kicked out because of his drug abuse the tabloids told us, but I know that it was a little bit more complicated than that.
I can not say which album I prefer most, but the debut Up the Bracket with its wonderful song: The Good Old Days is one of my favourites. The lines:
It's not about, tenements and needlesand all the evils in their eyesand the backs of their mindsDaisy chains and school yard gamesAnd a list of things we said we'd do tomorrowA list of things we said we'd do tomorrow
just make me feel like screaming! I construe that the lyrics are about that you should not care what other people think and say about you because life is more than that.
I especially like the line: a list of things we said we’d do tomorrow because sometimes it really feels like you want to set about doing things, but you just sit and dream of it.
The second album, the self-titled the Libertines with it’s What Became Of the Likely Lads? and the lines What became of the dreams we had?, and What Became of Forever? which tells the story about the cruel breakdown of the deep and sensitive friendship between Pete and Carl and the following collapse of the band, it is really moving and sad.
After reading the book Pete Doherty talking, I must say that I like the first album most, because he tells about the hard times when they recorded the second album, and that they needed security just for being in the same room. So I think the first album, which certainly included some drugs and fights is still more real and sincere than the second, because the whole band was about to split up when they recorded it.
I can go on and on telling you about how great they were, but in some peoples’ eyes they were nothing more that a pair of naive teenagers who wanted a bit of fame and money. Yes, they were young and naive and they wanted money. But who is blaming them? They loved music and poetry and wanted people to hear their work. Which artists do not? And of course they needed money. And where the drugs came in, I do not know. But after reading a lot about them I can just say that it was not Pete who started doing drugs, it was Carl. Even if that is not important I just want to clear that out, since everybody blames Pete for the break-up.
I do not think I will ever feel burned out of them because they have meant so much to me. Even if I feel angrier reading the news everyday about Pete destroying his life with drugs, I know that he is a really kind person who does not want to hurt anybody. He is a poet and a great songwriter and sometimes it feels like that is the price you have to pay.
I will follow Pete through his bad and good times and I will never forget him. For me a Libertines reunion would be almost as good as a Beatles reunion. I think that Carl’s new band Dirty Pretty Things and Pete’s band Babyshambles are really good, but I rather see them together. It is just like splitting up Simon and Garfunkel; both individuals are great alone, for example Art Garfunkel doing Bright Eyes, but, I do not think it could compete with a Simon and Garfunkels song like Bridge over Trouble Water or Sounds Of Silence. Pete’s and Carl’s chemistry are just made to work, even if they have a hard time showing it. I think the drugs are an important player in the game.
In fact, Pete and Carl had a little reunion this year. Pete was playing with his band on a concert and in the middle of the libertine’s song What a Waster, Carl appeared on the stage and they played old Libertines songs, even Babyshambles songs. Pete’s line before Carl came in was: Ladies and gents w/out further ado, I've been waiting for this moment - Mr Carlos Barat! and then after a while he added: nah just kidding, what you expected for 25 quid? So the audience was really shocked when Carl appeared. But I do not know if this reunion is really going to last very long because Babyshambles has just released a new record. But I think there is still hope. In an interview Pete says: I am a libertine and I will always be a libertine, I have got it written on my arm.
P.S. if you want to se the fabulous reunion just enter http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is58uFO-rGc , it gives me goose pimples every time! D.S.
Self-esteem
I have read a book "Självkänsla nu" written by Mia Törnblom. It's a book about how to get good self-esteem and how important it is have.
When Mia Törnblom was younger she had bad self-esteem. She looked down on and despised other people, due to the fact of the low self-esteem she had, and that is one of the reasons why she wrote this book. She wants to let other people know how things can change, like it did to herself. She also wants you to think: I'm fine! And that you always have to rely on yourself, not being afraid of failing.
One important thing thing Mia Törnblom writes is: To get to a deep feeling of gratitude of what we have don't get to emphasize the weight of. When I say this I don't mean that we have to stop struggle for more development, joy, love, and other thinghs. But if we don't appreciate and feel greatful of what we have, we don't even either are going to feel satisfied of what we get. This piece says a lot how as a matter of fact lives are.
I like "Självkänsla nu" very much. It was my mum who bought it to me and immediately when I got the book I took a liking of it. I began reading, reading and reading! When I had read the book, I felt some change in myself. Before I read the bookm I had a feeling of lacking self-esteem, I quite often thought about what other people thought and said, but when I was finished reading I felt better. Nown I also think more and more of the importance of having a self-esteem. You will not be able to reach ypur goal without it.
Even if you do not have Mia Törnblom beside you, it almost feels like that, because she writes in that good way and she helps you on the way too.
According to myself, everyone should read the book, even if you have excellent self-esteem. I imagine that everyone should read the book because what she writes will affect you a lot. You will always remember what she told you. "Självkänsla nu" is excellent reading for everybody!
When Mia Törnblom was younger she had bad self-esteem. She looked down on and despised other people, due to the fact of the low self-esteem she had, and that is one of the reasons why she wrote this book. She wants to let other people know how things can change, like it did to herself. She also wants you to think: I'm fine! And that you always have to rely on yourself, not being afraid of failing.
One important thing thing Mia Törnblom writes is: To get to a deep feeling of gratitude of what we have don't get to emphasize the weight of. When I say this I don't mean that we have to stop struggle for more development, joy, love, and other thinghs. But if we don't appreciate and feel greatful of what we have, we don't even either are going to feel satisfied of what we get. This piece says a lot how as a matter of fact lives are.
I like "Självkänsla nu" very much. It was my mum who bought it to me and immediately when I got the book I took a liking of it. I began reading, reading and reading! When I had read the book, I felt some change in myself. Before I read the bookm I had a feeling of lacking self-esteem, I quite often thought about what other people thought and said, but when I was finished reading I felt better. Nown I also think more and more of the importance of having a self-esteem. You will not be able to reach ypur goal without it.
Even if you do not have Mia Törnblom beside you, it almost feels like that, because she writes in that good way and she helps you on the way too.
According to myself, everyone should read the book, even if you have excellent self-esteem. I imagine that everyone should read the book because what she writes will affect you a lot. You will always remember what she told you. "Självkänsla nu" is excellent reading for everybody!
Monday, December 3, 2007
My favourite movie
The Pirates of the Caribbean
My favourite work of art/entertainment is the movie The Pirates of the Caribbean. It is an action/comedy and there is a romance between Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) and Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley). Johnny Depp starrs captain Jack Sparrow. The movie is directed by Gore Verbinski and it is produced by Jerry Bruckheimer.
Will Turner is a blacksmith and he is in love with the governor’s daughter Elizabeth Swann. One night The Black Pearl (a big pirate ship) attacks Port Royal and the pirates kidnap Elizabeth. Earlier that day Will had confronted Captain Jack Sparrow and he put Jack into prison. After the attack Jack tells Will that he was the captain of The Black Pearl before Barbossa (a pirate) took over and he knows where they are taking Elizabeth. They follow The Black Pearl to the treasure island “Isla de Muerta”, but Jack is not interested in saving Elizabeth. He is only interested in the medallion, which Elizabeth took from Will when she found him on a shipwreck several years ago.
The first time I saw the movie was at the cinema with a couple of friends. It was fun. There is a lot of humour in the movie, the character Jack Sparrow is very funny and special. After I had seen this movie I started to like comedy/action movies. There is also humour in the parts which are scary and that is why I like it so much. I remember that I was smiling when we left the cinema and we talked about the movie all the way home.
I also think it is a really good movie because it makes you imagine what it was like to live in the 16th century.
I have seen it a dozen of times and I still like it after all these years, but maybe it is the fun parts in the movie, which are so special that you do not get tired of it.
Written by: Henric Malmros SMSP 06
My favourite work of art/entertainment is the movie The Pirates of the Caribbean. It is an action/comedy and there is a romance between Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) and Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley). Johnny Depp starrs captain Jack Sparrow. The movie is directed by Gore Verbinski and it is produced by Jerry Bruckheimer.
Will Turner is a blacksmith and he is in love with the governor’s daughter Elizabeth Swann. One night The Black Pearl (a big pirate ship) attacks Port Royal and the pirates kidnap Elizabeth. Earlier that day Will had confronted Captain Jack Sparrow and he put Jack into prison. After the attack Jack tells Will that he was the captain of The Black Pearl before Barbossa (a pirate) took over and he knows where they are taking Elizabeth. They follow The Black Pearl to the treasure island “Isla de Muerta”, but Jack is not interested in saving Elizabeth. He is only interested in the medallion, which Elizabeth took from Will when she found him on a shipwreck several years ago.
The first time I saw the movie was at the cinema with a couple of friends. It was fun. There is a lot of humour in the movie, the character Jack Sparrow is very funny and special. After I had seen this movie I started to like comedy/action movies. There is also humour in the parts which are scary and that is why I like it so much. I remember that I was smiling when we left the cinema and we talked about the movie all the way home.
I also think it is a really good movie because it makes you imagine what it was like to live in the 16th century.
I have seen it a dozen of times and I still like it after all these years, but maybe it is the fun parts in the movie, which are so special that you do not get tired of it.
Written by: Henric Malmros SMSP 06
Saving Private Ryan
My favourite work of art/entertainment is the film Saving Private Ryan
Saving Private Ryan is a WWII film, in which we follow a group of american soldiers that are going to bring a young soldier back home to his family, beacuse he has lost his three brothers in the war. The United States Army Chief of Staff promised his mother to try and bring her last son home. He made this promise beacuse the mother received all the news of the death of her three sons on the very same day. But the young soldier (Private Ryan) is behind enemy lines and they do not know if he is alive or dead. The United States Chief of Staff decided to send out eight men to bring Private Ryan back home. The soldiers were questioning the order and all the odds against them, why, should eight people risk their lives to bring one person home?
This film was awarded five Oscars. The director is Steven Spielberg and he received one of the awards.
I remember from the first time I saw it that it was a very good film. It is really well made. It made me think how hard it was for the soldier in the war and what they actually went through. I think the film has a very good and interesting story line, not just about the war but also about the bonds between the soldiers and how close friends they became even though they were in a war zone. The film made me hope I will never have to go to war, and it made me realize how painful it must have been for the soldiers and the families back home, when they do not know if their son or husband is going to survive. It is all a bit scary.
I think the film is good because I like action and war films. I prefer war film based on a real war , beacuse it feels like it is based on a true story.
I do not feel that I have burned out on it and I do not think that I will either, but I can not watch the film over and over again. If I see it now and then I think I will always like the film.
Saving Private Ryan is a WWII film, in which we follow a group of american soldiers that are going to bring a young soldier back home to his family, beacuse he has lost his three brothers in the war. The United States Army Chief of Staff promised his mother to try and bring her last son home. He made this promise beacuse the mother received all the news of the death of her three sons on the very same day. But the young soldier (Private Ryan) is behind enemy lines and they do not know if he is alive or dead. The United States Chief of Staff decided to send out eight men to bring Private Ryan back home. The soldiers were questioning the order and all the odds against them, why, should eight people risk their lives to bring one person home?
This film was awarded five Oscars. The director is Steven Spielberg and he received one of the awards.
I remember from the first time I saw it that it was a very good film. It is really well made. It made me think how hard it was for the soldier in the war and what they actually went through. I think the film has a very good and interesting story line, not just about the war but also about the bonds between the soldiers and how close friends they became even though they were in a war zone. The film made me hope I will never have to go to war, and it made me realize how painful it must have been for the soldiers and the families back home, when they do not know if their son or husband is going to survive. It is all a bit scary.
I think the film is good because I like action and war films. I prefer war film based on a real war , beacuse it feels like it is based on a true story.
I do not feel that I have burned out on it and I do not think that I will either, but I can not watch the film over and over again. If I see it now and then I think I will always like the film.
Prison Break
One of my favourite TV series is Prison Break. It is a series you have been able to watch on Swedish television every Monday at 10 pm. But now it is on a break. It will start again the 15th October and it will be the third season. The main actors are Wentworth Miller, Dominic Purcell, Peter Stormare, Marshall Allman, Robin Tunney, Sarah Wayne Callies, Amaury Nolasco and Robert Knepper.
The plot in season one is that Lincoln Burrows (Dominic Pursell) has been found guilty of murdering the vice president´s brother and is sentenced to death. Now he is in the Fox Rivers prison. But he is innocent and his brother Micheal Scofield (Wentworth Miller) realizes how close to execution Lincoln is. So Micheal decides to rob a bank and ends up in the same prison as Lincoln to help him to escape, because Micheal knows that Lincoln is an innocent prisonor.
In season two Michael and Lincoln have succeded in escaping from the prison with some other friends they have met in jail. They are hunted by the FBI across the country, and every days they are on the news. But at the same time as they are in flight, Michael wants to prove that Lincoln is innocent. And in season three we will find out if Michael can prove that Lincoln is innocent.
At the beginning of season one I did not know what Prison Break was about. I startid to watch it when they already had shown a few episodes. It was my friends who told me I should watch it because it was so good. Now when I have watched it I am really happy they told me because it was so good. Now when I have watched it I am really happy they told me because it is really good and now I do not miss one episode.
Prison Break is really tough to watch because it consists of so many episodes. But it never feels boring to watching it because there is so much action in every episode.
I have watched every section of Prison Break, I feel close to all characters, so if one of them would die, I would feel, but it would affect me just for the moment.
The plot in season one is that Lincoln Burrows (Dominic Pursell) has been found guilty of murdering the vice president´s brother and is sentenced to death. Now he is in the Fox Rivers prison. But he is innocent and his brother Micheal Scofield (Wentworth Miller) realizes how close to execution Lincoln is. So Micheal decides to rob a bank and ends up in the same prison as Lincoln to help him to escape, because Micheal knows that Lincoln is an innocent prisonor.
In season two Michael and Lincoln have succeded in escaping from the prison with some other friends they have met in jail. They are hunted by the FBI across the country, and every days they are on the news. But at the same time as they are in flight, Michael wants to prove that Lincoln is innocent. And in season three we will find out if Michael can prove that Lincoln is innocent.
At the beginning of season one I did not know what Prison Break was about. I startid to watch it when they already had shown a few episodes. It was my friends who told me I should watch it because it was so good. Now when I have watched it I am really happy they told me because it was so good. Now when I have watched it I am really happy they told me because it is really good and now I do not miss one episode.
Prison Break is really tough to watch because it consists of so many episodes. But it never feels boring to watching it because there is so much action in every episode.
I have watched every section of Prison Break, I feel close to all characters, so if one of them would die, I would feel, but it would affect me just for the moment.
Monday, November 19, 2007
A book that is supposed to prevent things from happening again
I am going to write about a book that has had a great influence on me. The title of the book; Leila a Bosnian girl. It is about a girl who lived in Bosnian during the war, 1992-1995. The book is a story from real life, a novel and an autobiography. It is a story about Leila and her life during the war and after the war. The book is written by Alexandra Cavelius, based on interview she did with Leila.
In the book you get to follow Leila and her struggle and the effort she makes to survive. She is captured by the Serbian army and is put in a concentration camp when she is only 16 years old. She is alone in a camp full of sick and miserable people who are tortured and beaten to death. The nightmare does not end there.
Leila is a beautiful girl and the beautiful girls are sold to brothels. In the brothel she is forced to do things women are forced to do in brothels, disgusting things in a degrading way. In the beginning Leila has hopes of meeting her family again, to see her mother and brother and the rest of her family, but she has nor idea what the future holds. From there on the book gets even better; Leila is moved from brothel to brothel, from one disgusting soldier to another. Now she is beyond hope of meeting her family again, and she is just about to give up when she finds herself all alone a few years later in a dark forest without a clue of where she is and just a stranger’s face in front of her. Leila is not sure what this man’s intentions are and she is expecting the worst t happen.
This book had a great impact on me because when you read it you can really imagine everything that Leila is going through. Before I read the book, I did not know what horrible things people went trough and the ways people were tortured and killed, especially women.
It is a sad, sad story, a touching story and you can not really understand the point of it until you read the book yourself. The book changed me in a way. It made me respect people more, and respect my cultured and the country that I am from, and it made me feel proud. Is made me realize what my family and friends really mean to me and ho blessed I am to have them. It made me think about other people who are unfortunate, and those people who do not have a home to come back to after a hard day. Where will they go, when the world does not treat them right? Even worse what would a happy home be without having anyone to share it with? There is no greater feeling than the love of family and friends.
Most of us do not know how to appreciate the things we have, like family and friends, a house, a car, a TV, food and, most important, our freedom. Our freedom is one thing that no one can take from us. Leila had it all, a house, a TV, a family and friends, still someone decided to take that away that we need the most_; freedom. Leila’s free will was taken away from her, the possibility of making her own decisions about her future. This is just one of many proofs of how unfair life can be, and how stupid people can act. One of many proof of how people do not think about how their actions can affect other peoples lives. People are still in denial of what happened during the war, a book like this can open people’s eyes. A book like this can make people understand how one man can end so many lives and change so many others. The memories of the war are still there and some memories can not fade away, even if you try your hardest to make them disappear. Some things are just meant to be remembered for ever, so they do not recur again.
What would you do if you wake up one morning and find your life upside down and suddenly you have to realize that everything you lived for is gone and the only thing running trough your head is the thought of survival?
In the book you get to follow Leila and her struggle and the effort she makes to survive. She is captured by the Serbian army and is put in a concentration camp when she is only 16 years old. She is alone in a camp full of sick and miserable people who are tortured and beaten to death. The nightmare does not end there.
Leila is a beautiful girl and the beautiful girls are sold to brothels. In the brothel she is forced to do things women are forced to do in brothels, disgusting things in a degrading way. In the beginning Leila has hopes of meeting her family again, to see her mother and brother and the rest of her family, but she has nor idea what the future holds. From there on the book gets even better; Leila is moved from brothel to brothel, from one disgusting soldier to another. Now she is beyond hope of meeting her family again, and she is just about to give up when she finds herself all alone a few years later in a dark forest without a clue of where she is and just a stranger’s face in front of her. Leila is not sure what this man’s intentions are and she is expecting the worst t happen.
This book had a great impact on me because when you read it you can really imagine everything that Leila is going through. Before I read the book, I did not know what horrible things people went trough and the ways people were tortured and killed, especially women.
It is a sad, sad story, a touching story and you can not really understand the point of it until you read the book yourself. The book changed me in a way. It made me respect people more, and respect my cultured and the country that I am from, and it made me feel proud. Is made me realize what my family and friends really mean to me and ho blessed I am to have them. It made me think about other people who are unfortunate, and those people who do not have a home to come back to after a hard day. Where will they go, when the world does not treat them right? Even worse what would a happy home be without having anyone to share it with? There is no greater feeling than the love of family and friends.
Most of us do not know how to appreciate the things we have, like family and friends, a house, a car, a TV, food and, most important, our freedom. Our freedom is one thing that no one can take from us. Leila had it all, a house, a TV, a family and friends, still someone decided to take that away that we need the most_; freedom. Leila’s free will was taken away from her, the possibility of making her own decisions about her future. This is just one of many proofs of how unfair life can be, and how stupid people can act. One of many proof of how people do not think about how their actions can affect other peoples lives. People are still in denial of what happened during the war, a book like this can open people’s eyes. A book like this can make people understand how one man can end so many lives and change so many others. The memories of the war are still there and some memories can not fade away, even if you try your hardest to make them disappear. Some things are just meant to be remembered for ever, so they do not recur again.
What would you do if you wake up one morning and find your life upside down and suddenly you have to realize that everything you lived for is gone and the only thing running trough your head is the thought of survival?
Sunday, November 18, 2007
Personal essay
Music! What does it mean to me? There are many different answers to that question. First of all I think music is a treatment against depression and a way to express my feelings. Music is always available. Everyone has a MP3 player or a cell phone with music. Personally I would not make it without music. When I am depressed I love to listen music that is depressing. It may sound wierd but actually it is really nice and makes me feel better. It feels like the music is sympathizing with me and my feelings and it is a great relief to have. Music is not a living thing but it feels like it sometimes. It is always there to comfort me.
Music is not only good in those situations. The point is that music is always a good for me, no matter how I feel at the moment.
I listen to all kinds of music but mostly Melodic Death Metal and other kinds of Metal. I do not know why I like that kind of music the most. Maybe because it feels like true feelings and power at the same time. It is hard for me to explain.
What would we humans do without music? We have had music at all times. I think it is amazing how music has evolved in our time. Earlier there was no technology at all, but today we have all kinds of instruments and technology to develop all kinds of music.
I have only been to three concerts in my life, but all of these were absolutely amazing. The first concert was in Malmö about a year ago. Five different bands were playing but to be honest I was only there to watch In Flames. Unfortunately they played quite late but it was worth while waiting. They outplayed the other four bands. I visited my second concert in Lund, also an In Flames concert. I loved it. It was the best thing I had done in my life so far. I just love the feeling, standing and screaming to the music. It was a great success! My third one was in Copenhagen, where Linkin Park was playing. I thought In Flames were good but they were nothing compared to Linkin Park. This was something special to me, watching the band I have loved since I was ten years old. It did not feel like reality. People may think wierd things about me and my taste of music but I really love music and it is a very important thing to me. I would like to learn playing an instrument but I do not know. I think I am doing a great job just listening to all the music that I listen to.
Music is not only good in those situations. The point is that music is always a good for me, no matter how I feel at the moment.
I listen to all kinds of music but mostly Melodic Death Metal and other kinds of Metal. I do not know why I like that kind of music the most. Maybe because it feels like true feelings and power at the same time. It is hard for me to explain.
What would we humans do without music? We have had music at all times. I think it is amazing how music has evolved in our time. Earlier there was no technology at all, but today we have all kinds of instruments and technology to develop all kinds of music.
I have only been to three concerts in my life, but all of these were absolutely amazing. The first concert was in Malmö about a year ago. Five different bands were playing but to be honest I was only there to watch In Flames. Unfortunately they played quite late but it was worth while waiting. They outplayed the other four bands. I visited my second concert in Lund, also an In Flames concert. I loved it. It was the best thing I had done in my life so far. I just love the feeling, standing and screaming to the music. It was a great success! My third one was in Copenhagen, where Linkin Park was playing. I thought In Flames were good but they were nothing compared to Linkin Park. This was something special to me, watching the band I have loved since I was ten years old. It did not feel like reality. People may think wierd things about me and my taste of music but I really love music and it is a very important thing to me. I would like to learn playing an instrument but I do not know. I think I am doing a great job just listening to all the music that I listen to.
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
The story that touched my heart
I am going to write about something that really has inspired me and I think it has helped me change my way of thinking.It is a book I read about two years ago. It is called "Koltrastslätten".The title of the book in original, is the name of a province in former Yugoslavia called Kosovo.The story takes place during the short but horrible war in Kosovo 1998-1999. It is about a man's struggle for surviving a year in a country that is laid waste by ethnic cleansing and all the crimes that come with it. This young man is called Goshy, and he was 15 years old when his father was massacred along with all the other men that lived in his village. This was done by the Serbs that had lived in the village along with the Albanian people in peace and harmony for a long time. Thanks to a miracle,Goshy and his brother Mithat, manage to survive and escape the massacre, but his mother and two sisters, and the love of his life, Rebeka, are taken away by the Serbs but nobody knows where to.Goshy decides that he is going to find them no matter what it takes.He thinks that his brother Mithat is going to help him, but he has other plans.Mithat wants to join the Kosovo Liberation army (KLA) and help his people in need.Mithat tries to convince Goshy that it is the right thing to do, but Goshy thinks that KLA is as bad as the Serbian army.Mithat leaves, and Goshy continues his search for his mother,sisters and Rebeka.But it is not that easy to find them , because Goshy has to avoid beeing seen by the Serbian army, so he spends almost two days in the woods without any food or water. One day he falls asleep leaning on a tree. Then the Serbian army gets closer and finds him. They capture him and bring him to a brothel. After two days Goshy manages to escape as a result of an invasion made by KLA, now he is back in the woods and he has no food, the ethnic cleansing is still going on , and he does not even know if his family is alive or dead.In the end he finds a refugee camp , where his mother and his two sisters are. But he cannot find Rebeka, only her mother and sisters. Later he finds out that Rebeka was captured by the Serbian army and had been brought to a brothel. After she was released she comitted suicide.
This book is one of the best books I have ever read. The main reason is because it explains what happened in the modern Europe, and I don't think that many people know that. This story is not a true story, it has been glued together by many stories told by the Albanian refugees right after the war when being interviewed by the author of the book, Torben Poulsen. This book has touched my heart in a way that i did not think was possible. I have read it three times. It really made me think how lucky I am living in Sweden, and I thank my parents for the decision to move away from Kosovo. I feel a lot of pain for my people that went through all this, but at the same time I am really glad that I was not there. When I first read the book I just could not stop thinking about it. It just had a huge impact on me . In a way it is very hard to read because the only thing you want to do is cry when you read it. It breaks your heart to know that these things have really happened to people. But that is actually one of the main reasons why I love it. The author has not romantisised what really happened during those years the war was going on. He tells stories about peoples struggle through the character Goshy, and he tells them straight out, without making anything look better than it really was. When you read the book, you notice that Torben Poulsen does not only write about what the Serbs did, he is concerned with what the Albanians did to the Serbs that lived in Kosovo. And it is true, because KLA and the Serbian army were in alot of battles. But they were not face to face with eachother. They attacked the innocent people, like Goshy and his family, the civilians.
This book is very hard to find. You cannot find it in many libraries. Maybe because it has not the most popular topic and because of that it has not become a bestseller. That is a pity, because sometimes I want to read it again. I do not think people are interested reading about something they know nothing about and I do not think that many people know alot about the wars in former Yugoslavia. But it doesn't matter, the wars are over now,but still books about the war in former Yugoslavia can be very interesting to read, and this one is. Torben Poulsen is a very talented writer and has written other very inspiring books about things in daily life around the world. When he writes about something, he engages himself. That is very noticeable in this book. When he talks about the ordinary day for Goshy in his village, you can tell that Torben knows alot about the traditions and the way people lives their life in Kosovo. It is very admiring that an Danish author is so interested in a culture that is different from his own. Because with out the author this incredible story about Goshy would not excist and no one would tell the world these things that happened during the war in Kosovo.
This book is one of the best books I have ever read. The main reason is because it explains what happened in the modern Europe, and I don't think that many people know that. This story is not a true story, it has been glued together by many stories told by the Albanian refugees right after the war when being interviewed by the author of the book, Torben Poulsen. This book has touched my heart in a way that i did not think was possible. I have read it three times. It really made me think how lucky I am living in Sweden, and I thank my parents for the decision to move away from Kosovo. I feel a lot of pain for my people that went through all this, but at the same time I am really glad that I was not there. When I first read the book I just could not stop thinking about it. It just had a huge impact on me . In a way it is very hard to read because the only thing you want to do is cry when you read it. It breaks your heart to know that these things have really happened to people. But that is actually one of the main reasons why I love it. The author has not romantisised what really happened during those years the war was going on. He tells stories about peoples struggle through the character Goshy, and he tells them straight out, without making anything look better than it really was. When you read the book, you notice that Torben Poulsen does not only write about what the Serbs did, he is concerned with what the Albanians did to the Serbs that lived in Kosovo. And it is true, because KLA and the Serbian army were in alot of battles. But they were not face to face with eachother. They attacked the innocent people, like Goshy and his family, the civilians.
This book is very hard to find. You cannot find it in many libraries. Maybe because it has not the most popular topic and because of that it has not become a bestseller. That is a pity, because sometimes I want to read it again. I do not think people are interested reading about something they know nothing about and I do not think that many people know alot about the wars in former Yugoslavia. But it doesn't matter, the wars are over now,but still books about the war in former Yugoslavia can be very interesting to read, and this one is. Torben Poulsen is a very talented writer and has written other very inspiring books about things in daily life around the world. When he writes about something, he engages himself. That is very noticeable in this book. When he talks about the ordinary day for Goshy in his village, you can tell that Torben knows alot about the traditions and the way people lives their life in Kosovo. It is very admiring that an Danish author is so interested in a culture that is different from his own. Because with out the author this incredible story about Goshy would not excist and no one would tell the world these things that happened during the war in Kosovo.
Thursday, November 8, 2007
Music!
A band that has affected me and influenced me in a small way is a Swedish rock band named kent. I think it is mainly because I like Jocke Berg, the singer and songwriter. He is really good at what he does, and he can express so many feelings in a tune, which makes you able to interpret it as you like.
There are a lot of people who are judgemental against the band. Many people just assume that just because the lyrics are rather sad and kind of depressing sometimes, the ones who listen to it suffer from a depression and wear black all the time. I think that just because you listen to a certain music style you do not have to take on the whole lifestyle that comes with it. The first time I experienced kent I was about 13 years old. My brother and my mother are also very fond of kent so the first time I heard them I was at home. At first, I thought the lyrics were strange. Since I was just 13 years old I did not understand much, but it grew on me and I came to like it.
After a while I stopped listening to it and it was not until I was about 15 years old that I picked up an old CD laying around and put it in the CD player. I started listening to it again. It was then I really got into kent and because I was older, I came to understand all the things I was not able to understand the last time I heard it. Maybe I got a little bit wiser by listening to kent, but I tend to never let anything affect me a lot and especially not music. The lyrics are melancholy and reflective and often rather strange. As I said before, you can interpret them as you like. Some songs are cheery and happy and some are very “please come and kill me now”. Sometimes I get really bored with it because I feel that it is all about suffering and self-pity. The band itself is not the most modest band in the world if you put it like that. I have periods of liking for kent. Sometimes I listen to it intensely and sometimes I do not listen to it at all. I had a very intense period when I was about 15 years old and at that time I listened to the CD’s “Hagnesta Hill” and “Isola”. If I listen to them today I feel all the things I felt back then, I feel really nostalgic about it. Some of the songs will always be very special for me.
I have never been much of an artist. I am really bad at singing and painting and things like that, and I do not think that kent has influenced me i my non-artistic ways.
A band that has affected me and influenced me in a small way is a Swedish rock band named kent. I think it is mainly because I like Jocke Berg, the singer and songwriter. He is really good at what he does, and he can express so many feelings in a tune, which makes you able to interpret it as you like.
There are a lot of people who are judgemental against the band. Many people just assume that just because the lyrics are rather sad and kind of depressing sometimes, the ones who listen to it suffer from a depression and wear black all the time. I think that just because you listen to a certain music style you do not have to take on the whole lifestyle that comes with it. The first time I experienced kent I was about 13 years old. My brother and my mother are also very fond of kent so the first time I heard them I was at home. At first, I thought the lyrics were strange. Since I was just 13 years old I did not understand much, but it grew on me and I came to like it.
After a while I stopped listening to it and it was not until I was about 15 years old that I picked up an old CD laying around and put it in the CD player. I started listening to it again. It was then I really got into kent and because I was older, I came to understand all the things I was not able to understand the last time I heard it. Maybe I got a little bit wiser by listening to kent, but I tend to never let anything affect me a lot and especially not music. The lyrics are melancholy and reflective and often rather strange. As I said before, you can interpret them as you like. Some songs are cheery and happy and some are very “please come and kill me now”. Sometimes I get really bored with it because I feel that it is all about suffering and self-pity. The band itself is not the most modest band in the world if you put it like that. I have periods of liking for kent. Sometimes I listen to it intensely and sometimes I do not listen to it at all. I had a very intense period when I was about 15 years old and at that time I listened to the CD’s “Hagnesta Hill” and “Isola”. If I listen to them today I feel all the things I felt back then, I feel really nostalgic about it. Some of the songs will always be very special for me.
I have never been much of an artist. I am really bad at singing and painting and things like that, and I do not think that kent has influenced me i my non-artistic ways.
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Spice Girls, absolute music and Timo Räisänen
I think it’s quite hard to choose just one song or an album which affected me as a child, because first of all I don’t really think songs like “bä bä vita lamm” can affect you so much and even if I take a song that I really loved, for example Spice Girls song “Stop” I don’t think lines like:
“Stop right now, thank you very much,
I need somebody with the human touch,
Hey you always on the run,
Gotta slow if down baby, gotta have some fun” can affect or change a girls life. I don’t mean that a person can’t say so, but honestly, if the lyrics is that simple and for me totally meaningless I think the reason why somebody claims that they have been affected by the song is because they have a memory to it. And when they hear the song played on the radio ten years later, they will remember that special memory and say that the song have made a big impact on them.
It’s a matter of a course that it’s often like that, not just when it comes to music but also different smells, special feelings and so on. If you had a perfume as a teenager which you used every day, of course you will feel strange if you smell that smell 30 years later.
I hope you’re getting my point. Anyway, if I have to make a summery of bands and artists I liked as a younger child it would look something like this: Spice Girls (of course, who didn’t like them?), All Saints, Backstreets Boys and Five. And I can say it again, these bands and their songs have not affected me because of their lyrics, I liked them at that time and that is the end of the story.
Me and my sisters did also have all those “absolute of” records, if you remember them. I think we had all CD’s from the time 1993 to 1999. Now, afterwards, I’m use to go in on the website: www.absolute.com and search for those old records that my little brother had an innocent habit of destroying and now years later download the song that we listened to. And I can say that some of it, was really good but some of it the opposite. But now, to the real point! I was told to write a few lines about a real music experience not babbling about absolute-CD’s and tying to make a point that really wasn’t a point just a thought I had that passed me by.
But now I’m realizing that I have written too much... So, I’m going to take this a little shorter: One day when I was looking on a TV show called “förkväll” a guy with a guitar came in and sang one of his songs called “let’s kill ourselves a son”. When he was done, I was in shock. I swear that was one of my best ”TV-experience”. When he sang and played his guitar, it sounded like a whole orchestra coming out of just one person. The guy’s name was Timo Räisänen and he had a new album coming out that you could order from his website. The first thing I did was to order the CD and I can just say that it wasn’t a disappointment. It’s my favorite album so far and this summer me and my friends went to see him on a festival in Helsingborg and that was absolute the best concert I have ever been on. So there you have it, an album that has affected me a lot and I know that in ten years I will still love the guy! In forty or fifty years I hope that I will not forget my Finnish hero Timo Räisänen.
I already know what the words “P.S I Loved you” means, it was an essay about Beatles. So I can’t write about that.
“Stop right now, thank you very much,
I need somebody with the human touch,
Hey you always on the run,
Gotta slow if down baby, gotta have some fun” can affect or change a girls life. I don’t mean that a person can’t say so, but honestly, if the lyrics is that simple and for me totally meaningless I think the reason why somebody claims that they have been affected by the song is because they have a memory to it. And when they hear the song played on the radio ten years later, they will remember that special memory and say that the song have made a big impact on them.
It’s a matter of a course that it’s often like that, not just when it comes to music but also different smells, special feelings and so on. If you had a perfume as a teenager which you used every day, of course you will feel strange if you smell that smell 30 years later.
I hope you’re getting my point. Anyway, if I have to make a summery of bands and artists I liked as a younger child it would look something like this: Spice Girls (of course, who didn’t like them?), All Saints, Backstreets Boys and Five. And I can say it again, these bands and their songs have not affected me because of their lyrics, I liked them at that time and that is the end of the story.
Me and my sisters did also have all those “absolute of” records, if you remember them. I think we had all CD’s from the time 1993 to 1999. Now, afterwards, I’m use to go in on the website: www.absolute.com and search for those old records that my little brother had an innocent habit of destroying and now years later download the song that we listened to. And I can say that some of it, was really good but some of it the opposite. But now, to the real point! I was told to write a few lines about a real music experience not babbling about absolute-CD’s and tying to make a point that really wasn’t a point just a thought I had that passed me by.
But now I’m realizing that I have written too much... So, I’m going to take this a little shorter: One day when I was looking on a TV show called “förkväll” a guy with a guitar came in and sang one of his songs called “let’s kill ourselves a son”. When he was done, I was in shock. I swear that was one of my best ”TV-experience”. When he sang and played his guitar, it sounded like a whole orchestra coming out of just one person. The guy’s name was Timo Räisänen and he had a new album coming out that you could order from his website. The first thing I did was to order the CD and I can just say that it wasn’t a disappointment. It’s my favorite album so far and this summer me and my friends went to see him on a festival in Helsingborg and that was absolute the best concert I have ever been on. So there you have it, an album that has affected me a lot and I know that in ten years I will still love the guy! In forty or fifty years I hope that I will not forget my Finnish hero Timo Räisänen.
I already know what the words “P.S I Loved you” means, it was an essay about Beatles. So I can’t write about that.
Monday, November 5, 2007
Personal essay
A few years ago my favourite band was Gyllene Tider, a Swedish pop band. I listened to them every day, even when I cleaned my room and had the vacuum cleaner on. I remember my 14th birthday when I got a ticket to their concert in Gothenburg. I was so happy! Have you ever had a feeling that you are walking on air? That was the happiness I felt.
I went there by bus with my mother and my sister, since I did not want to go on my own. There were very many people, more than 59.000, but you did not need to push yourself through the crowd because everyone was very calm. We had good seats so we could hear and see everything. All of it was perfect, even the weather; the sky was free from clouds and the sun warmed us in the dusk. You did not need more than a t-shirt and a pair of shorts to keep yourself warm.
I also remember when they played “Kung av sand”; it was the best part of the entire concert. Everyone ended up in a very good mood and lighted their lighters. It was so nice to see the whole audience waving like a trees blowing in the wind. I want that experience again because it is something you can not forget, the feeling of being so happy that you want to jump around and scream. I think everyone should have that feeling sometimes in their lives, because it is the greatest feeling in the world, except for love then.
Gyllene Tider meant a lot to me when I was 14, they did not change my life but their music cheered me up when I was sad and eased my mind when I was stressed out. They have very simple song lyrics, which I think are the most tempting thing with their music. The first time you hear them you do not realize how emotional they are because it takes a few times. Most of their songs are about some kind of love. It is not just love to a woman, it is also about unrequited love and the love you feel for your friends.
I still listen to them sometimes but not like I used to. I think I have heard them too many times and got a little tired of them because they do not make new songs together anymore. I do not like Per Gessle when he sings on his own. He has only done a few good songs without the band on his album, Mazarin. I bought it because I liked Gyllene Tider so much and hoped that it would be the same, but it was not.
If I would get the question “What do I think about Gyllene Tider in ten years?” I do not know what I would answer. I do not think that I will be listening to them, I do not know why, but it is a feeling I have. But if I look back in the past I know that I will remember them as the only essential band for me.
I went there by bus with my mother and my sister, since I did not want to go on my own. There were very many people, more than 59.000, but you did not need to push yourself through the crowd because everyone was very calm. We had good seats so we could hear and see everything. All of it was perfect, even the weather; the sky was free from clouds and the sun warmed us in the dusk. You did not need more than a t-shirt and a pair of shorts to keep yourself warm.
I also remember when they played “Kung av sand”; it was the best part of the entire concert. Everyone ended up in a very good mood and lighted their lighters. It was so nice to see the whole audience waving like a trees blowing in the wind. I want that experience again because it is something you can not forget, the feeling of being so happy that you want to jump around and scream. I think everyone should have that feeling sometimes in their lives, because it is the greatest feeling in the world, except for love then.
Gyllene Tider meant a lot to me when I was 14, they did not change my life but their music cheered me up when I was sad and eased my mind when I was stressed out. They have very simple song lyrics, which I think are the most tempting thing with their music. The first time you hear them you do not realize how emotional they are because it takes a few times. Most of their songs are about some kind of love. It is not just love to a woman, it is also about unrequited love and the love you feel for your friends.
I still listen to them sometimes but not like I used to. I think I have heard them too many times and got a little tired of them because they do not make new songs together anymore. I do not like Per Gessle when he sings on his own. He has only done a few good songs without the band on his album, Mazarin. I bought it because I liked Gyllene Tider so much and hoped that it would be the same, but it was not.
If I would get the question “What do I think about Gyllene Tider in ten years?” I do not know what I would answer. I do not think that I will be listening to them, I do not know why, but it is a feeling I have. But if I look back in the past I know that I will remember them as the only essential band for me.
Sunday, September 9, 2007
A movie wich has affected my life?
GOSH, I don’t know!
Well, HELLO!
There is no human being on this planet who have changed her/his life over a movie or a song. I agree to tha very point were you say that a movie can have a great impact on you, but i think it’s going a little bit to far if you say " OH, after seeing The Little Mermaid I’ve changed my life completely."
Ok, enough with this already.... Let’s go back to the question;
If we take music for a start. I first "discovered" music when i was thirteen, fourteen. Before I only listend to the kind of music wich everybody listened to. You know, Spice Girls, Backstreat Boys, Westlife. HORRIBLE! But I hadn’t become "me" yet. I just listened to Backstreat boys beacuse everybody else did.
Ok, this is going to sound so silly, but I loved the theme from " Never ending story". You know, in the end of the movie they always play a song, and my favorite was "Never ending story". Now days I don’t like it as much, but I do remember playing the song over and over again. Thinking " There is no song like this" when I sang a long with my false songvoice.
Oh, I almost forgot, I loved playing Christmas music in the middle of July.
"P.S I loved you"
What? I don’t know...
Maybe this isn’t an essay, but I haven’t got so much time, oh, I bet you think, " She had as much time as we had." Correct, but I’m always writing in the last minute. And that doesn’t give me much time, does it?
/Malin
GOSH, I don’t know!
Well, HELLO!
There is no human being on this planet who have changed her/his life over a movie or a song. I agree to tha very point were you say that a movie can have a great impact on you, but i think it’s going a little bit to far if you say " OH, after seeing The Little Mermaid I’ve changed my life completely."
Ok, enough with this already.... Let’s go back to the question;
If we take music for a start. I first "discovered" music when i was thirteen, fourteen. Before I only listend to the kind of music wich everybody listened to. You know, Spice Girls, Backstreat Boys, Westlife. HORRIBLE! But I hadn’t become "me" yet. I just listened to Backstreat boys beacuse everybody else did.
Ok, this is going to sound so silly, but I loved the theme from " Never ending story". You know, in the end of the movie they always play a song, and my favorite was "Never ending story". Now days I don’t like it as much, but I do remember playing the song over and over again. Thinking " There is no song like this" when I sang a long with my false songvoice.
Oh, I almost forgot, I loved playing Christmas music in the middle of July.
"P.S I loved you"
What? I don’t know...
Maybe this isn’t an essay, but I haven’t got so much time, oh, I bet you think, " She had as much time as we had." Correct, but I’m always writing in the last minute. And that doesn’t give me much time, does it?
/Malin
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Let´s see, I think it was in 1994 or 1995. Anyway it was Christmas Eve and my family were at my grandparents´ place and I got for Christmas gift the greatest movie I could ever wish for, The Lion King. I hade never watched it, so I could hardly wait until the next day, but finally it was morning and I ran to my mum and begged her to put it in the video. My heart nearly stopped of excitement. The movie was so great and I watched it four times or more that day and the next days. The Lion King was my new best friend and I got this incredible interest for African animals. The reason why I was so drawn to the film was because it was so sad, especially the part when his father died and funny when he met Timon and Pumba. The film is in beautiful coloures, the music is great and the animals were all new to me. Well today I´m not so fond of Disney films.
What associations do you get from the phrase "P.S. I Loved You"?
It is like a pathetic mail or letter from a person after a break up.
What associations do you get from the phrase "P.S. I Loved You"?
It is like a pathetic mail or letter from a person after a break up.
Monday, September 3, 2007
Music
Hello!
When I was little I was very interested of music.
The best album and songs was singing of a artist wo name is "madonna".
I loved her music and her dancing. I Always sing and dancing to her music when I was little.
When I listen to madonna in my younger days it affect me a little bit, becuse I wanted to be dress like her, and have the same make up like her.
I drawn to her energy that she radiate on the stage, and her fantastic and extraordinary voise.
I still listning to her mucis, and i don't think I will stop to do it.
Becuse she is still very successfull artist. She still doing new music and albums.
I Think I still listning to her music when I get older.
To the end I will explain tha Phrose "P.S, I loved you" like this.
- When some person have pass away, and when you White a
poem then you can use to the end of the poem P.S I Loved you.
Jeanette Esbjörnsson SPS06
When I was little I was very interested of music.
The best album and songs was singing of a artist wo name is "madonna".
I loved her music and her dancing. I Always sing and dancing to her music when I was little.
When I listen to madonna in my younger days it affect me a little bit, becuse I wanted to be dress like her, and have the same make up like her.
I drawn to her energy that she radiate on the stage, and her fantastic and extraordinary voise.
I still listning to her mucis, and i don't think I will stop to do it.
Becuse she is still very successfull artist. She still doing new music and albums.
I Think I still listning to her music when I get older.
To the end I will explain tha Phrose "P.S, I loved you" like this.
- When some person have pass away, and when you White a
poem then you can use to the end of the poem P.S I Loved you.
Jeanette Esbjörnsson SPS06
Movies and books
Hello!
The Lord of the ring movies and books have influenced me. When I had seen the three movies a friend of mine told me that the books were really good. I started to read the first book and I just continued reading. Before I had read the books I thought it was much easier to watch the movies. But now I know that there is much more information in the books. The books are much more interesting and the movie makers forget so many small details. Now I try to read the book before I watch the movie.
I don’t think it will mean anything to me in ten years, but I have learned to read books.
When I see the phrase: P. S. I loved you, I think of someone who has been dumped or someone who has lost a family member or a boyfriend or a girlfriend.
The Lord of the ring movies and books have influenced me. When I had seen the three movies a friend of mine told me that the books were really good. I started to read the first book and I just continued reading. Before I had read the books I thought it was much easier to watch the movies. But now I know that there is much more information in the books. The books are much more interesting and the movie makers forget so many small details. Now I try to read the book before I watch the movie.
I don’t think it will mean anything to me in ten years, but I have learned to read books.
When I see the phrase: P. S. I loved you, I think of someone who has been dumped or someone who has lost a family member or a boyfriend or a girlfriend.
Saturday, September 1, 2007
Music
Hello!
When I was younger, I loved Spice Girls. They interested me very much. I idolized that band. They were so good. I had all the albums and all the pictures. They were so important to me.
Spice Girls affected me a little bit, because I wanted to have the same clothes and make-up as them. I was a big fan, and when I think about it today, I just laugh, I was so in love with them. I did everything they did, and I don’t know why I was so interested in Spice Girls, because there were so many other bands which were popular, but Spice Girls inspired me first, and was much better. Now after so many years I don’t like Spice Girls, but they will always be a memory for me.
The phrase ”I loved you” makes me think about a person who has died, and people wrote a letter, which they are going to put on the grave. At the end of the letter the wrote” I loved you” because they had loved the person, but now when she/he is dead they said ”loved” you instead.
When I was younger, I loved Spice Girls. They interested me very much. I idolized that band. They were so good. I had all the albums and all the pictures. They were so important to me.
Spice Girls affected me a little bit, because I wanted to have the same clothes and make-up as them. I was a big fan, and when I think about it today, I just laugh, I was so in love with them. I did everything they did, and I don’t know why I was so interested in Spice Girls, because there were so many other bands which were popular, but Spice Girls inspired me first, and was much better. Now after so many years I don’t like Spice Girls, but they will always be a memory for me.
The phrase ”I loved you” makes me think about a person who has died, and people wrote a letter, which they are going to put on the grave. At the end of the letter the wrote” I loved you” because they had loved the person, but now when she/he is dead they said ”loved” you instead.
Music, movies and books
Hi!
It's quite hard to choose one song or album because there are so many that have affected me through the years. But I will choose music because I can't remember any book or movie that has been as important to me as a songs. So the first two bands that I liked really much were Spice Girls and Backstreet Boys. I started to like them because they were very popular at the time and they made songs that made you feel happy. All of my friends liked them and we thought that the girls were so cool and the boys were so cute. I don’t listen to them anymore but when I hear one of their songs today I think about how much fun I had dancing to their songs. I don't know how the songs have affected or changed me but I guess they made me very interested in music. The music which has meant and still means much to me will probably mean a lot to me later in life too. I don’t listen to that kind of music today at all. And today there are other songs that are important to me. So in ten to twenty years I will probably remember them and have the good and bad memories back when I hear the songs again. Or maybe I have forgotten all about it. The associations I get when I read the phrase "P.S I loved you" is to a book I read when I was maybe fourteen years old. I don’t remember it so well but it was about a girl and a boy and the boy died in an accident. The book is very tragic and at the end she writes a letter to his memory which she reads out loud. / Beatrice
It's quite hard to choose one song or album because there are so many that have affected me through the years. But I will choose music because I can't remember any book or movie that has been as important to me as a songs. So the first two bands that I liked really much were Spice Girls and Backstreet Boys. I started to like them because they were very popular at the time and they made songs that made you feel happy. All of my friends liked them and we thought that the girls were so cool and the boys were so cute. I don’t listen to them anymore but when I hear one of their songs today I think about how much fun I had dancing to their songs. I don't know how the songs have affected or changed me but I guess they made me very interested in music. The music which has meant and still means much to me will probably mean a lot to me later in life too. I don’t listen to that kind of music today at all. And today there are other songs that are important to me. So in ten to twenty years I will probably remember them and have the good and bad memories back when I hear the songs again. Or maybe I have forgotten all about it. The associations I get when I read the phrase "P.S I loved you" is to a book I read when I was maybe fourteen years old. I don’t remember it so well but it was about a girl and a boy and the boy died in an accident. The book is very tragic and at the end she writes a letter to his memory which she reads out loud. / Beatrice
Friday, August 31, 2007
Music
Hello Ylva!
*When I was young A-Teens and Westlife were important to me. Books were not important to me because I don’t like reading.
* I don't really remember what changed me, the only things which changed me was the music I listened to with my friends. My friends and I did like our favourite artists. We dressed like them and had the same make-up.
*I think my taste for the music I like today will follow me till I get older, but I don´t think I will care so much about the movies in ten years.
* When I hear the words, P.S I Loved you, I think of a person I miss or someone who has died.
*When I was young A-Teens and Westlife were important to me. Books were not important to me because I don’t like reading.
* I don't really remember what changed me, the only things which changed me was the music I listened to with my friends. My friends and I did like our favourite artists. We dressed like them and had the same make-up.
*I think my taste for the music I like today will follow me till I get older, but I don´t think I will care so much about the movies in ten years.
* When I hear the words, P.S I Loved you, I think of a person I miss or someone who has died.
Thursday, August 30, 2007
Movies.music and books.
What song, album, book or movie was important to you when you were younger? How did it affect or change you? Why were you drawn to it? How do you feel about it today?
I never really had any books, movies or music from my younger years which has affected me in a big scale. It was first in the seventh grade when I heard the group “Lok” at a party I first understood the value of music and how it can enhance your feelings in a particularly moment. For example, laying on the beach and you have some reggae tunes low in your earphones it makes you a bit more “summerish” or when your walking down the street in a big town having some good hip hop or electronic music on the ipod making all the awful noises from cars and such disappear and so on. I could probably go on like this forever because music is such a big thing in my life. Movies on the other hand can stay on so much longer a good movie clip from a movie can stick forever. Same goes here could go on for ever here to.
How do you think you will feel about the movies, music, and books that are important to you today in ten years? Twenty years? Forty years?
Some music I think I will still listen to but some will I probably have forgot or gotten sick of. Movies, same there. Books, don’t have any books hat are important for me right now.
What associations do you get from the phrase "P.S. I Loved You"? I see a letter that explains a long and complicated relation between two people, the relations ship wasn’t all great all the time. One important thing was that one of the partners never really said that he or she loved the other one, but haven’t told him or her before the letter but when the letter was sent it was too late. Because the person in matter didn’t know what he or she had before he or she lost it.
I never really had any books, movies or music from my younger years which has affected me in a big scale. It was first in the seventh grade when I heard the group “Lok” at a party I first understood the value of music and how it can enhance your feelings in a particularly moment. For example, laying on the beach and you have some reggae tunes low in your earphones it makes you a bit more “summerish” or when your walking down the street in a big town having some good hip hop or electronic music on the ipod making all the awful noises from cars and such disappear and so on. I could probably go on like this forever because music is such a big thing in my life. Movies on the other hand can stay on so much longer a good movie clip from a movie can stick forever. Same goes here could go on for ever here to.
How do you think you will feel about the movies, music, and books that are important to you today in ten years? Twenty years? Forty years?
Some music I think I will still listen to but some will I probably have forgot or gotten sick of. Movies, same there. Books, don’t have any books hat are important for me right now.
What associations do you get from the phrase "P.S. I Loved You"? I see a letter that explains a long and complicated relation between two people, the relations ship wasn’t all great all the time. One important thing was that one of the partners never really said that he or she loved the other one, but haven’t told him or her before the letter but when the letter was sent it was too late. Because the person in matter didn’t know what he or she had before he or she lost it.
I don’t think I have ever read a book that has changed me. But music has always had a big effect on me. The artists have been everything from Spice Girls when I was about 9-10, to today’s hip hop and r&b artists. I like all sorts of music. I can’t say that I have a favourite artist or band, but I can say that I prefer a bit older music, from the 60s, like Motown andAretha Franklin. I honestly don’t think music today is so very good.One exception is Timbaland's newest album, where there are a lot of good songs. He has also helped Justin Timberlake and Nelly Frutado on their albums, the result is ok.
There was one artist I adored when I was younger, Michael Jackson, now called Wacko Jacko. He fascinated me with his dance moves and lyrics. I’m not so fond of his appearance nowadays, but he was an amazing artist in the 80`s. I mean that man could make an audience breathless with his moonwalk, poppin and lockin. His Thriller album cannot be beaten. I think he is that kind of person who becomes a legend, and people will remember him for a long time, whether it’s because of his appearance, scandals or his music.
I honestly don’t know how I will feel about the music I`m listening to today. But I don’t think it will be important to me in ten or twenty years. The music industry is such a fast working industry, and artists come and go without leaving any marks. But maybe some artists will survive. You never know..
The phrase “P.S, I loved you..
This phrase reminds me of a sad love story, when one of the persons has died or has travelled away..
There was one artist I adored when I was younger, Michael Jackson, now called Wacko Jacko. He fascinated me with his dance moves and lyrics. I’m not so fond of his appearance nowadays, but he was an amazing artist in the 80`s. I mean that man could make an audience breathless with his moonwalk, poppin and lockin. His Thriller album cannot be beaten. I think he is that kind of person who becomes a legend, and people will remember him for a long time, whether it’s because of his appearance, scandals or his music.
I honestly don’t know how I will feel about the music I`m listening to today. But I don’t think it will be important to me in ten or twenty years. The music industry is such a fast working industry, and artists come and go without leaving any marks. But maybe some artists will survive. You never know..
The phrase “P.S, I loved you..
This phrase reminds me of a sad love story, when one of the persons has died or has travelled away..
music, movies and books
I have lots of things that are important to me, both music and movies. Well, I don't know if they are important but they mean something to me. When I was about five years old I loved watching a tv-series called "Beppes gonattstund". At that time I thought it was a great movie, but when I got older I thought it was really boring. When I was about eight years old I listened a lot to Spice Girls, Backstreet Boys and that kind of music, and of course when I listen to this music today I feel very happy. I remember I was collecting cards of Spice Girls, and you can probably guess who my favourite in the group was! When I became older I listened a lot to Westlife. Me and my best friend were totally crazy about them, and we burst into tears (ok, it was maybe not that dramatic) when one of the members left the rest of the group to continue on his own. My taste in music changed a lot when a friend of mine laughed at me when he got to know that I listened to Westlife. I don't remember thinking of it so much at the moment, but I probably changed without knowing. So, that's probably my turning point. I started listen to Kent and Coldplay and that kind of music when I was about 15 years old, the music I still listen to, and of course a lot more.The music I listen to today, may be important to me when I get older, it's hard to tell. But I can imagine that if I hear one of those songs today, me and my friends would do something crazy while listenting to it. We might be just as crazy as we were at the time.
The movie that has affected me the most is called "The Butterfly Effect". I would say it is the best movie I have seen. It shows how all the things you do in life, affects you later.. That's really scary.
A book wich made me think is "Hål i huvudet", which is the best book ever written. It shows how fast your life can change. You may have a perfect life, and in a couple of minutes it's gone. As I said, it made me think.
Ps. I loved you.
That's just sad.
The movie that has affected me the most is called "The Butterfly Effect". I would say it is the best movie I have seen. It shows how all the things you do in life, affects you later.. That's really scary.
A book wich made me think is "Hål i huvudet", which is the best book ever written. It shows how fast your life can change. You may have a perfect life, and in a couple of minutes it's gone. As I said, it made me think.
Ps. I loved you.
That's just sad.
Pay it forward
I never thought that a movie could affect me to tears, until I saw the movie Pay it forward. It’s a movie about a young boy desperately trying to save the world. After his teacher in social studies gave the class a message saying “If you have the chance to save the world, what would you do?” Trevor, a young boy in the class gets an idea. The point of the idea is to make a good thing for three other people. And then they do three good things for each three people, and so on, and after a while everyone is involved. There of the name of the movie Pay it forward.
His first project is to help a homeless person with money and a new start in life. Then he’s trying to play Cupid and make his teacher fall in love with his mother. His attempt to make the world a better planet is really touching and spreads out to the world with some help from a journalist who has been told about his project and makes an interview with Trevor. Later in the movie something goes wrong and when he is trying to stand up for a boy when two other boy is bullying him, and desperately trying to make them stop, one of the boys stabs him. They can’t save his life. But the world gives him the greatest present ever, they continue with his project. The movie is so touching and when the start to play the soundtrack Calling all angels I’m all in tears.
I don’t think I’ll ever watch a movie that will affect me like this movie. Since I was a young girl I have wanted exactly the same thing as the boy in the movie, make people care about each other, and make the world a better planet. So when I watched the movie for the first time I couldn’t stop thinking about it. And now I can’t count all the times I've seen it. In a strange way I actually think I’ll still love this movie in 20 years.
Even though I don’t know what the phrase “P.S I loved you” have to do with the other thing I’ve been written about, I think I have to answer the question. If I got a letter telling me that a friendship or a long love is over, and the sender wrote “P.S I loved you” in the end, then I must have done something really awful because I don’t believe you can stop love a person if it was true love or true friendship. I would never write that to another person, those words are to painful! To say “I love you” to someone is the greatest word you can use, and if you someday take it back, you shouldn’t have said it from the beginning.
//Felicia :)
movies
- When I was about eleven years old I was at home from school for a while. My mum rented a video, Billy Elliot, and it’s been my favourite ever since. Many people have seen it because it’s a well known movie.
It’s about a boy in the North of England, who starts to dance ballet. The story takes place in the 1980´s during the minors' strike. Billy's father is a miner and the strike affects their family quite a bit. Billy's mother is dead. Billy, his big brother Tony, his father and his grandmother live under the same roof in a small terraced house. Everybody thinks that Billy is having his boxing class when he actually attends the ballet class. He becomes really good with some extra help from his teacher. - Everything changes one day when Billy's father comes to the ballet class and sees his son there. He realizes that ballet is something that his son really wants to do. So finally he allows Billy to go on an audition in London for the Royal Ballet School. And as you might guess he was admitted and became really good!
I must say this movie really touched me, from the very first time I saw it until now, six years later.
Billy Elliot affected me in the same way that some people do when they have the guts to stand up. This movie shows this, since Billy knew that his father and brother wouldn’t like him to dance ballet and still he sticks to what he wants to do, no matter what they say.
I’m drawn to it, to be honest, because I’ve always had a little crush on Jamie Bell who’s starring Billy. But also because it shows how to make a good movie with a message that affects so many people. I find a movie which moves the audience much more interesting than a movie with good-looking famous actors with absolutely no passion.
I don’t think I’m going to like all the movies I like today in let’s say 20 years. These days new movies are made constantly. But I might watch Harry Potter, maybe even Billy Elliot with my kids when I get older,who knows?
One thing that I’m sure of is that I won’t listen to the music that I’m listening to today in 40 years or less. It’s that kind of music you can’t listen to forever. Not me anyway. I don’t even think they’ll still be making music in 20 years or something, I mean the music I’m listening to. So I’m prepared for what is coming..
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Music, Movie, Songs
I don’t really remember what song, album, book or movie that was important to me when I was younger. But I have many photos of Backstreet Boys, who were a little special to me but I don’t know why. I think it was the photos which attracted me but I don´t think they changed or affected me. Backstreet Boys means nothing to me today, only the photos are left, it is a bit funny. I don’t listen to them today. I also remember that I watched Tom and Jerry a lot when I was younger. I don’t know why I liked them so much, they were just so funny.
I feel a little sad when I hear “P.S. I loved you” because it is a sad phrase. I think of someone who just broke up, and writes a letter.
I feel a little sad when I hear “P.S. I loved you” because it is a sad phrase. I think of someone who just broke up, and writes a letter.
The music artist that has given me the most important and positive effect ..
The music artist that has given me the most important and positive effect in my life is truly Felipe Coronel also called Immortal Technique when he released his first hip-hop album called Revolutionary Volume 1. This album was so against the “system” that it totally caught my attention, no mainstream lyrics about how the rich rappers spend their money, no new school hip-hop with all those chains and cars, this album was about socio-political issues and that’s why I find the album and artist so special. Nowadays it’s hard to find hip-hop with a meaning. This album was and is a great example of what people call “Underground hip-hop”. This kind of hip-hop has grown; by saying “this kind of hip-hop” I mean hip-hop with lyrics that is about socio-political issues. Immortal Technique is still one of my favourite artists, and I still keep getting inspired by his lyrics for every day that passes by, even more because he released his second album called Revolutionary Volume 2. Soon he will be realising his third album called The Middle Passage. Will this music still be important to me in ten or twenty years? Of course it will, it will be a part of my young life.
A movie
When I was younger, about seven or eight years old, I liked movies, especially films from Walt Disney. I watched at least one of them every day. I didn’t have a favourite, but I liked the Lion King very much. I thought he was so brave and even when his father died he kept his spirits going. I remember how I used to cry when I watched it.
A film or a song can affect a person but not change him or her. I think that movies have a bigger influence on children, because they learn from everything they see and I saw things from another perspective when I was younger. Now when I’m older I can’t see what I saw then because I haven’t got the same apprehension anymore.
If I look back some time in the future I hope I will remember how happy I was when I watched the movies and give that happiness to my own children.
“Ps. I loved you”? I can only think of sad things. It could be the end of a suicide letter or a letter from a lost friend. It feels like it’s from a person who wants to tell you that you shouldn’t blame yourself because he or she loved you anyway, whatever you did.
“Ps. I loved you”? I can only think of sad things. It could be the end of a suicide letter or a letter from a lost friend. It feels like it’s from a person who wants to tell you that you shouldn’t blame yourself because he or she loved you anyway, whatever you did.
Music, Movie, Songs
In my family, we always watched McGyver. I don’t know if it was important to me but I liked it. I don’t think it affected me, but me and my brother were out playing McGyver. I guess it was the action, which made me watch it; he always won against the bad boys.
Nowadays I just watch it for fun since technology has developed, so it seems a bit unprofessionel. (And he can do everything with his knife!!) But I still like it.
I think I will still like the movies, books and songs that I like today in the future.
P.S. I Loved You; If someone breaks up, and explains that she actually loved me the time we were together. Or if someone passes away, and you write an obituary and at the end you write P.S. I Loved You
Nowadays I just watch it for fun since technology has developed, so it seems a bit unprofessionel. (And he can do everything with his knife!!) But I still like it.
I think I will still like the movies, books and songs that I like today in the future.
P.S. I Loved You; If someone breaks up, and explains that she actually loved me the time we were together. Or if someone passes away, and you write an obituary and at the end you write P.S. I Loved You
Frida
I can only think of one song that reminds me of my childhood and that would be Lemon Tree by Fools Garden. I still like it! It makes me feel all happy and nostalgic. I don’t think it has affected me or changed me, it was just a song. But I still listen to it from time to time and it’s nice. I think that books or movies that I like now will always remind me of this time in my life. If I listen to a song very often now and then when I am fifty I will think about all the emotions I felt when I was this age. My associations from the phrase P.S I loved you is that I think it’s sad because it could be a relationship that has ended. That’s never nice!
Frida
Frida
-What song, album, books or movies that was important to me when I was younger.
If we could put songs and albums together into music I could startwith saying that when I was young, I was the youngest kid in the family so my big sisters gave me music influence such as hip hop,foreign hip hop, reggae, reggeaton, rock and so on. Particularly themost music but I got stuck on hip hop and reggae in a young agebecause I liked the message it gave and I thought it was more and more interesting.
I can still remember my first hip hop single, Outkast – Ms Jackssonthat I got for my 9 th birthday. Other music artists/groups that Ilistened to back in the day were Bob Marley, 2Pac, Lenny Kravitz or RHCP, Don Omar, Active Members and many more. Of course, this kind of music moved on to a next level or got “improved” as the years past by.
I've always enjoyed the entertainment a movie gives you. When I was young it was especially action movies with my dad and later on I started watching more comedies with my sisters, mostly American comedies about collage students.
Books aren't my cup of tea, if you know what I mean? I mean it happensthat I read books, but not very often. Not until 9th grade I came overa book that was surprisingly entertaining and interesting, called "The Alchemist".
How this affected/changed me, why I got drawn to it and how I feelabout it today.
I think it affected most of my lifestyle. Perhaps the way I dress,walk or which friends I choose. Every experience I got from this music, movies and books gave me a lot of thinking and changed perspectives onthings. I think it positively changed me and I regret nothing. I thinkI got drawn to it because I could see a way to live up to my ownlifestyle by listening to that kind of music, by watching those movies or reading those books.
How I think I will feel about the movies, music, and books that areimportant to me today in ten years? Twenty years? Forty years?
I will probably save the most influence from the music, movies and books, but as time goes by I think I will either losememories/influence or either change the perspective on things. It'snatural to become more mature as time goes by so I guess that in a fewyears I’d maybe be listening, watching or reading something else. I can't foresee the future, I'm not a magican but I do believe in changes.Maybe the music or the way of me watching those particular movies orreading those particular books will affect my future life, I can'treally tell how because I don't pay much attention to it. But there hasto be some change.
What associations I get from the phrase "P.S. I Loved You"
I can think as if there was a guy who never really had the chance to say "I loved you" to a certain girl that meant a lot to him and itobviously sounds like a posted note or a letter.You could also associate it to some music songs or perhaps movies andeven books but none particular that I could come up with now.
/Ion
If we could put songs and albums together into music I could startwith saying that when I was young, I was the youngest kid in the family so my big sisters gave me music influence such as hip hop,foreign hip hop, reggae, reggeaton, rock and so on. Particularly themost music but I got stuck on hip hop and reggae in a young agebecause I liked the message it gave and I thought it was more and more interesting.
I can still remember my first hip hop single, Outkast – Ms Jackssonthat I got for my 9 th birthday. Other music artists/groups that Ilistened to back in the day were Bob Marley, 2Pac, Lenny Kravitz or RHCP, Don Omar, Active Members and many more. Of course, this kind of music moved on to a next level or got “improved” as the years past by.
I've always enjoyed the entertainment a movie gives you. When I was young it was especially action movies with my dad and later on I started watching more comedies with my sisters, mostly American comedies about collage students.
Books aren't my cup of tea, if you know what I mean? I mean it happensthat I read books, but not very often. Not until 9th grade I came overa book that was surprisingly entertaining and interesting, called "The Alchemist".
How this affected/changed me, why I got drawn to it and how I feelabout it today.
I think it affected most of my lifestyle. Perhaps the way I dress,walk or which friends I choose. Every experience I got from this music, movies and books gave me a lot of thinking and changed perspectives onthings. I think it positively changed me and I regret nothing. I thinkI got drawn to it because I could see a way to live up to my ownlifestyle by listening to that kind of music, by watching those movies or reading those books.
How I think I will feel about the movies, music, and books that areimportant to me today in ten years? Twenty years? Forty years?
I will probably save the most influence from the music, movies and books, but as time goes by I think I will either losememories/influence or either change the perspective on things. It'snatural to become more mature as time goes by so I guess that in a fewyears I’d maybe be listening, watching or reading something else. I can't foresee the future, I'm not a magican but I do believe in changes.Maybe the music or the way of me watching those particular movies orreading those particular books will affect my future life, I can'treally tell how because I don't pay much attention to it. But there hasto be some change.
What associations I get from the phrase "P.S. I Loved You"
I can think as if there was a guy who never really had the chance to say "I loved you" to a certain girl that meant a lot to him and itobviously sounds like a posted note or a letter.You could also associate it to some music songs or perhaps movies andeven books but none particular that I could come up with now.
/Ion
My favourite book, movie, or song when I was younger!
I don’t remember any book that was important to me when I was younger, but I do remember one book I really, really liked and the title of the book is; “Jag saknar dig, jag saknar dig,” in English; “I miss you, I miss you.” I was drawn to it because it is a story about two sisters, twins as a matter of fact that are about thirteen or fourteen years old.
They have grown up together as normal sister do, and they were best friend. Then one morning, one sister dies in a horrible accident. The other sister has to figure out how to go on with her life alone. It’s a very sad story, one of the main reasons why I liked it so much.
I would love to read the book again. When you grow up you see things from a different perspective and maybe the book would be even better if I read it today. I would probably understand it in a way I couldn’t a couple of years ago.
They have grown up together as normal sister do, and they were best friend. Then one morning, one sister dies in a horrible accident. The other sister has to figure out how to go on with her life alone. It’s a very sad story, one of the main reasons why I liked it so much.
I would love to read the book again. When you grow up you see things from a different perspective and maybe the book would be even better if I read it today. I would probably understand it in a way I couldn’t a couple of years ago.
Because there are so many different styles of music, books, and movies today there will probably be even more in ten years. Today music is changing rapidly and it will continue to do so in the future.The music I listen to today will be embarrassing to listen to in the future, but some songs will be really nice listening to when you grow older, trying to remember the good old days. Some songs stay with you forever. (I think it’s the same with books and movies)
It depends on why the person says it and to whom, in what situation and so on. When I hear the phrase I think of someone explaining that her or she is very hurt. If there is a boy and a girl, the boy tells the girl how much she has changed and how much he loved her. She just turned her back and did not care.
Claude Monet, an artist who has meant a lot to me.
I think I was six years old when I got the book Linnea in Monet’s garden. I loved it from the beginning and I still do. This was the book which started my interest in art and especially the artist Claude Monet who means a lot to me. In the book you follow a girl named Linnea when she is in Paris looking at Monet’s paintings and his wonderful garden. The book contains a lot of pictures of Monet’s paintings and the place where he lived. I still think Claude Monet is one of the best artists who ever walked on this planet. After I had visited The Art Institute of Chicago and had seen Monet’s paintings, I knew Monet and his art always will mean a lot to me. His paintings made me see the beuty of nature and they also inspired me to do my own paintings as a child. No one uses the colours like Monet. Monet was born in 1840 and died in 1926. He lived in France all his life. His painting, Impression: Soleil Levant (1872) gave the name to impressionism. Monet’s paintings are easy to like, especially for children. I’m sure that it was all the colour and the fact that you could see what they depict that made me love them as a child. I'ts important for children not just watch television and listen to music on the CD player. It would be wonderful if every child could experience colours, paintings and classical music. Then they would realize that there are more to look at than just the computer screen.
What the meaning “Ps. I love you” means to me.
The meaning doesn’t mean so much to me I think. It’s different If someone would say it to me personally. But of course if someone like Johnny Depp would write me a letter and write the meaning: Ps. I love you. Ohhh then I would be very, very happy.
/Sofia
I think I was six years old when I got the book Linnea in Monet’s garden. I loved it from the beginning and I still do. This was the book which started my interest in art and especially the artist Claude Monet who means a lot to me. In the book you follow a girl named Linnea when she is in Paris looking at Monet’s paintings and his wonderful garden. The book contains a lot of pictures of Monet’s paintings and the place where he lived. I still think Claude Monet is one of the best artists who ever walked on this planet. After I had visited The Art Institute of Chicago and had seen Monet’s paintings, I knew Monet and his art always will mean a lot to me. His paintings made me see the beuty of nature and they also inspired me to do my own paintings as a child. No one uses the colours like Monet. Monet was born in 1840 and died in 1926. He lived in France all his life. His painting, Impression: Soleil Levant (1872) gave the name to impressionism. Monet’s paintings are easy to like, especially for children. I’m sure that it was all the colour and the fact that you could see what they depict that made me love them as a child. I'ts important for children not just watch television and listen to music on the CD player. It would be wonderful if every child could experience colours, paintings and classical music. Then they would realize that there are more to look at than just the computer screen.
What the meaning “Ps. I love you” means to me.
The meaning doesn’t mean so much to me I think. It’s different If someone would say it to me personally. But of course if someone like Johnny Depp would write me a letter and write the meaning: Ps. I love you. Ohhh then I would be very, very happy.
/Sofia
One book I have read!
To be honest I don't have a favourite movie or book, but I choose to write about a book I read not so long ago. It's called High.It's about four teenagers, who in the beginning are pretty normal. Then they start to hang out with the wrong crowd and they fall for peer pressure and start taking drugs. One of the boys from this group has problems at home so he runs away from home with his girlfriend. They take drugs together and they lose their control. The girls in the group start to sell their bodies to afford drugs. One of the girls take an overdose of heroin. Then her friends understand that they have to take her to hospital. She returns to her family and tries to live a normal life again.
Before I read the book I didn't realize that drugs could be so dangerous. But now I really understand that drugs are a problem all over the world. People who take drugs don't only hurt themselves, everybody around them gets hurt too. I read this book because somebody said that it was good. The book didn't change me in a special way, it just showed me that drugs are a bad thing, even though I did know that before.This book has affected me deeply, and I will never take drugs. The book I read these days are going to be important to me in ten and twenty years, but I’m afraid I can't answer today in what way but I think I will know in ten years.
When I hear the phrase "P.S, I loved you" I think about a person who was very important in my life, but then disappeared for some reason.
//Kajsa
Before I read the book I didn't realize that drugs could be so dangerous. But now I really understand that drugs are a problem all over the world. People who take drugs don't only hurt themselves, everybody around them gets hurt too. I read this book because somebody said that it was good. The book didn't change me in a special way, it just showed me that drugs are a bad thing, even though I did know that before.This book has affected me deeply, and I will never take drugs. The book I read these days are going to be important to me in ten and twenty years, but I’m afraid I can't answer today in what way but I think I will know in ten years.
When I hear the phrase "P.S, I loved you" I think about a person who was very important in my life, but then disappeared for some reason.
//Kajsa
My favourite movie,book or song when I was younger?
When I was about thirteen years old I had a typical favourite artist that was very popular for girls at my age back then. It was Shakira with her song”Whenever, Wherever”. It didn’t affect or change me at all. When I think about the song today I remember that it wasn’t a song with very good and important lyrics. Or maybe it did change me, it changed my taste in music. Before”Whenever, Wherever” was released, I used to listen to singers like Britney Spears, which I am very embarrassed about. I think I was drawn to it because it was different from other songs , and everybody liked Shakira's new song. Today I still like it, it is not bad, maybe it is not as good as it used to be, but it is OK. I don’t really think that this song will be important to me in the future, on the opposite it will be totally forgotten. Maybe not after ten years since I used to listen to it a lot. But perhaps after twenty years I won’t remember it anymore.
I would associate the phrase to a break-up between two people and someone has been really hurt. Not because I want to associate that phrase with a break-up but it is something that I would do immediately not even thinking about it. Even though it’s a nice phrase it sounds sad in a strange way, like a goodbye and it also sounds like the love that a person has had to another person has come to its’ end because it is said I loved you. But if you think about it, it can also be a phrase that has been said to someone who has been in a job interview and has made some kind of good performance for example, and the employer loved the person who was in the interview. There are many possibilities, but the one I would associate it with is a break-up.
I would associate the phrase to a break-up between two people and someone has been really hurt. Not because I want to associate that phrase with a break-up but it is something that I would do immediately not even thinking about it. Even though it’s a nice phrase it sounds sad in a strange way, like a goodbye and it also sounds like the love that a person has had to another person has come to its’ end because it is said I loved you. But if you think about it, it can also be a phrase that has been said to someone who has been in a job interview and has made some kind of good performance for example, and the employer loved the person who was in the interview. There are many possibilities, but the one I would associate it with is a break-up.
Music, movies and books
There are more than one song, album, book or movie which
were important for mer when I was younger.
But one book that was expecially important was: "Bli frisk, lillasyster"
Why I was drawn to this book was because I think it has a horrible plot,
and because of this you never forget the book and the plot.
In ten-twenty years I think I will feel the same about the book.
For that reason, like I said, I will never forget a story with a plot like this.
/Amanda
were important for mer when I was younger.
But one book that was expecially important was: "Bli frisk, lillasyster"
Why I was drawn to this book was because I think it has a horrible plot,
and because of this you never forget the book and the plot.
In ten-twenty years I think I will feel the same about the book.
For that reason, like I said, I will never forget a story with a plot like this.
/Amanda
Thursday, July 12, 2007
Personal Essay
You are now going to write your essay. I would like you to write your essay on a Word document and send it to my email as a file.
Think of the following questions before writing your essay: (and don't forget to have a look at the questions you answered when reading Aimee Mann's essay).
What is your favourite work of art/entertainment? Why?
To what genre does it belong?
What memories do you have of the first time you experienced it? Use as many as possible of your five senses to describe it in specific detail.
Describe its effects on your mind, heart and soul, and on your tastes, ideas and values.
Do you think of yourself as an artist of any sort? If so, how has this work influenced you? If not, how might it influence you in non-artistic ways?
Do you feel that you have “outgrown” or “burned out” on it? If not, do you think that could ever happen? Why or why not?
Good luck/Ylva
Think of the following questions before writing your essay: (and don't forget to have a look at the questions you answered when reading Aimee Mann's essay).
What is your favourite work of art/entertainment? Why?
To what genre does it belong?
What memories do you have of the first time you experienced it? Use as many as possible of your five senses to describe it in specific detail.
Describe its effects on your mind, heart and soul, and on your tastes, ideas and values.
Do you think of yourself as an artist of any sort? If so, how has this work influenced you? If not, how might it influence you in non-artistic ways?
Do you feel that you have “outgrown” or “burned out” on it? If not, do you think that could ever happen? Why or why not?
Good luck/Ylva
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Music, movies and books
Hello students,
hope You all had a very nice summer holiday!
Will You please write a few lines on the following questions:
What song, album, book or movie was important to you when you were younger? How did it affect or change you? Why were you drawn to it? How do you feel about it today?
How do you think you will feel about the movies, music, and books that are important to you today in ten years? Twenty years? Forty years?
What associations do You get from the phrase "P.S. I Loved You"?
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