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About Me
name: Katrin
age: 21
location: Reykjavík, Iceland
nationality: Icelandic
msn: trinagunnars (at) hotmail (dot) com
reading: Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen. Old Arcadia, by Sir Philip Sidney.
listening to: My iPod
watching: Buffy DVDs, How I Met Your Mother and Gossssssip Girl
likes: sleep, Pepsi Max, YAs by Meg CabotTV and my late cat, Joakim
dislikes: Techno, mathfish  

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Friday, January 30, 2009

Song of the Day

It starts at around 1 min. - I couldn't find a clip with just the song, so it's the beginning of the musical Gold Diggers of 1933, and this song, "We're in the Money," is performed by Ginger Rogers.



Btw this is post no. 801!
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-: Trina illustrated her blog at 13:34:-

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

What I learned at school today


Eddie Cantor, "Makin' Whoopee" from the film Whoopee! (1930)


Eddie Cantor, "My Baby Just Cares for Me" also from Whoopee!
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-: Trina illustrated her blog at 23:30:-

Friday, January 23, 2009

The new love of my life

I got a new camera today. I love it. It's Kodak, like my old one, so it's simple and easy, just like a proper lover ;)

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-: Trina illustrated her blog at 17:40:-

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Ch-ch-ch-changes...

So people are saying they want changes. But they don't say WHAT changes they want. Just "changes." How are you gonna get people to follow you if you don't say literally what you want or are going to do - just the general gist of it. Which is changes. Seems a bit like it's only on the surface - like they're rebelling just to rebel.

They say they're "staging a revolution." No, actually, they're not doing that - they're saying that "a revolution will come." Doesn't seem like they're actually doing anything to stage a revolution themselves, except making noise in front of the parliament building with some pots and pans. (Oh, and burning park benches and a huge Christmas tree that was a gift from our friendship-city, Oslo. Mustn't forget that.) Maybe they expect somebody ELSE to do it.

Which makes me wonder. What kind of revolution can we expect today, in modern society? I really hope they're not gonna pull a Bastille-type of thing on the parliament and break down the doors of a 150-year-old historical building and completely trash it. In my opinion, THAT would be worse than burning the tree. And the burning of the tree kinda hurts, actually. In my opinion, people should have some respect for historical monuments, which the parliament building is. And cultural "symbols" (I don't know what else to call it) like the Christmas tree, which the city, the PEOPLE of Reykjavík have been receiving from Oslo for I don't know how many years, should also be respected.
Regretfully, I think those protesters would actually do it if it would come to that.

Even though I don't approve of those violent protests, I do agree with the protesters that we need a new government and I do want to vote. I just don't think this is the right way to bring about elections. Sure, they are certainly bringing about "changes" - that is, Iceland seems to be becoming a smaller version of France when it comes to protesting. However, even though I don't know WHAT changes they want, I'm pretty sure that's not the main goal.

Will they go all the way, make like the French and attack the parliament building? There could possibly be one positive thing about it - we would get a new "Independence" Day! Only instead of Bastille-day, we'd have Alþingishús-day.
Now how about that?

Here are some photos from Timesonline.co.uk.

This is a video I found on youtube, taken by somebody on their mobile last night at 10 pm. The quality is quite bad, but it should give you some idea of what it was like.

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-: Trina illustrated her blog at 15:48:-

Sunday, January 04, 2009

Music that reminds me of things

You know how some smells remind you of things? Music often does, too. Most of the music I listen to reminds me of something or some period of my life. Here are a few examples (in a non-chronological order).

Beirut: April-May '08, sitting on the bus on the way back from the library where I spent the whole day revising

Katie Melua's album Pictures: September '07
Katie Melua's song Crawling Up a Hill: Edinburgh '06-'07, walking between JGHS and Gilmore Place, via Viewforth

Emliana Torrini's album Love in the Time of Science: Summer '08, travelling between work and home
Emiliana Torrini's album Fisherman's Woman: Edinburgh '06-'07

Hraun's album Silent Treatment: Summer '08

Múgsefjun's album Skiptar skoðanir: Summer '08

Dolly Parton's song Jolene: October '07

Ben Kweller: March-April '07

All Angels: January '07

Belle & Sebastian's song Dress Up In You: Edinburgh

Björk's song All Is Full of Love: Gilmore Place, Edinburgh

Bloc Party: Iceland Airwaves October '07 (of course!)

Bloodhound Gang's song Fire Water Burn: End of Year party, Vesturbæjarskóli May '00

Bon Jovi: My dad

The music from Les Choristes: August '05, the first couple of weeks in Edinburgh

A Camp (A.K.A. Nina Persson of The Cardigans): Summer '01 in Norway

Patrick Park: Edinburgh '07

Wir sind Helden: Alina!

The Cure
: Edinburgh '06-'07

Dido's album No Angel: October 2000 (I think...)

Dixie Chicks: living in Höfði '07-'08

Shadow Parade
: January '07

Edith Piaf: Spring '07 and going to see (and crying at) La Vie En Rose at the Filmhouse with Alina and Juulia

The Fratellis: Edinburgh, and reading about them in The Scotsman sometime in '06 or '07

Franz Ferdinand's song Take Me Out: Bar 11, August '07

Garbage
: My stepsister, Sandra Bergmann

Gavin DeGraw: 2004

Iron and Wine: Fopp music store, Edinburgh

James Blunt: Seltjarnarnes, summer '07

Keane: Summer '04

Trabant's song Nasty Boy: Summer '05; the fish factory, and Kofi Tómasar frænda

Maroon 5's song She Will Be Loved: Summer '04; the fish factory
Maroon5's album It Won't Be Soon Before Long: June '07

Michelle Branch: Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' album Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus: Dublin trip, March-April '07

Norah Jones: My mum

The Pipettes: Summer '08, and Dísa :)

XXX Rottweiler hundar: Hagaskóli, '01-'02

Rokklingarnir: The '90s


OK this list is getting way too long. But it is certainly not finite!
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-: Trina illustrated her blog at 23:52:-

Thursday, January 01, 2009

Happy New Year!

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