Raisin d’Etre

December 6th, 2006

Today I come bearing gifts in the form of youtubed videos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jtrFmwkigI. The promised goodbye video of Kulle. I will miss that little guy. There’s also a bit of Kridte and their mother in the video, and some bulldozers groaning and goats baahing in the background.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwVviDxPflc. A Kridte video. With lots of loud baahing. It almost looks like she is searching for Kulle, doesn’t it? Although this video was made 5 days after Kulle left, so she had had some time to get used to it. But still, don’t it just break your heart? I tried consoling her with a raisin, she loves those.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqG5xTXHt7I. A video of Magnethe examining my camera, getting right up to the lens and almost biting it off.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f8geb6RbIg. A similar video, but this time it is Mads who checks out my camera to see if it is edible. So if you want to see Mads and Magnethe REALLY up close then these videos are for you.

And that’s all for today. Party on, party people.


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Tina Dickow and the Dead Man’s Chest

December 5th, 2006

Wow. I am tired. Still. That was a long and hard weekend. But very rewarding too.

The concert went fine. Tina and the band were magnificent. A couple of new songs. A lot of old classics. It was a seated concert. At the last song (well, before the encores) everybody got up and there were thunderous applause. Granted I haven’t been to a huge amount of concerts, but that was by far the loudest and longest applause I have ever experienced. Beautiful moment. Another beautiful moment was the start of set 2. They lit a couple of candles and then the whole band gathered around them for “that campfire feeling”. That was neat. My favourite moment though, was when Tina talked about the special edition of her latest album. A music reviewer (Thomas Treo, your typical a*hole reviewer, who seems to reprint the same review everytime he reviews a Tina record or concert) had criticised her for releasing a special edition with new tracks. He said it “ruined christmas for her fans”. Hah! Well, anyway. Tina said that her brother had done extensive research on P2P and she encouraged everyone who had the album and just wanted the new tracks to go to “this place called Piratebay” and download them. How cool is that? Further proof that Tina is the bestest popstarsinger ever. Name one other established artist who would advertise for piratebay! Haha.

My first thought was “uh oh, your record label isn’t going to like that”. My second thought was “wait a minute, she started her own record label. I think she’ll get away with it”. I still think KODA and APG (the Danish anti piracy group) would be rather pissed that she told her fans to go to AN EVIL ILLEGAL TORRENT SITE THAT KILLS BABIES AND EATS KITTENS. Of course I would personally never download anything from a site like that, it is undoubtedly run by Al-Qaeda terrorists and funded by Colombian drug lords. But Tina is my hero, yes she is.

A great concert, all in all. Only one minor mishap. When an usher came and poked me on the shoulder and whispered “no photography allowed”. Whoops. I turned off my camera and hid it away. Too bad. I really like taking pictures at concerts. It’s a part of the experience for me. But okay. Fair’s fair. I wasn’t bothering anyone though. I had an aisle seat and I wasn’t using flash. But there you go. I still had a great time. Now I just need to recover.

I think I’ll go write some christmas cards.


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