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Hi, and welcome to my corner of the web.

You can find a little bit of everything here on my blog: my own photos, movie reviews, recipes, thoughts about this and that, funny stuff and other things that springs to mind. There's also a series of posts about norse mythology here.

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Prometheus

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Let me start this review by telling you that I’m just not an Alien fan. I haven’t seen the Alien movies. I’ve seen like 15 minutes of one of them (can’t remember which one), and it was so boring that I fell asleep on the sofa. So I’m not a fan, and I have no knowledge of what’s been going on in this movie franchise.

So : “Prometheus” is a prequel to the Alien movies.

It takes place in the year 2093, with the scientific exploration spacecraft “Prometheus”. The ship is headed to a planetoid called LV-233, the mission based on findings by archaeologists Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace) and Charlie Holloway (Logan Marshall-Green). They believe the human race was created by aliens they refer to as Engineers. With funding provided by zillionaire Peter Weyland (Guy Pearce), the goal of the expedition is to find evidence of the existence of the Engineers, and given the option: To talk with them.

However, problems arise on two fronts: Company representative Meredith Vickers (Charlize Theron) and an android, David (Michael Fassbender), both have hidden agendas; and also the Engineers might not be quite as peaceful as the crew hopes.

As I said, I’m really not a huge sci-fi fan. I only went to hold Flarin’s hand through the scary bits wink I enjoyed the many cool visual effects, but the story was just ”meh” to me. Even though aliens generally aren’t very believable, I need at least a little bit of realism for it to work. Let me give you an example of what didn’t work for me:

There's a scene in the movie where one of the characters has to have an emergency operation. It involves slicing directly through the skin and muscle-tissue of her abdomen. After the procedure, she's "stitched together" by metal clips in 3 seconds - and with a bit of local anaesthetic, she carries on moving, running and jumping about, moaning just a little bit. I know it’s too much to ask for realism in a Sci-Fi movie, but there is no way you can have any kind of normal movement with your muscle tissue completely severed - and there was absolutely no futuristic sci-fi repair/healing involved.


As for the acting: Noomi Rapace, known from the excellent “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” didn’t quite live up to my expectations. We got a very good look at her physique, but she didn’t deliver all of her lines equally well.
Charlize Theron – I can’t find anything nice to say about her. Tall. Blonde. Bitch.
Guy Pearce, the rich old dude, simply looks like a younger man in very weird old-guy make-up.
Michael Fassbender, as the android David, is the star of the show for me. He plays really well, and is likable, interesting and believable.


There are a number of other characters making up the team, some potentially interesting, but none of them were developed in any way – the captain of the Prometheus was played by Idris Elba (a Londoner, Flarin informs me) and he was pretty good, but as for the rest – they did a good job with what they had to work with, but that really wasn’t very much.


Lots and lots of lovely and very cool visual effects, but the story was just ”meh” to me.

star star out of 6.

New Phones! ~ Or: Nokia vs. HTC

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I got myself a couple of new phones recently. Two, to be more precise. A work phone and my own private phone.

Work has only got a limited selection of phones to chose between, I think there's like four on the list, of which iPhone is one. I didn't go for that one though, instead I picked HTC Desire S. My previous work phone was also an HTC so I thought it would take me the least time to get used to another HTC.

At approximately the same time I decided to replace my old Nokia with a Smartphone. I looked through the options, and an important thing for me was the price. I wasn't willing to pay shitloads of money for a new phone.

I was so lucky that a Nokia phone that I've been looking at is about to leave the market. I found a site where the price was low, and ordered my Nokia E7. happy



I have had the phones for a couple of months now, and would like to point out some differences.

First of all there's the operating system. HTC Desire S runs on Android, and Nokia E7 runs on Symbian ^3.

Then there's the start up time. Before actually testing it, I thought that the E7 was faster. It felt like it, also because that the HTC actually requires that I type in the pincode twice - something which is probably set up by the IT guys at work, to make it all more secure. It's annoying nonetheless. But having started them both up at the same time have proved that the HTC is faster than the Nokia.

A thing that is different when comparing the two phones is the touch screen and how precise you have to be when operating on the screens. I like the Nokia much better. When it comes to games or just pressing icons, they're equal. But when it comes to using the "keyboard" on the monitor, it's just much easier to type correct on the Nokia.



And the Nokia has a thing that the HTC doesn't: A real keyboard. You can flip the screen up on the Nokia, and underneath is a full qwerty-keyboard. So nice. So usable. So fantastic. I don't want to live without it. Writing texts on a phone without keys is ridiculous!

On the down side for the Nokia phone is OVI store. HTC has Android Market, and it holds so much more interesting stuff than the OVI store does. And since I love playing games on my phones, the availability of games matters!

So there are pluses and minuses for both the phones. Given the choice between them I'd probably go for the Nokia. The keyboard counts a lot. And the main downside is the lack of games and stuff for the phone.



Men in Black III

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Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones reprise their roles as agents J and K of the secret Men in Black organization that monitors alien activity on Earth.

The extra-terrestrial serial killer Boris the Animal (played rather well and very menacingly by Jemaine Clement) escapes from its maximum security prison on the moon and travels back in time to re-write history and take revenge on K for its imprisonment and the loss of an arm, not to mention also wiping out its marauding compatriots and consequently protecting the Earth. A variety of time-travelling peculiarities result in only J remembering K's existence, and so it's now up to J to venture back through time, look for a young K (portrayed superbly by Josh Brolin) and stop Boris from destroying the world once and for all. Confused? You won’t be! smile



It’s been 10 years since the last Men in Black movie, and I must say that I like this one better than its predecessor. There are not quite so many funny sequences and comedy aliens in this film. We reach slightly deeper and darker levels, and we have some important ends tied up, so to speak. The special effects looked great, and the time travel thing, which can often seem very confusing, actually worked in this movie. It didn’t leave me with the usual thoughts of “that’s not logical, because…” - if that makes any sense.

Will Smith shows that he hasn't lost his edge and still has what it takes, even after being absent from the big screen for some 4 years now (Seven Pounds and Hancock were his last outings in 2008). Tommy Lee Jones turns 66 this year, and it shows. He’s still a bloody good and convincing actor, but he really looks tired now. Perhaps that’s why his role was minor in this film in comparison to the other two. If there’s ever going to be a Men in Black 4, my guess is that Tommy isn’t going to be in it.


Josh Brolin does a fantastic job as the younger K. Please don’t tell anyone, but I thought it was Tommy Lee Jones with very convincing makeup! That’s how good he was!!

Another actor I’d like to mention is Michael Stuhlbarg, who played Griffin. Griffin is an alien of an unknown species who has the rare and unique ability to foresee the infinite potential outcomes that are dependent on the actions taken in any given scenario. Easy, huh? wink He is also the sole possessor of the ArcNet Shield, which young K requires in order to prevent the pending invasion of Earth by Boris’s buddies. I really liked this Griffin character, who was brilliantly portrayed and soooo cute. Nice one, Michael Stuhlbarg up

star star star star star out of 6.

Wrong panties!

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And that actually happened here, today! bigeyes

Proof? These are definitely not mine!


Big Balls!!

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We saw something that looked awesome the other day. Two huge beach balls in one of the local lakes. And there were people in them!


In case you wonder why two grown up men would take a job as ball holders... Well. There's the money, obviously. But I think that this image may very well answer the question too.


Please!

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Copenhagen Marathon 2012

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Today was the day where the annual Copenhagen Marathon took place. It has grown a bit since the first time in 1980, where it had only 995 competitors. This year a little more than 12,000 runners joined this big event, and ran 42.195 km through the streets of Copenhagen.

I took a few pictures of it, and will share some of them here, so you can get an impression of it.

I bet you've never seen a marathon runner with no legs before!


The audience was ready to cheer. Claudia had her own little cheering crowd. The top sign says: "You can do it!"


Some of the runners ran in groups. The balloons have a number on it: 3:20. That means that you can expect to finish the marathon after 3 hours and 20 minutes if you run as fast as this group. There were groups with balloons for every 20 minutes.


A marathon isn't a fashion show, that's for sure. But this guy in hotpants made me giggle! bigsmile


I was called "such a girl" because I accidentally snapped a pic of a guy without a shirt on. Jeez, it wasn't even on purpose!


I mean it. It really was an accident!


Okay guys, let's get the shirts back on, shall we? p


We stood around the 37 km mark, so people were beginning to show signs of being tired.


And I mean, very tired!


And then, all of a sudden Elvis showed up. He didn't look the least dead to me!


This guy's nose had dropped to his chin. How weird is that?!


Just grit your teeth and keep running. Only 5 more kilometres to go!


This is the last pic for today. The sun was shining so people were sweating a lot.


Fastest guy was Martin Parkhøi from Denmark who got the time 02:24:49
Fastest girl was Barbara Sanchez from Ireland who got the time 2:41:18.

The awkward moment when...

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The other day I listened to the radio, and they had this thing going they called "The awkward moment when...". People who listened to the radio could contribute to the radio show by calling and telling stories about awkward moments.

A dude rang and told a story that I just have to share with you. So lean back and prepare yourself for a good laugh.

So, this guy has a girlfriend, who has a son. When the boy turned 8 years old, they invited the family and friends over for coffee and cake. As the coffee was being served, the kids went upstairs to play. At some point they hear the birthday boy coming down the stairs. They also hear him say: "I've got a penis!" The dude thought: Oh no, he's coming down butt naked or something, but he wasn't. The penis he was referring to, was a big rubbery one, that was usually living in the parents' bedroom.

Everybody in the room went quiet while the boy proudly showed the dildo to the family, and also while he rubbed it around on the back of mum-in-law's neck, so she could feel how soft it was! The dude's girlfriend stared at the floor and whispered: "You handle this!"

As the dude took his stepson upstairs, the only sound in the room was the dad-in-law's hysterical laughter!

When he came upstairs and entered the bedroom where all the children were, he immediately realized that they had found the drawer. Things were spread all around on the floor and his four year old niece was in handcuffs. He tried to gather everything together quickly, and told the kids that "these aren't toys, you know!", but he stopped talking when the boy asked: "What is it then, if not toys?"

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Totally awkward moment, or what? lol
Please take a moment to share one of your totally awkward moments with the rest of us. up

Eurovision Song Contest 2012

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The Eurovision Song Contest 2012 will be the 57th annual Eurovision Song Contest. It will be held in Baku, Azerbaijan. The two semi-finals will be held on 22 May and 24 May 2012, and the final on 26 May 2012

It's not my favourite show. Not my favourite music. But that's not what this post is about anyway. No, it's about the lyrics of some of the songs, that are in this year.

Take Austria for instance. Their song is called "Woki Mit Deim Popo", and here's the chorus, translated into English:

Your booty has feelings
Your booty is a part of you
Don’t just leave it on the chair
Your booty has an opinion, yeah
Your booty wants to move
So shake it, shake it, shake it
Your booty wants to move
Let’s go, give it what it needs

Your booty doesn’t get tired
Your booty says something about you
Come on, shake it, it wants to go wild
So the whole house vibrates
Your booty must be ready
So shake it, shake it, shake it
Your booty must be ready,
Let’s go – give it what it needs.

lol

Russia has chosen to send six grandmums to give their contribution. Here's a bit of their lyrics:

And my cat is happy, and my dog is happy!
And my cat is happy, and my dog is happy!
The happiness is overflowing!
Oh joy!

We are singing extremely strongly.
We are dancing soulful, so soulful!
We are singing extremely strongly,
Because we are together!

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Montenegro is joining the club of weird lyrics:

Euro Neuro don’t be skeptik,
hermetic, pathetic, analfabetic
forget old cosmetic
you need new poetic, estetic
eclectic, dialectic

Euro neuro don’t be dogmatic, beaurocratic,
you need to become pragmatic,
to stop change climatic, automatic
need contribution from the institution
to find solution for polution
to save the children of the evolution

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Latvia:

And Daddy smiled when gave me my guitar
I do my best, and I'll be so much better
Brightest of the highest and the farthest of the stars

And on that day when Sir Mick Jagger phones me
Tell him, please, that I am very busy
Writing brand new songs with Paul McCartney
So sorry Mick, I'll call you back, someday I'll call you back...

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Georgia:

I'm a slaker,
Trouble-breaker
Fortune-maker
Care-taker
I'm just a womanizer
Let me be your supervisor

I'm a joker
I'm a rocker
I'm a shocker
I'm a poker
Got no fear, got no tear baby
never, never, never, never, never

I'm a talker
And straight-walker
I'm a broker
Evil-blocker
Got no fear, got no tear baby
Never, never

And that is funny on more than one level, because the singer looks *so* gay! No way he's a womanizer. But he may very well be a manizer! p