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Crash of the Titans

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Do you know Crash? If not, let me introduce you to him. Crash is a game character made for the PlayStation console. He was in his first game, Crash Bandicoot in 1996. 10 years later it was also emulated on the PlayStation Network, through which it can be played on the PlayStation Portable and, as of Operating System update 1.70, on the PlayStation 3. I have also seen Crash of the Titans for both Wii and X-box.

Crash has gone through a lot since 1996. Crash Bandicoot 1, 2 and 3, "Crash Nitro Cart" and "Crash Mind over Mutants" are a few I remember.

I just bought "Crash of the Titans" for my PSP. It's been a while since I gamed, the last games I played was "Sims Busting Out" and "Tekken 5", both for PSP. So I thought I wanted something new, and since Crash has always appealed to me, I decided for this one.

I started playing it a few days ago, and I am already bitten by it. In Crash of the Titans, Crash is able to beat his enemies and hijack them so he can gain control of their huge and various powers.

One of the reasons that I like Crash is that he is both cute, adventorous, and sure knows how to kick ass! :love:

It's so cool. I already love the game! :yes:
There are only two minuses so far:
- Some of the levels are a bit long, and you can't save in between levels. So sometimes I have to play for a longer period of time than I intended.
- I get sore thumbs. :lol:

P.S. I Love You

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Holly (Hilary Swank) has been married nine years to a wild Irishman, Gerry Kennedy (Gerard Butler), her one true love. Unfortunately Gerry is diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor. Knowing he only has a short time to live Gerry writes Holly a series of letters that will guide her through her grief.

The first message arrives on Holly's 30th birthday, where Gerry sends her a birthday cake and a tape recording explaining the letters that she will be getting in the mail. Over the next year, Gerry wants Holly to follow the orders in his letters by going on new adventures and to celebrate life by finding herself.

Holly's best friends, Denise (Lisa Kudrow) and Sharon (Gina Gershon), accompany her on her journey. Kathy Bates plays Holly's mom, and Harry Connick Jr. plays a guy who hits on Holly. I adore Kathy Bates! And I had to look up Harry Connick Jr. when I got home, I knew I had seen him in something else... I slapped my forehead when I saw that he played Leo, Grace's husband in 23 episodes of Will & Grace! Homer: Doh! No wonder I've seen him before!

It's been a while since I saw a real girl movie, and to be completely honest I didn't think this would be much different than any other girl movie. But I loved it. I sobbed and laughed by turns through the two hours it lasted.

I'll give it :star::star::star::star::star::star: out of 6.

P.S. I love you :heart:

The Flame and The Lemon ~ Flammen og Citronen

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Weird title for a blog post?! Yes, indeed, and on the surface also a weird title for a movie. But it's the title of the so far most expensive Danish produced movie.

The movie takes place in Copenhagen in the autumn of 1944 during World War II. Most of the Danes are restless and scared, and hoping for the war to end soon. The Flame and The Lemon are two persons from the Danish Resistance, and together they made the group "Holger Danske". They get their orders from highest place, the Danish chief of police, who claims to get his orders from the British.

When The Flame gets ordered to shoot his girlfriend, the beautiful and mysterious courier Ketty, he begins to question the orders. With a large reward offered for turning him in, things start to get difficult, and it shows that you can't be sure of who you can trust, and who you can't.

It was a very good movie, and it portrayed the main charachters very well. It was pretty long though!

I will give it :star::star::star::star::star: out of 6.


Oh, btw, the title? The Flame was red-haired and the Lemon had a big role in bombing and destroying the Citroën factory... (Lemon means Citron in Danish). :smile:

Forever Young

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No, I am not writing blog posts about Alphaville and their giant hit from 1984.

No, Forever Young is the title of a play I saw in the theater yesterday.

The play was about what has happened to the youth in Denmark during the last 80 years. And also about what difference the youth made for Denmark during the same period of time. It was a very interesting play, and a total different way to look at Danish history.

I heard about how the youth was almost not excisting in the 1920s and 30s because they had to work from they were very young. How some tried to make a difference in the Resistance during WWII. How the 50s gave us rock'n'roll. How the 60s raised flower power and legalization of porn. How the 70s' youth grew up in shared houses where mom and dad ran around naked - if they were still married, that is. How the 80s gave us those youngsters we call autonomous, the ones that moved into abandoned houses and fought to be able to stay there. How the 90s gave us the European Championship in football, and what that meant to the Danes in general.

The show even gave me a small peek into the future, but I promised to keep it a secret, so you just gonna have to wait and see for yourself. :zip:

It was brilliant, I just loved it.

:star::star::star::star::star::star: out of 6.

Will & Grace

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I am not watching television very often. Usually there is nothing there that is interesting enough to hold my attention for a longer period of time. I see a movie there once in a while, and it has happened that a documentary has been interesting enough to keep me seated. But it is not often.

I don't know how many channels I have access to, but there are about 40 of them tuned in on my TV, and many of them show series after series after series. I have been watching some of them, but usually just one episode or two, just to find out that it is simply not something I want to waste my time on.

There is one exception though. Will and Grace.

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Jesus Christ :

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I went to the theatre yesterday to see a very old classic. This play was first set up in 1971, and was written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. The musical is about the last seven days of Jesus' life, and contains various kinds of rocksongs.


The first song was performed by Judas (that's his Danish name, he might have another name in your language...) and I didn't understand one word of what he sang. He yelled and screamed his words out so I was tempted to go up there and ask him to take it down a little. :D (That would have been something, huh? : "Excuse me? Yes, you up there! Yes, you! Can you please take it down a bit? You sing way too loud! So please?! Thank you so much!")

The next song was Jesus' answer, and that wasn't much better. I began to think that this was a waste of both time and money...


But then something happened. The disciples sang some real good rock songs, and I caught myself tapping my foot and smiling all over. I liked the songs and the performers, and I absolutely loved Maria Magdalena's stunning red boots!

But the best thing of the play was when King Herodes sang and tapdanced barefooted in his pink underwear. :yes:


I will give it :star::star::star::star::star: out of 6.
I would have given it 6 stars, but two things pull it down to only 5: That Judas sang so his words were unintelligible and that Jesus spat out over the first 4 rows when he sang. :yuck:

Donald Duck (2) - Carl Barks

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You can't talk about Donald Duck and the rest of the that universe, without mentioning Carl Barks.

For those currently drawing Disney Duck comics, the influence of Barks cannot be overstated. He has been a great inspiration to many Duck-cartoonists, for instance Don Rosa (I have written a post about him recently - go back and look :smile:)

In November 1935, Carl learned that Walt Disney was seeking more artists for his Studio, and he decided to apply. He was approved for a try-out which entailed a move to Los Angeles, California. Carl was one of two in his class of trainees who was hired. His starting salary was 20 dollars a week. He started at Disney Studios in 1935, more than a year after the debut of Donald Duck on June 9, 1934 in "The Wise Little Hen."

Barks quitted his job in 1942 due to bad working conditions. He started to work with Western Publishing, who mainly wanted him to make duck stories. People who worked for Disney generally did so in relative anonymity; the stories only carried Walt Disney's name and (sometimes) a short identification number. However, through the sheer quality of his work, people started realizing that a lot of the stories were written by one person, whom they started referring to as the Good Duck Artist. Later it was discovered that the Good Duck Artist went by the name of Carl Barks. He drew Donald-stories at the Western Publishing for three decades, and he retired in 1966, but he kept writing stories for them for a while longer. He also started making oil paintings, and they are worth quite a lot today.
Barks' stories often exhibites a wry, dark irony, and that may be the reason why I like his stories so much!
Carl Barks was born in 1901 and died in 2000. All honour to his memory!

Donald Duck (1) - Don Rosa

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I have mentioned many cartoonists here on my blog. Skilfull creative persons, that can bring a smile on my face.

This is my first post about the Donald Duck universe. Donald was "born" in 1934, in the cartoon "The Wise Little Hen". According to "The Chronological Donald - Volume 1", Donald was created by Walt Disney when he heard Clarence Nash doing his "duck" voice while reciting "Mary had a little lamb". Donald is usually easygoing, but his most famous trait is his short and often explosive temper. He is also sometimes portrayed as more crafty and cynical than other characters in his universe. I like that. It brings another dimension into the duck'ish universe.

Well. This post shouldn't really be about Donald, but about one of his drawers, one of the most famous of them, namely Don Rosa. He was born in 1951 in Kentucky, and is actually mostly known for his stories about Scrooge McDuck.

Rosa joined the Danish publisher Egmont in 1990 and has been working there as a freelancer since then. In 1991 he started creating The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, a twelve chapter story about his favorite character. The series was a huge success, and in 1995 he won an Eisner Award for best continuing series.

During early summer 2002, Don Rosa suddenly laid down work. As an artist he could not live under the conditions Egmont was offering him, but he did not want to give up making Scrooge McDuck comics either. So his only choice was to put down work for a while and try to come to an agreement with Egmont. His main issues were that he had no control over his works. Don had discovered far too often that his stories were printed with incorrect pages of art, improper colors, poor lettering, or pixelated computer conversions of the illustrations. Another matter was that his name was used in promotion of books and collections of stories without his agreement and without sending royalties to him.

He came to an agreement with Egmont in December of the same year, which gave him a bit more control over the stories and the manner in which they were publicized.

Don Rosa has a special way to draw the Disney caracters, but what I like most about his work is his sense of humour. It fits mine just perfectly! :D

Rune T Kidde

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The next Danish cartoonist I will introduce you to, is Rune Torsten Kidde. When he was born in 1957, there was hardly anyone who could have imagined that he would become one of Denmark’s most singular and original comics creators.
If the extracts from Rune Kidde’s school grade books in the album "Gal og normal" (Crazy and Normal) are to be believed, one might conclude that those around him doubted that he would amount to anything. The word "passive" appears in several places. Few would call Rune Kidde passive today. Since 1976 he has been among the most active, and a great asset, in the Danish comics field.



The album "Eventyr Evergreens" (Fairytale Evergreens) appeared in 1987, with the subtitle "Den lilla møghætte og pulven" (Purple Biting Hood and the Polf), in which the old fairytale classics are the butt of Kidde’s clever satire. This album is no less than genious!

Because of failing sight and eventual blindness, Rune Kidde was forced to give up drawing and to concentrate on writing from 1990.

Rune Kidde was the first to receive the Danish comics award, Ping, a fully deserved award if you ask me. I find Rune's humour hilarious, and I have read most of his works.

Peter Madsen / Valhalla

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I have been writing about my favourite cartoonists, and all those I have mentioned so far, have been foreigners. Now it's about time I introduce you to some Danish artists as well, bacause in my opinion we have a few worth mentioning.

The first one I will introduce you to is Peter Madsen. He was born in 1958. He started on drawing the Valhalla albums about the old Nordic Myths in 1977. There are now published 13 Valhalla albums, number 14 is on its way, and the last one will be number 15 and the title will be "The twilight of the Gods", a reasonable ending to a series of exellent stories.

Peter Madsen's artistic development can be seen in many other publications than Valhalla. Several of his drawings and comics from 1975-82 appear in the album Along the road (Hen ad vejen). In 1988 he produced two beautiful and poetic contributions to Bogfabrikken publisher's erotic comics anthology, Danish Delights (Danske fristelser).

In 1995 The Son of Man (Menneskesønnen) was published, the result of three years of intense work. In it, Peter Madsen gives his comics interpretation of the New Testament for the Danish Bible Society. He was given a free hand for his interpretation which, after a great deal of research, figure studies and sketches, resulted in a comic told in 136 pages of beautiful and atmospheric water colour paintings.

Peter Madsen is really a talented artist. Valhalla has been published in 10 different languages, so check him out in case you don't already know him.