A couple of things I did/thought about today

Today I bought myself a beautiful, cute fairy, a Christmas ornament. Actually I bought two, but the plan is to keep only one and give the other away as a Christmas gift. IF I can manage to decide which one I want to keep and which one to give away and if I can manage to part from any of them.

There are actually some anti-feminist women out there, believe it or not. Women who are conservative and old-fashioned, who want nothing else than be taken care of of a man. Shame in you! Not because you think the way you do, I totally respect that. But because you blame feminism for the lack of males in your life, the lack of relationships. What's the point in blogging about your pitiful, miserable lives and blaming it on feminists? I mean, do you REALLY think, honestly, that feminists have scared all the men away? That feminists have destroyed your love life? Or are you just trying to blame someone, something for your lack of luck in the love department? Ever thought it could be your own fault? Ever thought you appeared a bit too demanding? Too clingy? Too ready for family and wedding? Too pushy? Or is it really your opinion that feminists scared the men away? If you do, then why on earth don't you run into the street and yell of the top of your lungs: I am NOT a feminist! Come and love me! Buy me a diamond ring and take care of me and support me financially! THAT should make the men flock to you like flies to shit, eh? Then you would have the pick of all the men you claim feminists have scared away, the manly men! And you could be happy in your conservative, little life. F... you!!!

The Norwegian Salvation Army degraded one of its officers this week, after 22 years in the army. He, of course, is gay, openly so and although the Salvation Army has looked the other way for quite a while, they suddenly decided to take action. What I don't understand is why this officer would even want to be in an organization that so openly doesn't respect gays (and lesbians). Some think the Salvation Army should adjust to this time and life, after all, it is 2005 so they should maybe be a bit more up to day, a bit modern and open. HELLO?! The Salvation Army and every other Christian society and organization reads, follows and believes a fairytale-book written nearly 2,000 years ago!

HAHAHAHAHA! Enrique Iglesias is to promote extra SMALL condoms. He has just as little to offer in bed. as with his music! Mooowaaaahhahaha!

The Narnia Skirmishes

Finally, the movie adaption of the Narnia-chronicles will hit our movie theaters. I've been waiting quite a few years for this one! C. S. Lewis' children's book are well-known and loved by a great deal of people all over the world. But still, I am a bit apprehensive to this movie. It's a Disney-movie and that makes me skeptic. How have they adapted these books? Is it more religious than magic?

When I read the books the first time, I enjoyed them tremendously. I wanted to be Lucy, so I sat inside my wardrobe after cleaning it out, reading the books (in English I might add!) and hoping the wall of the back of the wardrobe would open up and reveal to me a magic, new world. A couple of years ago I read them again and while I still enjoyed the magic of them, I could see the religious aspect as well. Not just an undercurrent of all-purpose, feel-good religiosity, but a rigorous substratum of no-nonsense, orthodox Christianity: If you read between the lines and sometimes right there in them these stories are all about death and resurrection, salvation and damnation. And how are Disney to play this out? There may be a good reason Lewis is among the last of the classic children's authors to be adapted for the movies: ....that in taking on Narnia, Disney has backed itself into a corner. If the studio plays down the Christian aspect of the story, it risks criticism from the religious right. If it is too upfront about the religious references, on the other hand, that could be toxic at the box office. Disney........is hedging its bets and has, for example, already issued two separate soundtrack albums, one featuring Christian music and musicians and another with pop and rock tunes.

Aslan, the supernatural lion: .. is fierce but beautiful, stern but loving; his breath is perfumed like incense; and the mere sight of him is enough to set most creatures tingling. He is, in fact, nothing less than the Son of God, who dies and then comes back to life and through the seven volumes repeatedly tests but ultimately saves the children and leads them to eternal safety.

And of course, the sinister White Witch, the evil queen who has Narnia under a wintry spell. Everything is set right to make the mother of all screen battles: not just your basic struggle of good and evil but a $200 million smackdown between the religious right and godless Hollywood, between C. S. Lewis and Tolkien.

Tolkien created an imaginary world, intricate and detailed and as self-sufficient as the real world. He created not just a story, but an entire world with maps and geography, mythology and several languages, Lewis was more of a magpie: He took whatever came to hand and dumped it all in. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is a pastiche not only of Christian theology but also of Wagner and of classical Greek and Latin mythology, of Arthurian romance, Grimm's fairy tales and Scandinavian folklore, of Kenneth Grahame and Beatrix Potter (remember the talking beavers who hid the children in their lodge?). Near the end of the book, even Santa Claus (as Father Christmas) makes a cameo appearance.

Despite all this. the books have had an influence on other writers. J. K. Rowling has said that she was influenced by them and you can also see the influence in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials-trilogy: ...... is both a homage of sorts (it begins with a girl in a wardrobe) and also a kind of anti-Narnia, a negation of everything Lewis stood for. God in these books turns out to be a senile imposter and Christianity merely a very powerful and convincing mistake. Pullman has said of the Narnia cycle that it is one of the most ugly and poisonous things he's ever read and has called Lewis a bigot.

The books do have their faults, they're not nearly as well written as the Potter books or His Dark Materials: ......by the standards of political correctness, they commit a host of sins. They're preachy, they're sometimes gratuitously violent and they patronize girls. The villains, moreover "the Calormenes, who dwell in the south" are oily cartoon Muslims who wear turbans and pointy-toed slippers and talk funny.

I find that if you are not forewarned, then it is perfectly possible to read most of the Narnia-books without a clue to it's religious undertone. Book one, in the now canonical order, The Magician's Nephew and the last book, The Last Battle:....are respectively, a Creation story and a version of Armageddon.

The books are so much better when read without the subtext. So, if you haven't read the Narnia books yet, and want to read them before the movie comes, then DON'T read the article I've extracted from.

NOTHING and then some

The thing about this blog is that I like to write about personal things. You know, things that happens in my life, things I care about and care about, things I find interesting. I'm just trying to be my self, really.

The only problem is that after a while I start to feel like I'm eating my own head. Truly, that's what I'm feeling, like I'm eating my brain.

I've become a horrible writer lately. Not that I ever were a GOOD writer or actually could call my self a writer at all. But I just can't seem to sit down and organize my thoughts in any intelligent manner. It's like I've eaten everything inside my brain and there's absolutely NOTHING left, just a big empty NOTHING. N. O. T. H. I. N. G. !!!! It's like I've become this totally uninteresting BORE, just a shallow reflection that holds NO thoughts worth sharing, worth writing. I can't make sense on any topic, my brain has shut down. I am really starting to doubt my ability to write at all! It's not funny you know!

It seems like every other blogger in the blog-universe writes funny, emotional, personal, interesting posts and then there's the odd one out...... me! It's really hard work trying to come up with something to write about. All I could manage so far today, is all this whining! Additional, I want to mention that Madonna's new CD is out today. "Confessions on a dance floor" is a great album! The woman never ceases to amaze me, she's strong, sexy and always manages to come up with something new. She's highly adaptable and looks great! She's never been a strong or good singer and not that good a dancer either, but she does know how to get me singing and dancing! "Confessions on a dance floor" brings her back to her roots, to the beginning, to the dance music on sweaty dance floors. After 22 years this is her best dance-album and a great pop-album. LET'S PARTY!!

Things about me that holds no interest whatsoever for anybody else

For all you folks that think I'm selfish, egotistical, self absorbed and full of my self, here are 100 things about me to prove you right! It take quite a lot of time writing this list, but after having seen so many other doing the same on their blogs, I thought what the h...! So here goes:

I was born on Friday, April 23^rd.

-A child born on a Friday is doomed to misfortune.

-A voyage begun [on a Friday] is sure to be an unfortunate one.

-If you hear anything new on a Friday, it gives you another wrinkle on your face, and adds a year to your age.

-Don't move on a Friday, or you won't stay there very long.

-A child born on a Friday is doomed to misfortune

Lucky me

I'm the oldest sibling of three, always the responsible one!

I was the laughing stock of my entire school when I was 14, included the teachers, the principal, the cafeteria-ladies, the janitor and the cleaning ladies. All because of a heavy crush on an older boy. I'm sure my soul is still scarred from that year!

I had my appendix removed when I was 15. Everybody thought I would die, I was told I was only 1-2 hours away from dying because my appendix bursted 5 days before I got to the hospital. That's my nearest-death-experience so far!

Purple has been my favourite colour for at least 20 years.

I've never broken any bones in my body.

I've never been in a real fight, maybe because I'm a girl, but I've had my shares of bastards I wanna kick in the groin!

I love Cadbury's Milk Chocolate

I don't like coffee, but I adore tea

I'm a sucker for action movies

I wanna be Buffy, just so I could snuggle Spike

My mum's family has origins from England, Spain, France and Chile, and I favour her colours.

I'm sometimes mistaken for NOT being Norwegian

I hate racists, Nazis and fascists

I'll be glad when all the human ethnicities on Earth are so well blended that race no longer exists.

The farthest North I've ever been is Trondheim

The farthest away I've ever been is New Orleans

When I was young I was tall and thin. I'm still tall

I've never thought of my self as pretty, and neither did my ex. WB does though, bless him!

Sometimes I feel less than girlie because I don't care about celebrities' personal life.

Sometimes I feel less than girlie because I don't watch soaps on TV.

I love books and wish my library consisted of more than 1,000 + books

I dream of being a published writer

I wish I had time to do projects: books, arts, cards and creativeness, whatever, all the time

I SUCK at karaoke

I don't consider myself slutty

I still want to believe it's possible for a woman to be friends with a man without there being any hope for sex on his part

I'm really quite shy when meeting new people, my friends call me the Ice Queen

I want a couple more tattoos

I love a back rub

I'm secretly a geeky 14 year old

I like to cook and in another life I would be a chef

I fantasize about being rich, even though it's such a cliché!

I have a cyst in my brain

Last kiss, this morning, with my boyfriend

Last movie: Serenity. It was good

Last annoyance: This MF sales-bastard, trying to get me to invest money in some foreign investment-scheme I've never heard of and trying to convince me his name is Dan Miller, when he's got an accent thicker than porridge and I can hardly understand anything he says. And he wont take NO for an answer, that really pisses me of!

I'm too old and too tall to be scolded

I hate crappy driving and rudeness. Norwegians need to learn a bit British politeness

I fear heights and fires

I regret ever meeting my ex and throwing away 12 years of my life

I learned English before Norwegian, but have forgotten it all

I was a virgin until the ripe old age of 17 years and 8 months

I have a magpie-like attraction to things that sparkle

I read FREAKISHLY fast

One year I read over 300 books

Now I read an average of around 50-60 books a year

I make an awesome girlfriend

I also make an awesome single girl

My favourite smells are chocolate, rain, old books and freshly cut grass

I can be impatient and critical

I can also be generous, sympathetic, thoughtful and supportive

Orchids and tulips are my favourite flowers

I love the names of Scottish villages and castles

I love shopping

I've NEVER done any drugs. I guess that makes me a prune

Some music makes me sob

I always wear make-up, but NOT in my sleep

I would like nicer looking nails

I played handball for 10 years until I hurt my elbow, I played tennis for a couple of years, and these last couple of years I've been doing kick boxing. I never did any girlie things, like gymnastics and ballet

I try to go snowboarding, sailing, cycling, diving and white water kayaking

I love the ocean

I love the mountains

I love to swim

I'm fascinated my eastern culture

My favourite artists are Turner and Michelangelo

I love music

I love the words neophyte, loquacious and gewgaw

And the words virago and alpenglow

I've got a mole on my cheek, in earlier time it would have been called a beauty spot

I'm nearsighted

I don't like cows, they're big, slow, clumsy, stupid and dangerous

I'm lazy

I think a long walk in the woods or in the mountain with hot chocolate on a thermos is romantic

I make my own X-mas cards, 50 each year

This year I'm also making some of the presents I'm giving away for X-mas

I don't want kids

I dream of my own garden

I love my friends and my family

My only living grandparent is my maternal grandparent, who's soon 95

I have a nephew I don't see as much as I would like

I'm looking for a house to build

My boyfriend and I have just bought a piece of land

I'm still angry at the MF who owns a murderous Rottweiler that savagely attacked my poor Leo and bit a hole in his neck.

I would like to hospitalize that dog-owner

I smoke

I love sleeping

I hate ironing

I want more hours in the day

I spend far too much money on magazines

I've got at least 100 books that I haven't read yet

I think Keanu Reeves is LOOKING GOOD

My favourite actors are Johnny Depp, Liam Neeson, Jeff Bridges, Michael Caine, Judy Dench, Anthony Hopkins and Tom Hanks

My favourite comedian is definitely Billy Connolly

I would like to eviscerate that Rottweiler

I like to think my life is worth living

I'm having a hard time finding 100 things about me

I'm gonna have a cup of tea when I'm done with this

Then I'm gonna look at the show with nerds trying to play soccer

I would like to be a painter

I love fairies, elves, dragons, unicorns, wizards, trolls, dwarfs and all thing magical

I'm happy to be done with this meme!