― gear (gear), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 04:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 04:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― nein Socken (nein Socken), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 06:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― nein Socken (nein Socken), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 06:13 (eighteen years ago) link
deep insidedown below the surfaceall the lurking thingsunder pressureswimming through the darkit's so coldi love itaccidentally preciousshiny little serpenti am movinglike a naked eelheat vent circulationaccidentally precious
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 07:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― literalisp (literalisp), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 07:31 (eighteen years ago) link
Inside an article on Iceland by Michael Lewis, this:
Because Iceland is really just one big family, it’s simply annoying to go around asking Icelanders if they’ve met Björk. Of course they’ve met Björk; who hasn’t met Björk? Who, for that matter, didn’t know Björk when she was two? “Yes, I know Björk,” a professor of finance at the University of Iceland says in reply to my question, in a weary tone. “She can’t sing, and I know her mother from childhood, and they were both crazy. That she is so well known outside of Iceland tells me more about the world than it does about Björk.”
This matches with the experience I had when I was at UCLA -- took a class in Norse sagas from an American professor there who regularly went to Iceland for research, this was in 1990 or so. I said to him at one point, "There's this band I like from Iceland called the Sugarcubes," to which he responded, "Oh yeah, I know them all. Great folks."
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 21:08 (fifteen years ago) link
shocka well-respected and loved musician "can't sing" and is "crazy"
― Surmounter, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 21:12 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm not the biggest fan but this is p amazing, bjork @ 17, just a force of naturehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAuP1JDesJs
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Thursday, 25 August 2016 15:12 (seven years ago) link
Wow! I love that! I don't know if that's just how bjork acts or that just how icelanders roll but a great deal of her magnetism is how strange and unique her personality is, and it's not a fabricated quirkyness like most popstars, she's naturally interesting.
I have the sickness.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 25 August 2016 19:57 (seven years ago) link
Yeah I mean I think on balance I like Bjork and her oeuvre and her persona, it's just that Brand Bjork has started to get a little overbloated with all these pompous art retrospectives and whatnot.
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Thursday, 25 August 2016 21:33 (seven years ago) link
lol that video took me to this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rujxXOmYLUU
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Thursday, 25 August 2016 21:35 (seven years ago) link
was a big fan up through Vespertine but man I cannot stand how she sings now. the over enunciation, the same breathy loudwhisper on almost every song. just strikes me as super pretentious and not fun.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 23 April 2019 17:13 (five years ago) link
How great is “karvel”?
― brimstead, Tuesday, 23 April 2019 18:20 (five years ago) link