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How easy is it to fall in love with someone you've never met?
Easy!
Michael G. Henderson and Hedda Valen, both intelligent and well-read people should have known better than to fall in love over the Internet.
They don't know better.
Through their daily events and emails to each other, we soon learn how little white lies, foolish dreams and loneliness makes millions of people falling in love with "being in love".
You live in Oslo? Have you heard of Sigur Rós?!
8)
ihr
Well it's not like they're nighbours... Iceland is up there... ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by AbdoRinbo
I've even heard of them here in the country of the sun... 8) :)
And what do you think? Isn't Jonsi's voice unspeakably beautiful?
Well they're ok but a bit slow...not that I usually like noisy things, but...
As for the voice...uhm it's probably ok ;) Sorry never really gave much thought to it... But how I wish I could understand the words instead of feeling it like some mysterious lullaby....
Don't feel bad, he actually made that language up himself (it's called 'Hopelandic'). He isn't saying anything. That's the beauty of it. Each song builds itself up slowly, but that's because it is 'ambient' rock: it's supposed to blend in with the surroundings.
You haven't listened to the '( )' album yet, I'm assuming. You're supposed to listen to the first four songs during the day and the last four at night. I don't know how they realized it, but it is strangely true. The last four songs sound too vague and dark to listen to during the daytime, but the first four are hopeful and, therefore, sound perfect even in the twilight. But at night you are inclined to listen to the final four tracks. '( )'#5 is scary, like a child's bad dream, but '( )'#6 follows it with a poignantly human feeling (I imagine a damned soul crying out to God in a nest of flames, you can almost make out the words-----if we can consider them words at all-----'You leave me alone on the fire; You're so far'). Perhaps you might look into it yourself someday.
Abdo, if I gave you a smashed tomato, would you be able to make it interesting?
I think you would, I feel an urge to listen to that stuff.
As a matter of fact, I just picked up "( )" today. Haven't had a chance to listen yet, but I love the liner notes! ;)
Looking forward to hearing it this weekend.
ihrocks
Hello!
Sorry it's taken a week to reply to the post but I've been busy with surfing, promoting and surfing some more.
Sorry, never heard of Sigurd. Hehe. Oslo is a town with 500 000 people living in it. Although, the name sounds Icelandic to me?
Icelandic and Norwegian are similar languages but yet; very different. As a Norwegian, it's easier for me to learn Icelandic which I by now can speak rather well, but not write very well.
As for my Norwegian; I can speak and talk. Hehe. As I should, since I AM Norwegian. I just happen to live 7-8 months in a very small village in Iceland.
That's where I am now. I'm on my way out the door. A "fashion" meeting is taking place in the village tonight. New designer clothes shown with low prices. Of course, in a village with 300 people; this is capital news!
Heard about it in the supermarket, in fact.
My book, THE MIND'S EYE is partly about this small village even if I changed the name of it. It shows how "small" news can easily become BIG NEWS. Anyone living in a small village knows what I mean.
Sometimes, it feels good to get back to the big city where no one cares.
Of course, I am capital news here!
A woman from Norway, living with her Icelandic boyfriend has PUBLISHED a book in English? Written about the people in the village? Who? Who? Who?
Well, they have to read the book to find out :)
Hilde Aardal
The Mind's Eye
http://www.hildeaardal.com
Hmm sounds very interesting.
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Originally Posted by Dobegood