Tonights Theme : Green Dinner

It is not Saint Patrick's Day yet, far from, but still I decided to make myself a green dinner consisting of home-made green pea soup with nutmeg drizzled on top. With it I had home baked rolls with slices of avocado. It was really tasty and not least green! 

Mantra of the day:

I.HEART.GREEN!!

Just to continue my NY - Theme...this is so funny.

If You're Intimating That They Smell Like Hairy Vagina, You Are Correct. 

Young gay man: These two girls I live with don't shower.
Older gay man: Ugh! That's so Bushwick.

--Starbucks, Columbus Circle

Overheard by: Natty

-from: http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/archives/023379.html

An Ode to Ol' New York...

What I miss 

The people.

The crowds.

The yellow cabs.

The steaming sewers.

The noise of the city.

The skyscrapers.

The Hudson.

The bike ride over Williamsburg Bridge.

The Village.

The baby cakes in LES.

The park in Fort Greene.

The Standard in Greenpoint.

The brownstones.

The rooftops with the view of Manhattan.

The CITY....



The rents. Life in this city isn't always easy, but here are all the reasons why we heart New York.

The Sweet Hereafter

Recently I read the book 'The Sweet Hereafter' by the American author Russell Banks. I was already recommended reading the book back in November 2007, when standing in a little second hand store in West Village with my then boyfriend to read the book, which he claimed was one of the best books he had read. So I listened and bought the book for the mere price of  $2, and went home, placed it in my bookshelf and thought to myself I would read it in my Christmas break, however, I never did. So this autumn I finally took the book out again of my bookshelf, when I had to pick a new book to read, and I am so very glad I did. I just wish I had done that a little earlier, but I guess there is a time for everything. 

The book is a journey into the minds of a few people from a little village upstate New York, where a terrible school bus accidents has taken place in the mist of winter wonder land. Banks describes the incident and the post-effects of the lost lives of peoples kids - and the out-of-town lawyer, who travels up there for a lawsuit - in such a heartbreaking way, at least I think so, that you instantly get absorbed into the book, and while reading it I would often get this feeling of sadness. After reading the last page I thought he could (if this had been in Hollywood) have written a sequel. There were so many thoughts going through my mind, things I would have loved to read more about - the outcome of the people lives, and yet, this is often the case when you get introduced into characters and their thoughts, in a way he touched me with his book to be visually active, and somewhat created my own idea of the people, for them to "live on" although the book is finished.

Anyway, now I am just looking forward to one last resuscitation of the book, as I just ordered the movie from the library, which we only have a VHS copy of here in public library in Copenhagen. It is an old film (1997) and we don't have the most updated film library here... what can I say...

Well, I am looking forward to the film version of 'The Sweet Hereafter' (directed by the fabulous Atom Egoyan, who never seem to disappoint) to see if it is as well put together as the written work that have left me wondering if these people might be real due to Banks profound way of writing. 

With Tine in Carroll Gardens in Brooklyn, New York

Last year in December 2009 I spend a day in the company of lovely Tine walking the streets of Carroll Gardens in Brooklyn, NY.

Turbans are hot ! Thoughts of a moment in time....

I often find it interesting with these fashion hypes that suddenly one thing is just sooo cool that everybody just has to have it or if you wear it you're definitely 'it' - or in other words you'll be credited as the stylish person that will get some attention when walking around with the certain fashionable object. So what is über cool at the moment? Well, isn't it the old-fashioned headpiece we known for centuries in the middle east: the turban!! Yes, in times like these .... As I am from Denmark and often - way too often get exposed to politicians, debaters etc. arguing over whether the Muslim female immigrants ( often they are 2. to 3rd generation) should or should not be allowed to wear their head pieces - a scarf or a burka (which is a bit more controversial than a scarf in my opinion),  a tradition or way to show the world around them their belief...
However, I had always had a thing for scarf's and have spend many precious minutes in front of a mirror trying to tie a pretty scarf in some cool or let me rephrase it - not too ugly way around my head (like a proper head wrap), not always with that much luck!! So when I in my late teens found this über cool turban-looking hat that mostly reminded me about something the famous Danish writer, Karen Blixen (aka Isaak Dinesen in English) would wear, I was infused with joy and overloaded with visual imagination of me wearing this turban. However, things doesn't always goes as planned....Firstly, I don't think it was the right time for it when I got the turban (around '97) from that second hand store in my home town. 2nd of all, I don't think people at my high school quite understood why I was so overly happy about this head piece, nor would they think that it in fact was cool. 3rd of all....I am to this day not sure I was confident enough to make such a statement, which it would be to walk around with this turban / head wrap, and honestly even though I recently found it again in my old keeps and I know it is the hottest of the hottest to wear a turban / wrapped scarf like a turban again (and saw a pretty girl walking confidently around with one last night in black - when I was attending a gig at Vega) well, what I am trying to say is that I am not really sure that I will ever be able to walk around with a turban like that - except for when I have greasy hair on a day off, and just use the turban for fun at home dreaming of the cool responses it will get or rather I will get when wearing it out - and then be one of those 'it' -people, haha I just know it is not for me. But that doesn't mean that I still don't absolutely adore my turban, especially as it is hanging here on my clothing rack in my tiny bedroom. 
To wrap this up :) Here are two lovely pictures of Karen Blixen wearing her very famous head wraps or turbans!

Min Kat Sille

Her er et gammelt filmklip med min søde Kat, Sille.
Blev rigtig glad, da jeg fandt klippet på mine forældres computer, da jeg ikke selv længere har nogle på min. Det er jo efterhånden en del år siden, at Sille døde (April 2006). Kvaliteten er derfor heller ikke den bedste men synes nu godt, at man kan fornemme den 'cuteness-faktor ' min kat besad :)
Se med. Nå, jeg kan ikke få det til at virke med den lille video, så hermed kun et billede - i ret dårlig kvalitet ...