Dear Mr. Izzard,
I have just realised that I have a very busy time ahead of me the rest of this year... And it is starting tonight.
Every year in the beginning of June there is a street festival here in Copenhagen called Distortion. Lots of music, parties and drunk happy people. This year the art group I am part of has been invited to join for a day, so tonight I am exhibiting at Enghave Plads from 16 to 22. So if you are in Copenhagen you know where to find me.
Next thing on my list is a trip to Paris next weekend. Not sure if that qualifies as something that should go on a busy schedule list, since Paris is one of the coolest and prettiest cities in the world, but I'll put it there anyway. Can't wait for it though. It will be such a good weekend.
Then on the 30th of June I am going to see Depeche Mode. Yay! That is, of course, if David Gahan is back on his feet. I keep my fingers crossed, and I really hope he'll recover and his treatment will go as smoothly as it can. Having had cancer myself I know exactly what a terrifying message it is to get, and what a painful process it is to get well again. All the positive energy in the universe is hereby sent your way Mr. Gahan!
Tuesday 28th of July will definitely be one of the highlights of my year... Metallica!! I have never seen them live before, and I managed to get tickets to the very last show they do in Copenhagen. They actually have five concerts in total here, and although it is in a fairly small venue, I think that is quite impressive. But I suppose being an 'almost' Danish band has something to do with it.
A few days later, on the 30th of July we are off to Gothenburg to see U2. I am not such a big U2 fan, but I live with one that is, and they usually have a good show. It will also be nice to go to Gothenburg, I haven't been there for a very long time.
Then in August, the 8th to be exact, I am getting married. Now I suppose that should be listed as one of the highlights of my year as well, but a wedding isn't really a big thing for me. I am not a princess, I don't want a white, fluffy dress, a diamond ring, a pretty ceremony in a pretty church or any of that crap. I want to have a fantastic day with the man I love, and a great party with all my family and friends, where we all can drink ourselves silly and dance on the tables. And that is what we have planned. So if you are in Copenhagen that day, come see us at the City Hall Square at about 11-ish.
September is so far plan-free, but in October there is another concert; Green Day, on Friday the 9th. I like their new album. It took about four times of listening to it before it got to me, but now I like it. My favourite song at the moment is Peacemaker.
November is also so far plan-free, but in December there is another highlight; Eddie Izzard! :) The 18th of December I finally get to see you live at the Malmö/Copenhagen show. I am SO stoked about that. I have heard that it is a great show, friends of ours saw you in the States a while back, so I have very high expectations. No pressure tho! :)
So, that was a little run through of the rest of my year. I have so much to look forward to and I love it! Wouldn't want it any other way.
Stay well. Until next time.
Cheers.
Friday 5 June 2009
Wednesday 20 May 2009
Letter twelve.
Dear Mr. Izzard,
Tomorrow is Ascension Day, and we have off work. I just love all these heathen/religious holidays, that make your work week shorter. And when I in addition have taken Friday off too, my weekend will actually be longer than my work week. Which is a very good thing, and something I am planning will happen very often in the future! I just have too much of my own stuff to do to actually have a day job...
And speaking of which: I have a couple of photoshoots planned for this weekend. One where I am using the heads I cut out of the portraits I wrote to you about last, and the other one involves some red fabric, and our roof terrace. Should be good.
In addition to that I am planning to do some sewing and some photoshopping. So no relaxed weekend for me, but that's the way I like it.
Hope you are keeping well.
Until next time.
Tomorrow is Ascension Day, and we have off work. I just love all these heathen/religious holidays, that make your work week shorter. And when I in addition have taken Friday off too, my weekend will actually be longer than my work week. Which is a very good thing, and something I am planning will happen very often in the future! I just have too much of my own stuff to do to actually have a day job...
And speaking of which: I have a couple of photoshoots planned for this weekend. One where I am using the heads I cut out of the portraits I wrote to you about last, and the other one involves some red fabric, and our roof terrace. Should be good.
In addition to that I am planning to do some sewing and some photoshopping. So no relaxed weekend for me, but that's the way I like it.
Hope you are keeping well.
Until next time.
Friday 1 May 2009
Letter eleven.
Dear Mr. Izzard,
I am so stoked! You are coming to Scandinavia!! I have already booked the tickets for the Copenhagen/Malmö show. It is going to be a blast. Can't wait for December :)
I am keeping myself very busy at the moment and I am loving it. I am exhibiting at Vesterbro Interactive Art Fair mid May, and that will be such a cool event. If you are in town you should definitely check it out! 15.-17. of May is the date. I am exhibiting with four portraits, and the theme for the festival is 'Stereotypes'. You can check them out here. For the festival - since it is an interactive event - I will cut the faces out, so people can stick their own head through the photo, and 'be' their preferred stereotype.
In addition to that I am sewing, drawing, photographing, designing and playing with ideas of all sorts, and right now it seems like my head is a tad to small for all the stuff going on in there... But I guess that is a luxury problem hey?
Anyway, I hope spring has reached you (it has certainly reached Copenhagen).
Until next time, all the best.
I am so stoked! You are coming to Scandinavia!! I have already booked the tickets for the Copenhagen/Malmö show. It is going to be a blast. Can't wait for December :)
I am keeping myself very busy at the moment and I am loving it. I am exhibiting at Vesterbro Interactive Art Fair mid May, and that will be such a cool event. If you are in town you should definitely check it out! 15.-17. of May is the date. I am exhibiting with four portraits, and the theme for the festival is 'Stereotypes'. You can check them out here. For the festival - since it is an interactive event - I will cut the faces out, so people can stick their own head through the photo, and 'be' their preferred stereotype.
In addition to that I am sewing, drawing, photographing, designing and playing with ideas of all sorts, and right now it seems like my head is a tad to small for all the stuff going on in there... But I guess that is a luxury problem hey?
Anyway, I hope spring has reached you (it has certainly reached Copenhagen).
Until next time, all the best.
Friday 27 March 2009
Letter ten.
Dear Mr. Izzard,
I am reading a book at the moment that I think will seriously change my life! Now if that isn't a bold statement to start a letter with, I don't know what is!
I am talking about 'The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People' by Steven Covey. As you may, or may not, know it is a book about seven ways to make yourself more effective both in your work and private life. I have only reached habit one, and already I can feel the difference in my way of thinking and behaving. Habit number one is: be proactive. The other day I was asked by my boss to solve a problem, that I - after hours of research - found out I wasn't able to solve. Now, before I read this book I would have stressed my ass of thinking of how to tell my boss that I wasn't able to solve the problem, and worry about her reaction. But now, after reading about proactive thinking, I instead focused on finding other ways to fix the problem, and come up with some suggestions for what we could do. It totally worked! Not only did I not stress, but my boss could see that I had made an effort to solve the problem, and didn't worry about the fact that we still had to find a way to figure it out.
Now, thinking proactively might sound like the most obvious thing in the world, but for me it wasn't at all. It was the biggest lightbulb moment ever, when I read about it. So now I can't wait continue reading, and I'll be sure to tell you about any other a-ha moment I might have!
Hope you are doing well.
Best regards.
I am reading a book at the moment that I think will seriously change my life! Now if that isn't a bold statement to start a letter with, I don't know what is!
I am talking about 'The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People' by Steven Covey. As you may, or may not, know it is a book about seven ways to make yourself more effective both in your work and private life. I have only reached habit one, and already I can feel the difference in my way of thinking and behaving. Habit number one is: be proactive. The other day I was asked by my boss to solve a problem, that I - after hours of research - found out I wasn't able to solve. Now, before I read this book I would have stressed my ass of thinking of how to tell my boss that I wasn't able to solve the problem, and worry about her reaction. But now, after reading about proactive thinking, I instead focused on finding other ways to fix the problem, and come up with some suggestions for what we could do. It totally worked! Not only did I not stress, but my boss could see that I had made an effort to solve the problem, and didn't worry about the fact that we still had to find a way to figure it out.
Now, thinking proactively might sound like the most obvious thing in the world, but for me it wasn't at all. It was the biggest lightbulb moment ever, when I read about it. So now I can't wait continue reading, and I'll be sure to tell you about any other a-ha moment I might have!
Hope you are doing well.
Best regards.
Sunday 22 February 2009
Letter nine.
Dear Mr. Izzard,
There is nothing worse than a pen pal that never writes! Except maybe rain and cold coffee. Unless it is ice coffee of course. I am sorry for not writing for so long. I have been busy, but not that busy, so I don't really have any excuses. I did start on a letter a while back, to tell you about my magnificent Christmas holiday, but it was just too much stuff to talk about so I wasn't able to finish. Information overload! So I have decided to tell you about my holiday when I think of something in particular that happened, rather than just recap the whole thing at once. But I can tell you that despite its bad reputation, Zimbabwe is a fantastic holiday destination! So what else is new? I have written a long 'to do'-list for 2009, so I won't be running out of stuff to do the first little while. One of the things on my list is to reach expert level in Guitar Hero. Currently I am on medium in most songs. Except Metallica, which is bloody hard! My favorite album at the moment is Death Magnetic, and I just don't get tired of it! I have tickets to the Metallica concert here in Copenhagen in July. They are actually playing five concerts in Copenhagen alone. I was lucky and got tickets to the 5th one. They were all sold out in minutes. Can't wait.
What else is on my list? To learn how to meditate. I haven't yet, but it is still only February. To wake up happy in the mornings. I would say the success rate for this one is about 50/50. Exercise regularly. This one is sort of going okay. Not quite as regularly as I was hoping for, but almost. Learn about nutrition and eat healthy. I eat healthy, but I still don't know enough about nutrition. Learn how to use all my camera settings. I am getting there. Start working for myself. This is a complicated one, but I have actually gotten parts of the way already. The problem with having a 'regular' job is that you get used to the convenience of having a fixed pay-check every month. So letting go and starting on your own is a very big and very scary thing. Especially with the whole financial crisis looming. I must say I am pretty fed up with the whole crisis. If you listen to the news every day, and all you hear is how worried you should be, and how bad everything is, then of course it will happen. Of course, we can't just ignore the whole thing and hope it goes away by itself, but let’s not lose our minds over it either. I think this would be a very good method for dealing with the crisis...
Until next time.
Take care.
There is nothing worse than a pen pal that never writes! Except maybe rain and cold coffee. Unless it is ice coffee of course. I am sorry for not writing for so long. I have been busy, but not that busy, so I don't really have any excuses. I did start on a letter a while back, to tell you about my magnificent Christmas holiday, but it was just too much stuff to talk about so I wasn't able to finish. Information overload! So I have decided to tell you about my holiday when I think of something in particular that happened, rather than just recap the whole thing at once. But I can tell you that despite its bad reputation, Zimbabwe is a fantastic holiday destination! So what else is new? I have written a long 'to do'-list for 2009, so I won't be running out of stuff to do the first little while. One of the things on my list is to reach expert level in Guitar Hero. Currently I am on medium in most songs. Except Metallica, which is bloody hard! My favorite album at the moment is Death Magnetic, and I just don't get tired of it! I have tickets to the Metallica concert here in Copenhagen in July. They are actually playing five concerts in Copenhagen alone. I was lucky and got tickets to the 5th one. They were all sold out in minutes. Can't wait.
What else is on my list? To learn how to meditate. I haven't yet, but it is still only February. To wake up happy in the mornings. I would say the success rate for this one is about 50/50. Exercise regularly. This one is sort of going okay. Not quite as regularly as I was hoping for, but almost. Learn about nutrition and eat healthy. I eat healthy, but I still don't know enough about nutrition. Learn how to use all my camera settings. I am getting there. Start working for myself. This is a complicated one, but I have actually gotten parts of the way already. The problem with having a 'regular' job is that you get used to the convenience of having a fixed pay-check every month. So letting go and starting on your own is a very big and very scary thing. Especially with the whole financial crisis looming. I must say I am pretty fed up with the whole crisis. If you listen to the news every day, and all you hear is how worried you should be, and how bad everything is, then of course it will happen. Of course, we can't just ignore the whole thing and hope it goes away by itself, but let’s not lose our minds over it either. I think this would be a very good method for dealing with the crisis...
Until next time.
Take care.
Tuesday 2 December 2008
Letter eight.
Dear Mr. Izzard,
It's been a while since my last letter. What can I say, other than: 'I have been very busy'. Working a full day job, having hobbies that take up more time than a full day's job, family, friends, cats, chores. The list is very long.
But I have also found time to unwind. Last Friday I went out with a friend of mine to a cocktail bar here in Copenhagen called Ruby, which looks exactly like someone's apartment, just with a huge bar in the corner and waiters running around serving drinks. Very cool place. We do this every two months or so, where we go out somewhere fancy, and have expensive drinks, and wear uncomfortable shoes. It's all about looking good, not comfort. We don't have many drinks, usually just two, we do quality rather than quantity on these evenings. We did end up having three drinks this time though, because they were very tasty. My three ones were a Violet Martini, an Apple Smash and a Redrum (the last one I had to have because it is the name of a song on the 'Unicorn' album by Ugress I mentioned in an earlier letter. And yes it was red, and looked very deadly, but there were no clairvoyant little boys). My friend had a Mango & Basil Daiquiri, an Almonds Are Forever and a Real Sweet Pear.
And as women usually do, we had a lot of things to discuss. One thing was 'Burn After Reading', the last Cohen-brothers movie. Damn, it is funny! John Malcovich is brilliant, George Clooney is the biggest asshole ever, Frances McDormand is the most neurotic, obsessed woman ever, and Brad Pitt is just class! I have never seen Brad Pitt in a funnier part, and he does it so well.
Anyway, that wasn't the most interesting discussion we had however. I am not quite sure how we got into talking about it, but we were wondering what kind of a guy we would be had we been born men rather than women. Now that is interesting! Can you take your female/male qualities and 'translate' to the opposite gender? Or would you basically start completely from scratch? My friend has a crush on Richard Gere at the moment, and she could definitely see herself as him. He is good looking, he is a Buddhist, so he meditates and is self aware, he is a humanitarian, and probably generally a very nice, caring person. As for me, we sort of ended on Woody Allen. He has big black glasses, he is artistic, creative, neurotic, and eccentric. But then we remembered the whole Soon-Yi incident, and I would definitely not marry my adoptive daughter. I am quite sure of this, even though I don't know what kind of man I would be if I was a man. I like Mia Farrow, 'Rosemary's Baby' is one of my all time favourite movies. Shame, what a shock it must have been for her! So then we thought maybe I would be more like Jude Law. And that is quite a big jump, I'll admit, from Woody Allen to Jude Law. But he is young, he is talented (I love 'Road to Perdition'), he is a bit of a bad boy, but then not really and he does charity. So maybe I would land somewhere in between Woody Allen and Jude Law. Then I would pick Jude Law's looks, age and 'bad boy'-attitude, and Woody Allen's artistic-ness and eccentricity. I think that would be a pretty cool combination. But then again, I could also just stay me. Being a woman, and being me, is pretty cool after all.
Hope all is well on your end.
All the best until next time.
It's been a while since my last letter. What can I say, other than: 'I have been very busy'. Working a full day job, having hobbies that take up more time than a full day's job, family, friends, cats, chores. The list is very long.
But I have also found time to unwind. Last Friday I went out with a friend of mine to a cocktail bar here in Copenhagen called Ruby, which looks exactly like someone's apartment, just with a huge bar in the corner and waiters running around serving drinks. Very cool place. We do this every two months or so, where we go out somewhere fancy, and have expensive drinks, and wear uncomfortable shoes. It's all about looking good, not comfort. We don't have many drinks, usually just two, we do quality rather than quantity on these evenings. We did end up having three drinks this time though, because they were very tasty. My three ones were a Violet Martini, an Apple Smash and a Redrum (the last one I had to have because it is the name of a song on the 'Unicorn' album by Ugress I mentioned in an earlier letter. And yes it was red, and looked very deadly, but there were no clairvoyant little boys). My friend had a Mango & Basil Daiquiri, an Almonds Are Forever and a Real Sweet Pear.
And as women usually do, we had a lot of things to discuss. One thing was 'Burn After Reading', the last Cohen-brothers movie. Damn, it is funny! John Malcovich is brilliant, George Clooney is the biggest asshole ever, Frances McDormand is the most neurotic, obsessed woman ever, and Brad Pitt is just class! I have never seen Brad Pitt in a funnier part, and he does it so well.
Anyway, that wasn't the most interesting discussion we had however. I am not quite sure how we got into talking about it, but we were wondering what kind of a guy we would be had we been born men rather than women. Now that is interesting! Can you take your female/male qualities and 'translate' to the opposite gender? Or would you basically start completely from scratch? My friend has a crush on Richard Gere at the moment, and she could definitely see herself as him. He is good looking, he is a Buddhist, so he meditates and is self aware, he is a humanitarian, and probably generally a very nice, caring person. As for me, we sort of ended on Woody Allen. He has big black glasses, he is artistic, creative, neurotic, and eccentric. But then we remembered the whole Soon-Yi incident, and I would definitely not marry my adoptive daughter. I am quite sure of this, even though I don't know what kind of man I would be if I was a man. I like Mia Farrow, 'Rosemary's Baby' is one of my all time favourite movies. Shame, what a shock it must have been for her! So then we thought maybe I would be more like Jude Law. And that is quite a big jump, I'll admit, from Woody Allen to Jude Law. But he is young, he is talented (I love 'Road to Perdition'), he is a bit of a bad boy, but then not really and he does charity. So maybe I would land somewhere in between Woody Allen and Jude Law. Then I would pick Jude Law's looks, age and 'bad boy'-attitude, and Woody Allen's artistic-ness and eccentricity. I think that would be a pretty cool combination. But then again, I could also just stay me. Being a woman, and being me, is pretty cool after all.
Hope all is well on your end.
All the best until next time.
Monday 17 November 2008
Letter seven.
Dear Mr. Izzard,
What do you do when you’re mad as hell, and need to let off some steam? Today I was so angry I didn’t know what to do with myself. I woke up angry. I won’t get into boring details of why I was angry, but jump straight to the more interesting part of how I got rid of it.
First I decided to go for a walk to get some air. I took my camera with (I always have my camera with, just in case), and started walking with no particular direction in mind. I just took right, after crossing the bridge over the canal. Fresh air has a strange way of messing with your brain. All the scrambled annoyed thoughts you have cluttered up in there, somehow fall into place, in a nice orderly row, and you can make sense of them. I hadn’t even walked more than 200 meters before I had everything sorted out in my head.
Then when I got home I could start on part two of my anger venting. I have mentioned before that music is very important to me, and that was what part two consisted of. Loud, angry, heavy music.
First a bit of Metallica. Their new album Death Magnetic is brilliant. And if you need to vent, it is perfect for the purpose. Then some Rollins Band. I like his old stuff in particular. Weight is a great album. And my all time favourite is Liar, which I remember they played on MTV, in the days when they played music on MTV… The video for that song is hilarious, particularly towards the end when Henry is wearing a nun costume or outfit or uniform or whatever it is called (What is it called? I need to Google that). Anyway, by now all my anger has disappeared, and I know exactly what I need to do in order to deal with my problems.
So what is the perfect end to the process? Sex and the City – the movie, of course. Yep, from Metallica and Henry Rollins, to Carrie Bradshaw. From loud angry men, to stylish love-confused women. Maybe not the most obvious cure for anger, but hey if it works it works!
Take care. Until next time.
What do you do when you’re mad as hell, and need to let off some steam? Today I was so angry I didn’t know what to do with myself. I woke up angry. I won’t get into boring details of why I was angry, but jump straight to the more interesting part of how I got rid of it.
First I decided to go for a walk to get some air. I took my camera with (I always have my camera with, just in case), and started walking with no particular direction in mind. I just took right, after crossing the bridge over the canal. Fresh air has a strange way of messing with your brain. All the scrambled annoyed thoughts you have cluttered up in there, somehow fall into place, in a nice orderly row, and you can make sense of them. I hadn’t even walked more than 200 meters before I had everything sorted out in my head.
Then when I got home I could start on part two of my anger venting. I have mentioned before that music is very important to me, and that was what part two consisted of. Loud, angry, heavy music.
First a bit of Metallica. Their new album Death Magnetic is brilliant. And if you need to vent, it is perfect for the purpose. Then some Rollins Band. I like his old stuff in particular. Weight is a great album. And my all time favourite is Liar, which I remember they played on MTV, in the days when they played music on MTV… The video for that song is hilarious, particularly towards the end when Henry is wearing a nun costume or outfit or uniform or whatever it is called (What is it called? I need to Google that). Anyway, by now all my anger has disappeared, and I know exactly what I need to do in order to deal with my problems.
So what is the perfect end to the process? Sex and the City – the movie, of course. Yep, from Metallica and Henry Rollins, to Carrie Bradshaw. From loud angry men, to stylish love-confused women. Maybe not the most obvious cure for anger, but hey if it works it works!
Take care. Until next time.
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