I want you to let it be...

Hi there! This is quite a fast update; at least since it’s me we’re talking about! Haha! I haven’t abandoned my New Year’s resolution about blogging more often, so here’s a brand new update.

What to write about? I’ve been down with the flu for some days now. I rarely get sick, and especially not for 5 days. I’m really bored, and I’m looking forward to go back to school again.  Hopefully it’ll be tomorrow.

I thought I’d might share a video with you. It’s a clip from the movie “Across the Universe” and the song is “Let it Be” from…. Yeah! That’s right! The Beatles.

 The movie is a musical, it’s set in the 60’s and they use Beatles songs. This version of Let it Be is actually very good, in my opinion.

The particular scene in the movie where the song is from is a funeral scene. Two people are dead; the High School sweetheart of one of the main characters was killed in the Vietnam War. The little black boy was killed during race riots in Detroit.

I think the songs just fits so well to the setting, and it’s just… beautiful. Gives me chills. So, go check it out. I can also recommend the movie “Across the Universe” it’s really good. And I’m not saying that just because I’m a Beatles fan.

Well, better get back to my cough drops.

See you!

- Stine

Happy New Year

Hi there! It’s been ages!

First of all, Happy New Year!

2012. I like it! As someone tweeted on New Year’s Eve, this year, it’s 70 years since Paul McCartney was born, and 50 years since the Beatles had their breakthrough. In other words: A good Beatle-year. I have also read that both of the remaining Beatles’-members will release solo albums this year. Sounds promising.

I’m really, really tired right now. Yesterday and today a friend and I helped out at a local clothing store where they were having an inventory. I’ve been registering different items of clothing for hours. My back and shoulders are aching. But it was actually very interesting to see how something like that is done.

Now I’m wearing the pair of super soft flannel pajama pants that I got for Christmas. Tomorrow, school starts again after the holidays. I’m ready. I think.

As my friend Marianne suggested (I hope you’ll read this Marianne) blogging more often should be my New Year’s resolution. I’ll try.

It's the book "based" on the movie based on the life of George Harrison.

I have 400 wonderful pages to look forward to, with a lot of pictures and copies of old letters and other fancy stuff.

See you again soon!

Stine



Backbeat

Gahh! I’m a terrible blogger. You’re supposed to UPDATE your blog. I know that. It’s just that... Well, things have been pretty crazy around here. Lots of things are happening, and I haven’t taken the time to update. But I’m doing it now. All right, enough with the excuses.

Thanks to Marianne for the comment! It makes me happy that you’re reading what I’m writing.

I thought I might write a bit about a movie I saw the other day. It’s called “Backbeat” and it’s a Beatles-movie. It was made in 1994, so it’s almost as old as I am. It deals with the story of The Beatles’ early days, when they were playing in Hamburg.

It’s not a terrific movie. Definitely not as good as “Nowhere Boy” (Which also tells the story of the early stages of the world’s greatest band) but it’s all right. It deals a lot with the relationship between John Lennon and the band’s first bassist, Stuart Sutcliffe. Stuart left the band in 1961, and died the following year, only 22 years old.

It’s difficult to say what makes it “all right” but not “fantastic.” It probably had something to do with the fact that none of the actors look anything like the person they’re portraying. (Except for maybe the guy who plays Paul McCartney) John Lennon is portrayed by the guy who plays professor Quirrell (Had to look up his name, in Norway we know him as “Krengle”) in the first Harry Potter movie. The actors also seem to be too old for their parts,and that's just wrong! They look like they’re in their mid-thirties, while in reality the members of the Beatles were only 18-20 at the time when the movie is supposed to take place. The acting doesn’t exactly deserve any Oscars either, but except from that it is a pretty good movie.

Screenshot from "Backbeat" Ian Heart as John Lennon (Left, striking resemblance to Keanu Reeves in this picture, by the way) and Stephen Dorff as Stuart Sutcliffe (Right)

Better go and do some homework now. I’ve got this big hand-in in politics, and I’m all out of motivation. Perhaps I should make myself another cup of tea..? 

Have a nice day, evening or whatever :)

- Stine

The start of something new

Here we go.

First, I have to introduce myself. I’m Stine, and I’m from Norway. I love The Beatles!

That’s normally not the first thing I say when I meet new people. But its’ true!

I love writing. That’s probably why I have always loved subjects where we get to write a lot. Norwegian, English. (And partly French. Not because I didn’t love French as much as the other two, but because I never got so good in French that I could write that much. But I would really like to be fluent in French one day. It’s actually one of my goals in life.)

Anyway. English. Ever since I started Videregående, (Which is what we go to in Norway when for instance Americans go to High School) English has been my favorite subject. So I figured, why can’t I start up my own English blog? That would give me an opportunity to share all the thoughts spinning around in my mind, and at the same time practice on my English. A few clicks later, and I was the proud owner of “lucylovesthewalrus”

The name of the blog refers to two Beatles songs; “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” and “I Am the Walrus”

"... Well here's another clue for you all, the walrus was Paul..."

- The Beatles, Glass Onion

I wish you all a splendid night!

- Stine