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