The Scent Of A Woman...

Some women activists here want muslim men and muslim women to pray together in their mosks...

But perhaps a sort of leash between the sexes is a practical solution...?

Rediscovery Of Subtle Details

"We have a divice" - the wellknown phrase of the sci-fi serial "7 Days" is repeated each time a new episode is being played. I love that phrase with a mellow soft female voice - I never tire of it. It's like my brain isn't capable of registre the whole range of vocals and consonnantes in utter details. Much the same goes for some female artists with a lot of variety in their voice - like Kate Bush and our own Lene Marlin... and an American artist I hope to see this year, but I prefer to keep her name not known to the public, in case she doesn't like it mentioned in my blog and would not want to see me if I reveal her name... but would feel a bit outlet if I had not included her somehow in my blog post here... phuuu! The artists are of course a sensitive group with special needs to put into consideration, some of us have learned. I've used this years ESC to prepare for my meeting with her and tried to learn how to behave better this time (it's not so easy to have better manner and politeness for a slob like me with no artists in my family and only working class background).

But don't worry about my minor problems; back to the main reason we prefer to see a film or hear a song over and over. It' s probably in the subtle details that we struggle to take into our brain to store there in with its coworking factors. A song artist can have a lot of difficult words to harmonize with the instruments beeing played - by clever placed chords, that may surprise the listener every time, so the song seem so fresh and delightfull ever time it's beeing played.

This view of mine that I have been wondering about for several years is finally given some support here:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120529113300.htm

Final Top Ten Results Of ESC 2012

1 Sweden, 2 Russia, 3 Serbia, 4 Azerbaijan, 5 Albania, 6 Estonia, 7 Turkey, 8 Germany, 9 Italy and 10 Spain.

Romania finished 12 and San Marino and Switzerland did'nt even reach the final! This seems only to confirm and strenghten the bad tendencies since the late 80's where showing off in different (and unexpected, amusing or powerfull) ways are more important than the songs themselves. Sad of course, but only what we should expect in an increasing media (of all sorts) crazy world. Sweden with it's more general than usual or neutral ways of international inclusive artistic performance were perhaps doomed to win - their song is forgotten by most people already the day after, I think. Well, some of us at least, don't follow that flow, but I fear we are diminishing in numbers. This means it's getting more and more difficult to buy the high quality stuff of different kinds in the shops with less people supporting the great goods (some of which I have mentioned earlier). To survive even bigger firms follow the easy artificially way instead of their earlier eco friendly way of producing goods. Typically even Coca-Cola here has began adding artificially E-stuff in their bottles to keep low prices - so I don't drink Coca-Cola ("The Not So Real Thing)" anymore. Buggles: "Living in the plastic age" and teared down what is natural and not harmful to ourselves. Organic bananas etc rot in the shops here, just because there are more advertising of bananas with pesticides. The list goes on and on...

Almost... But No(r)way

Me... the day after the National Day May 17th 2012.

Norway is out of this year World Championship Icehockey, but continue to support your local club:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasle-L%C3%B8ren_IL

(And by the way: Happy 28+28 years day today to my sister)

ESC 2012

I've heard all 42 songs that compete for a final in this year's European Song Contest 2012, so here is my own list of the top ten songs that I think are best:

 1) San Marino : Valentina Monetta "The Social Network Song (Oh Oh - Uh - Oh Oh)"
 2) Italy : Nina Zilli "L'amore e femmina (Out of Love)"
 3) Switzerland : Sinplus "Unbreakable"
 4) Romania : Mandinga "Zaleilah"
 5) Finland : Pernilla "När jag blundar"
 6) Latvia : Anmary "Beautiful Song"
 7) Cyprus : Ivi Adamou "La La Love"
 8) Belgium : Iris "Would You"
 9) Albania : Rona Nisliu "Suus"
10) Greece: Eleftheria Eleftheriou "Aphrodisiac"

I can't imagine that other songs than 1) - 4) have a chance to win the competition - they are in a class of their own.