Here comes the sun!

So been a while, but I've been totally busy with the awesome weather outside!
So what's happend since last time I wrote?
Well... not much really! haha.
Been out in the sun mostly.
I've started to train a few freestyle-tricks with my dog. He can now walk about 3 meters on his backlegs and still improving.

oh! One thing I've forgot to mention, my female bunny has gotten 3 gorgeous babies! They're now 3,5 weeks old.
Here are pics on them:



Aren't they lovely? <3

The bunny showjumping-season has started aswell with satisfying results.

I was on a concert with the band Millencolin a few weeks ago. It was nice, but the sound could've been better.

Im not sure what to write more then that, so I write again soon enough.

Peace out!

"Supermoon"



Heya you all!
the 9'th of March I read in a swedish newspaper about an incoming 'supermoon'.
It is to happen the 19th of March. The moon will pass the earth at a distance of just 356 577 kilometers.
Conspiracy theories says that it might bring Tsunamis, volcanos, earthquakes, storms and hurricanes.
Last super moon was just days after the tsunami catastrophy 2004 in Indonesia.
Some astrophysicists says there's no need to worry and that this is nothing to worry about.

BUT!

I guess noone has missed that there's been a huge earthquake (8.9)in the Pacific Ocean today, wich created an, up to 10 meter high, tsunami that has flushed up over Japan. Most of the countrys around the Pacific now has sent out Tsunami-warnings and many beaches have been evacuated and people are leaving their homes to head to higher grounds.
According to the USA tsunamiwarning-center tsunamis can draw in over
Hawaii, Australia, New Zealand and along the coastal areas of both Central- and Southamerica.
Japan warns that another strong quake may in the near future be caused to the main island of Honshu.








Several
volcanos in the Russian Kamchatka showing signs of increased activity after the quake, reports Interfax. Karim, Kizimen and Sjivelutj has begun spewing ash up to 6000 meters in the air and avalanches have spilled down the volcanic slopes.





Is this just a coincidences, or is it actually events connected to the supermoon?
I guess that's up to show.

Thats all for now. Updates might come laters.

Small update



Realized I havent written in the blog for a while.
I've gotten my hands on the serie "Prisoner: Cellblock H" (692 episodes, each episode is 45 mins, from 1979-1986)
This Australian series has, after 692 episodes, received cult status all over the world. The series takes place in Wentworth, a prison in Australia. Wentworth is a high-security female prison. The women are there for all sorts of crimes. We get to follow how they got there, their life in the prison and what becomes of them afterwards. We also get to follow the staff, their work in the prison and their personal relationships.

So last 2 weeks I've spent in my armchair infront of the tv.
Am on episode 119 at the moment.
And yeah I can say that the serie is addictive.

Well thats all for now.

Peace out!

Titanic 2

Titanic 2

Genre: Action, Adventure

Director: Shane Van Dyke

Writer: Shane Van Dyke

Stars: Shane Van Dyke, Brooke Burns, Marie Westbrook and Bruce Davison

Lenght: 90 min




Personally I didn't even know that there was a Titanic 2 movie. When I saw the trailer of it, first I thought it was a fake, but then I just thought: "Man this movie must suck..." but why not watch it for a laugh.
I had no hopes about the movie at all.

Plot:

In April 2012, 100 years since the sinking of the RMS Titanic, A new, similar-looking luxury cruise liner named the SS Titanic II is built. She then embarks on her maiden voyage using the same route the Titanic took 100 years before, but in reverse direction ( from United States to United Kingdom).

During the Atlantic crossing, effects of Global Warming cause the Helheim glacier in Greenland to collapse, creating a tsunami that sends an iceberg crashing into the Titanic II. The entire starboard side of the ship is crushed, and the history seems to repeat itself.
While Titanic II starts to sink, another collapse of the Helheim glacier happens, and sends an even bigger tsunami across the atlantic ocean.


What did I think of the movie:
Well to be honest, it sucked...
Some of the ideas of this movie was good. But they shouldnt have made a Titanic II out of it.
The glacier collapse and the tsunami idea was nice and could maybe make quite the nice movie. But not with a new Titanic as mainstory.
The actors played their roles quite okey, though some over-acted, and some didn't act enough.
They could have done some of the animated parts better.
I'm not sure what to say more then this.
I can't suggest to watch it, but if you want to see it anyways, go ahead.

Peace out!


New Haircolor!!

Got bored of my hair and bought hair dye.
Gotta say I love the result.

Hope everything's fine with all of you out there!



Peace out!

A whole year has passed...



One year ago since I last saw you
One year ago since I last held you in my arms
One year ago since I last kissed your nose
One year ago since I last looked into your wonderful eyes...



One year ago, the worst nightmare of my life begun
One year ago, I still can't belive it happend
One year ago, It doesn't feel like one year has passed...

Now I'll tell you all what happend one year ago.


Me and my family (myself, my 2 year older sister, my mother and my father), together with the showjumping association we lead, were gonna arrange the swedish championship in Bunny ShowJumping in Rosvalla tennis hall (on Rosvalla Event Center) 19-21 of February.

Tursday the 18'th of February:
After several months of planning, buying prizes and trophys, getting sponsors, and much other work, my family and I arrived to Rosvalla tennis hall allready 18th of February (Thursday) to build the course, set up the trophy table and make everything ready for the competitions.
With us we had 10 of our 17 bunnies. 1 of them were gonna compete in the Exhibition, 8 of them we're gonna compete in the showjumping competitions, and the last one was gonna compete in them both.


The track


and 1 of our 2 trophy tables.

That night, we went back to our hotel, all happy and smiling, thinking: This will be the best Show jumping championship in sweden so far...

Friday the 19th of February:
My family arrived to the Tennis hall in the morning. We had a good nights sleep on the hotel we stayed on. Now it finally was the day for the competitions to start.
A woman from a radiostation came to the tennis hall and wanted a live interview from us about the competitions and how we felt about them and all.
Still I can listen to that interview.. how happy and thrilled my family is, not knowing of what would happen not even 24 hours later.

And finally it was time for the competitions to begin.
The real championship was planned for the saturday and sunday so this day we only had some minor competitions for bunnies who still wasnt qualified for the Championship.
Most bunnies went fabulous this day, included one of my own bunnies, named Aveo, who ended up on 2'nd place.
When the competitions of the day was finished, I personally rebuilt the track for the Championship. Meanwhile my sister and my mother gave our bunnies food and water and said good night to them since they were gonna stay in the tennis hall together with most other bunnies, while the owners stayed at nearby hotels.
After that, we went back to our hotel, still happy and thrilled about everything, ate or dinner, spent some time with 2 other showjumpers; Karin and Linnea, and their moms, and finally went to bed.
I have hard to sleep if it's quiet so I fell asleep listening to my MP3 player, and the last song and the last scentence I can remember I heard before I fell asleep was "Cause when the roof caved in" from the song 'Whatcha Say' by Jason Derulo. A scentence which kept repeating itself inside my head several weeks later.

Saturday 20'th of February


01.30 (Swedish time) My moms cellphone rings. Dazed with sleep she stepped up and went to the table where she had her phone and answerd.
The volume on the phone was quite loud so the whole family could hear the words:
"Im sorry for calling so late, but Smadar (a woman who also was competing with her bunnies) just called me.. Rosvalla tennis hall has caved in.. there's nothing left."
It was Karin who made the call. She's 'chairwoman' in one of the 2 major rabbit associations here in sweden, and she also has many great bunnies when it comes to showjumping, and has been the championshipwinner in all 4 branches of showjumping (long jump, high jump, straight track and the 'winding' track) for the past 3 years.

I dont think it even took us 5 minutes to quickly pull some clothes on (we didnt take the time to take of our pyjamas so we just pulled clothes on above them) and started to make our way to the hotel lobby still newly awakened. Down in the lobby we noticed it was snowstorm outside.
We met up with Karin and Linnea and their mums and started to make our way through the snowstorm to the parkinglot where we had 2 of our 4 cars parked.
That 30 minute ride from the hotel to the tennishall I remember so well. It felt like hours... It snowed so much you barely could see the road infront of you. Me and my sister sat and held eachothers hands. Everything was silent, noone said a word, everyone tried to figure out how it would look like, how big the damage was and so on.. and most of all, worrying for our 10 furry beloved familymembers who were inside the hall..
As we got close to the Tennis Hall we saw and realized how big the damage was...


This is what we saw... (but from ground level) There was nothing.. no roof, no wall... nothing. It was like a scene taken from a movie.
After we got out of our cars, we just stood there, trying to take it all in.. realizing it all.. We heard the alarmbells ringing loudly and a mechanical voice who kept on repeating: "The event center must be evacuated immediately" over and over again. Police-cars, Firetrucks... It really was a nightmare.
We talked to a policeman just to get as much information as possible, and then we got told to go back to our hotel, and that we should come back at 9.00 again.
Back at the hotel there was no though about going back to sleep. The 8 of us who 'held together' during this weekend (My family, Karin, Linnea and their moms) met up on the second floor of the lobby, and sat down either in a couch or on a chair.


We were all freezing from the snowstorm, the shock, and the pain we all felt inside. The hotel staff brought us hot coffee and tea, and we picked up quilts from our rooms, we still had our winterclothes on but nothing helped against the intense cold we felt... it took weeks before we could feel some heat at all...

Noone said much on the whole night.. everyone tried to work with the pain in their own way.
My sister cried the whole night, Karin lied down and just stared up in the roof crying silent tears, Linnea constantly writing on her laptop, the rest of us mostly just sat all quiet.
The only dialogue I can remember was between my sister and my mother:
My sister: Mom... you always say that everything has a purpose... So whats the purpose with this?
Mom: This time I cant answer you hun, cause I dont know the answer myself"

This was the first time ever I saw my father cry.
For my family, it wasnt just 10 beloved familymembers that was under the roof. It also were our lifetime 'achievement' under that roof.. We've been competing and taken a really active interest in Showjumping for 20 years, and everything our association owned was under that roof...
That night my family made a vow to eachother. That no matter how great damage this would show up to be, we wouldnt stop doing what we love; take care of the association, and compete and everything we had done till this day.

Though, I had allready made a silent promise to myself earlier the same night: "If all my wonderful bunnies that are in there is dead... I'll quit."

at 3.00 it started to show up on the news-sites on the internet and on the radios about the cave-in.

The night passed by minute by minute, and when the time striked 06.00 we had to start calling everyone who was gonna compete in the showjumping and inform them about what had happend.
We got many sms from 'showjumping people' who sent us their thoughts, or telling that they were there for us.

Finally the time showed 8.30 and we could start making our way towards Rosvalla again.
It was still a heavy snowstorm outside and nearly 30 minus degrees celcius outside. The road was nearly gone from all snow and we had to drive really slow to stay on it.
My sister, Karin and Linnea didnt want to go back to Rosvalla so they stayed at the hotel. But I followed mom and dad together with Karin and Linneas moms back to the tragic scene as I've always needed to see stuff to really belive it.


We got back to Rosvalla a few minutes after 9.00. Other people who had their bunnies under the roof had gotten there, standing in the big entrance-hall of the event center, comforting eachother and praying silent prayers.
We stood by the police tape that they had set up around the hall, looking inside two big doors that was open. The first thing I could see was the showjumping trophy table standing there intact in the snowstorm. Even the small giftcards made of paper were lying on their places on the table. Almost felt as it was grinning at everyone who saw it.



As we stood there in the snowstorm, we saw two rescuers walking on the other side of the building where the showjumpers had their bunnies, and where once a wall stood, but now lied down under the roofwreckage. They walked downwardsbent peering in under the piles of rubble. Suddenly, one of the rescuers quickly bent even more downwards and dissappeared from our sight for a few seconds. And when he finally stood up again we saw that he held a furry struggling creature in his arms.
On less then a second we gained so much hope! They had found a living bunny, maybe they'll find more...
As the rescuer got abit closer with the bunny we saw that it had white fur, and instantly I thought it was my sisters white dwarfen lop named Cumulus, but as the rescuer placed the struggling bunny in a Karins mothers arms, we saw that it was a japan white/black signed dwarven lop, and we instantly knew who it was. His name was Pelle and belonged to a girl in our association named Hanna.
Mom pulled up her cellphone to call Hanna and tell her that they had found Pelle, but even before she had managed to find Hannas number, the other rescuer shows up with a broken transportation-cage with a black/brown zobel dwarven lop in it. It was Joel, who also did belong to Hanna.
As mom tell Hanna the news over the phone I can hear her scream of happiness and she told that she'd start make her way towards Rosvalla.
Mom, dad, Annelie and Lena (Karin and Linneas mothers) rushed their way to the entrance hall with Joel and Pelle to get them away from the snowstorm. I stayed at the police tape thinking: They've found Pelle and Joel alive, they can find more.
And just a few minutes later, a rescuer camed with a intact cage with a living bunny in it... I've never been so happy when I realized that it was my beloved Aveo! He was coverd in snow, and looked quite shocked, but HE WAS ALIVE!
I almost slit the cage from the rescuers hands and started to quickly walk towards the entrance, and just inside the big doors I yelled: "Mom! Mom! It's Aveo! He's alive!!!"
Then I turned around... and I saw people coming with more cages that had been rescues from the roof... I couldnt belive my eyes..
There came our Cumulus.. then Lucky, then Disco and Sprite, Xavi, Fabel and Loa! all belonging to my family. 8 out of 10 of our bunnies were rescued, all alive. Really shocked, but otherwise healthy and in intact cages.
Mom called my sister and told the great news, and it didnt take long 'till both my sister, Karin and Linnea arrived.

Our 8 bunnies, together with Pelle and Joel were the first 10 jumpers who got rescued that morning. Then the rescuers had to wait for excavators and loaders to be able to continue their work.
My family decided that we should drive our 8 survivors home, so me and my dad loaded them up in my sisters car and started our long way home.
Usually its not that long, only about 56 miles (90 kilometers) but in that heavy snowstorm, it took twice the time that it usually takes to drive that distance.
Finally home we saw that our yard were filled with snow. So the first thing we had to do was to shovel away drifts of snow that was nearly 1 meter deep so we could get to the bunnys cages.
While my dad went over to our neighbours, who took care and fed our other bunnies while we were away, to tell them what had happend and that they had to keep a close eye to our 8 survivors, I bedded their cages with loads of straw so they could get warm in it, and gave them food and warm water to drink. They all looked soo relieved to be at home again.
I felt really bad for leaving them, but we had to get back to Rosvalla, so we stuffed the car filled with hay (all hay and food at Rosvalla was stuck under the roof and the bunnys needed something to eat) and then made our way back again.

When we got back, we first got told that another part of the walls had started to fall, so the rescueprocess had been delayed even more.


Then they also told, that a woman named Lena Tysk had arrived. She had helped identify bodies in the Tsunami catastrophy in Thailand 2004, and now she helped out organizing the rescueprocess. She decided that EVERY rabbit should be identified, wether it was dead or alive.
People came from allover Nyköping (Where Rosvalla event-center is located) and tried to help as much as they could. They came with freshly baked cinnamon rolls and thermoses with tea and coffee and gave to the ones who wanted it, stores donated sandwiches, hotdogs and other stuff to eat. Some companies donated cardboard boxes where rabbits could be kept in, as most transportation-cages were stuck, or crushed, under the roof.



At 16.30 the rescue-process was on again, and wow what a oragnized group of people that was... First they carefully lifted a piece of the roof with a crane. 2-4 people were standing beside watching every move, and if one of them raised his hand, the crane instantly stopped, as it did mean that they had seen a living creature. Then they carefully walked/crept in under the roof to try capture they bunnies they found. They treated our furry little friends as if they were humans.



Around 21.00 the rescue process ended for the day. It was still snowstorm outside and it was dark so they said it would be risky for the rescuers to continue, and we got told to go back to our hotels.
By that time 46 out of 48 showjumping bunnies had been found. 44 out of 46 was alive and 2 had passed away.
Our family still missed 2 of our dwarven lops, Troy and FBI, but as they had been under that part of the roof that they still hadnt gotten to in the rescue process we still kept hope of that they could still be alive in there somewhere.

We managed to get some hours of sleep that night, but everyone of us kept the fear and thought about: What if the entrance hall where they keep the rescued bunnies colapses tonight? And I think all of us had nightmares.

Sunday 21'st of February
Finally was the snowstorm over. It was still snowing but not as badly as before.
Allready on the morning we got the news that the last 2 missing 'jumpers' had been found alive!
We tried to eat some breakfust and then made our way back to Rosvalla once again. When we got there the rescue process had allready started up again. We saw how the rescuers shoveled away loads of snow from the parts of the roof that still lied flat to the ground.



This day just floated on slowly but steady. We just stood there, waiting and hoping for news about Troy and FBI who still was missing.
We also got told to write down a list of all the stuff that we had inside the Tennis hall. Everything from coffeecups and pencils to bigger stuff as the obstacles and the sound system.
They had allready carried out our trophytables and transported them to a family who lived nearby Rosvalla who also are in our showjumping association.

Early that evening, we got told to go home. There was nothing more we could do, and as it was most dead bunnies that camed out from the ruins now, the rescuers didnt want us to see it all. They also told that as soon as a living bunny is found, their owner will get notified by phone.
To see the casualties they had a list online wich got updated 2-3 times/day so you could look there for your bunnies.

So we packed us up into my sisters car and went home...
We had to leave mom and dads car behind, as it was parked just behind the tennis hall together with the trailer that we keep all obstacles and every other showjumping related item in. They were still unreachable thanks to the roof and the walls, and unfortunately the car had gotten some hits by the building when it fell. But by then we didnt know wether the car was badly broken or not.


The red trailer and the car infront of it is ours


This was the only damages that our car had.

On our way home, we stopped by a friend to the family and picked up my beloved dog who had stayed there while we were away. At first it was planned for him to come with us to the competitions, but, luckily, they had decided to forbid dogs in the tennis hall during the exhibition.
Our friend gave us a single candle, decorated with small flowers, and a card saying: "Because you still exist"
It was when I read that card that I realized, that if the roof had caved just 6-7 hours earlier, around 500 people had been inside the hall aswell, and that would have been devastating.

Finally at home we saw my 86 year old grandpa on our yard, shoveling snow. He had gathererd some friends of his earlier that day, told them of what had happend and they had all helped out shoveling away all the snow. And according to grandpa some of the drifts of snow was around 1.5 meters high!
Me and my sister instantly went up to the bunnies to check on them and made sure that they still were healthy. It was heartbreaking to see the empty cages of Troy and FBI, knowing that they still wasn't found.
We sat down in mom and dads kitchen, drinking coffee and hot chocolate and then we went to sleep.


Monday 22'nd of February
This day mostly passed by to car-rides.
We woke up early, since my dog had a vet-appointment for a castration early in the morning. So we went to Eskilstuna (town where my sister lives) and dropped him off at the vet, and got told to come back at 17.00 to pick him up.
After that we went to a cafe and drank tea and coffee while my mother called around to find a therapist that we could talk to about what we had been through.
We got an appointment to a psychologist in Eskilstuna at 13.00. as the time still was around 9.00 we decided to wait at my apartment in Malmköping (a town 30 kilometers away from Eskilstuna) and eat lunch there.
at 12.30 the psychologist called and said that he couldnt take us in as they had found out that we all lived in 3 different towns... (now afterwards we've heard that this was not an acceptable reason for not taking us in)
We decided to call to my personal psychologist to see if she could help us out, but because of the bad weather she was trapped in her hometown and all trains were cancelled.
We kept on calling around to different psychologists and curatorsm, and finally we got an appointment to a psychologist in Katrineholm (yet another town) at 15.00.

In the car on our way to the psychologist, I realized that we wouldnt make it in time to pick up my dog from the vets, so we called the vets to see if he could stay abit longer. But as they closed at 17.00 that couldnt be arranged, so we called our friend who had taken care of him during the weekend and she promised to pick him up.
So yeah we went to the psychologist and talked for a bit. Personally I didnt think it felt any better, he mostly pissed me off for not understanding.
He had the "It was all just bunnies, who cares" attitude, and he said that my mom and dad wasn't allowed to really show their feelings cause they had to be strong for my sister and me... Totally unfair if you ask me. My sister and me are grownups and can handle our parents feeling sad.
I dont really remember more of what was said, I mostly had to control myself not to burst out in anger on the psychologist.

After that meeting we went back to Eskilstuna to pick up my sisters boyfriend, and then we went back to my parents place and met up with our friend so I could get my dog. I decided it was time for me to go home. I wanted to be alone, and just talk it all off with my best friend, trying to find my own way to feel better.
As I dont have a drivers licence myself, my parents promised to give me a ride, and my sister and her boyfriend decided to come along aswell.

On our way to my place my sisters cellphone did ring. She answerd and we hear her say: "Really? Is it true? Is he alive!? HES ALIVE?!?" They had found her wonderful Troy! All healthy and well.



They had allready arranged a transport for him so we could pick him up at a nearby place the very same evening.
There were still no sign of my beloved FBI though.

Not much more happend this day really. During the night, as I couldnt sleep, I created a video to try to ease some of the pain I felt inside.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-AgEhDdZgU

Whats happend after the 22'nd of February?
The 23'rd of February, the rescueprocess ended for good. The roof and the walls had all been transported away and there was no more bunnies to be found on the sight.

For a month I kept a candle lit in my window for my sweet FBI, who never got found, before I realized that he was never coming back.



As noone really know how many rabbits that actually were inside the tennis hall when it caved, no final numbers were given. There were the exhibithion-rabbits and the jumpers, but there were also rabbits who was just there cause of transportations to new owners. Those were never registrated anywhere so noone can tell how many 'transport-bunnies' there were.

But this is what I know:
There were 48 jumpers, 46 came out alive, 2 were dead.
For the exhibition rabbits, theese was the latest numbers I heard:
Found alive: 1138, found deceased: 240, Never found: 74.


The 2'nd of march my family was invited to Rosvalla again for a meeting where all the organizers met up and talked about things that had been done during the nightmare weekend, what people did good, and what could have been done different and such. My family handed over paintings to the rescures where we had taken pictures of our bunnies who got saved, a picture of the tragic happening and we had written; Thanks for the great job you did rescuing the bunnies. Once a hero always a hero" on them.
We also could bring home our car and our trailer, and the few items they could save of the stuff we had inside the hall (1 obstacle, 3 pieces of our fence, a chair and a swedish flag)
We also got allowed to walk inside the fences and get a closer look on the remaining parts of the tennis hall.




the 20'th of May, 3 months after the cave in, they buried the ashes of the dead rabbits on the pet cemetery in Nyköping.


A memorial plaque with the inscription: (translated) In memory of the rabbits that died during LU2010.


When it comes to our showjumping association we've gotten so much support and help from different people. We lost basically everything in the Cave-in, but now we have gotten obstacles and items donated to us so we can hold competitions again. What we most miss is our beautiful fence that my father had built. He dont have the time to build a new one sadly enough.

In August we've planned a Rosvalla memorial competition where we've specially invited all who were gonna enter the championship contest, but of corse everyone who wants to come is invited.

I guess I even have to mention that there were many unwanted matings as many rabbits ran loose that nightmare weekend. And a month later, the Rosvalla-babies arrived. There are no exact number of how many litters that arrived, and I'll let the guessing-part over to you, but 1184 living bunnies, I can tell that it's probably alot.
And to quote one of the rescuers that worked on the scene: "It's almost a lovenest under that roof... They are mating everywhere"

Our own bunnies are all back to normal again. You can barely notice any difference from before the roof-accident and after. Only difference is that they're more cuddly now. Our wonderful survivors, I dont know what I'd do without them.


So why did the Tennis hall cave in you can wonder?
Well they say it was for many reasons.
First of all, a big reason was the loads ammount of snow on the roof, together with heavy winds. Sweden havent had a winter like this long for a really long time so our buildings arent really built for this ammount of snow. There were many roof caveings during this winter.
Another reason though was a massive "construction-error". I dont know much about it really so wont go into details.
A third reason might be that when they looked at the part of the roof that never caved, they saw that some of the roof-beams had started to detach from their brackets.

However the police investigation was discontinued, and no one has been blamed for what happened.



That's my story of what happend one year ago....
Now I just feel so empty inside.
Tonight I painted a picture of my beloved FBI who was never found.




Rest in peace my angel. I'll always miss you.

Black Swan

Black Swan

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Director: Darren Aronofsky

Writers: Mark Heyman (screenplay) Andres Heinz (Story and screenplay) and
John J. McLaughlin (screenplay)

Stars: Nathalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel and Winona Ryder

Lenght: 108 min

 

Today I watched Black Swan. I didn't know what to expect of it as I barely knew what it was about. I've just heard from my sister that it is a really good movie and a friend wanted me to review it, so I watched it and here comes my review.

 

Plot:

The movie revolves around a production of the Swan Lake by a prestigious New York City ballet company.
Nina (Nathalie Portman) is a ballerina from the company whose life, like all those in her profession, is completely consumed with dance. She lives with her mother who is an obsessive former ballerina who basically controls every movement her daughter does.
When the artistic director, Thomas Leroy (Vincent Cassel), decides to replace the prima ballerina, Beth MacIntyre (Winona Ryder), Nina is his first choice. But Nina has competition: a new dancer, Lily (Mila Kunis), who impresses Leroy as well.
Swan Lake requires a dancer who can play both the White Swan with innocence and grace, and the Black Swan, who represents sensuality. Nina fits the White Swan role perfectly but Lily is perfect for the role of the Black Swan. As the two young dancers expand their rivalry into a twisted friendship, Nina begins to get more in touch with her dark side - a recklessness that threatens to destroy her.

 

What did I think of the movie:

This movie was really hard to review, cause honestly, I have no idea if I liked the movie or not...
I’m not a big fan of movies where half of what you see on the screen is in the character’s mind and then it quickly jumps to the reality and you see something else. It just creates confusion in my head.
But it is a good story and the actors were really good. The music was really beautiful and awesome, and if you like psychological and mysterious movies, this movie is probably something for you.
Nathalie Portman owns the screen in this film. Her role as the lead ballerina illustrates every inch of stressful depth these ballerinas probably go through to earn a lead role for a big production.
I probably have to watch the movie one or two more times to fully understand it.
But as said, I can recommend this movie if you like psychological and mysterious movies.

 

Peace out!

 


Random stuff y'know

Soo it was a while ago I updated my blog.
I haven't done much lately really, so I guess I'll just write about some random stuff today.

First of all, I do NOT like the new look on youtube, I liked the old look waaaay better!!! End of subject.

Soo tonight I had this dream about my dog, Kiba.
I dreamed that he had disappeared 1,5 weeks earlier and that I was out looking for him and putting up flyers and such with his picture saying he was lost. I remember me and my friends walked around town searching and calling for him, but never found him.
So when I woke up, my first thought was: Why the hell am I still sleeping? I must find my dog!!!
Then I realized that he was in my bed, sleeping.



Soo what more to write about?

Well just to be casual I guess I could talk about the weather...
The snow is melting!!!! Okey I like snow, its pretty when its all white outside, but yeah Im happy that it's melting away.

Yesterday I took down all my christmas decorations. I hate that day every year when I remove them cause I'm a total sucker for christmas and christmas decorations. Now I wait for November so I can take them all out again.

Thats all for today folks.

Peace out!

Awesome weekend!

I must write some about this weekend, cause it's been totally awesome!
This friday I was at a friends place celebrating his birthday. Met several old friends and lots of old epic memories got mentioned. I just say one thing: fun fun fun!

Saturday my parents picked me and my sis up early and then we went shopping!
Bought several stuff, and lots of christmas decoration as they were on 50% sale and Im a sucker for christmasdecorations!
Saturday evening sis, me and mom and dad went to the premiere of the Swedish Idol Livetour.
It was awesome! The stadium was packed and the singers were soo good!

Here comes some pics from the evening.



Jay Smith, the winner of Swedish Idol 2010





Minnah Karlsson, 2'nd place in swedish idol 2010





Olle Hedberg, 3'rd place in swedish idol 2010





Linnea Henriksson,
4'th place in swedish idol 2010




Andreas Weise,
5'th place in swedish idol 2010




Elin Blom, 6'th
place in swedish idol 2010





Geir Rönning,
7'th place in swedish idol 2010





Daniel Norberg,
8'th place in swedish idol 2010





Linda Varg, 9'th place in swedish idol 2010




Sassa Bodensjö, 10'th place in swedish idol 2010



Thats all for today folks.
Peace out!

A late happy new year!

Well first of all: Happy new year! Hope you all had an awesome newyears eve.
Personally I spent the evening at a friends place together with her, her boyfriend and additional 2 friends. we just chilled out, played some cards, watched tv and stuff. So it was a really nice evening and we had lots of fun.

Today, as it's snowstorm outside, Im gonna spend my time with (once again) cleaning my apartment, and rearrange some furniture and stuff.
The hallway is allready done and I love the result of it.



That's all for now everyone.
Peace out!

Lasagna!!!!!!

First of all, hope you all had an awesome christmas!!!
My christmas was really nice, spending christmas eve at my parents place with the family, santa came of corse with lots of nice gifts, then christmas day evening I was at the local 'pub' with some friends.

Today I decided to try to make lasagna!
Done it once before, but that turned out in a total failure, but today I'm actually following a recipe instead of improvising.
It's in the oven now and this far it has gone really well. Waiting for the final result with high hopes cause I really have a craving for lasagna right now xD

Tomorrow I'm planning of clean up in my apartment. It's really needed!



Oh! One more thing!
Saw this realyl cute movie of a kitten on youtube. I know it's an old video and it's really famous, but it's sooo cute!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Bmhjf0rKe8


Well that's all for now folks.
Peace out!

Merry Christmas!


I'm going to my parents place today and will be there over christmas so merry christmas to all of you!

A change of mind

Well I've changed my mind about this blog.
It will not only contain movie reviews but also other stuff that's going on around my life.
So I hope you'll enjoy it.
Just cause there is no picture fitting in to this post I'll post one of my old drawings instead.

Peace out!


Hachiko : A dog's story

This movie is based on a true story!


Genre: Drama, Family

Director: Lasse Hallström

Writers: Stephen P. Lindsey (screenplay), Kaneto Shindô (motion picture "Hachiko monogatari")

Stars: Richard Gere, Joan Allen and Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

Length: 93 min


A doglover as I am I have to see most movies about dogs, and Hachiko was of corse a must. I love Akita-dogs and I think that Richard Gere is a really good actor so it couldnt be anything but a wonderful movie.

Plot:
Based on a true story from Japan, Hachiko Monogatari (literally “The Tale of Hachiko”), is a moving film about loyalty and the rare, invincible bonds that occasionally form almost instantaneously in the most unlikely places.

One day when college professor Parker Wilson (Richard Gere) gets of the train from his work, he finds a little puppy all alone on the trainstation.
Parker is instantly captivated by the dog. When Carl, the station controller, refuses to take care of the puppy til an owner shows up to claim him, Parker takes the puppy home overnight.
The next day Parker expects that someone will have contacted the train station, but no one has. He sneaks the pup onto the train and takes him to work, where a Japanese college professor, Ken tell Parker that it is an Akita dog, and translates the symbol on the pup's collar as 'Hachi'. (Japanese for 'good fortune', and the number 8.) Parker decides to call the dog 'Hachi'.
The same evening Parkers wife Cate receives a call about someone wanting to adopt Hachi, but after seeing how close her husband has come to Hachi, however, Cate agrees that they can keep him.

A few years later, Hachi and Parker are as close as ever. Parker, however, is still mystified by Hachi's refusal to do 'normal', dog-like things like fetch a ball.
Professor Ken advises him that Hachi will only bring him the ball for a special reason.
One morning, Parker leaves for work and Hachi sneaks out and follows him to the train station, where he refuses to leave until Parker walks him home. That afternoon, Hachi sneaks out again and walks to the train station, waiting patiently for Parker's train to come in.
Eventually Parker relents and walks Hachi to the station every morning, where he leaves on the train. Hachi leaves after Parker's departure, but comes back in the afternoon to see his master's train arrive and walk with him home again.
This continues for some time, until one afternoon when Parker attempts to leave, but Hachi refuses to go with him. Parker eventually leaves without him, but Hachi chases after him, holding his ball. Parker is surprised but pleased that Hachi is finally willing to play fetch with him b ut, worried he will be late, leaves on the train despite Hachi barking at him.
Why is Hachi acting so weird all of a sudden?


What did I think of the movie:
Well I can't say less then this: I totally LOVED this movie!
It is a really beautiful movie about a man and his dog and a bond amazingly strong.
This movie is a must for all dog-lovers out there.
Richard Gere was fantastic in this movie, he bonded really well with the dog and it never felt like watching an actor at all - it really seemed to be a movie with his own dog!
I highly recommend this to people of all ages. There are enough bits to laugh at (seeing Richard Gere teaching his dog to play 'fetch' was brilliant!) but also several sad parts, so make sure to bring tissues if you're gonna watch it.


Peace out!



(Disney's) A Christmas Carol

(Disney's) A Christmas Carol

Genre: Animation, Drama, Family

Director: Robert Zemeckis

Writers: Charles Dickens (novel), Robert Zemeckis (screenplay)

Stars: Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman and Colin Firth

Lenght: 98 min


So I watched this movie for the first time ever today. I wanted to see a movie about christmas and  I saw the commercials for this movie last year when it released and have always wanted to see it. And as I always have loved the Mickey Mouse version of this tale I had quite the high hopes for this movie.

Plot:
So the movie is about Ebenezer Scrooge, a bitter and miserly old moneylender at a counting house in 1843 London.
He really dislikes everyone that embodies the joys and spirit of Christmas, he's refusing to visit his cheerful nephews Christmas dinner party, and forcing his underpaid employee Bob Cratchit to beg him for a day off with his wife and kids.
One night, Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his former business partner who had died seven years earlier on Christmas Eve and is now forced to spend his afterlife carrying heavy chains forged from the greedy ways he chosed in his living life.
Marley (the partner) warns Scrooge that he will suffer an even worse fate if he doesn't change his attitude, and foretells that he will be haunted by three spirits that will help guide him.

What did I think of the movie:

Even though I really like the story and the message it gives, I didn't like the movie that much.
It was quite well animated but it was something, I can't put my finger on what, with the look of the characters that I didn't like. Though the third Cristmas spirit was really cool.
The music was nice and the movie had their funny elements in it, but I don't think I'll see this movie again.
I stick to the Mickey Mouse version instead.

Peace Out!




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