Sunday January 6th
I woke up in my clothes and with my golden ring on my finger.
My face was black from yesterday's make up.
My phone said 11.50.
I turned on the computer.
It said 10.53.
Marco wrote me an e-mail.
He was asking, if he could come by and pick up his table and his baskets.
I went out in the kitchen.
I made breakfast and coffee.
Someone elses clock said 12.17.
I wrote to Marco: "ready :)".
We carried up a new table, I could place in my room.
I moved some things around.
Between 11.53 and 12.26 (according to the watch on my computer), I was chatting with Caroline and Pernille on Facebook.
We were discussing Roskilde Festival 2013.
I suggested that we should go for a wedding theme.
They suggested glitter and 'tyl' (a type of fabric).
I have a little mobile speaker and Pernille has an Ipod.
We could play 80's music and "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun".
I really wanted to go to that indie-music-party in Brooklyn yesterday.
Especially after I received a SMS with verbal imagery from a party in Copenhagen.
It was just a few hours before the doors would open up.
I also want to dance heavily and all night long.
At 13.38 (phone's time) I went out to buy grounded ginger, flour, brown sugar and dark beer.
I went down 29th Street and turned right at 36th Avenue.
They didn't ask for my I.D. at the grocery.
I went back the same way.
I locked myself in and went up the stair.
Now in the kitchen.
I put the ingrediences together with other ingrediences.
It's for King Cake's Day at Flux.
King Cake's Day is a beloved tradition.
I'm making 'beer cake' or 'spice cake' because it's a traditional Danish cake.
I have the receipe from my mom.
She's from Jutland.
The origin of the cake is the Southern part of Jutland.
Karen just sended me the text she wrote on 'Sønderjysk Kaffebord'.
'Beer cake' or 'spice cake' might be a part of 'Sønderjysk Kaffebord'.
Naja says it is.
My phones is saying 17.15
The computer, 16.15
Another clock is showing 23.15 (Danish time).
Caroline messaged me again.
They're playing Little Dragon in the kitchen.
I only associate Little Dragon with good times and good things.
And I got a new SMS.
I also got a message from Steven on Facebook.
We have a common friend in Thierry.
Thierry thinks me and Steven should meet up.
Thierry liked the link I posted last Friday.
I haven't heard back from the other Stephen.
I can't decide weither I should wash my hair or not.
Or if I should wear high heels or sneakers tonight.
Still online on Facebook.
I have been given the lyrics to the song "Please don't say you love me" a lot of thought.
I posted a link to a remix version by Cyril Hahn, calling it "Song for the weekend".
Victor liked it.
REPLY TO MILLE's . E-MAIL# 1
SvarSletMonday January 7 , 2013
I have been following you in FB Mille, you are very good to navigate in new places and you are very brave. I do not think I was so brave when I was your age.
The first time I was in NY, it was before you were born: July 29, 1965.
Something that made a great impression on me was the IBM'S World computer exhibition. The first scientific computers were constructed and computers without screen, using a mechanical typewriter and punching cards were presented as those machines that will conquer the World. All those predictions went wrong. After seen this exhibition, I flew to Brussels.
Later I was in NY in 1986, I had family living in New Jersey. I went to visit them with my youngest daughter. One morning I was in Central Park to run, then after I while I met Madonna herself also running. I though I was dreaming, at that time I was crazy about her, She stop, talk to me asking where I was coming from, she could talk Spanish, Oh my god, it was crazy.
In Central Park I saw this sculpture:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/-jvl-/6074643467/
Hans Christian Andersen
The bronze statue of Hans Christian Andersen in Central Park. Hans Christian Andersen is reading the story "The Ugly Duckling" to the duck sitting at his feet.
“To be born in a duck’s nest, in a farmyard, is of no consequence to a bird, if it is hatched from a swan’s egg.” --The Ugly Duckling (1844)
This bronze larger-than-life-sized figure depicts Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875), Danish poet, novelist, and author of fairy tales including The Ugly Duckling and The Little Mermaid. Sculptor Georg John Lober (1892–1961), who also created the statue of George M. Cohan (1958) in Duffy Square, shows the writer seated on a bench appearing to be reading his semi-autobiographical Ugly Duckling story to a rather attentive 2-foot-high bronze “duckling.”
The sculpture was sponsored by the Danish American Women’s Association and was first unveiled in 1955 to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Andersen’s birthday. Both Danish and American schoolchildren helped raise the $75,000 needed to build the piece. To this day it continues to attract children who enjoy sitting in the writer’s lap. In 1973 the bronze cygnet was stolen, later recovered, and secured. Since 1956 the statue has served as a backdrop for children’s reading events, the best known of these storytellers is author Diane Wolkstein, who has spearheaded the summer reading program at the statue since 1966.
You wrote a lot about a very important project: To make a Danish cake.
You know cooking can be a very creative process and become an art activity. One of the things that is very central in Danish culture is enjoying cakes at any moment time for fun or under hard negotiations. I just read Lene Johansen's book about Knud Foldschack. The guy who created the system to save Christiania. In the book it is emphasized the importance of some fantastic cakes the people from Christiania were bringing to the meting with the officials from the Ministry who were negotiating an agreement. Those cakes were the real lubrication oil that facilitated the creation of a solution.
Take care, We write to each other next Sunday.