venus/venus
Click to viewThe singer Anne Linnet is one of my favourite Danish artists. She was really, really big in the 80s (yeah, she still holds on to the 80 sound, it's kind of charming) and is one of the only openly lesbian (well, bisexual - but she describes her relationship to men as resembling her relationship to hot dogs. One man a year and only because the urge is too much to bear, emotionally she prefers women) performers we have in Denmark.
I just bought her "best off" CD yesterday (along with Memoirs of a Geisha, I've wanted that DVD in ages) and have been listening to it all morning. She has made of a lot of songs that are so well-known that they're almost a part of Danish collective memories - this is awesome. Why, you ask? Because most of her songs about, subtextly, about her attraction and physical/emotional bond to other women.
One of her most famous songs "Kigger på vinduer" (Looking at windows) is about how she is imagining her best friend naked and what they would be doing if they were alone. I'm not kidding you. It's such a sexually tense song. So much lust hidden in the 80 beat. Another very famous song of hers, "Venus", is about how a girl she's in love with is walking around hand in hand with "Mars" and this makes her extremely sad because she can't let this crush go.
... I felt like writing yesterday, but now the need has lessened somewhat and that irritates me a little. I had the best plot going on in my head, sisterly incest and some Bible associations with the word agape and the declaration of love from Ruth to Naomi, but... it'll have to wait, I guess. I can't write unless I really want to, it always comes out forced and without the emotion I want to portray.
The weather is nice. Maybe I should go for a walk.