For years they were tiny, pathetic things. When David was a kid, his father rallied the families on their street in Raleigh to plant maple trees. This set ending song is soft and lovely, just piano and strings and her beautiful voice. It’s an amusing look for such a gentle show.īefore starting “romance is dead” she encourages everyone to visit my You Tube channel for recipes. “hidden springs” stays with the acoustic sound, but she moved to a more techie processed vocal for “your mind, the universe.” She has a few technical glitches for this song but when they are resolved her voice sounds very cool as it starts and then turns into a much bigger song.Īs they prepare the next song she jokes that you shouldn’t eat crackers in bed, which proves to be the opening line of “hanging around you/crackers,” a sweet sounding breakup song.īefore the final song she mentions that all of her band is wearing band T-shirts: Iron Maiden, Metallica, Kiss and um, Reservoir Dogs(?). “Here, There and Everywhere” is a beautiful gentle cover with just her voice and an acoustic guitar. It seems like the original is very dancey and she has dialed it back.Īfter a gentle piano solo version of “giving in” (her voice is lovely in the spare setting), she played “from inside a car,” my favorite song of the set which has a breathy quality that I really like. It’s kind of rapped–but in Iris’s more singing way. The rest of the band comes out for “mercy” which is “how i would like to to not show me any.” There are washes of guitar s and keys, including a very cool, almost sinister keyboard sound in the end.Ī cellist arrives for “kroppsspråk” which is a cover of a Lars Vaular song. It opens with “crawl for me” with she her singing to a guitar. ![]() Like the Silja Sol set, it feels like a more “unplugged” kind of show. I suspect that she is a bit more poppy than this set lets on. Because Aurora is a Norwegian singer in the same range, I feel like Iris’ voice sounds similar to hers. ![]() I was completely unfamiliar with Iris, but she was the only other singer whose set was still streaming. We want to turn despair and frustration into innovation and positivity, and invite everyone to a digital festival experience out of the ordinary – right home in your own living room. Get ready for Verftet Online Music Festival, Bergen’s largest virtual concert festival, where we can enjoy great music together. In April 2020, Norway’s Verftet Music Festival streamed an online concert: SOUNDTRACK: IRIS-Verftet Online Music Festival 2020 (April 1, 2020). That made me a little nervous abut going in but I figured if he put that in, it would probably all be pretty funny. “People who aren’t particularly famous witting about their lives.” “You know there’s a whole genre of work that’s basically memoir writing,” I say. “If I was going to read a book about someone’s life, it would be someone like Julius Caesar or Napoleon or some famous general” But I tend to like “memoirs” by unknown-to-me people better than those by celebrities. I suppose if you know him as a features journalist for The Irish Times, you would have some preconceived notions of what to expect. And that didn’t really matter all that much. In fact, by the time I’d read the first few essays I still had no idea who he was. I’d never heard of Patrick Freyne and had no idea who he was. I saw this book at work and loved the title. ![]() Once she learns to read, she begins to understand the extent of the horrors in which she has participated and commits suicide the day before she is to be released from prison.Ok, Let’s Do Your Stupid Idea However, years into her prison sentence, Hanna is finally able to relinquish her pride in others’ perception of her and dedicates herself to learning how to read from the tapes Michael sends her. Initially unable to understand why she is on trial and so ashamed of being seen as uneducated, she falsely confesses to being the other prison guards’ sadistic leader rather than admit she cannot write. Throughout most of the novel, Hanna puts considerable energy into hiding what she views as her most shameful secret, her illiteracy, despite the fact that she also participated in war crimes as a former Nazi prison guard. During the affair, Hanna is evasive about her past and emotionally distant however, decades later, Michael discovers that she had kept a newspaper clipping of his high school graduation with her until her death. Whenever she and Michael fight, she stubbornly refuses to take any blame, bullying Michael into holding himself responsible for what are often her misunderstandings or misinterpretations. Older than Michael by 21 years, she is commanding and at times dismissive toward him. Often described by Michael as “tired,” Hanna’s emotions, motivations, and personalities can be seen only through the eyes of Michael, who is often conflicted about her. Michael’s lover and the story’s antagonist.
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