When in Copenhagen, go to Statens Museum for Kunst

Hello world!

Well, first of all, I have to admit that I am slightly biased. However, I really do think you should go to Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery) because... why not? It's free. It's a pretty building. It's nice to look at art. And did I mention that it's free? You can't really go wrong then, can you?

Right now there's an exhibition with wood cuts (?). Some of them are old as hell and sooo detailed and pretty, and some are new and (if you ask me) not quite as nice. but that's a matter of taste.
And they just redid the collection of Danish art. You might not consider what a difference it makes, but the people who made the decicions on where to place what really knew what they were doing. You just WANT to walk around and look at the paintings, because somebody painted the walls the perfect grey color and... well... go see for yourself.

Oh! On the subject of museums; I went to Louisiana to see Me draw on iPads (iPad paintings by David Hockney), and boy was I disapointed. Yes yes yes, the idea of art changeing and not being as static and trying out new possibilities is all very interesting, but when that's said, I really didn't like the "paintings". They were just sort of blah.

If you're in Copenhagen tonight

Tonight Copenhagen Gay and Lesbian Film Festival is showing the movie I love you Phillip Morris in Ørstedsparken. Last night it was A single man, and well, it's free! You don't have to be a homosexual (I'm not), I just think it's a great offer. And it is important to remember to go out and enjoy the summer - even though I sort of fear that it's going to rain tonight.

The film starts at 10 PM. Be there at 9.45 at the very latest if you want a good spot to sit on. And remember warm clothes :)

When in Copenhagen, find the Distortion party!

I'm on the train back from Copenhagen (where I'll soon be living, yay!) and I just thought I would share with you a little info about us Danes: We have nice homes. And why do you need to know this, you wonder? Because. Contrary to people in for example Southern Europe (who have, generally, no clue about how to pick out nice furniture - sorry!) we spend A LOT of our lives indoor. This has undoubtedly something to do with the fact that it's raining like 80% of the time. But when it's not raining we get excited and run outside and get a sunburn and skin cancer and destroy our livers by consuming large amounts of alcohol.
There are, however, times when it seems to be more important that the sun is shining. Like in the time of a music festival.
We have quite a few. The most famous one being Roskilde. SPOT might be my favourite. And a couple of days ago I experienced Distortion for the very first time. Well, I didn't go to the actual festival since I'm not that into electronic music. But when people have told me that Copenhagen turns into a big outdoor party venue, they really didn't lie. I'm not going to pretend that it was the best party of my life, but I really found it fascinating to see all these people dancing around in the streets.
That is basically what summer nights would be more like if I were in charge :)

Right now I can't tell when Distortion is going down next year and where the streets parties are going to be, but IF I'm still blogging in a year's time, I'll try to do a post about it.
I really love big cities in the summer!