i can feel the work piling up and my life slowly disappearing again...
alice in wonderland was a disappointment that i should have expected. this is just not what tim burton is about. he can't waste his creativity on already existing characters. even if this wasn't just a retelling, but his fabrication of the story after, it didn't have enough tim burton ness. it wasn't creepy enough in the way tim burton usually is and needs to be in order to really understand his sick genius mind. however, johnny depp and helena bonham carter never fail to amaze me. and i liked the special effects, especially of her head. but this will probably be the first and last movie i ever watch in copenhagen. it is so expensive... almost $30 but it was nice to choose seats beforehand. no waiting in line to run for a seat.
i went back to christiania with my danish class for a guided tour. i didn't realize how large it was and pusher street is literally a speck on the map of the whole. the guide has lived there since the beginning of christiania so she gave us the whole rundown of what went down over the years. it still amazes me that a self-governed community can exist in today's society. i thought you couldn't take any pictures, but that's only on pusher street... obviously.
infamous mural at the gate into christiania
this is a map of christiania. pusher street is a speck in the lower right hand corner, which is also where the mural and the gate is located. it used to be old army barracks and the reason for the shape is because it used to be the city's defense border.
so the bad rep that christiania gets is a pretty unfortunate story. it was meant to be like a hippie community of people who wanted to live freely and peacefully. they are what they call a consensus democracy, so majority does not rule. there must be a unanimous consensus. they collectively pay money to the state of denmark for garbage disposal, water, electricity, and also pay to sustain and maintain their own community. i will have to go back and take pictures of the houses because everyone builds their own house however they want so it should be an interesting sight. but when heroin started to appear on the market, the city of copenhagen didn't know how to deal with the junkies so they dropped them all off at christiania's gate... a conspiracy to destroy christiania in hopes for it to disappear. and it just went downhill from there. gangs began to appear in christiania and violence escalated. it's so sad because people try to raise their kids and such in christiania.
christiania's laws. break it the first time, 3 months exile. break it the second time, 1 year exile. break it the third time, exiled forever.
christiania's skate park (this is the fun factory i was talking about last time)
infamous christiania bike to drive around your babies
i also had the chance to see an opera. unfortunately not at the new opera house, but at the old royal danish theater. "the magic flute" composed by mozart. it confirmed my dislike for operas, but at least i felt cultured. it might have been a little bit worse because both the singing and the subtitles were in danish, but i recognized some of the music.
i'm going to a soccer game tomorrow! f.c. københavn vs. brøndby. this is one of the biggest rivalries... like yankees vs. red sox big. check out the song i need to learn so i can jump up and down with the crowd!
and on a final note...
trust is like a mirror. you can fix it if it's broke. but you can still see the crack in that motherfucker's reflection.
