At 16,
she published her first book, started
writing for Melody Maker, and
won the Observer Young Reporter Of The Year competition, and they gave her a column. At 17, she "skipped ship" over to
The Times, and has been writing there since.
U2 filmed a video in her house at 18, when she was co-presenting on the short-lived
Naked City program, interviewing
Björk,
Iggy Pop, and
others. Caitlin Moran won the British Press
Awards' Columnist of The Year award in 2010 and Critic and Interviewer of the Year in 2011, and
Glamour Magazine's Writer of the Year award in 2012. The last award was in large part for her book
How To Be a Woman, her
mission from God to reclaim feminism, though it was more in the lines of The Blues Brothers: crashing a lot of cars, and having a hoot.
The "British Tina Fey" talks about contemporary sexual issues such as slut walks,
pop culture, clothing and women, abortion, having the sex talk, and
why "it's actually technically impossible for a woman to argue against feminism".
posted by filthy light thief
on Sep 9, 2012 -
45 comments
100 Best Icelandic Pop & Rock Albums all streamable in full for free. Icelandic state broadcaster RÚV and Icelandic subscription music website
tónlist.is have published what they, their team of experts and the Icelandic public consider to be the 100 best Icelandic rock and pop albums of all time. Björk, Sigur Rós, Múm and The Sugarcubes don't need much introduction but below the cut there are short description of the other artists.
[via RÚV] [more inside]
posted by Kattullus
on May 6, 2009 -
47 comments
Bitone are full of love. : Björk's song "All Is Full Of Love" is covered by Ugandan children and youths on an album by a organization called
Bitone (meaning "talent"). Their mission is to restore the lives and hopes of children between 8 and 18 years old in Uganda, whom have been traumatized by the death of their parents or loss of their home due to disease, war, or economic hardship. [
via]
posted by grapefruitmoon
on Sep 14, 2008 -
16 comments
Matthew Barney, of
The Cremaster Cycle fame, has a new film coming out. Starring Bjork and Barney himself, along with a largely Japanese cast,
Drawing Restraint 9.
"The film concerns the theme of self-imposed limitation and continues Matthew Barney's interest in religious rite, this time focusing on Shinto."
"The core idea of Drawing Restraint 9 is the relationship between self-imposed resistance and creativity, a theme it symbolically tracks through the construction and transformation of a vast sculpture of liquid Vaseline, called “The Field”, which is molded, poured, bisected and reformed on the deck of the ship over the course of the film."
Uh huh. If you liked the beautiful weirdness that was TCC, check out the
trailer {embedded QT}.
posted by zardoz
on Mar 15, 2006 -
28 comments
