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This Domain was registered on May 28th 2004 as successor of my personal site Remotivate.Me.Uk and various other more or less temporary "places of residence".
 
Initially I chose that name for three reasons:

First and foremost it reminded me of a poem included in Chapter 9 of J.R.R Tolkien's "Lord Of The Rings":
Still round the corner there may wait
A new road or a secret gate;
And though I oft have passed them by,
A day will come at last when I
Shall take the hidden paths that run
West of the Moon, East of the Sun.

Secondly it's also a part of the title to one of my favourite (Scandinavian) folk tales: East Of The Sun, West Of The Moon. You can read the full tale right HERE.

Thirdly (and probably most obviously) it's also a phrase used in the title of A-Ha's 1990 album "East Of The Sun West Of The Moon", whose title track IMHO is still one of the most beautiful pop-tastic songs ever written.
 
Anyway, I'm a quite restless person and my personal site has moved on yet again... if you want to know where to, just DROP ME A LINE.
 
However, I am quite reluctant to let go of this domain, so I decided to give it another purpose and make it a place to pay tribute to the band that made me discover pop music way back in the mid 80's: A-ha.

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New Doodles...

September 15, 2006 — simone (Views: 644)



The Last Good Day Of The Year....

September 1, 2006 — simone (Views: 616)

Now the morning breaks in showers and I’m left with the North wind breathing down my neck…on the last good day of the year.

After the usual “shall I stay or shall I go routine” I arrived pretty late at the “Sommergarten” yesterday afternoon… but - and that was a real premiere - with an extraordinary amount of  luck I managed to secure myself a place right in the front row (Magne-side… small wonder). But what did I forget to bring along? Ear-plugs! I know it sounds kind of inappropriate to bring ear-plugs to a concert, but two and a half hours of standing inf ront of a I-don’t-know-how-many-thousand-watt speaker system really is asking a bit too much of my tender ears. *lol*  So if it wasn’t for that glorious security guy that took pittin us unprepared fangirls and supplied us with ear-protection I might have walked away deaf as a block. Anyway, the concert:it may not exactly live up to Trondheim proportions in my memory… but it was excellent nevertheless: the sound, the mood, the crowd…. the weather (yes!) - one word: beautiful.The setlist didn’t bring any new surprises: “East Of The Sun”, “How Sweet It Was” and  “Lamb To The  Slaughter” remained as the “odd” tracks. IMHO “East Of The Sun” felt more intense than it did at Trondheim, while and  “Lamb To The  Slaughter” was a little less thrilling. During “Hunting High And Low” there seemed to be some technical problems on stage, which didn’t derogate the mood of the song in any way though. I don’t know if it was just my own impression but during the first few songs Morten seemed to have (more than ususally) a quite hard time at warming up his voice…. he kept on “testing” his vocals in between songs repeatedly… looking not entirely satisfied.  By the time the had reached “Summer Moved On” there was nothing to be heard of that anymore: I’m still in awe everytime I hear him singing that notorious “And there’s just one thing left to aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaask. Staaaay, don’t just walk way” live. His lungs truely have to be made of steel. *gg*

Well, I suppose it’s back to real-life now: my plane for Nuremburg is leaving  Berlin Tegel at 12:20… after that there will be no more short-trips, concerts and shows for this year… and heaven knows how long after. Pitty! I could have gotten used to that “routine”. *gg*

Berlin, Berlin....

August 31, 2006 — simone (Views: 567)

The first day in berlin has been cold, grey and windy. But I’m moderately thankful that it has been quite dry so far: apart from a lit bit of drizzle yesterday afternoon there has been no rainfall. I’m still not feeling extremely enthusiatic about the a-ha concert due for this evening. But there you go: isn’t it always just the same with me?! By this time tomorrow I’m most likely “singing” a hymn of praise for the Mssrs Furuholmen, Harket and Waaktaar-Savoy. If only the temps where a little less “arctic” outside than they were yesterday night. I sitll don’t know if I’m really going to acutally start queuing for the concert already by three in the afternoon to be rewarded with a place in front-row. I might as well be content with a place in “midfield” and a few hours less of “sitting target, sitting waiting, anticipating: nothing.


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Magne F :: Misc Lyrics simone 2006/5/30 15:10:09
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Morten Harket :: Vogt's Villa simone 2006/3/3 19:21:36
A-ha :: Analogue simone 2006/3/3 19:11:10
A-ha :: Lifelines simone 2006/3/3 19:00:24
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A-ha :: Minor Earth, Major Sky simone 2006/2/16 19:32:13
A-ha :: Memorial Beach simone 2006/2/16 19:24:42
A-ha :: Head Lines And Deadlines simone 2006/2/10 19:38:23

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