#maarja..

[caffeine-high]

vandaag kon ik gelukkig de hele dag aan werk voor de lunch afmaken, dus heb een vrije middag gehad, en oh god had ik het nodig!

anyhow, middagdutje had niet geholpen met de hoofdpijn, maar het was iets!

en! nu ben ik eindelijk toegekomen aan mijn naaiproject :D

[polldermodel]

Wat is je sterrenbeeld?

[binas-official]

Ik heb het altijd al vreemd gevonden dat scheikunde maar 1 letter krijgt in de naam van BiNaS. #Justiceforscheikunde

[tijdvoormemes]

Zal ik nu een poll maken met de vraag waar mensen op gaan stemmen/hebben gestemd? Of zal ik wachten tot dat de stemdag af is, zodat ik niet perongeluk nog mensen beinvloed? Of zou dat niet erg zijn?

[eurovision-revisited]

Eurovision 2003 - Number 42 - Vanilla Ninja - "Club Kung-Fu"

Vanilla Ninja are big. Bigger than you think. They've sold huge numbers of albums and singles, not only in Estonia but across Central Europe. They sung with Justin Timberlake, supported Pink and won the Silver Seagull at the Viña del Mar International Song Festival in Chile. They're A-listers in Estonia and well-known as far away as Germany.

Eurolaul 2003 is where it all started. One member of the band, Maarja Kivi entered Eurolaul before, in 2002. That got her into the band alongside Lenna Kuurmaa, Piret Järvis and Katrin Siska formed earlier in 2003. They were put together by producer, song-writer and band manager Sven Lõhmus, himself at the beginning of what is going to become a career as perhaps Estonia's leading producer and the man behind many of Estonia's Eurovision entries.

Club Kung-Fu is the lead and title single from their first LP. Before it gets into its groove it uses an overly stereotypical Eastern musical motif (perhaps the main thing that puts me off this song), before it launches into some full throttle pop-rock that conjures Suzi Quattro to mind. Yes, its basic and the band members have some finesse to find, but its well-executed. A perfect career opener.

Eurolaul in 2003 was 100% international jury voted. Interestingly there was a phone poll performed, but it didn't contribute to the final outcome. It still got 77,729 votes. Club Kung-Fu landslided that televote, gaining over 37,000 - nearly 50% of the entire public vote. The international jury consisted of such luminaries and Eurovision alumni as Darja Švajger, Renārs Kaupers and Michael Ball. That jury tanked Vanilla Ninja, placing them joint 9th and last.

They'd be back, but that must have stung at the beginning - it wasn't enough to put them off though, and the public love translated into record sales. Four more singles followed in 2003, then a second album in 2004 as well as launching in Germany, Austria and Switzerland... ...which may be part of the next stage of their story.

But that's for another time.

[fictionalred]

41, 47, 55?

41. Ben je momenteel gelukkig?

Ja, eigenlijk wel. Ik voel me nutteloos, maar het leven als een nutteloos persoon die toch genoeg heeft om te overleven kan ik wel doen.

47. Wat heb je vandaag gedaan?

bitter weinig xD (zie nutteloos). Vooral mijn linux instellingen verder verbeterd

55. Grootste leugen ooit dat je hebt verteld?

hmm moeilijk.

Wacht! Ik herinner me net ene! Mijn (toen nog niet) man heeft me eens goed, eeuh, gedaan, op een barstoel waardoor het keukengedeelde van de boot van mijn ouders beschadigd geraakte en ik deed natuurlijk alsof ik van niets wist toen ze de schade zagen en vroegen wat er gebeurd was *fluitend*

[movienized-com]

Vigased pruudid

Vigased pruudid (2023) I'm sorry if there was a misunderstanding. Here are the names with hashtags: #ErgoKuld #PaaruOja #KasparVelberg #MaarjaJohannaMagi #OskarSeeman #MariaTeresaKalmet Mehr auf:

Faulty Brides Jahr: 2023 (Oktober) Genre: Comedy / Drama Regie: Ergo Kuld Hauptrollen: Pääru Oja, Kaspar Velberg, Maarja Johanna Mägi, Oskar Seeman, Maria Teresa Kalmet, Simo Andre Kadastu, Harry Kõrvits … Filmbeschreibung: Der Besitzer der Lipuvere-Farm entscheidet sich, seine Töchter an reiche Freier aus dem Bezirk Mulgi zu verheiraten. Doch die Herzen der Mädchen gehören bereits den…

[surnumanaja]

Lõpuks ometi tantsijad

[bumbelbee]

Kennis van mn moeder op mindf*ck lmao

[polldermodel]

nog een uitspraak vraag: jouw of jouwn (+ wat vinden jouw-zeggers van de jouwn-uitspraak (vervelend/boeit niet/leuk))

[rabbit-shit-haikus]

Une meeles (In the Hold of a Dream) by maarja nuut & ruum

find on Bandcamp or Spotify 

[tijdvoormemes]

Ik wil misschien een poll maken van de mening over het koningshuis, maar is dat verstandig? Krijgen we dan intense drama en een burgeroorlog?

[eurovision-revisited]

1997 Dublin - Number 16 - Maarja-Liis Ilus - "Keelatud Maa"

It's the second year at Eurovision in a row for Maarja, one of Eurolaul and later Eesti Laul's ever presents. Last year she got lucky, snagging the winning song when the intended singer looked like she couldn't make it. Even then she only scraped into Eurovision on a Eurolaul tie-break.

This year it's much clearer. Dominating Eurolaul 1997, Maarja-Liis Ilus bring Keelatud Maa (Forbidden Land) all the way to 8th place in the final - even if this was a little disappointing considering she'd been one of the favourites to win the entire contest, and it didn't hit the heady heights of fifth, where she'd finished in 1996. Nevertheless Estonia was becoming a Eurovision contender and Maarja was the voice driving that.

Keelatud Maa itself is a wistful ballad tinged with sadness. A lover reaching out to her partner, wanting them to adapt and not remain rooted in a past which they can't let go. It's a plea for them to move on, lest the forbidden, foggy, marshy land between them grow so impenetrable there's no way back together. That's a maturity that's not often witnessed at Eurovision; it's hauntingly poised on the threshold between encouragement and hopelessness.

Those wonderful lyrics were written by Kaari Sillamaa, the mother of Janika Sillamaa, Estonia's first ever Euro Laul winner in 1993 who nearly made it to Eurovision, but fell short in the qualification round. I've already written about her.

Maarja doesn't stop at having represented Estonia twice at Eurovision. She tried to get there twice more. She sang at Eurolaul 2004, but finished fourth. The year before that she entered Melodifestivalen in Sweden, but got eliminated in the heats. She's been spokesperson for Estonia twice and has also hosted Eesti Laul, most recently in 2022.

Beyond Eurovision, she's released 11 albums, been named as Estonia's best female singer four times, she's sung the role of Eva Péron in the Estonian production of Evita, as well as several other leading roles in musicals. She was a judge on three seasons of Eesti otsib superstari, including the season in which Jüri Pootsmann won. Maarja is absolutely one of the biggest names in Estonian music.

[librarycards]

Happy Women in Translation month! Here is a recommendation list of books by women, translated into english. I based my selection on the widest variety of countries and languages of origin possible, and as a result, found nine books written by women and almost all translated by women, in nine different laguages!

Vivarium by Maarja Pärtna, tr. Jayde Will (Estonian)

Notes of a Crocodile by Qiu Maojin, tr. Bonnie Huie (Chinese)

The Core of the Sun by Johanna Sinisalo, tr. Lola Rogers (Finnish)

Bad Girls by Camila Sosa Villada, tr. Kit Maude (Spanish)

How the First Sparks Became Visible by Simone Atangana Bekono, tr. David Colmer (Dutch)

Paradise Rot by Jenny Hval, tr. Marjam Idriss (Norwegian)

Breasts and Eggs by Meiko Kawakami, tr. Sam Bett and David Boyd (Japanese)

Blood Feast by Malika Moustadraf, tr. Alice Guthrie (Arabic)

Mommy Must be a Fountain of Feathers by Kim Hyesoon, tr. Don Mee Choi (Korean)

tagging people below, including the ones who encouraged me to do this!! i'd love to see your liss, esp. those living outside the anglosphere!

@cigaretteaunt @shivtomdivorce @hamsterprincessdoll @podcastlesbian @secretcircuit @growtiredofpublicvulnerability @aldieb @heavenlyyshecomes @fatehbaz @punkkwix @fluoresensitive @bioethicists @felgueirosa @abstractlesbian @capricornpropaganda

[nederlandsespoorwegen]

ik zag deze schoonheid vanmorgen op Utrecht centraal, en moest aan je denken. de ns-borden zeiden dat ze naar Rotterdam ging en noemde haar een "speciale trein", maarja dat kon ik zelf ook wel zien

Speciale trein!!!