#wuthering heights 1995

[thatscarletflycatcher]

Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights

The 1995 radio drama with John Duttine, Amanda Root and Emily Watson!

[stellarsecrets86]

Synastry Aspects That Feel Like Fate Whispering

Valentine's Readings are Open.Here

🍒 Lilith square Venus – "She’s a nightmare, dressed like a daydream." – Gone Girl (2014)

🍒 Sun conjunct Moon – "Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same." – Wuthering Heights (1992)

🍒Psyche conjunct Sun – "You and I are meant to be together. Period. The end." – Grey’s Anatomy

🍒Juno conjunct Moon – "I found my home in you." – Dear John (2010)

🍒 Venus conjunct Mars – "Kiss me. Kiss me as if it were the last time." – Casablanca (1942)

🍒Chiron trine Venus – "Loving you is like touching the sun—beautiful, but dangerous." – Great Expectations (1998)

🍒 Pluto square Venus – "I wish I knew how to quit you." – Brokeback Mountain (2005)

🍒Eros trine Mars – "We were made of fire and chaos, but I wouldn't have it any other way." – Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005)

🍒Nessus opposite Sun – "You destroy me and I love you for it." – Revolutionary Road (2008)

🍒Mercury conjunct Mercury – "You had me at hello." – Jerry Maguire (1996)

🍒Mars opposite Moon – "Love is passion, obsession, someone you can't live without." – Meet Joe Black (1998)

🍒Neptune trine Venus – "They say when you meet the love of your life, time stops." – Big Fish (2003)

🍒Saturn conjunct Moon – "You make me want to be a better man." – As Good as It Gets (1997)

🍒Jupiter opposite Sun – "To me, you are perfect." – Love Actually (2003)

🍒Uranus square Venus – "I’m also just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her." – Notting Hill (1999)

🍒Pluto conjunct Sun – "Our love is like the wind. I can't see it, but I can feel it." – A Walk to Remember (2002)

🍒Mars conjunct Descendant – "I want all of you, forever, you and me, every day." – The Notebook (2004)

🍒Saturn square Venus – "I gave you my heart, and you gave it back in pieces." – Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

🍒Mercury opposite Mars – "You’re the first boy I ever kissed… and I want you to be the last." – Sweet Home Alabama (2002)

🍒Psyche trine Neptune – "You are my dream and my reality colliding." – Inception (2010)

🍒Eros opposite Pluto – "You pulled me into your gravity, and now I can't escape." – Twilight (2008)

🍒Juno trine Sun – "If my soul had a name, it would be yours." – Before Sunrise (1995)

🍒Pluto opposite Moon – "No matter what occurs, I will find you." – The Last of the Mohicans (1992)

🍒Neptune square Mercury – "It’s like in that moment, the whole universe existed just to bring us together." – Serendipity (2001)

🍒Chiron opposite Moon – "You saw all my scars and chose to stay." – Good Will Hunting (1997)

🍒 Venus square Mars – "Nobody puts Baby in a corner." – Dirty Dancing (1987)

🍒Chiron conjunct Moon – "It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you." – The Fault in Our Stars (2014)

🍒Juno conjunct Venus – "I don’t need the world, just your hand in mine." – Me Before You (2016)

🍒Lilith opposite Mars – "Your darkness speaks the same language as mine." – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)

🍒Jupiter conjunct Moon – "Life’s not the amount of breaths you take, it’s the moments that take your breath away." – Hitch (2005)

🍒Nessus trine Venus – "The love that hurts the most is the one that never truly dies." – Blue Valentine (2010)

🍒Eros conjunct Venus – "You make my heart race in a way I never knew was possible." – Moulin Rouge! (2001)

🍒Psyche conjunct Mercury – "You speak, and I hear a melody only my soul understands." – The Age of Adaline (2015)

🍒Lilith square Moon – "You awaken something wild in me, something I was told to tame." – Maleficent (2014)

🍒Eros sextile Neptune – "You feel like a dream I never want to wake up from." – Romeo + Juliet (1996)

🍒Juno opposite Pluto – "If love is a battlefield, then you are both my war and my peace." – Pride & Prejudice (2005)

🐝✨

[fuckyeahcourtneylove]

“Sinéad O'Connor was a sweet, wonderful woman. She came up and said hello to me. We sat in the sun, drank Pepsi-Cola, and told each other secrets. We talked a lot about her childhood and Kurt's childhood and all sorts of childhoods. She takes in the world with huge luminous eyes, the type you rarely see, utterly lunar, laser beams to Ork.

Sinead and I would stay up all night in the bus watching really depressing movies. We watched Ryan's Daughter and two different adaptations of Wuthering Heights. She told me about Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw being sexually abused. When we were in Chicago she bought me a beautiful book that I really needed, and then she went down to her room, and when she was all alone she ran away to the airport.

She was pregnant, it was quite hot, and she was depressed. In her note that she left she said, "They can sue me. I don't care. I'II find another line of work," which I thought had a lot of integrity to it, to be honest.

I missed Sinéad.”

Courtney on touring with Sinead in July 1995. Written in 1995. Sinead told festival founder Perry Farrell that the reason she joined Lollapalooza was because of Hole and Courtney. Rest in power you beautiful human.

[dearabsolutelynoone]

Watch Their Love Stories to Make Your Heart Ache For Better or Worst ⋆｡ ﾟ☾ ﾟ｡⋆

A Room with a View (1985) dir. James Ivory

Quote: “Women like looking at a view. Men don't.”

Wuthering Heights (1992) dir. Peter Kosminsky

Quote: “I cannot live without my life. I cannot live without my soul.”

First Knight (1995) dir. Jerry Zucker

Quote: “Your will chooses me. Your heart chooses him.”

Tristan & Isolde (2006) dir. Kevin Reynolds

Quote: “I don't know if life is greater than death. But love was more than either.”

Ondine (2009) dir. Neil Jordan

Quote: “I know something's going to happen, something wonderful. Or terrible. It's just the kind of girl she is. It's just the kind of person she is.”

Bright Star (2009) dir. Jane Campion

Quote: “I never knew before, what such a love as you have made me feel was. I did not believe in it.”

Belle (2013) dir. Anna Asante

Quote: “I pray he would marry you without a penny to your name, for that is a man who would truly treasure you.”

Dracula Untold (2014) dir. Gary Shore

Quote: “Why think separately of this life than the next, when one is born from the last? Time is always too short for those who need it, but for those who love, it lasts forever.”

Mary Shelley (2017) dir. Haifaa al-Mansour

Quote: “My choices made me who I am and I regret nothing.”

Ophelia (2018) dir. Claire McCarthy

Quote: “I have seen more of heaven and hell than most people dream of. But I was always a willful girl, and followed my heart, and spoke my mind. And it is high time I should tell you my story myself.”

[princesssarisa]

Inspired by @thatscarletflycatcher's list of actors who have appeared in multiple Jane Austen adaptations, I've made a list of actors who have appeared in two or more adaptations of Brontë novels. I've covered all three of the sisters' books and included radio dramas as well as screen and stage adaptations.

*Timothy Dalton played Heathcliff in the 1970 Wuthering Heights film and Rochester in the 1983 Jane Eyre miniseries.

*Toby Stephens played Gilbert Markham in the 1996 Tenant of Wildfell Hall miniseries and Rochester in the 1983 Jane Eyre miniseries.

*Tara Fitzgerald went from playing Toby Stephens' love interest to playing his love interest's childhood abuser – Helen Graham in the 1996 Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Mrs. Reed in the 2006 Jane Eyre.

*John Duttine holds the distinction of having played both Heathcliff and Hindley Earnshaw in different Wuthering Heights adaptations: Hindley in the 1978 miniseries, Heathcliff in the 1995 radio drama.

*Amanda Root played Catherine Earnshaw in the 1995 Wuthering Heights radio drama and (showing her versatility) Miss Temple in the 1996 Jane Eyre film, as well as narrating the 2004 Naxos audiobook of Jane Eyre.

*Emma Fielding is heard in both the 1995 and 2018 radio dramas of Wuthering Heights: as Catherine Linton in 1995 and as Nelly Dean in 2018. She also narrates the 1996 Naxos audiobook of Jane Eyre.

*Geoffrey Whithead played St. John Rivers in the 1973 Jane Eyre miniseries and Mr. Linton in the 1995 Wuthering Heights radio drama.

*Jean Harvey appeared in both the 1973 and 1983 Jane Eyre miniseries: as Mrs. Reed in 1973 and as Mrs. Fairfax in 1983.

*Judy Cornwell played Nelly Dean in the 1970 Wuthering Heights and Mrs. Reed in the 1983 Jane Eyre.

*David Robb played the Count de Hamal in the 1970 Villette miniseries and Edgar Linton in the 1978 Wuthering Heights miniseries.

*Bryan Marshall played Gilbert Markham in the 1968 Tenant of Wildfell Hall miniseries and Dr. John Graham Bretton in the 1970 Villette miniseries.

*Sarah Smart played Catherine Linton in the 1998 Masterpiece Theatre Wuthering Heights, and Carol Bolton, the female Heathcliff character, in the 2002 TV film Sparkhouse, a modernized, gender-flipped retelling of Wuthering Heights.

*Holliday Grainger played Lisa Bolton, the female Hareton/Linton composite character in Sparkhouse, and Diana Rivers in the 2011 Jane Eyre film.

*Sophie Ward played Isabella Linton in the 1992 Wuthering Heights film and Lady Ingram in the 2011 Jane Eyre.

*Morag Hood played Frances Earnshaw in the 1970 Wuthering Heights and Mary Rivers in the 1983 Jane Eyre.

*Angela Thornton played Isabella Linton in the 1958 TV Wuthering Heights and Blanche Ingram in the 1961 TV Jane Eyre.

*Jean Anderson played Nelly Dean in the 1963 TV version of Wuthering Heights and Mrs. Maxwell in the 1968 Tenant of Wildfell Hall.

*Barbara Keogh played two unpleasant Brontë maidservants: Zillah in the 1978 Wuthering Heights and Miss Abbot in the 1997 TV film of Jane Eyre.

*Norman Rutherford played the lawyer Mr. Green in the 1978 Wuthering Heights and Sir George Lynn in the 1983 Jane Eyre.

*Anna Bentinck narrated the 2015 Dreamscape Media audiobooks of both Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights.

*Janet McTeer played Nelly Dean in the 1992 Wuthering Heights film and reprised the role as co-narrator of the 2006 Naxos audiobook (she reading Nelly's narration, David Timson reading Lockwood's).

*Edward de Souza played Mr. Mason in two different adaptations of Jane Eyre: the 1973 miniseries and the 1996 film.

Adding Brontë family members and friends into the mix:

*Ida Lupino played Isabella Linton in the Lux Radio Theatre's 1939 adaptation of Wuthering Heights based on the 1939 film, and Emily Brontë herself in the 1946 film Devotion.

*Chloe Pirrie played Emily Brontë in the 2016 TV film To Walk Invisible and Catherine Earnshaw in the 2018 Wuthering Heights radio drama.

*Ann Penfold played Polly Home in the 1970 Villette miniseries and Anne Bontë in the 1973 miniseries The Brontës of Haworth.

*Gemma Jones played Mrs. Fairfax in the 1997 Jane Eyre and Elizabeth Branwell in the 2022 film Emily.

*Richard Kay played William Weightman in The Brontës of Haworth and Lockwood in the 1978 Wuthering Heights.

*Megan Parkinson played Catherine Earnshaw in the 2015 Ambassador Theatre stage adaptation of Wuthering Heights and Martha Brown in To Walk Invisible.

*Susan Brodrick played a barmaid in The Brontës of Haworth and Mary Rivers in the 1973 Jane Eyre.

I'm sure there are plenty more, but this list is long enough for now.

[stelly38]

Hey! Your bio is such a vibe Aidan Turner, DILFs, and period dramas? Iconic. What’s your favorite thing about Poldark, or is there another period drama that has your heart?

Hi, naturesartistry! Thanks for the ask. I think it's my very first!

To answer your question, there are soooo many period dramas that have my heart, but none of them captured it in quite the same way that Poldark did. I think I found that one at juuust the right time; the stars aligned with my surging peri-menopause hormones, and then Aidan Turner appeared on my screen, and that was it--I was done. Favorite thing about Poldark is that I just love the story. It's sweeping, epic, romantic, dramatic, you name it. I think it's timeless.

As for other period dramas that have my heart, I love everything about the Narcos franchise. That, Peaky Blinders, and Black Sails, I think, are some of the best television shows I've seen in the last 25 years. (I also love gangster flicks, many of which are period-specific. As for romantical stuff, I love Sense and Sensibility (1995), Wuthering Heights (1992), and Lady Chatterley's Lover (2022).

A pattern I've noticed in my watching is that I am drawn to programs and movies that either feature one of my many, many boyfriends; OR, I watch not knowing anyone in the cast and find a new boyfriend to add to my collection!

Again, thanks for the nice ask. Nice meeting you, and happy new year!

[rumor-imbris]

Is it Fall yet where you are? *-*

Finally having some chilly air and cloudy skies here these days, and autumn is getting closer and closer *w* It starts in a week, babes! So I got the chance to finally follow one of my biggest passions again; BAKING! Take a look at my dark chocolate pie with walnuts, almonds, peanuts cream and hazelnuts!

In the meantime, here is my list of comfort shows to enjoy while getting cozy wrapped in your favourite soft blanket, wearing your cutest pair of socks and sipping your best hot drink (whether you are a coffee, tea or hot chocolate person!)

Anne with an E (Netflix series 2017 - 2019) Jane Eyre (1996) by Franco Zeffirelli Jane Eyre (2011) by Cary Fukunaga Swept from the Sea (1997) Fly Away Home (1997) The Pagemaster (1994) Coraline (2009) The Corpse Bride (2005) The Nightmare before Christmas (1993) Casper (1995) Hocus Pocus (1993) Hocus Pocus 2 (2022) The Addams Family (1991) The Addams Family 2 (1993) Pride and Prejudice (2005) Sense and Sensibility (1995) Sense and Sensibility (2008 TV Series by BBC) Northanger Abbey (2007) Persuasion (1995) Wuthering Heights (1992) Emma (2020) The Secret Garden (1993) Little Women (1994 Film) Little Women (2017 BBC Series) Sleepy Hollow (1999) Storia di una Capinera (1993) by Franco Zeffirelli The Scarlet Letter (1995) Jumanji (1995) Labyrinth (1986) Lost and Delirious (2001) What Lies Beneath (2000) Where the Crawdads Sing (2022) The New World (2005) The Governess (1998) The Others (2005) Please, Stand By! (2017) ... to be updated! ... and I'll add more as soon as they come to my mind. Consider I didn't include Disney movies because, of course, they are comfort shows but from the childhood, and/or LOTR trilogy which is my must rewatch during holiday season.

Feel free to suggest me Your fall comfort shows or habits in getting cozy, I'm open to suggestions! ^_- I can also add a list of books later on, I'll see.

Always yours

Rumor Imbris 🦋

[elephantlovemedleys]

Tagged by the lovely @mihrsuri and @leonisandmurex <3

Tag Game: 9 People You'd Like to Get to Know Better

-`♡´- last song:

-`♡´- currently watching: in terms of tv shows i haven't really been watching anything as of lately, however i did check out the 2009 adaptation of wuthering heights just a week ago! and i plan on rewatching the 1992 version soon.

-`♡´- three ships: (i'll jot down my top 3 faves from anything)

the doctor and rose - doctor who

mulder and scully - the x files

jamie and claire - outlander

-`♡´- favorite color: red and black

-`♡´- currently consuming: orange juice lol

-`♡´- first ship: there’s definitely two that fit this most: pocahontas and john smith from the 1995 movie and princess mia and nicholas from the princess diaries 2 (changed my life as a six year old seeing the film in cinemas!) another third VERY honourable mention would be nick parker and elizabeth james from the parent trap <3

-`♡´- relationship status: as single as bridget jones was

-`♡´- film: the last film i saw was priscilla, as a sofia coppola fan i had to tune in. i'm not very versed in anything elvis or priscilla related or whatsoever but i loved cailee spaeny and jacob elordi's performances and the costumes they wore.

-`♡´- currently working on: well i start my MA dissertation this semester so that's gonna be my main focus for the mean time and for the rest of the months (and i'm really excited and scared to do it because it's gonna be on a topic that is very dear to me!)

tagging: (do it if you want ❤️) @vintagedolce @hyacinths-cottage @outrowingss @elizabethtudorstuff @heather123fan-blog @royalknightwalker @quigroigne @meerawrites @sweetaprilbutterfly

[raingurl99]

Angela (1995) / “The Wildness of Girlhood” by Bonnie Mary Liston / Justine Kirkland’s “Girl Pictures” / Feed the Tree by Belly / The Man in the Moon (1991) / Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

[eleanor-bradstreet]

What other regency shows/books do you like?

Hello Nonny!

What a fun question 😊 If we're talking strictly regency era, I'm boring and/or am not aware of enough options, because the only thing I can think of that I know is definitively regency is Pride and Prejudice. I love the book, 1995 series and 2005 film. Matthew Macfadyen is my definitive Darcy 🤤

But if we skew wider to general period/costume dramas and 1800s authors, I have more. I think my tastes are probably more Victorian than regency when it comes to fashion and vibes 😜

The Empress (show) scratched the Bridgerton itch for me while we've been in the drought.

Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre (books) by the Bronte sisters. Haven't seen adaptations I've loved.

I'm a big Dickens fan, books and adaptations - especially A Christmas Carol and anything about Dickens' own life.

Little Women - I adore the 1994 and 2019 films, and live close to the setting/where the Alcotts lived so it's local history for me.

Honorable mention to the first 3 seasons of Downton Abbey before sharks were jumped. I used to be obsessed.

Also to Amadeus (1984 film) which is beautiful and bananas.

Lastly, Blackadder because it totally counts as a costume drama.

Perhaps not the list you were looking for, but if I think of things I love with people wearing historical garb - this is it 😅 Thank you for the ask!

[houseofwomn]

private detective emily rose

A little dossier for everyone’s favorite sullen detective

Name: Emily Mae Rose

Birthday: April 1st, 1995

Race & Ethnicity: Asian, Filipino

Appearance: Light-tan skin, dark brown hair usually in a bun, has oddly large feet for someone 5’3. Typically wears white button-downs, whatever blazer she can find, and pleated trousers. Also exclusively wears sneakers.

Education: Bachelor’s in Criminal Justice and a Minor in Philosophy

Occupation: Private Detective at the Ginovesi Private Detective Agency (Current), NYPD Homicide Division (Former)

Growing Up Emily is a first-generation Filipino-American. Her father and uncle immigrated to Queens in the late 80s. They both entered police training to gain income and follow in their father’s footsteps. Jimmy was murdered on duty when Emily was 13. This left her and Tommy in shambles. As a result, Emily has PTSD and regularly deals with panic attacks, nightmares, and dissociation. Up until graduating high school, Emily struggled with making friends. She’d make kids eat mud pies during recess and gifted locks of her hair to a girl just because she said she liked them. When Emily was eight, she called a classmate motherfucker just because she stole her Tamagotchi.

Trivia

Her father named her after Emily Brontë. His favorite book was Wuthering Heights, and he’d read it to her every night

Emily is bisexual.

She and Trystan adopted a stray dog named Twilight after encountering Niko Borodin.

Her comfort food is fluffernutter sandwiches, something her father would make her as a child.

Emily hates celebrating her birthday. Instead of a party, she goes to the Drunk Tank and shares drinks with Uncle Tommy.

Emily is left-handed.

[cinquecolonnemagazine]

Beatles in vetta alle classifiche inglesi, nuovi record a 60 anni dal primo successo

(Adnkronos) - I Beatles sono in vetta alle classifiche inglesi con il loro nuovo singolo, 'Now and Then'. I Fab Four diventano così, nella storia della musica britannica, la band con l'intervallo più lungo tra il primo e l'ultimo numero 1 in classifica. Sessant'anni fa, infatti, nel 1963 'From Me to You' fu il primo singolo della band di Liverpool a raggiungere la vetta delle classifiche inglesi (ma ebbe poco successo negli Usa). Non solo: 'Now and Then' è anche il singolo in vinile più venduto di questo secolo, sempre secondo le certificazioni della Official Charts Company inglese.  Il brano 'Now and Then' nasce da un demo registrato da John Lennon nel 1997. La canzone fu rielaborata nel 1995 con parti di chitarra da George Harrison ed è stata poi ultimata nel 2022 con il basso di Paul McCartney e la batteria di Ringo Starr per uscire il 2 novembre scorso. Il brano lo realizzò John Lennon e registrato su una audiocassetta su cui l'artista aveva scritto "Per Paul", poi consegnata dalla moglie Yōko Ono a McCartney nel 1994. Nel febbraio dell'anno seguente Paul McCartney tentò di sviluppare il brano, ma le condizioni non ottimali della registrazione gli impedirono di proseguire. Per il brano, George Harrison realizzò un assolo di chitarra che venne registrato prima del suo decesso. Nel 2022, grazie alle più moderne tecnologie, si è riusciti a estrapolare la sola voce di Lennon dal resto dei suoni della cassetta originale e da questa base è iniziato il lavoro per la realizzazione del brano. I Beatles sono stati in cima alle classifiche inglese, l'ultima volta, con 'The Ballad of John and Yoko' nel 1969. Con il ritorno al primo posto di questa setttimana hanno superato il record dei 44 anni di stianza tra primi posti in classifica detenuto da Kate Bush per 'Wuthering Heights' (1978) e 'Running Up That Hill' (2022). Ad oggi i Beatles superstiti sono anche la band con i componenti più anziani che abbia mai raggiunto la prima posizione: Paul McCartney ha infatti 82 anni e Ringo Starr 83 anni. Paul e Ringo sono anche il secondo e il terzo artista più anziano ad aver raggiunto la vetta delle classifiche inglesi, dopo Sir Captain Tom Moore, 99 anni, la cui cover di 'You'll Never Walk Alone', cantata con Michael Ball, ha raggiunto il primo posto in classica nel 2020. 'Now and Then' ha debuttato la scorsa settimana in Inghilterra in 42esima posizione, dopo l'uscita il 2 novembre, ma il dato si basava su sole 10 ore di vendite. Questa settimana ha scalato 41 posizioni, diventando il 18esimo singolo dei Beatles che raggiunge il primo posto in Gran Bretagna. I Beatles sono la band britannica con il maggior numero di singoli al primo posto nella storia delle classifiche del Regno Unito: solo il cantante statunitense Elvis Presley ne ha di più, con 21 singoli in vetta alle classifiche. Martin Talbot, capo della Official Charts Company, ha dichiarato: "Il ritorno di John, Paul, George e Ringo con l'ultimo singolo dei Beatles ha cementato la loro leggenda infrangendo una quantità di record. E così facendo ha sottolineato la straordinaria portata del loro fascino duraturo, che attraversa tutte le generazioni, con un numero enorme di streaming, download e singoli in vinile".   La canzone ha totalizzato 78.200 copie vendute nelle classifiche del Regno Unito tra negozi di dischi e streaming, con le più grandi vendite fisiche in una settimana in quasi un decennio, con 38.000 copie: il dato più alto in vendite fisiche da quando il vincitore dell'edizione inglese di 'X Factor 2014' Ben Haenow vendette 47.000 copie di 'Something I Need'. Nella classifica italiana dei singoli stilata da Fimi-Gfk, 'Now and Then' è solo 52esimo.   ---spettacoliwebinfo@adnkronos.com (Web Info) Read the full article

[la-femme-au-collier-vert]

Comfort Movies

tagged by @skywalkery

The Mummy (1999)

Sabrina (1995)

The Secret Garden (1987)

Sense and Sensibility (1995)

Howl’s Moving Castle

The Wedding Date

Pride & Prejudice (2005)

Ever After

Twilight 

Wuthering Heights (2009)

[filliteapot]

What are your top 10 favorite books of all time? What about top 10 favorite movies?

books:

Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones

L'île by Robert Merle

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

What Is to Be Done? by Nikolai Chernyshevsky

Two Captains by Veniamin Kaverin

La peste by Albert Camus

Uprooted by Naomi Novik

The Winner's Curse series by Marie Rutkoski

La Passe-Miroir series by Christelle Dabos

Bungaku Shoujo series by Mizuki Nomura

movies:

Better Days (2019)

Love Letter (1995)

Howl's Moving Castle

The Sound of Music

Tout en haut du monde

The Blade Runner (1982)

Konosekai no Katasumi ni

Song of the Sea

Kuchibiru ni Uta o (2015)

Byousoku 5 Centmeter

[eurovision-revisited]

Eurovision 2007 - Number 3 - Aud Wilken - "Husker Du"

It's becoming painfully apparent to me that songs from Denmark rarely make it into my lists unless they've been written by one or both of Lisse Cabble and Mette Mathiesen. For 2007, they've teamed up with Aud Wilken again with the aim of reliving their 1995 Eurovision success.

Prior to her Eurovision involvement, Aud had actually been involved in various alt rock bands in Denmark after she moved there with her father from East Germany in the 1980s. For a time, she was the lead singer in the band The Poets, who were one of the more prominent post-punk alt bands in Denmark at the time.

Since 1995 Aud Wilken has released a studio album, Diamond in the Rough, recorded a song for the soundtrack of a Nicolas Winding Refn film and has also had another song written for her by Leonard Cohen. She may not have a huge recorded musical output, but when she does, there are big names involved.

That gets her to 2007 and Husker Du (Do You Remember?). It's as laid back as Fra Mols Til Skagen. Maybe it's even the same relationship from that song that's being sung about here. Back then it was slow train rides to silk sheets and who knows what else. Now Aud wants to be remembered by someone. Someone who left her some time ago and who she hasn't let go of in her heart quite yet.

It's a plea for the wind to whisper her name to them and even, maybe, haunt them a little wherever they might be. The song itself is haunting. It has a touch of the Wuthering Heights about it, albeit less melodramatic. A love that survives time and place, wafting its tendrils out to seek a home. The guitar lines are slow and have a sad country, pedal steel effect. It feels like music that might have escaped from a David Lynch film. Mysterious, supernatural, somehow eternal.

Slightly shockingly, the Danish public rejected this out of hand. It finished in the bottom half of its semi-final. Then in the last chance round, it didn't succeed. It's a result that makes me scratch my head and wonder what on Earth was going on in Denmark at the time. What made the televote not click with this? None of the other fifteen songs in this national final left any impression on me to the point that looking through the list, the only one I can actually recall is the winner which went to Eurovision.

Aud remains a little bit of a mystery after 2007. Every biography or article about her I've found, in the short time I have to research this, ends with Husker Du in 2007. I don't know exactly what happened next, apart from a couple of songs and performances. For Lisse Cabble and Mette Mathiesen though there is likely to be much more in the future.

I did find a couple of post 2007 songs by Aud one of which is this beautiful piece Knowing That It's There.

[ladybertrams-pug]

About me:

Bio: Call me Fi. (get it?.) I am a minor teenager who loves to read books and talks about falling in love. I am an INFJ, type 5w4 (not sure why that part matters really). A hopeless romantic. I love writing stories, poems and songs. I love anything that takes me back in time. I like both classic literature and modern stories. I am also open to book recommendations!

My favorite stuff that I will post about on here:

Favorite books include: anything Jane Austen (my favorite is Emma and Mansfield park) the hobbit, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, O'pioneers, song of the lark, twenty thousand leagues under the sea, tfota, the hunger games, me before you, the little Prince, catcher in the rye, north and south, and jrr. Tolkien's masterpieces! The bell jar (don't get the wrong opinion of me lol).

Favorite movies: Pride & Prejudice (2005), LotR trilogy, the hobbit trilogy, Northanger Abbey (2007), Jane Eyre (2011), Me before you, You've got mail, sense & sensibility, little women (1994), the little prince, Persuasion (2007), all of the hunger games movies, The princess bride, the notebook, Ever after, The chronicles of Narnia, Penelope, Ella Enchanted, Mansfield park (1999).

Favorite shows (and mini series): Gilmore girls! Emma (2009), north and south, Downton Abbey, Sherlock Holmes (1984), p&p (1995), Jane Eyre (2006), David Suchet's Hercule Poirot, and then there were none.

Favorite artists: Taylor Swift, Florence + the machine, enya, Adele, Olivia Rodrigo, Maisie Peters, Jewel, Niall Horan.

Hobbies: writing (poetry, stories, full book plots, songs) reading, drawing, crafting, wood burning, making jewelry, card making, nature collecting, nature walks, listening to music.

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blog projects:

• Rating Taylor looks based on modesty list