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May 20th, 2008 · Posted by Skuds in Life/Music · No Comments · Life, Music

I like my freebies.  I had not had anything from Amazon’s ‘Vine’ scheme for months, mainly because I took forever to get around to writing reviews on the last couple of things I had.  One was a 500-page novel that was, although ultimately rewarding, a bit of an uphill struggle to get into at first.  The other was a CD that was OK but just didn’t excite me.

I finally did manage to gather my thoughts on them last month and this month I chose a couple of goodies from the newsletter that might prove easier. No books this time, but a CD and DVD which both arrived yesterday.  The CD is a pre-release of Lykke Li’s debut album.  I might be a bit outside the target audience age range for that but I’ll give it ago.  The film is a Lars Von Trier comedy.

I haven’t seen Dancer in the Dark or Dogville, but all the publicity about them, made them sound like heavy going so the prospect of a comedy from the same director sounds a bit unlikely – but on the other hand I have seen The Idiots which was quite amusing in parts, despite being made under the constraints of Dogme 95, so perhaps it will be OK.  If nothing else it will give me a chance to brush up on my Danish…

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