Sunday, July 08, 2007

Bjorkiness

There's a fairly entertaining interview article in The Guardian about nutty Icelandic pop star Bjork. I liked this part:
I didn't expect Björk to be eccentric in the flesh, although oddness is an integral part of her public persona, of course. ... Oddness, kookiness and quirkiness have been as much a part of Björk's brand as her off-kilter, jarring, powerful sound. Björk, who wore a swan costume up the red carpet at the Oscars in 2001. Björk, who sewed pearls into her own skin for the video to 2001's 'Pagan Poetry'. Björk, who battered a television reporter at Don Muang airport in Bangkok, when she tried to talk to her son Sindri, then 10. Björk, who was rumoured to have been so unhappy while filming a role in Lars von Trier's Dancer In The Dark that she ate her own cardigan.
Sadly, the interviewer does not actually establish whether the clothes eating incident was true.

UPDATE: Here's the link I forgot to add. Actually, the article was from The Observer, via the Guardian Unlimited site.

2 comments:

TimT said...

I don't geddit. What's the causal link between sadness and the eating of one's cardigan? I mean, you might just as likely eat your cardigan as a result of being happy.

TimT said...

Do you have a link to that, btw?