About me « At the Lighthouse

About me

Ahoy, there! I’m Marie, the keeper of this little metaphorical lighthouse in the vast sea of the World Wide Web. You can see me here, posing randomly with a dummy at the Carlsberg breweries:

Born in Denmark in ’83, I grew up happily in the suburbs, but went away to the city to study Comparative Literature at the University of Copenhagen as soon as I had my high school diploma. Currently, I’m writing my master thesis, whenever I’m not busy as the editor of reviews at the Danish cultural portal kultunaut.dk, giving introductions to the audience at the Copenhagen Opera, dancing classical ballet, or chilling with The Boyfriend.

I’m very much into the Fine Arts, but I have plenty of guilty pleasures, too; including 80s hit soap opera Dynasty, peanutbutter/jelly sandwiches, overinterpretation of pop cultural phenomena, the song “The Edge of Heaven” by Wham!, marshmallow fluff, and occasional visits to cutesy sites such as the Celebrity Baby Blog (no, I am not kidding about that last one. I wish I were).

My blog is devoted to both my guilty pleasures and my more refined ones. Which means that while you may find serious opera reviews and essays on French medieval poetry on the blog, you should also be prepared to encounter a lolcat here or a re-cap of old episodes of Beverly Hills 90210 there. That’s simply the way I roll.

I welcome comments on all my posts and look forward to meeting you all!

/marie

The header for my blog is a photograph I took at Langelinje, Copenhagen in July 2007.

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Dear Marie, I was very pleased and very amused when your review of Giulio cesare suddenly popped up on my laptop. Thanks for the kind words. I hope you get as much enjoyment out of the newly released dvd as you did out of watching a live performance. Andreas comes over even better on the screen I think, such a fab singer.
All best wishes,
Chris Robson

Comment by Chris Robson — October 1, 2007 #

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Thank you so much for your comment, Mr. Robson! A great honour to hear from you. The Giulio Cesare DVD is on my list of Christmas wishes and I am looking very much forward to re-experiencing yours and the rest of the cast’s performances.

Best wishes
Marie

Comment by atthelighthouse — October 1, 2007 #

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Hi Marie,

It’s so nice to get into this place when I was intending to find sth about the Idas Sommarvisa.
Btw I am studying in Sweden now and majoring in sth like yours. Really appreciate your passion for opera and literature things. I am not so devoted in those and sometimes they seem so boring to me
Anyway I’d like to thank you for your information about the summer’s song. Great help to me. I have listened to it dozens of times and love it so much!~

Comment by Ling Zhong — October 18, 2008 #

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Hi Ling,
You’re welcome! I’m glad I was able to help out with Little Ida’s song – it’s truly a little musical gem and, as you can probably tell, very special to me.

And thank you very much for your kind, encouraging words about my opera and literature blog entries. It’s always nice to hear from someone who appreciates the blog – and even more so when it’s coming from someone who doesn’t unconditionally share my nerdy passions .

Good luck with your studies!

/marie

Comment by atthelighthouse — October 18, 2008 #

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