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HIM - Tears on Tape review Vents magazine

http://t.co/WRYQIUXHxa

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Your Chance to Die - The American Dream review Vents magazine

http://t.co/7ssTCeuJlO

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Interview with me by Veronica Merlin http://starstonestenfalk.wordpress.com/ New Yorker Times

http://newyorkertimes.com/2013/05/interview-with-writer-and-poet-noel-heart/

Holland Found them

http://horses.nl/algemeen/rollkur-ophef-op-deense-kampioenschappen/

Here is an article a magazine posted, because of the campaign, My friend Veronica and a few of her friends is running against ROLLKUR.
You can find much more about her and the campaign, on her blog

http://starstonestenfalk.wordpress.com/

Here is another article based on their campaign. I am really proud of how far they have managed to get the campaign, to me it is really important, to treat animals good, this is just abused.

Rollkur

I do not know much about this topic, but I do know enough to think it is animal abuse... 
I have a friend who have a lot to say about it, and I will link to her here, because she have been taken a lot of pictures, that shows the use of rollkur at the Danish Championship last week. 

http://starstonestenfalk.wordpress.com/2013/06/16/gone-viral/

http://starstonestenfalk.wordpress.com/2013/06/15/not-letting-it-die-just-yet/

http://starstonestenfalk.wordpress.com/2013/03/02/ban-the-camera/

I just shared her facebook photo album on Dansk Ride Forbunds facebook page, they removed it and wrote me the link was exceeding their guidelines. 

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.574439575933761.1073741841.100001031717626&type=1

This link is to Veronica´s private photo album on facebook. 
If this was not abuse, why would they be banning all cameras from now on? If they had nothing to hide, why hide it then?

And yes, it is being noticed. A horse magazine contacted her, they wanted to use some of her pictures on their frontpage. 

I hope a lot will give their support, and spread the photos and her articles...

Lullaby

I still can't see the shadows in the darkness

Mary cries her blood in my skin

Lost angels dancing on his lap

Passion and poison dripping from their lips

Tearing apart his broken soul

While I beg of him to

Sing the lullaby from hell

Just one last time

You are still here

I am still here

Still the tears falls from heaven

Always behind the seen

With his last breath

I drew the words from his lips

I have been asked the same question, about this poem over and over again. The line: Always behind the seen. Didn't you mean a scene? no I mean seen. When you look at another human, you see them, but you don't see them. There is always so much more than you see.

When you read my poetry you read the words, but it is not sure you really read the poem. I could go on, but I won't.

Milan Alle´ by Magtens Korridorer

I really love this song....

The Danish lyrics

En julinat
På en kæmpe drages ryg
En ensom kat
På en skællet grøn drageryg
Flygter fra den sidste psykopat
En brandvarm julinat

Milan Allé
Under lyset fra en drøm
Stjerner som sne
På en skællet grøn drageryg
Døden og en dronning og en kat
En brandvarm julinat

Kom og tag min hånd
Der ligger alle mine håb
Jeg har fucket op
og gør det nok igen
Kom og tag min hånd
Der ligger alle mine håb

En julinat
På en kæmpe drages ryg
En nat besat
På en skællet grøn drageryg
Flygter fra den sidste psykopat

Kom og tag min hånd
Der ligger alle mine håb
Jeg har fucket op
og gør det nok igen
Kom og tag min hånd
Der ligger alle mine håb

And I translated the lyrics

a July night
On a huge dragon´s back
A lonely cat
On a scaly green dragon back
Fleeing from the last psychopath
A burning hot July night

Milan Avenue
Under the light from a dream
Stars like snow
On a scaly green dragon back
Death and a queen and a cat
A burning hot July night

Come and take my hand
There lies all my hopes
I've fucked up
and probably do it again
Come and take my hand
There lies all my hopes

a July night
On a huge dragon´s back
A night obsessed
On a scaly green dragon back
Fleeing the last psychopath

Come and take my hand
There lies all my hopes
I've fucked up
and I´ll probably do it again
Come and take my hand
There lies all my hopes

I really like the song, it is odd, but in a weird way it make sense

How much of our self should we gave away?

I have a lot of hopes and dreams, we all have. But I believe not all of them is meant to said out loud, sweet little secrets hold close to the heart...
I had a conversation with a friend last night about it, and he felt like I slapped him in the face, for believing this, it really hurt him, and I am sorry for that. He told me if I didn´t shared my hopes and dreams close to my heart, with a friend or lover, before I sat them on fire, and watched them burn, I would be the one watching others go hand in hand through life. If he is right about that, i gladly walk through life alone, for something I truly believe in...
When it comes to things I believe in, I am a mountain, and this mountain can´t be moved, unless it want to moved. And this is one of my really bad personality features, I am stubborn like hell, and when I make up my mind about something, I hardly never change my mind. I know what I want in my life, and I usually get it, I have the road laid out wide open for me,I may sometimes I take the longest shortcut to get there...
I have a lot of hope and dreams I gladly talk about, but I have a few that is mine, they are private. These are the ones closest to my heart, the ones I desire the most, these are my secrets. I believe that not all secrets are meant to be told. If it makes me strong or weak, I do not know, and I don´t care, it makes me who I am...
I know some people or many people or open people, but I am very closed and private. I hear a lot that I seems arrogant when people meet the first time, but when they get to know me, if they do, I am not at all...
I am really hard to get to know, and I need to see who I am dealing with before I let them in. Many I never let in, they stay in the outer zone of people I just have to have in my life, because they are family or a friend of the family. I rather have a few really close friends I can trust, then a lot of random people that can´t keep my secrets. When I talk to people I expect them to take my every word as a secret, not because they all are, but because I find it respect-less not to, And I rather walk away from someone I can´t trust, then to watch my words when they are around...
No so I am not willing to give myself totally away, just to make others happy. It would make we feel naked while I still try to strip...
I have kids and a husband, but I do not talk much about them, because it is private...
As I always says: My heart belongs to me, what goes on in there is mine...
So i keep my hopes and dreams to myself, and believe me, they are sweet little secrets. And who knows maybe someday, I will be able to say that they are not sweet secrets anymore, but they came true...
And yes we should be careful what we wish for, it might come true. http://starstonestenfalk.wordpress.com/ can tell you, that some of my hopes and dreams had become true lately, but I know she will keep my secrets...

The Night Came

The night came

Riding on the storm

With a top hat and a cat

Closed eyes

Closed mind

Closed heart

The queen and death

Dances on the lake

Fighting to stay alive

She lost her glass shoe

Over and over and over again

Just for you every night

Escaping the time

Please don´t break it again

I want this dream to be over

Ville Valo and The Kiss

Yeah, I just had to go there, because for some reason, http://starstonestenfalk.wordpress.com/ have been taking about him for a week or so now, LOL who am I kidding? we have been talking about him since we met. And we always ends up with wanting to clone him, WHY? Because if not our perfect created little world wouldn´t make sense. We have werewolf, dragons, unicorns, fairies, polar bears, talking fountains, elf, a dancing cow and yep Ville Valo, yeah he is in a very fine company.

So where am I going with this blog?
Everyday i hear girls say: Oh, he is so hot, he is so nice. It just makes me wonder do they really know? The truth is they just make him into, what ever they need him to be, all fans makes their idol into what they need him/her to be.
I have heard so many times girls say: I just have to met Ville, the he will fall in love with me. I say good luck.
Yesterday somebody said to me: I would die to interview him. I said, ok it would be fun, but it would be a waste of time to die for it.
Oh, I almost forgot, the HIM facebook fights, they are just so funny. People say a lot of shit and get into fights over nothing, like if one don´t like the band as them, or if they don´t think Ville is hot etc,etc, etc... Sound like Justin Bieber fans, I don´t know how they act, but not much better or worse I imagine...
I think the fan vs. idol topic is very interesting, I try to figure out how the mind of a fan work, I am even writing a book about it.
I personally suck as a fan, I missed out on a few HIM albums, because I was busy getting children, and with life, but I never forgot about them, not stopped listen to their music.
i just don´t understand, the need to know every little thing about a single person, you never will get to know anyway

HIM fans is in my mind by far the worst (or maybe I just notice because I love their music), many of them have a mental disease, (no, it is not just something I am saying, I have talked to so many of them, and they gladly tell about what mental issue the doctor say they have)  it is so hard to find a sane one be twin them, but it happens luckely. Last summer I met my first HIM fan, I was so afraid that she would be one of those crazy once, but she wasn´t by far. She is an amazing woman, and I love her, she is such a wonderful person. I went to visit her in October last year, and I will do it again. In December last year we went to Helldone together, and I saw the crazy fans up first, it was different. This summer I plan to travel through Europe with her, I am looking forward to see counties I haven´t seen yet, and Finland without all the snow, I hate snow.

Veronica and I is a whole other story, we think alike, we do not take being a fan so serious, we talk about Ville of cause we do. But most of all we talk about our common book, we write together, a fantasy story. I met Veronica for the first and only time last summer, but we plan to get together again soon, I am looking forward to it. I will not say to much about her in this blog, I write about her a lot. But she is my best (online) friend, I really adore her wit and talent, she is an amazing write, poet and songwriter, I have yet to hear her play, but I will someday. I am so happy that HIM and Ville brought us together, she is the one person, I ever will be able to write with, and no matter how crazy ideas I come up with, she never consider me insane, and catches the idea, it goes both ways.

Back to Ville. How do I see him? I see him as an amazing poet and musician. Is he hot? Oh well, he have beautiful features and eyes, and I love his smiles, but who am I to say if he is good or bad, I don´t know him, and I don´t have the illusion that I do, just because I know his music.
I will now post a lot of pictures of Ville, because I think that he is beautiful, but to be honest  I  think it is as much the set-up and light on the pictures and it is him, that is beautiful. It is kind of a perfect symbioses. And no I do not always think he is beautiful or hot, that always depend on the way the whole photo looks like.

The first photo, is just amazingly beautiful, not so much because of Ville, but because of posting and the set-up...

 I love this game... But I really suck at it LOL

 I like the surroundings...

 I think this photo is amazing, the first thing you see, is this amazingly beautiful guitar...

 The set-up is amazing...

 He have the cutest smile...

 Amazing...

So I guess I better stop for now, but there are still 2 photos that need to be posted, to make my point....

Enough for this time...

Inspiration

I have this idea of writing a series of small childrens stories, but I needed some inspiration, so I asked a friend to draw some of the characters, I want to use.

I want the small stories to be sweet, fun and a bit surreal. I am already working on the first story, and I enjoy to write in a childish univers. Many of the stories will be inspired by my own kids, and what they like. And I talk to Veronica Merlin about borrow some of the Characters from The Kiss, The Dragon and The Werewolf.

The unicorn is coloured by one of my sons, and it is not in the colours I want it be be, but it really doesn't matter right now.

Thank you

When I write my poetry I get inspired by a lot of others, we all need a bit of inspiration, as I always say, non of us is better than the muse we use at the moment...
I received a drawing from a friend today, one she made inspired by one of my poems, she asked me if she could try to draw something to the poem, and I said yes, I am really honored, and I really couldn´t imagine what she would come up with. And it surprises me a lot, because I was kind of thinking grave stones, but I like what she drew, and it makes sense to the poem.

So a big thank you  Sladjana Hermani

I`m wearing a wedding dress

For the flamboyant one

I’ll marry him

Where the words

Of dead poets

Weeps

In the shadows of night

I worship their memory

He is the one I love

The one you cannot be

Most of all thank you for making me smile like an idiot to the computer screen... That is just amazing...

Dying Light drawing

Another Drawing from Sladjana Hermani thank you...

Walking into the dying light of life

I lost mine long ago

Lost souls trying to find a way home

Angels with black wings cry

While we walk out of life

You were always the one I loved

We share a special bond

She always said

Synchronize minds

Words found their way through

The darkest of nights

With blood in our glasses

We burned our candle in both end

We howled under the moon

We dreamed in the day

Loved in the night

You blew out my candle at last

In his Eyes drawing

Sladjana Hermani have drawn me another drawing for one of my poems....

In his Eyes

He holds the night in his eyes

My heart in his hands

In the dark night

We found each other

In the arms of another

I fell in love with his words

Not him

Like the darkest lullaby

His words made my life complete

Consciousness

Like the strangest poem

He will live forever

Night by night

Dream by dream

He sings out the winter

I feel really honored, that i inspire her to draw, she told me she haven´t been drawing for years....
She writes a little poetry as well...

The Last Poem

This poem have no title, so I just call it the last poem, Why? oh that is a secret why.

I`m wearing a wedding dress

For the flamboyant one

I'll marry him

Where the words

Of dead poets

Weeps

In the shadows of night

I worship their memory

He is the one I love

The one you cannot be

His Eyes

His eyes burn upon the rose

With the light of the night

His words sweetest are 

Fall upon my skin 

With the rain 

His arm upon my shoulder

Shields me from the pain

His heart breaks from within 

Leaves him hurting forever more

His silence reaches my ear

I listen closely to his 

Unspoken words of wisdom

Seduction

You hold the night in your eyes

I stand in the shadows

I would love to bring you home

The suggestions sound so cliché

So that shit cost money

The seduction is a transparent illusion

You are just like me

Seduced by hollow love

Let us forget it together

So pathetic, I try to be sympathetic

But I would love to bring you home

The seduction is a transparent illusion

You sing out the winter

Sounds like a lullaby

You hold the night in your eyes

Like the strangest poem

I really want bring you home

The seduction is a transparent illusion

You are so perfect

And promiscuously

I am waiting

I would bring you home

Regret it forever

The seduction is a transparent illusion

Interview with me

Interview with writer and poet Noel Heart, by Veronica Merlin.

 http://noelheartpoet.wordpress.com/

First off, congratulations on the release of your poetry collection: Blue Lips / Acoustic Suicide. Let’s start with the title: what inspired you to name your collection Blue Lips with the subtitle Acoustic Suicide?

I don´t know. Blue Lips is a poem I forgot I ever wrote. I was standing outside Travastia in Helsinki, smoking, looking through the notebook I always carry around with me. I find this poem I had forgotten about. I switched 2 words around and gave it a title. I just knew it was the title. No, it has nothing to do with suicide.

 The word “acoustic” makes one think of music. Are you planning on turning any of your poems into songs?

Acoustic is music. I used to play a lot of guitar when I was a teenager, so that is what Acoustic Suicide means to me. But life kind of caught up with me before I knew what was happening. I had a fiancé and 3 kids, and who knows where the guitar was, I can´t remember. So a few years back I bought a new one, the kids were getting bigger, so I would pick it up again.

I am planning to try to turn some of my poems into music. I think the poem “Soft as Tears” could be a fairly good song. But I still don´t get along with my “new” guitar. It is kind of when you get a new cell phone; you walk around it and give it the evil eye, almost consider poking it with a stick if it is making sounds or something like that. No, I just don´t have the time to sit down and start to play.

 The cover art, I must say, I love it. Tell me how that drawing came about, and how you ended up using it for your poetry collection?

It is really provoking like the collection itself; it fits each other perfect.
The cover art is made by Pernille Folke and me. It is made back in the summer of 2012, and have been hanging on my wall ever since. I never even consider using it. I had another idea that I believed would be just perfect, but things don´t always go as you plan.

I like the first idea much better, but you called me up and told me you couldn´t make it work, so we tried another drawing, it sucked too, then you called me and said your boyfriend, Aston Merlin from Dark Mare Pictures, had asked why we didn´t used this drawing and added some blue lips on the belly. I loved the idea.

Pernille got the idea from a novel I am writing. I am still just making notes and researching.

So the madness has a deeper meaning.

 You dedicated your poetry collection to Next Victory and Brandon Valo Lee, your lost boys. Can you tell us who they are, and why it was important to you to dedicate your first published work to them?

Next Victory is a beautiful trotter (horse) my mother gave me as a gift at my 30 years birthday. Her original plan was to give me a pony, so the kids could ride it, but we found Next and went to look at him. Something just happened that day. It was some kind of weird love at first sight. I was walking on my crutches that day which became Next´s favorite chew toy (he believed himself that he was a tiny little cute dog who could fit in a pocket. He tried to crawl into mine a countless number of times). There was a really special bond between me and Next. He did a lot of funny stuff with everybody else. He refused to lift his right front hoof if it wasn´t me, he sucked on my ear, and when I gave him apples he made sure I ate my bit before giving him the next piece. I had my own bodyguard there for a while, but I was always the one in control.  I had to sell him a few months ago because of my bad knee and a riding accident last spring which didn´t involve Next.

Brandon Lee is the actor from the Crow, one of my favorite movies. Brandon was born last summer, and the name started as a joke. My mother bought this pregnant mare, and the first time I saw her I said the foal will be a stallion, he will be black with some white in the head, kind of like the crow, and I will call him Brandon Valo Lee. He was born looking like that, a fun story. He is a rock star. My mother sold him.

So they are my lost boys.

 How do you write your poetry? Do you have a creative process like lighting candles or putting on music before you sit down to write, or does it just come to you without preparation?

I have no creative process at all. I just walk around with a notebook all the time and write what comes to mind when it comes to mind.

 As a poet who inspired you? Do you read a lot of poetry yourself?

There is a lot that inspires me, the music I listen to, the stuff I read, movies, life etc… I do read some poetry, like Michael Strunge. Allen Edgar Poe. Leonard Cohen etc. I would like to see a poetry collection from Ville Valo someday. That could be very interesting.

 Let’s get personal. It is hard to talk about poetry without digging a bit below the surface. A lot of your poems have a dark tone to them, hinting at a time in your life that has been rough. So, basically, tell me a little about yourself and your past.

They are a bit gloomy. My childhood was pretty rough. I had to learn to take care of myself and my siblings very fast. I can´t remember I lived with my parents till I was 7. I know I didn´t live with my grandfather, but I remember it like I did. He is a very important person in my life. He died when I was 16, and I felt like I lost my parents, so in my own opinion I am an orphan. My father accepts it, because he knows he wasn´t there, but he tried his very best. I do not talk much about my mother, but she is here. We don´t get a along very well, and as she says with her own words: she likes her horses better, they don´t talk back. And she never misses a chance to tell me that I wasn´t wanted in the first place.

Without saying too much I can say I had to go through more than most people, and just half of it would kill another person if they had to deal with it.

I am lucky to be alive. When I was about 15, somebody tried to kill me. It does not affect me much, because all the other stuff I have been through is so much worse. It did affect me a little. It is only a few years ago I started to use a scarf again without having the feeling that someone was trying to strangle me.

Because of it all, I choose to use an alias when I write because my private life is very important to me.  I have been writing and published under my real name, but things went very fast for me. Suddenly I was an accepted name in some circles, and I got a lot of the crap that comes along, and I didn´t like it. My big passion is to write, and in the end of the day that is what matters.

I tried to use some of the knowledge I have about science and the universe as well in my poetry, and a few philosophical conversations with friends found their way into it as well.

 You have chosen to self publish your poetry collection via Lulu and Amazon Kindle. Why not hold on for a publisher to take on your work?

I did. I had a publisher. But we couldn´t agree. That´s it.

 What is the hardest part of self publishing? And what is the best part?

The hardest part is that I am a total technologic moron. So I had a lot of help by you. I use my laptop a lot, but it does a lot of weird stuff. Sometimes it is like: cool, how did I do that? I still think it will blow up one day. But it doesn’t matter as long as I can use my writing program even though it sometimes surprises me. You push a random button, and it does something I didn´t want it to do.

 Can we expect a second poetry collection in the future? If so, will it be different from Blue Lips / Acoustic Suicide?

I am still writing, and one day I am sure there will be a new collection. I have some working titles: The Dream machine or Pop songs, but I am sure the title will be something very different than what I think it will be now.

I hope it will be different. I have some ideas, but you never know what it ends up with. Like Blue Lips is not as I planned it to be in the beginning. I didn´t even consider publishing it in the beginning.

 I know you are writing on a book as well. Can you tell us what it is about, and what inspired you to start writing it?

Facebook. I am very interested in how the human mind works. Why do people need to be a fanatic fan; do we have a hive consciousness? Like bees. Sciences have proven we unconsciously communicate, like bees do consciously.

So my point is when I first got a profile on facebook, it shocked me how much time some people use on their idol, and what they a willing to do for a minute of attention. It is a very interesting topic. Many fanatic fans have a mental disease… and I could go on.

 Any idea when we can hope to see it published?

As it is now, I would say it will be ready between sometime now and the day I die. I don´t know. I am trying to turn all my notes into a story and not just bits and pieces. I am having a kind of writes block with it.

 As a side project you are writing on a fantasy book entitled “The Kiss, the Dragon and the Werewolf” which we are writing together. For the benefit of our readers: can you tell me a little about that book, and as well how did it come about?

I am not a fantasy writer, or I didn´t think I was, but I like it very much, and think it is funny.

I would say it is a very alternative fantasy story. We have made a whole new species and turned it all a little upside down. Small elves, human sized fairies and some very alternative personalities. I am kind of afraid to say too much about it. We have held the story in a light tone, but some of the topics in it are not light at all.

It started as a joke. You posted a picture on facebook of 2 guys kissing, I commented on it. I may have to say, we have been joking around for the past 2 years or so, that you are a werewolf, and I am a dragon. In that time, we have been writing a few crazy short stories as well, but mostly joking around. We have created a few other characters in that time. The Queen, the 2 kinds in the closet, the ballerina, the girl and the cowboy, and I am probably forgetting a few.

Suddenly one of us said: Let´s write a book. The other: That´s a deal. One of your friends saw it and said: I will buy that book. So we agreed… we better do it. Can´t sell a book without writing it. At this point it seems like we just are running wild with the story, but there is a meaning to the madness, and we know where it is going.

 We talked about making the novel into a movie, so if I offered you a part in it now, who would you play, and why? And who do you see in the other parts? And who would you like to direct it?

I would love to play Elisabeth, (she is kind of based on me, like Veronica is kind of based on you.) Elisabeth is a bit naive, clumsy, she believes there is good in everyone, she has a heart of gold and she is a mountain I wouldn´t try to move. I could see myself dressed up like a cow, shaking my ass while I try to sing about, was it twitter and facebook?

I could see a lot of different people playing a role in it, we have a lot of lovely blue zombie trees, and somebody have to play them.

I would love Aston Merlin from Dark Mare Pictures, if he wants too and don´t think it is too crazy. We will probably end up doing it ourselves, like with everything else. Now I regret I didn´t stay at film school. Maybe Aston will be up for the challenge, because no matter what, it will be a challenge, since we probably will end up playing all the roles ourselves, making our friends play along.

 What has it been like to work with another writer, collaborating on telling a story? Has it been a challenge, or has it been great fun?

So far it has been fun. I think we think a lot alike. Sometimes so alike that it scares me a bit. Like the time you where writing, and I was walking around thinking: all the story need is a fountain, and you wrote about a fountain.

One of the best things is that before we write something that changes the storyline, we have planed it, we talk about it. At the same time it is a challenge. I am glad I am writing with you, I don´t think I could write like this with any other.

I love the way you just catch it when I send something crazy your way like the green fairy, she is beyond mad, remember never to tell her she can fly.

 Is it something you would do, or are already planning to do again?

I think the last time the 2 of us spoke on the phone we came up with an idea to a new novel. We have so many ideas that I am starting to wonder if we will end up starting a rock band when we are 70 (we have talked about it).

I would love to write with you anytime.

I have been talking to a young, in my opinion very talented, writer in India about writing a short story together or something like that.

 What kind of books do you read? Any authors you find has inspired you more than others?

I like to read Nordic mythologies, historical fiction, there is a lot. I read a lot of crimes by Lisa Marklund. At the moment I am reading the Berlin Noir series by Philip Kerr. It takes place in Germany in the years between first and second World War.

When did you first know you wanted to be an author?

When I was 4 years old  I just knew I wanted to write. I sat with my grandfather, reading my first book to him. He was always reading to me, I loved it.

I have always been writing poetry, small stories etc… but burned most of it.

 You listen to a lot of music. Who is your favourite bands, and why is music important in your life?

Music is very important to me, have always been.  I listen to a lot of different music. HIM is a band I have been listening to since I was 19. I never really get tired of them. There are so many talented musicians, I listen to a lot. To mention a few, Leonard Cohen, HIM, Sort Sol, L.O.C., Dizzy Mizz Lizzy, Elvis, the Doors, Bon Jovi and so many more.

 Do you play music yourself?

 I used to play a lot of guitar, my plan is to start again, but I have been so lucky to get some nerve issues in both of my arms that may need surgery, so I am not so sure I will play again.

 Who were your heroes while growing up?

Boy George and my grandfather. I have Cultures Clubs first album on vinyl standing next to my bed. When I was 2, I wanted to marry Boy George.

Like everybody else I had a lot of different heroes when I was growing up. In stile they make no sense at all. I listened to 2 Pac, Take That, Elvis, the Doors, Metallica, D.A.D. of cause and a lot of others.

 If you could invite 3 people, living or dead, to a dinner party who would they be and why?

Dinner?  I hope they don´t expect me to cock.

It would have to be Leonard Cohen, Ville Valo and L.O.C. a Danish rapper. It is not for the sake of their blue eyes, do they have blue eyes? They are 3 very talent gentlemen, so I think it could be very interesting to sit them down together and see what happens. As I see them, Cohen and L.O.C. are very outgoing, it seems like they look at the world and write about what they see. While it seems like Valo looks more inside.

The most interesting thing about it would be to see, who they are. You can´t tell what a human is like from the things they write. I would like to see the human, not the artist.

 Now, you are a mother with three kids. How on earth do you find time to write anything at all?

I write when they are in school or late at night. I have been home sick for some years now, going to the hospital all the time, so I have a lot of time on my hands. It looks like it is a gen- failure… I just will have to learn to live with.  I won’t know for sure the next few months.

My middle child had something to say about The Kiss, he said if it didn´t had a zombie in it, it would just suck big time. So we had to come up with some kind of zombie.

 You are born and raised in Denmark, so English is not your birth language. Has it been difficult to write in English, and why did you choose to do so?

I am tested slightly dyslexic, but English is easier then Danish. But the more you read and write the better you get.

I have never considered being a bit dyslexic a problem, that is just who I am, I read perfectly, I can´t spell very well in Danish, but is easier to spell in English. And like with everything else, the more you do it, the better you get, and I am stubborn as hell.

 Do you find that networking, such as Face Book, Twitter and the likes, makes it easier to reach a wider audience when it comes to promoting your work?

It is easier, the world is smaller, but I am very suspicious when I talk to people online about their motives and stuff. I am just born very suspicious. It takes time to build an audience. I have built one once before I decided to use an alias.  I had a little but faithful audience. I am sure they will find me again.

I am not good at promoting my book. I find it very hard to do. I am better at promoting other peoples work as my brother always says. I would be able to sell sand in Sahara if I wanted to.

 In a perfect world, what would your future look like? What are your hopes and dreams?

In a perfect world, I would be able to write and have my privacy at the same time.
In a perfect world, I would be able to live off my books.

 Any advice you would like to offer upcoming writers on writing and publishing?

Hmm, don´t let anyone tell you how you should write. Some will try to make you fit into what they believe. Be yourself, and do what you find is right for you.

Think it through when and if you get an offer, not everything that shines are diamonds.

 Anything else you would like to add?

I have had a lot of people believing in me, and you Veronica has been a big help to me with editing etc. You are my sister in crime.

So I try to give something back by helping new artists when I see they have talent. It is not always I personally like what they write or draw, but if they do it in a way were I see there is a real talent that just needs to be helped on the way, maybe the artist needs someone who believe in him or her or help with the spelling, then I do it.

A lot of people are ready to tell you, what they think you will hear. Like I have been given a few complements, I heard I write as good as Poe, better than Ville Valo. I don’t know about that, and it doesn´t mean a lot to me, because I believe the best complement you ever can get as an artist, is when somebody tells you, you inspired them to write or draw. It would be wrong to compare yourself with other artists; every artist is different and does things in their own way, which make them all unique.

 All that remains then is for me to thank you for your time and wish you the best of luck in the future.

You are welcome and thank you…

Blue Lips/ Acoustic Suicide, by Noel Heart are available on Amazon as an e-book/kindle and on Lulu.com as a paperback.

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Half of the interview is also published here,

http://newyorkertimes.com/2013/05/interview-with-writer-and-poet-noel-heart/