Bjork

[David Hart]

Sure they will be!!! You're the best Thanks so much fr telling me...how'd you find out about it?

[Lucy-san]

tch tch! how did anyone let this get so far back! bjork is awesome...her music is so original and artistic...well not just her music either obviously...her videos and fashion sense too among other things

[badsrx7]

Bjork's coool, I like her..

[Lucy-san]

yay I'm glad! my mom freaks out whenever I play her music.

[badsrx7]

yay I'm glad! my mom freaks out whenever I play her music.

hahah
aww..

[Lucy-san]

I know...its one of those moments where you laugh and pity simultaneously

[LifelessPie]

she's alright

[Lucy-san]

well I'm glad you dont passionately despise her

[eclv]

Good god, did you hear about her stalker?

The crazy dude from Florida had a journal, and video journal or months or years. I think they said his obsession started in 93. He made a homemade bomb, put it in a book mailed it to her, came back home shaved his head and shot himelf in the head while her music was playing. Fucking whacko man. I guess they discovered his body 4 days later, found all all the evidence, and intercepted the bomb in time. She commented on it but I forgot what she said...  something like she couldn't believe it or something, sorry. I will see if I can find an article link.

Okay, apparently this happened in 96. I just saw it on two different channels so I thought it was new. But anyhow he was still a fucking whacko!!

[badsrx7]

Oh my.. that is crazy!

[Lucy-san]

yeah I heard about that lol...kinda scary...I can find out what she said!

[Lucy-san]

"The bomb incident changed my life definitely. But not in the way that people probably think. Because the biggest test has been to my relationships with my friends and my family.

I've got a brilliant job - I can wake up in the morning with a song in my head and before I go back to bed it's on vinyl and I can get almost any person I could dream of to play that song with me. And it's literally a dream come true. And I'm ready to take the down side of that, which is being hassled and people thinking I'm things I'm not.

But what's difficult is that it affects my friends and my family. And that's kind of where I draw the line. The bomb incident, for example, my only son's life was in danger because I happen to sing through a microphone sometimes. And that's scary. I can take it myself and the effect it has on my life but the fact that my granny gets calls to make waffles for the Daily Mirror; and all my friends are asked if I'm going out with so-and-so. It's been a test and I've never appreciated my friends more than I do now"

Apparently, notes MTV, the guy objected to her mixed-race relationship...

"I didn't take that so seriously. The guy was called Lopez, which is Latin, and he doesn't want a Icelandic person to go out with a guy who's half-Scottish and half-Jamaican? I'm sorry, that is definitely not the root of the problem. I just think it's very, very sad. The guy obviously suffered but I have to say that I'm emotionally healthy enough not to take it personally. But still it affects me and I cried and I couldn't sleep for nights, just thinking of his face. It's really, really sad."

[Lucy-san]

"When he decided to...leave, he filmed himself with my music in the background. Four days later he started to, you know, smell and his neighbours called the cops."

Bjork was on a plane flying back to London from Miami when he sent the package, and had to phone Sindri explaining why he couldn't open any mail. She tells of another obsessive fan who harassed her, but he ended up "leaving" too.

Bjork says she "cried her heart out" when she found out, but insists all she does is make music and these men obviously had huge problems and were wrong to try to bring her into them.

"What I do is make music. It's all about love to me. If I start looking at what I am doing too closely, I will lose the kick I get out of doing it. Then I may as well go back to Iceland and work in the fish market. "

[Lucy-san]

"It happened right before I started the record and - apart from the drama around it - it felt like it was symbolic for what was happening in my own life, professionally as well as emotionally. I was obsessed as well. By something completely different, mind you, especially by new and exciting challenges, but still. I suddenly realized how something like that could escalate. So, yeah, I've learned a great deal from that incident. It was as if, all of a sudden, I was back into reality and, during my continuous search for kicks, had been acting so fake for four years. A humbling experience. It made me feel quite down for a while."

[Lucy-san]

"It was really, really scary. At that time I'd been traveling for four years and I was actually in Florida when he shot himself. Just three blocks away from him and he didn't know. It was a night where it was thundering and lightning. So he sends the bomb to England and I fly over to London while the bomb is on its way. I'm coming home and it really fucked up my whole life and the idea of what my home is. Forty media people were hanging outside my house with a lens on my toilet seat. I didn't feel very welcome at my own home. Of course, I cried for the man and I was very upset over his death. I couldn't sleep ...for him. But for me it destroyed my home. I had to rediscover everything. Me and my son, Sindri, talked a lot about it. Now home is when we meet, wherever we are. Home is where the heart is. "