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Movie & TV References

1990 FAITH NO MORE (Music video for "Epic")

- The fish used at the end of this video (which brought Faith No More stardom) was Bjork's pet. "There was a party at Roddy (Bottum, Faith No More keyboardist)'s mansion in Berkeley and I was just coming from a poetry reading in San Francisco. I had been given the fish (which she admits to having named 'Linear Soul Child') from a person at that poetry reading, and brought it to Roddy's party. That's the last time I ever saw him." [Thanks to UI and FNM.com.]

1995 STEALING BEAUTY
	- The song 'Bachelorette' was originally intended To be the 'title' track. But, Bjork asked for It to be taken out, and it was. 'Bachelorette' is found on Bjorks 3rd solo album, 'Homogenic.' - Buy Stealing Beauty!

1997 FACE / OFF
	- A big 'Debut' style poster is in the 'rebellious' daughters room. It makes a nice backdrop....perhaps Bjork is s'posed to be rebellious? ;) - Buy Face Off!

1997 CHASING AMY
	- There is a conversation in a music store (for several minutes) where in plain sight there are Bjork's "Post," "Debut," and a Hyperballad single Cd's. (For everyone to see!) - Buy Chasing Amy!

1997 SUDDENLY SUSAN
	- In this TV show, an episode from 1997 mentions Bjork briefly. It's in Episode 1.18 - 'With Friends Like These.' Want to hear what was said? Then just click here to listen! [Thanks to John!]

1998 GET REAL
	- In this movie there is this boy named Steven. In his room there is a poster of Bjork. It's a poster of the album cover of Homogenic. - Buy Get Real!

1999 HAPPY, TEXAS
	- In the film Happy, Texas the plot includes 2 guys involved in a child pagent contest. For one of the talent portion, two girls sing and dance to Bjork's song "It's Oh So Quiet." [Thanks to Candice who posted this on BEP...she things that they did a pretty good job singing and dancing bjork-like too!] - Buy Happy, Texas!

1999 Splendor
	- Have you watched Gregg Araki's latest, "splendor"? In one scene, where the three main characters discuss whether to have a child or not, one of them comments: "Bjork has a kid. Really." - Buy Splendor!

2000 Bill Nye the Science Guy [TV Show]

This is an educational science show. This appeard on an episode where they were talking about the biology of plants. At the end of every episode, they have a spoof of a song and a music video, with a person singing about the topic. On that episode, they had an asian girl singing about plants to the tune of "Human Behaviour". It was funny! the video was a bit like the Human Behaviour video, but with plants and flowers instead of grass. [Thanks to NOWAY for posting this on BEP in March of 2000!]

2000 DARIA

On MTV's 'Daria', during the end credits they show the characters all drawn up as various "things" -- famous people, famous photos, famous situations, recognizable things, etc. One day, one of the characters drawn up as Bjork. The girls name is Tiffany, and she is one of the members of the Fashion club at Lawndale High. She had on that pinkish dress and her hair had a bunch of random twisty braids like Bjork.

2000 SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE
	During the introduction to the TV show "Saturday Night Live" (2000-2001 season) the camera zooms in on an issue of "Time Out New York", of which Bjork is on the cover. Bjork has also been featured in the following skits/performances on SNL: Performances 1988 - Birthday, Motorcrash (The Sugarcubes) 1997 - Bachelorette (She also may have performed Jóga, but in the taped 'rehearsal' version. The aired version was cut short and Bjork's "performance" gap was filled in with a Brendan Fraser skit.
	Parodies 2000 - The Cast Of SNL on the 'My First VH1 Music Awards', "We Are The World" parody, Tina Fey as Björk. 2001? - Molly shannon was Bjork, imitating the scene where bjork talks about greasy potato chips on Vessel. 2002 - Fun With Real Audio 'Oscar's Greatest Moments' 2002 - A Bjork cartoon was on SNL Funhouse, imitating the Oscar awards where Bjork sang 'I've Seen It All.' The Swan continaully came alive... 2002 - Winona Ryder as Björk on 'Celebrity Jeopardy'

Insomniac Theatre (1999) [VH1 tv show] * Possibly Maybe is used as the theme to the show.

MACY GRAY (2000) [Music Video] * A Macy Gray music video features a picture of Bjork on the bassist's (or guitarist) equipment.

Lolita Lempicka Show (2000) [TV Show] * On this fashion programme (Oct 16, 2000?) a remix of 'Venus as a boy' was played. [Thanks to Lulu Mae for Bepping that!]

La Marche du Siècle [TV Show] * On french channel France3, the show called "la marche du siècle" has the music of bachelorette as intro. [Thanks to Delphine!]

MTV-Latino [TV Show] * In MTV-Latino there is a program called "2x1" it basically shows two videos from one artist, between commercials or between two videos, the logo of "2x1" is displayed and in the background the beginning of "Possibly Maybe" sounds, the sound that in the video is represented by the flourecent shining of the things in the room. [Thanks to Ricardo]

Canal+ (2002) [TV Show] * As Mick wrote on BEP: Somebody on C+ staff LOVES Bjork. watching a news report yesterday on french paying channel Canal+ ("90 minutes" - will be aired again soon) about a french minister who has been "suicided" back in 1978, I heard the intros of PMB, HiddenP, PP, and Cover Me. [Thanks to Mick]

2000 DANCER IN THE DARK

Bjork starred in the film, along with composing and performing the music. * Bjork won the Palme D'Or for best actress at the Cannes Film Festival. * Dancer In The Dark won the Palme D'Or for best film at the Cannes Film Festival. * In an interview at zat2it.com it mentioned that "As the director instructed, she wrote eight minutes of music for each song. Many songs were cut to four minutes, and she felt some of the best parts were cut." DANCER IN THE DARK Press Kits (2000) * A Dancer in the Dark EPK (Electronic Press Kit) Promo VHS Video was created. This very rare promotional only video issued by Elektra Records. Total time 57:28. Contains in-depth interview with Bjork about the film as well as dramatic and musical excerpts from the film. These excerpts are quite generous! Comes in plain white sleeve with computer-printed labels. (picture second from top, at left) * This press kit was given only to press & media outlets, and includes 2 pictures, 8 original 35mm color slides, and 25 pages of cast and production information and biographies. (picture second from bottom, at left) *A press kit was released from ELEKTRA, that contained a picture (bottom left), and 3 pages of bio (from Elektra) The image to the right is of an actual Dancer in the Dark film-reel case. Click on the image for a larger version.

2001 QUEER AS FOLK
	* In this TV Show, you can see a Björk 'Post' poster on the wall of the bedroom of the character Nathan, who is the younger, more rebellious, etc... It's very clearly shown. [Thanks to Gabriel] * In the 2002 season finale, the show closed with the Underworld Mix of Human Behaviour. [Thanks to John]

2001 LILY CHOU-CHOU
	"Lily Chou-chou" is a japanese movie about schoolkids obsessing about an ethereal-like singer through online message boards. Just a little bit into the movie, Bjork is mentioned; The context she was put in: "For some people it's John Lennon, for others, it's Bjork. But for me, it's Lily Chou-chou".

2002 CELEBRITY DEATHMATCH [TV Show]

* On May 2, 2002 Bjork was featured on MTV's Celebrity Deathmatch. She faced Beck.

Advertisement Appearances

* (1996) During Tori Amos's RAINN (Rape Abuse and Incest National Network) benefit concert (1996?) several celebrities did promotional "commercials" for RAINN. Bjork was one of them. A microwave clock was shown (2 minutes), and Bjork said something to the effect of, "In the time it takes you to cook a meal, one woman in America is forcibly raped...if you need help, call rrrrrainn at 1-800-656-HOPE..." [Thanks to Tim who posted this on BEP in March 2000!] * (1997) "Visur-Vatnesda Rosu" as sung by Bjork was used in a PSA (Public Service Annoucement) in the US starting in 1997. * An instrumental 'Come to Me' was used in the background when advertising was on for coming children's programme (don't remember what .se channel, 1,2 or 4.) [Thanks to SAGA for posting this on BEP] * (1999) Here in Argentina the only commercial that I remember with bjork music is an "anais anais" one, (parfum) a nice one, with IOSQ initial bars, only a couple of seconds without voice. (Thanks Paulo!) * (1999-2000) Bjork's music to 'Human Behaviour' (Or an exact rip-off of it) can be heard in tv commercials (late 1999-2000) for Compaqs 'Ipaq' computer. * From Tom; The TV show 'Dateline' (on NBC)used the Sugarcubes 'HIT' as background music during a brief story. This is a national news program in the U.S.! * "Insomniac Music Theater" on VH1 has music at the beginning of each segment (where they show the title) "Possibly Maybe" has been used. "Bachelorette" has used in the real world on MTV... * (2000) A commercial for an American Express card shows 2 prong type deal-ies, like the ones holding the 2 bjorkbots in the video, are holding and bending an american express card. It is VERY similar to Bjork's All is Full of Love video. * (2001) A commercial for a car, I dont recall which, shows 2 prong deal-ies assembling the car. Also similar to All is Full of Love. Both of these commerical have white futirustic feels to them. (Thanks kenny!) As Bobby June reports: An American Express card advert between two extremely graceful robotic arms. It was being worked on and contorted just as both Bj=F6rks were being worked on in the video. Probes, rotating robotic arms and spinning manipulators portrayed in a lackluster mimic of the original. There was even a lower anal/vaginal probe on the left of the Amex card just as in the video. * MTV features a bit of the All is Full of Love video in a montage of just random MTV-ness. Go figure, they enver show it but they'll put it on a commercial. * (2001) Thanks to Noe: On MTV Latin they have some MTV promos that use Bjork either as background music or just as something cool to look at. Theres a one minute compilation of sci-fi music videos (Marilyn Manson's Tourniquet, Tool, and similars) and they show a lot of AIFOL clips and at the end of it it appears "ARTificial... MTV". Theres another one of two guys in a flower field (just standing there, doing nothing else) and the street/folkloric noises of Aeroplane playing in the background music. Another one is a compilation of people with worried faces and they show clips of Bachelorette and Play Dead. * There is a commercial on American tv that is almost a total rip off of Joga. It is a tampon commercial (ob), and the beginning is just like the beginning of Joga. How the camera is spinning around her. * All Is Full Of Love was played on a commercial. This thing called Channel One news is like a teenager news cast i guess its suppose to make us care about stupid issues or something i don't know. But there was an anti-rasism thing. * (2002) There is a new TV series in the Netherlands. In the ads for the series they use the intro of Play Dead; the series is an ER-kind of soapserie about a hospital. [Thanks De Lytse Jehannes] * (2002) Gevalia Coffee commercial on Danish and Swedeish tv. There's a big poster inside an apartment of a young man who invites his neigbourgirl over for coffee. The poster is a blow up of a time out magazine cover with björk on the cover, it must be from one of the old issues (Click on picture for larger screengrabs). [Thanks to Shara & Lunargirl] * (2002) Bjork's song Alarm Call was sampled on Trio's commercial 'hot summer nights'. If anybody has ANY information, please Mail Me! Thanks.

PRINT References

* Bjork was mentioned in the independent "comic" STRANGERS IN PARADISE. It was a rather amusing cameo. Also there were other little mentions that included word-play using the titles of her songs. * DC/Vertigo's TRANSMETROPOLITAN #17 plugs The Sugarcubes: This occured in the January, 1999 issue of the DC/Vertigo comic TRANSMETROPOLITAN, (says "Four More Beers!" on the cover) Creator Warren Ellis in a box marked INSTRUCTIONS on the last page: "Your recommended reading for this moth is ET TU, BABE by Mark Leyner (Vintage, 1993-see quotation at the beginning of this letter column). The recommended CD is "The Sugarcubes: A Collection" by The Sugarcubes (1998), the recommended graphic novel is DEEP CITY by Carlos Sampaya and C. Solano Lopez (Catalan Communications 1986) and the recommended websites are two connected with possibly the last American visionary of this, the American century; the works of T. Casey Brennan , at http://www.fringeware.com/anathema/AR/mail.tcasey.html and http://www.geocities.com/Area51/3255/brennan2.html. Now go." Warren Ellis Frogg Manor, Cheshire and Southend August 1998 * [Thanks to Sally who posted this on BEP] In Dan Savage's book, "The Kid", he has a big fight with his boyfriend Terry because Terry insists on listening to Bjork in the car. It seems that Dan doesn't like Bjork too much. * Bjork appears twice in the comic series, Kingdom Come, by DC.  If you look closely at one of the illustrations, you can see the poster of Bjork's Debut on a wall.  Bjork is also shown cheering in an audience. * The James Herbert Book "Once..." contains a reference to Bjork. Click on the image to read it.