Reykjavík Grapevine - 25.08.2006, Blaðsíða 29

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REYKJAVÍK´S
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ISSUE THIRTEEN: AUGUST 25 - SEpTEmbER 8
“There was this American
couple looking through my
book and they said, ‘You
have a lot of incest jokes in
this book.’ I just said I was
from Iceland. They just said,
‘Of course.’”
Hugleikur Dagsson deals with his new
international following.
Page 12.
“One of Reykjavík’s better
aspects, like Airwaves has
shown us in the past, is that
if no one else is willing to,
you can just do things your-
self.” Social Democratic Councilman
Stefán Jón Hafstein, demonstrating the
logic that lost his party their governing
position, in his explanation of why the
city shouldn’t worry about losing its rock
venues.
Page 24.
“He continued by telling the
girls in the audience they
were all virgins again for the
night. With no husbands,
boyfriends or fiancés, they
were told they were also
all very single and about to
witness something they had
never seen before.”
Steinunn Jakobsdóttir preparing to get
wowed at a Chippendales performance.
Page 36.
“Welcome horse enthusiasts
and, well, Jesus, this is just
like a David Lynch film.”
Ragnar Kjartans of Trabant, speaking to a
befuddled country crowd.
Page 40.
“Soulless, technically shiny
scale-driven garbage, Mez-
zoforte actually sounds like
music written for robots, by
robots. Satanic paedophile
robots. In hell. The only posi-
tive thing about the whole
spectacle was that it was
kind of decadent, in a subur-
ban way…”
Haukur Magnússon evaluates Iceland’s
most revered jazz fusion band at Mennin-
garnótt.
Page 46.
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