Reykjavík Grapevine - 19.05.2006, Síða 29

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ISSUE SIX: MAY 19 - JUNE 01
“Presumably, then,
writing: ‘I encourage
everyone to violently
overthrow the govern-
ment and then have a
delicious cigarette after-
wards’ is not allowed…”
Gunnar Hrafn Jónsson on the complexi-
ties of Icelandic law,
page 5.
“The hardest thing was
to be so angry, and yet
to be able to write a
constructive book, and
not get lost in name call-
ing, to keep my integrity,
although I was not really
impartial. The book is
created from a lot of an-
ger and the main reason
behind me writing it was
that I was angry.”
Andri Snær Magnason on his best-sell-
ing critical examination of Iceland’s
political structure, Draumalandið,
page 24.
“We want to hear our
alt-country butted up
against our dirty south
rap, and if we don’t, we
get bored—the genre-
faithful approach of
traditional radio is what
is rapidly killing it.”
Electric Lights on the Coachella Valley
Music Festival,
page 48.
“I had always imagined
rock climbing to be a
bit like those scenes in
the old Batman serials
with Adam West, where
he and Robin fired a
grappling hook into the
upper buttresses of a
building and climbed
steadily up while dis-
cussing their plans once
they’d reached the top.”
Sindri Eldon, moments before he real-
izes the difference between rock climb-
ing and comic book fantasizing,
page 50.
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