Reykjavík Grapevine - 15.08.2008, Qupperneq 40

“I remember that before the
’56 Olympics started, a fa-
mous journalist wrote that
Iceland shouldn’t send any-
one to the Olympics, as there
was no point to it because
there had been many previous
disappointments. ‘Why waste
all that money sending an
Icelander halfway across the
world?’”
Vilhjálmur Einarsson – “Silver Man” – remi-
nisces on winning Iceland its first Olympic
medal.
Page 16
“The piece itself will of course
rely on the condition of the
cadaver, the disease that
caused its current state and
my drive-force’s adaptability
to the piece,”
Artist Snorri Ásmundsson on his planned
“corpse art.”
Page 18
“Some days, your system starts
screaming for hamburger, and
it won’t let up until you satisfy
your savage craving for the
bloody ground meat of in-
nocent mammals topped with
delicious melted cheese, sand-
wiched in a moist bun.”
Haukur S Magnússon likes his burgers evil.
Page 12
“Many people name Pulp Fic-
tion as seminal movie. I think
that Wild at Heart is a lot
more seminal movie. For one
thing it came out earlier and
it combines all the elements
that were later crystallised
in Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp
Fiction.”
Icelandic film producer Sigurjón Sighvatsson
knows Hollywood.
Page 20
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