Reykjavík Grapevine - 25.09.2009, Síða 40

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paGe 22:
Convicted embezzler-slash-MP
Árni Johnsen plays the guitar in
the middle of the public. Eve-
ryone is peeing everywhere. A
giant ram runs by me, one of
his has horns ripped off and it’s
gushing blood all over his left
side. I get really drunk and lose
track of time.
Rebecca Louder experiences the rounding
up of sheep, Icelandic-style.
paGe 14:
Look, under communism, there
was this ideological pressure.
In America, that doesn’t exist
at all. But there is a commercial
pressure. Whoever puts money
in the film wants money back. I
prefer commercial pressure, it is
up to the audience whether they
like it or not. With ideological
pressure, you are at the mercy
of some ideologue.
Valur Gunnarsson flies over the cuckoo’s
nest with Milos Forman.
paGe 6:
The resources for survivors of
sexual violence are financially
starved. The main counselling
centre in Iceland, Stígamót,
often struggles to make ends
meet. The Rape Crisis Clinic
had to fire all of their specially
trained nurses this spring due to
cutbacks. More so, law reforms
are sorely needed.
Sex crimes are a big problem in Iceland.
Þórdís Elva Þorvaldsdóttir has researched
them extensively, and she wrote a book
detailing her findings.
paGe 26:
The sentence is a ridiculous
rhetorical filler. We do this to
understand each other, to con-
vey information, give orders, ask
for favours. To some, thought is
practically unthinkable (!) with-
out language. If there is no word
for mother, then there is no
mother—or, at the very least, no
mother to speak of.
Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl speaks like a God.
paGe 20:
Those groups make up around
600 people, which is a good
base to start the party. Then
you have all these crazy foreign-
ers coming in, looking for some
good music, and it just explodes!
Airwaves is coming! Airwaves is coming!