Reykjavík Grapevine - 28.08.2010, Blaðsíða 48

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Radisson Blu · Hagatorg, 107 Reykjavík
Hotel Loftleiðir · Hlíðarfótur, 101 Reykjavík
BSI Bus Terminal · Vatnsmýrarvegur 10, 101 Reykjavík
IÐA Bookstore · Lækjargata 2a, 2nd floor, 101 Reykjavík
Skarfabakki · Cruise Liner Visitor Centre, 104 Reykjavík
STUFFED WITH STUFF ISSUE 13 YOUR FREE COPY
YOUR ESSEnTIal gUIDE TO lIFE, TRavEl
anD EnTERTaInmEnT In ICElanD
PAGE 12
“Guðrún Ebba specifically spoke up about
the abuse she suffered at the hands of her
father, and she wasn't alone. Several other
women have since come forward, saying
that they were also molested by Ólafur, and
that they reported this to church officials,
but they were told to stay quiet. The church
never reported the matter to the police.”
The National Church is facing up to attitudes
about sex abuse, Paul Nikolov reports.
PAGE 30
“What if, while I’m in there, the world really
breaks apart? Or, if the continental plates
can drift apart, what if they decide to move
back together again? What will happen
if I sink, will I end up in the centre of the
earth?”
Snorkelling the continental rift gives doubt to our
newest intern Wiebke Wolter.
PAGE 14
“Iceland does not have the option to spend
its way out of the crisis. During the former
right wing governments, in place for 17
years, the tax burden of the highest earn-
ers was relieved. The idea of taxes being
redistributive had almost been abandoned.
But now affluent people are being taxed
more heavily and levies on alcohol have
gone through the roof. Even if the govern-
ment wanted to it might not be able to
afford to buy Magma's stake in HS Orka.”
The future is powerfully uncertain, according to
Egill Helghason, and we are all fucked if we know
what to do.
PAGE 27
“The road unfolds endless, cold and
hard. It’s as if I’m swallowing it whole as
it disappears under the hood. Ennui and
impatience in a tug-of-war. I’ve had it with
this. The never-ending nights and the
crawling days. The wealth of drunken idiots
and dearth of business. This trade breeds
bitterness.”
Travis Bickler needs a hug. Bad.
PAGE 32
“I feel the call of the wild as I launch into
a moshpit that contains... err... two other
people. Everyone else is just standing there
in their posed nonchalance and won t́ take
part in the fun. I’ve said this before and I’ll
say it again: when it comes to hardcore
music, Icelandic crowds are pussies.”
Are metal fans too afraid of Bob Cluness to mosh
with him?
PAGE 33
“It is we who select the meaning that we
give to our experiences, we all have an op-
portunity to take what happens to us and
make the best of it, or the worst of it, we all
have a choice. That is, are you unlucky you
got into an accident or lucky to be alive?”
Our resident therapist Paola Sála helps us lighten
the fuck up.