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TRAVELCOMMUNITY FOOD LITERATURE FILM
YOUR FREE COPY THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO LIFE, TRAVEL & ENTERTAINMENT IN ICELAND
× 2012
October 5
- November 8
Issue 16
Emotions run high
at Heart Park
We get our kicks
on Route 57
Where to get your
hangover grub + MORE
Sneak a peak at
Andri Snær Magnason’s
LoveStar
Watch one on a
stranger’s couch!
Complete
Reykjavík Listings
Lots of
cool events+ Download the FREE Grapevine Appy Hour app!Every happy hour in town in your pocket. Available on the App store and on Android Market.

TRAVELCOMMUNITY FOOD LITERATURE FILM
YOUR FREE COPY THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO LIFE, TRAVEL & ENTERTAINMENT IN ICELAND
× 2012
October 5
- November 8
Issue 16
Emotions run high
at Heart Park
We get our kicks
on Route 57
Where to get your
hangover grub + MORE
Sneak a peak at
Andri Snær Magnason’s
LoveStar
Watch one on a
stranger’s couch!
Complete
Reykjavík Listings
Lots of
cool events+ Download the FREE Grapevine Appy Hour app!Every happy hour in town in your pocket. Available on the App store and on Android Market.

TRAVELCOMMUNITY FOOD LITERATURE FILM
YOUR FREE COPY THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO LIFE, TRAVEL & ENTERTAINMENT IN ICELAND
× 2012
October 5
- November 8
Issue 16
Emotions run high
at Heart Park
We get our kicks
on Route 57
Where to get your
hangover grub + MORE
Sneak a peak at
Andri Snær Magnason’s
LoveStar
Watch one on a
stranger’s couch!
Complete
Reykjavík Listings
Lots of
cool events+ Download the FREE Grapevine Appy Hour app!Every happy hour in town in your pocket. Available on the App store and on Android Market.
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The Reykjavík Grapevine
Issue 16 — 2012
Editorial | Anna Andersen Music | Free
Aw yes folks, it’s that time of the year! This wonderful
month when Airwaves rolls around and we get to bring
you not one, not two, not three, but SIXTY-FIVE terrific
songs by some awesome Icelandic bands! And it makes
us happy to give it out and share these great songs!
If you’re flying over for the festival, we hope you’ll be
listening to this on the plane! And if you’re already in
town, blast it out of your boomboxes until October 31
rolls around.
The Grapevine’s Fancy Airwaves Compilation 2012!
Download for FREE at airwaves.grapevine.is
Whoops-a-daisy, I Fell Down!
…And other ways to get drunk in Iceland
Anna’s 17th Editorial
You’ve probably noticed it too. Icelanders
who go downtown after midnight on
a Thursday, Friday or Saturday night
tend to drink like college freshmen who
aim to become dead drunk. If you’re un-
aware, stay out until 3 AM or even 6 AM
and observe.
But while college freshmen talk about “getting
smashed,” “hammered,” “destroyed” or “wasted,”
which imply some kind of bodily harm or self-de-
struction, Icelanders use phrases that imply some-
thing a bit different.
Take for instance “að detta í það” and “að hrynja
í það,” or “to fall into it” and “to crash into it,” as
these phrases can be respectively translated. While
they imply a certain bodily harm, they also imply
accident: Whoops-a-daisy, I fell. Oops, I ran into it.
Even if you planned to do it, it’s like it’s really some-
how not your fault.
Many of these phrases are also pretty euphe-
mistic. For instance, there’s “að fara á túr” or “to
go on a journey,” which is also something ships
and women do. This is used to describe a serious
drinking stint that may go on for days and days. But
somehow it’s still okay. It’s a just a trip, you’ll be
back and it’ll be over.
And then there’s “að fá sér í tánna” which is lit-
erally “to have some in your toe,” and “að fá sér í
glas,” which is “to have a glass,” but who are you
kidding, you’re not about to have just a little bit or
one glass. You’re going to get drunk.
Whatever the origin of these terms, a
proponent of linguistic determinism
might conclude that they explain the
type of drinking that goes on here. And
maybe if they were changed or removed in
Orwellian fashion, we wouldn’t be sending
something like 10% of living males to treatment
at Iceland’s AA equivalent. Okay, now I’m only kid-
ding.
If anything, this stat is a measure of success
for SÁÁ, Iceland’s Center of Addiction Medicine,
which celebrates its 35-year anniversary the very
day this paper prints. But we won’t put a damper
on your fun with more talk of alcoholism. Go out
and enjoy Airwaves in all its greatness! As they say,
“When in Rome…”
Ten Ways To Get Drunk, the literal translations
Að detta í það – to fall into it
Að hrynja í það – to crash into it
Að liggja í því – to lay in it
Að fá sér í glas – to have a glass
Að fá sér í tána – to have some in your toe
Að fara á kenderí – to get intoxicated
Að fara út á lífið – to go out on the life
Að drekka sig fullan – to drink yourself full
Að fara á fyllirí – to get drunk
Að vera blautur – to be wet
What’s The Deal With
Those Crazy Icelandic
Letters Yo?
Here Is Your Kreisí Æcelandic Frase For Þis Issue!
ÞþÆæÖö
æ
ð
þ
We thought we’d explain. We’re ripping the idea off from
the Icelandair magazine. Go read that magazine if you
can. It’s free.
We like spelling things using Icelandic letters like
‘æ’ and ‘þ’ and also those crazy accents over the vowels.
Like Icelandair’s inflight magazine—IcelandairInfo—says,
the Icelandic language can use accents on all of the
vowels, making them look all unique, like this: á, é, í, ó,
ú, ö, ý (the accent also changes the pronounciation of
the letters. The á in “kjáni” sounds quite different from
the a in “asni”, for instance). We also have an additional
three letters. As IcealandairInfo notes:
(often written as ae) is pronounced like
the i in tide.
(often written as d) is pronounced like
the th in there
(often written as th) is pronounced like
the th in think”
“Afsakið, er þetta Hafnarfjörður? Ég ætlaði
að leita að álfum í álverinu.”
(Afs-ai-kith, err- thedd-a Havn-ar-fjorth-
ur? Ieg i-dla-thi ath lay-ta ath au-l-fum e
au-l-ver-inu)
Excuse me, is this Hafnarfjörður? I was go-
ing to go and look for elves in the aluminum
smelter.
LEGEND – City / BERNDSEN - Do You Remember / NOLO –
Passion / TILBURY – Tenderloin / BÁRUJÁRN – Þögn / SINDRI
ELDON - America, An Ode / OYAMA - Shade
SAYTAN – Shot / REYKJAVÍK! – Mountains / MORÐING-
JARNIR - Flóttinn mikli / JÓN ÞÓR – Tímavel / GANG RELAT-
ED – Dumb / JUST ANOTHER SNAKE CULT - Have You Seen
This Girl Anywhere? / BIGGI HILMARS - War Hero / VALGEIR
SIGURÐSSON - Big Reveal / BEN FROST – Hibakúsja / THE
HEAVY EXPERIENCE – Americana / AGENT FRESCO – Tempo
/ DIKTA - In Spite of Me / ÁRSTÍÐIR - Á meðan jörðin sefur /
ELÍZA NEWMAN - Out of Control / MY BUBBA & MI - Nothing
Much (That I Can Do) / NÓRA – Sporvagnar / FOR A MINOR
REFLECTION – Recite / NICO MUHLY - Part II Material in Sev-
enths / MIKAEL LIND – Thoork / SAM AMIDON - How Come
That Blood / GABRÍEL - Stjörnuhröp (feat. Opee & Valdimar
Guðmundsson) / ÚLFUR ÚLFUR - Föstudagurinn langi / INTRO
BEATS - Make It Hawt / QUADRUPLOS – Violator / FUTURE-
GRAPHER - Elísa (feat. Fu Kaisha) / GLUTEUS MAXIMUS
- Everlasting (with Högni Egilsson) / BOOGIE TROUBLE - Gin
og greip / OJBA RASTA – Sólstöður / FUNK THAT SHIT! – Lát-
laust / GOOD MOON DEER – Black / TROUBLE - Light Bearer
Morning Star / KIRA KIRA - Leave A Light On / BEN FROST &
DANÍEL BJARNASON - Cruel Miracles / LAY LOW – Helganga
/ MAGNÚS LEIFUR – Paperboy / VIGRI – Animals / MORNING
AFTER YOUTH – Lived / ENDLESS DARK – Creature / DIMMA
– Myrkraverk / NOISE - A Stab In The Dark / HINIR GUÐDÓM-
LEGU NEANDERDALSMENN - Tikk Takk / CROISZANTS
- Asa Isha / STRIGASKÓR NR. 42 – Armadillo / CELESTINE
- Black Witch / BENEATH - As Gods Walk The Earth / TWO
TICKETS TO JAPAN - Two Tickets to Japan / MOMENTUM -
Prosthetic Sea / MUCK - Here Comes The Man / VALDIMAR
– Sýn / MONOTOWN - Can Deny / HELLVAR - Stop That
Noise / MYRKÁ – Unborn / ÓLAFUR ARNALDS - Near Light
/ PUZZLE MUTESON - En Garde / YLJA - Á rauðum sandi /
ÚTIDÚR - Until Mourning / ÞOKA – Kveðja / 1860 - Go Forth
Fancy download instructions:
1) Download the mix in a snappy .zip folder or torrent at
airwaves.grapevine.is. It will be available for download
starting on October 22.
2) Unzip or open it and burn the tracks onto a bunch of
CDs or upload them to your mp3 player.
3) You can print out the cool cover we made with it too!
Ásgeir Trausti
Cover by: Döðlur
Photography: Magnus Andersen
Styling/art direction: Hrefna
Sigurðardóttir
Make up: Helga Karólína Karlsdóttir
Clothes: KronKron
Gísli Pálmi
Cover by: Döðlur
Photography: Magnus Andersen
Styling/art direction: Hrefna
Sigurðardóttir
Make up: Helga Karólína Karlsdóttir
Clothes: Noland
Sóley
Cover by: Döðlur
Photography: Magnus Andersen
Styling/art direction: Hrefna
Sigurðardóttir
Make up: Helga Karólína
Karlsdóttir
Clothes: KronKron
Skúli Sverrisson
Cover by: Döðlur
Photography: Magnus Andersen
Styling/art direction: Hrefna
Sigurðardóttir
Make up: Helga Karólína
Karlsdóttir
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