Reykjavík Grapevine - 26.08.2016, Side 64

L I F E , T R AV E L & E N T E R TA I N M E N T I N I C E L A N D
Issue 13 × 2016
August 26 - Sept. 8
www.grapevine.is
Easel Like
Sunday
Morning
I missed the last bus home
on a Saturday night and
unconsciously decided to
stay until closing time in
a well-know bar in down-
town Reykjavik. A few sec-
onds before I was thrown
out I managed to buy beers
and then agreed to follow
a pack of strangers to a
small apartment in Vesturbær.
We sat down, and I chained-smoked while
the homeowner started to play cheesy 90s
dance music. One of his friends bought an ac-
count on Tinder so he could super-like every girl
there and ask them to join us. No response.
Then someone else showed up at the apartment.
He wore a t-shirt, had dry-mouth and a clenched
jaw. Asked where all the girls where. Told us he
had been practising the last twelve months an
easy way to pick up girls.
“The last twelve months I was in prison”—
which could have been a metaphor, since he
then spent a lot of time discussing how ev-
erything was fucked. How the repetitiveness
of downtown partying was like a prison, how
working was like a prison, how normal life was
like a prison, how much prison was like a pris-
on. “… but the last twelve months I managed to
learn to paint. I am really good now. It will blow
everyone's mind.”
He then walked around the apartment and
asked everyone a few times if they could get
him an easel so he could show off his skills. One
person said he could maybe get him one but he
lived far away. They discussed for a while who
would pay the taxi and how much he would pay
it, but they reached no agreement.
The guy then decided to walk around the
apartment to try to find any loose object he
could use to make an easel. He had a loud argu-
ment with the homeowner about the speaker
cabinet, which he was convinced he could easily
use to build himself one right there and then.
The homeowner did not want to part with his
cabinet even though the ex-con's art would
probably have blown his mind.
I sat down and decided to enjoy the scenario.
I had already ruined the day by drinking and
smoking too much. But alas, he never managed
to show off his skills before I left home with the
first bus in the morning.
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