Reykjavík Grapevine - 08.11.2019, Blaðsíða 6

Is vodka not doing it for
you anymore? Feel like your
blackouts should be at least
ten hours longer?
Well, Icelanders found
the solution. “Landi,” or “The
fellow countrymen,” as is
its direct translation, is the
roughest moonshine you’ll
find in Northern Europe.
Landi is transparent,
smells like turpentine, and
varies in strength from 31%
to 55%. The liquor is home-
made and is most famous
for being incredibly popular
with kids from 12 to 19 years
old in the 90s when it was
hard to get alcohol legally.
The best thing about that
time was that the bottles of
hooch were delivered to the
customer by some shady
dude in a pimped-out old car.
Talk about service.
There are countless horror
stories about Landi. The most
famous one being that kids
would go blind from drinking
it. While this was somewhat
of an urban myth, if you give
the drink a taste, it’s not that
implausible. It really tastes
like something that should
not be consumed.
So, what are the e!ects?
Glad that you asked. It’s
pretty much a given that you
will throw up. If you don’t,
consider joining a circus to
show o! that iron stomach.
When you’re through half
of the bottle, one or all of
the following will definitely
happen: You will get into a
fight. You won’t remember it.
You will throw up. The police
will arrest you, and you will
get into a fistfight with them,
too. Then you’ll go blind. You
will wake up two days later
feeling miserable, and your
hangover will have a hang-
over.
So contact your local drug
dealer, they probably have
Landi. Enjoy. VG La
nd
i
A new budget airline was formally
announced earlier this week. Called
simply “Play”, it hopes to fill the gap
left behind by the collapse of WOW Air
last March, with plans to fly to Europe
and North America as early as next
spring. To kick things off, they intend
to have a 1,000-ticket giveaway this
month and announced that they are
now hiring.
Wait, what happened
to WAB Air?
The director of Play is Arnar Már
Magnússon, who used to be the direc-
tor of flights for WOW Air. At a press
conference held at Perlan last Tuesday,
he revealed that Play is more or less the
final form of WAB Air. And that WAB is
an acronym, for “we are back”.
Arnar also took pains to emphasise
that the financing for Play absolutely
is not coming from Simon Whittley-
Ryan, the son-in-law of one of the
founders of Ryan Air. Rather, a large
part of the financing is coming from
a British investment fund, without
going into further details. In fact, 80%
of Play’s funding is from abroad.

Hang on, wasn’t WOW Air
coming back?
Michele Ballarin, the president and
CEO of private military company Select
Armor Inc. and who also operates
Cambridge Wealth Management Ltd.,
had designs on resurrecting WOW Air
by mid-October. That did not come to
pass, for a variety of logistical reasons,
we are told.
However, in late October it was
announced that WOW Air would be up
and running again in just a few weeks,
but with a twist: the airline will be
strictly for transport; not commercial
passengers.
If you’re confused, don’t worry. You
have every right to be. We’re confused
by this, too, but also inured to it. After
all, you can only hear so many gran-
diose announcements of returning
success before you adopt an “I’ll believe
it when I see it” stance to manage your
expectations.
Play It A!ain, Arnar
What exactly is "oin" on with airlines in Iceland?
Words:
Andie Fontaine

Photo:
Provided by Play
First 6 The Reykjavík GrapevineIssue 20— 2019
FOOD OF ICELAND
NEWS
A new reality, or yet another pipe drean?

TV GODDESS

Seinfeld
Revisited

Where’s the remote? Ah, nevermind
here it is. Bleugh, why do I feel like
I’ve seen everything worth watch-
ing on Netflix. Seen it, seen it, bor-
ing, too depressing, too stupid. I’ll
just find something else to do...
what the hell? Amazon Prime? Hey
Árni, since when do we have an
Amazon Prime subscription? Thank
you, wonderful supplier of TV.
Ooh, they have Seinfeld! I haven’t
seen this in years. Hellooo, tra la
la. Oh, yes, Jerry’s hair. Still awful.
His ”women are from Venus, Men
are from Mars” stand-up routine is
even less funny than it was in the
‘90s but I can’t completely hate it
because I love him like he’s my un-
cle.
There’s Kramer, I hope he’s had
some therapy since his career
passed away in a violent manner.
Whatever happened to Jason
Alexander? I better google him.
Hmmm, I’m taller than he is. Haha,
I’m never taller than anyone. I’ve
also never heard of any of these
movies he’s been in since he
stopped being George. That’s a
shame.
Elaine! I still want to be you. Look
at all that hair. She’s the funniest. Or
maybe George…
Newman! I had forgotten about
you, you little rascal. This is still the
best sitcom ever made.
Nothing will be better than Sein-
feld. Perhaps I would have been a
better person if I hadn’t watched
it but I don’t have any regrets. I’m
probably older than all of them
now. That’s an awful feeling. Why
does everything have to remind me
about death?
Words: Lóa Hjálmt"sdóttir
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