Reykjavík Grapevine - mar 2020, Qupperneq 40

L IF E , T R AV EL & EN T ER TA INMEN T IN ICEL A ND
Issue 03 # 2020
March 6th—March 19th
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LAST WORDS
Everything’s
Not Awesome
Words: Catharine Fulton
"The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part" has
been on heavy rotation in my home in recent
months. (If you haven't seen it, please go do
so now. I'll wait.) The kids and I practice our
brooding while I read them the news over
breakfast. The apples haven't fallen far from
the tree; "brood" is my default state.
In a wonderfully mature spin to the first
Lego flick, wherein the theme song espoused
that "everything is awesome," the characters
in the sequel find themselves in the "Bin of
Storajj" and break into a nihilistic little ditty
declaring that "everything's not awesome."
Truth.
Living in Reykjavík, that line cuts par-
ticularly deep these days.
Parents of preschool-aged children are
juggling work and caring for their own
spawn as the Efling union strike drags on.
Even in the cold, Laugavegur reeks of rot-
ting garbage and dog shit, as the City's out-
door workers are also on strike. The afore-
mentioned dog shit may or may not be in
the overflowing garbage bins... Icelanders
haven't shown themselves to be particularly
diligent in picking up after their pets.
Meanwhile, Bíó Paradís' closure draws
nearer by the day and I still haven't seen
'Parasite'. To top it off, it looks like rolling
strikes are soon hitting the liquor stores.
I'm pretty sure I read I need to drink 60%
alcohol at regular intervals throughout the
day to fend off the coronavirus that has
been taking the local news by storm, so I'm
screwed if the ATVR locks up.
As a loveable bunch of Danish figurines
so eloquently sing when the going gets
tough: everything's not awesome; things
can't be awesome all of the time; so pres-
sure Reykjavíkurborg to pay their workers a
decent wage, go see a movie, and wash your
fucking hands... I may be paraphrasing that
last part.
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