May Media Madness - Icelandic Style
Our frigid May (another 15 inches of snow in parts of Minnesota and Wisconsin yesterday) has been redeemed by a flurry of Iceland-related media. Of Monsters and Men, the double-platinum Icelandic rock group, will perform on SNL tonight. On May 19th, The Simpsons season finale will take place in Iceland—with Sigur Rós supplying the musical soundtrack!
On a less frivolous note, yesterday I received a DVD copy of Anti-American wins ’55 Nobel Prize, a documentary by Halldór Thorgeirsson. It is a fascinating look at the life of Halldór Laxness and the controversies which followed him throughout his career. Many thanks to Chay Lemoine, Laxness scholar and contributor to the Laxness in Translation website, for sending this my way. I'll be posting more about this Doc in the near future.
UPDATE: The electrons weren’t even dry on this post when I learned that Samaris, my favorite teen-age Techno/Goth combo, has been signed to One Little Indian (Björk’s label) with an album due out soon.
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Jono said...
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I'd Rather Be in Iceland said...
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Professor Batty said...
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Our somewhat secluded little gem of a country is going global. A secret like that can't be kept for long. Maybe the world is ready to learn something.
It's weird how when things happen they seem to happen all at once! Enjoy!
Jono ~ will Iceland suffer from a "Simpson's jinx?"
IRBII ~ more's the merrier!
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