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Breaks the Silence GusGus Breaks the Silence FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL The Tourist Quiz, What Type are You? • Esja - The First Ever Interview Full Schedule Taxes - as Certain as Death • The Grapevine visits the Faroe Islands Schedule Inside Inside Complete City Guide and Listings: Map, Info, Music, Arts and Events Issue 3 // 09 March - 12 April 2007 P_REYKJAVÍK_GRAPEVINE_ISSUE 03_YEAR 05_MARCH_09_APRIL_1 Articles The Reykjavík Grapevine crew 06 If No One Dares to Try, We Would Never Get Anything New The Reykjavík Grapevine An interview with editor Sigríður Dögg Auðunsdóttir Vesturgata 5, 101 Reykjavík www.grapevine.is 08 Honesty Doesn’t Pay [email protected] Consumer advice for foreign tax payers in Iceland Published by: Fröken ehf. 10 No Love for Porn! Editorial Office A column by Marvin Lee Dupree +354 540-3600 / [email protected] for inquiries regarding editorial content. 12 Nothing but the Word A column by Gabriele R. Guðbjartsson Marketing Office +354 540-3605 / [email protected] 14 What Kind of Tourist Are You? for inquiries regarding advertising, marketing, distribution Grapevine’s highly scientific personality quiz and subscriptions. 19 Prejudice or Paranoia? Publisher’s Office A column by Toshiki Toma +354 540-3601 / [email protected] for inquiries regarding this publication. 24 Esja, a New Peak in the Musical Landscape An Interview with Krummi and Daníel Ágúst The Reykjavík Grapevine Staff Publisher: Hilmar Steinn Grétarsson / [email protected] Editor: Sveinn Birkir Björnsson / [email protected] Features Assistant Editor: Steinunn Jakobsdóttir / [email protected] Marketing Director: Jón Trausti Sigurðarson / [email protected] 14 GusGus are Forever Support Manager: Oddur Óskar Kjartansson / [email protected] An Interview with Biggi Veira Art Director: Gunnar Þorvaldsson / [email protected] Photographer: Óskar Hallgrímsson / [email protected] Contributing writers: Haukur Magnússon / [email protected] Essentials Ian Watson Sales staff: Aðalsteinn Jörundsson / [email protected] 14 Grapevine Goes Shopping Jón Trausti Sigurðarson / [email protected] Distribution: Sæmundur Þ. Helgason / [email protected] Music & Nightlife Proofreader: Jane Victoria Appleton On cover: GusGus 18 CD Reviews Photo: Atli / www.dund.is Make-up: Sóley / emm 20 Uninspired Style & hair: Jón Atli ‘Hairdoctor’ Helgason Mínus and Incubus at Laugardalshöll Wardrobe: Liborious 21 Saint Simon Printed by: Prentsmiðja Morgunblaðsins printing press Emilie Simon at Háskólabíó # of copies: 30.101. 21 Good Show, Unfortunate Venue The Reykjavík Grapevine can be found in: Lisa Ekdahl at NASA Reykjavík, Akureyri, Egilsstaðir, Selfoss, Keflavík, Ísafjörður, Kárahnjúkar and at key locations around road #1 and at all major tourist attractions and tourist information Outside Reykjavík centres. Are you planning an event? Do you want to tell us something? 26 Remote and Isolated, yet Oddly Familiar Send a press release to: [email protected] Grapevine visits the Faroe Islands We are always looking for articles. Send your submissions to: [email protected] 28 Short Day Trip to the Snæfellsnes Peninsula Are you interested in working for the Reykjavík Grapevine (or the other way around)? If so contact: [email protected] Info. You may not like it, but at least it's not sponsored. (No articles in the Reykjavík Grapevine are pay-for articles. B01 Listings The opinions expressed are the writers’ own, not the advertisers’). B10 The Advanced Way to Experience Art The Reykjavík Grapevine is published 18 times a year by Fröken ltd. Monthly from November through April, and fortnightly from May til October. Nothing in this mag- B12 Food Reviews azine may be reproduced in whole or in part without the written permission of the publishers. Although the magazine has endeavoured to ensure that all information B13 Bezt í Heimi: Filippseyjar Grocery Store inside the magazine is correct, prices and details may be subject to change. B15 Aldrei fór ég suður: Now More Than Ever Subscribe to the Reykjavík Grapevine by visiting www.grapevine.is. Subscription inquiries: [email protected] and +354 540 3605. From the Editor’s Chair Welcome, dear reader, to the 54th issue of constructed between 1916 and 1917 after a era. From its metal foundation, rust drips the Reykjavík Grapevine. This might be our 1915 fire destroyed many wooden houses in constantly on to the angel’s face, down its lightest issue to date. Sometimes it just can- the surrounding area. Influenced by Art Nou- chin and throat, as if it had been chewing not be helped: things fall apart at the last veau and Danish Nationalist Romanticism, tobacco but lacked the proper skills to spit it minute, and all of a sudden you have a com- with curved lines, poles and marble stairs, out properly. pletely different paper on your hands. That the house is also decorated with statues by The audacity to treat our cultural heri- is not to say that this issue is any worse than the sculptor Einar Jónsson, one of Iceland’s tage with such little respect! This is nothing what had been planned. On the contrary. I most respected artists. It is, in every way, a short of cultural terrorism. While city officials am extremely proud of no. 54 and the peo- fine testimony to our cultural heritage. have been on a rampage, following kids with ple who put in the extra effort to make it If you still haven’t looked at the photo, spray cans around the city, no one seems to come together. you might think that I am simply describing a have given a second thought to ruining one On to other subjects. I would like to direct building. You would be wrong. On the cor- of the few truly historic landmarks in Reykja- your attention to a photo on page 30. It is a ner, just above the entrance to the restaurant vík. This is beyond belief and borders on the photo of a historic house on the corner of Apótekið is a statue, one of the many Einar ridiculous. Austurstræti and Pósthússtræti, one of the Jónsson designed for the building. It shows hallmarks of Reykjavík Centrum. Designed the figure of an angel looking up towards by Guðjón Samúelsson (1887-1950), Ice- the sky. But the angel’s view is obstructed. land’s most celebrated architect, the house Some genius decided that just above its head was the first “big” building to rise in Iceland, would be the perfect place for a CCTV cam- 0_RVK_GV_ISSUE 03_007_LETTERS REYKJAVÍK_GRAPEVINE_ISSUE 03_007_NEWS_05 Sour Grapes News in Brief Say your piece, voice your opinion, send your letters to [email protected]. Text by Haukur Magnússon, Steinunn Jakobsdóttir and Sveinn Birkir Björnsson An open letter to Páll Hilmarsson Dear Editor, an England + Iceland trip; I’ve been Pornographers To Convene ‘Liberals’ Reveal Link Between panies, Olíuverzlun Íslands and Skeljungur, that generate high pollution levels caused by I am from New York City working married too many times; and I just In Reykjavík Terrorism, Drug Trafficking will face countless charges from customers airborne micro dust particles stirred up by Dear sir, here temporarily in Iceland. I’ve moved back to Minnesota (which is Uncovering a story that has already en- The Icelandic Parliament saw some action wishing to recoup some of the money they traffic. how dare you state that mighty been coming here for years for both just digging out of the worst snow- raged Iceland’s feminist collective to an in February, as representatives of the Pro- lost during the companies’ reign of corrup- Health care limits in Reykjavík are set at BLACK-METAL is bad? fun and work. I arrived here in No- storms of the past five years or so) oft-reached boiling point, RÚV reported on gressive and Liberal parties argued heavily tion in the 90s. 50 micrograms per cubicmeter (ug/m3) in You obviously have no taste in vember. About a month later I was from California. February 15th that up to 150 veterans of the over the nature of terrorism. Spurred by MP 24-hours. On February 26th, pollution was - nor knowledge of - music. Either violently assaulted and landed in the Yes, prudish; prudent, no. international pornography industry were (and recent liberal addition) Valdimar Leó measured at 66,1 ug/m3. This was the fifth that or you are the world’s biggest hospital. planning to convene for a week of network- Friðriksson’s claims that infamous terrorists 73% Favour More Environmental time this year that pollution exceeded health sissypants square/lame excuse for Unfortunately, no bones were I’m enjoying the articles very much, ing and fun in Iceland in March. The annual had at times been apprehended at the Ke- Protection care limits. Reykjavík city is taking measures an anarchist. I demand that you broken (....or so I was told because Sue Cross convention was referred to as Snowgather- flavík International Airport, Keflavík police According to a recent Gallup Capacent poll, to reduce the number of days when pollu- resign from your post reviewing my case apparently would have ing and is apparently one of the largest ag- authorities stated that no known terrorists conducted for the Iceland Nature Conserva- tion exceeds health care limits, with the tar- records for the Grapevine. received attention). Here it is 2.5 Dear Susan, gregations of web-based porn-merchants had thus far been captured at the airport. In tion Association, roughly 73% of Icelanders get being no more than 23 days this year. And what the hell is wrong months later and the attacker (my The ideal blend of course, is a person in the world. response to the statement, Progressive MP believe that political parties should place with songs about Church burnings Icelandic ex-boyfriend) has not been that is neither prudish nor prudent. Accompanied by renowned artists such Guðjón Ólafur Jónsson called for Liberal MPs more focus on environmental protection. anyway? served with the court summons.
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