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The Future of Reykjavík Publisher: Hilmar Steinn Grétarsson / [email protected] Editor: Bart Cameron / [email protected] Marketing Director: Jón Trausti Sigurðarson / Essentials [email protected] Production Manager: Oddur Óskar Kjartansson / 27 Gay Pride Celebration [email protected] Art Direction: Hörður Kristbjörnsson / [email protected] 30 The Pond and Beyond Jóhannes Kjartansson / [email protected] Grapevine Picks for Museums and Galleries Staff Journalist: Paul Fontaine-Nikolov / [email protected] Editorial Intern: Sari Peltonen / [email protected] Night and Day: Two Very Different Approaches, 32 Advertising Sales: Aðalsteinn Jörundsson / [email protected] If Shirts Are Your Thing Helgi Þór Harðarson / [email protected] 33 Foreigner’s Guide to Vegetarian Eating Photographs: Hörður Sveinsson / [email protected] Guðmundur Freyr Vigfússon / [email protected] 34 Dining, Eating and Grubbing Charlie Strand / [email protected] Heidi Hartwig / [email protected] 35 Bezt Í Heimi Frímann Kjerúlf / [email protected] Hornið: The Chianti in Wicker Kind of Classy Proofreader: Erika Wolfe Distribution: Jóhann Páll Hreinsson Music & Nightlife Cover Photo by: Gunnar Hannesson (1915-1976) On cover: Reykjavík’s landmark church, Hallgrímskirkja, 40 Album Reviews being built somewhere between the years 1968 - 1976. Thanks to: Gunnar Egill Egilsson and Ingólfur Egilsson. 41 t.ATu: Good Music, Sleazy Origins Printed by: Ísafoldarprentsmiðja ehf. # of copies: 30.101 42 Pimp My Country Snoop Dogg, Hæsta hendin, Hjálmar, Forgotten Lores. Egilshöll Stadium, July 17 We are always looking for articles. Send your submissions to : [email protected] Arts & Culture 45 Cabaret at the Icelandic Opera You may not like it, but at least it's not sponsored. (No articles in the Reykjavík Grapevine are pay-for articles. 46 Come On, People. How Deep Do Your Cartoons Have to Be? The opinions expressed are the writers’ own, not the advertisers’.) Review of Madagascar 47 Shelved Books Worth a Second Look Outside Reykjavík 50 Snæfellsnes on a Budget 52 Grapevine on Tour: Festivals in Spain and the Faroe Islands Other 47 Technology Review: Things to Fear 48 The Violent Outburst of Graphic Design 54 The Nohito and Other Brennevín Cocktails LETTERS Complaints, criticism, suggestions, praise, money, anything at all: Contact [email protected] or send your mail to: The Reykjavík Grapevine, Hafnarstræti 15, 101 Reykjavík. RE: Fan Mail, really… medium, and I have been ecstatic to be Hi, Bart away from it. If you think it’s hard to We thoroughly enjoyed the last Back in January when I followed read dumb stuff, you have no idea how issue. I haven’t finished it all yet, Bart and Ed's tag team of idiocy, painful it is to write it. Or to have it but I especially liked Prof Hydrogen otherwise known as "Daily Life from quoted back to you. and the Puffin dude. As a Canadian, Iceland," I would often log on and The main reasons for the recent I can relate to such a superhero. think to myself, ok, what are Beavis success of the Grapevine have been the Naturally, we really liked reading and Butthead up to now. Not only support, and the forgiveness, of readers the editorial. We were preening for was the writing arrogant, cynical, like yourself, the support we’ve gotten days over it. One of our Icelandic and completely ethnocentric, but the from the community at large, and the acquaintances even recognized us, subject matter was downright boring hard work of the staff here, all of whom since we had mentioned to her days and mind-numbingly repetitive. have dealt with both my demands and before that we had stopped by your Plus, I wondered, how could these my haircuts admirably. office. Are you getting lots of fan two guys live in Reykjavik and have Regarding The Leaves… yeah, mail? Or just shit-hit-the-fan mail? such bad hair? Caring deeply about sorry about that. You’re not the only one And isn’t it more weird irrationality this sort of thing (that is, having to to complain about them. Mercifully, that I emailed you about my look at it), I was relieved to read that you wrote instead of grabbing me at a cartoons just before the issue came Bart recently had an appointment bar and screaming at me. I say to you out? It’s a vortex. at Rauðhetta & Úlfurinn. Now, what I said to Mr. Drunky Drunk on Is it merely a joke that you were once at least when I see his picture in Friday at Bar 11: A) There’s room in an avid (pun intended) bird watcher? the Grapevine, I’m spared his agro this world for pop. B) My standards ‘Cause I was, too. I’ve been a bunch grimace and the floppy, on live shows differ greatly from those of things, I think I told you, and Hugh-Grant-circa-1995 hair. Good on recorded material. C) Please stop bird watcher is one of them. I even move Bart. Anyway, my point is, in hitting me. banded for a summer, and kept a January I wasn’t Bart’s #1 fan, and For future letter-writers, please lifer list. I even, I can admit to you, that’s putting it mildly. I actually refrain from discussing the editor’s snuck up on several trees that were stopped reading Iceland Review hairstyle or testicles. squeaking in the wind. I had to all together for fear of cerebral finally promise myself never to do it implosion. Subject: Come thou divine mistake! again. Which reminds me: do you One can imagine my A poet’s guide to pretentious, know how to tell the front of a tree disappointment when I learned that inaccurate drivel. from the back of a tree? Of course Bart would become the editor of the you do. Everyone knows. Who Grapevine -- for that narrowed down Hi, would ever pee in front of a tree? my English reading options even Look, I dislike Árni Johnsen and further. However, I must admit that what he stands for as much as V I have been impressed with both the anyone else. But would it be too writing, and with the subject matter much to ask that the apparently We rarely print fan mail, but as you (and diversity) of the articles in the incredibly enlightened ‘Nyhil’ poets included a joke about bodily fluids, Grapevine during Bart’s tenure (yes, actually stick to the facts when they we’re making an exception. Regarding that’s a compliment). Perhaps it is pick themselves such an incredibly the Issue 9, The Puffinaire Issue, our because after living in Reykjavik for 7 obvious target to put down? cover artist, Tómas Þorbjörn Ómarsson months I have developed a cynicism Árni Johnsen was not released from may have done too good a job: tourists of my own. Or perhaps it is because jail to sing in the Westman Islands were seen ripping the cover off of the the Grapevine actually is a worthy during his stint in prison, although magazine for souvenirs and throwing news source (which is more than an appeal was made. Rather, a the rest into the garbage. We would some can say). Whatever the reason, helicopter carried a bitter letter from like to take a small amount of credit I have learned to appreciate the him to the festival planners, which for what we feel is a side effect of the editor’s position, writing, and point- was lowered onto a stage and read issue: one of our featured cartoonists, blank honesty. Hell, I half-expected to the crowd. It was a pretty surreal Hugleikur Dagsson, has started an to see him picking up a car battery moment and one that I would have English-language alternative comic with his nuts at the Jim Rose Sirkus. thought would have appealed to the magazine called Very Nice Comics, the While other Icelandic publications intellectual powerhouse responsible first issue of which is currently on sale. suffer from gross embellishment for the article in question. and misrepresentation (ever get the I understand the concept of feeling that things (nature aside) poetic license and all that, but this is in Iceland don’t live up to their simply sloppy journalism. If indeed reputation?), the Grapevine keeps it such an obviously hamfisted and real. So, Bart, my hat is off to you. biased tirade about ‘Us’ and ‘them’, Good job, ‘them’ being the great unwashed who seriously, on both the hair, and the have no appreciation for the finer Grapevine. arts such as, say, the ‘Nyhil’ poets, can be called journalism at all. J. Nebolini Ari Eldon and PS... Thank you for correcting this. I spoke with the writer. He explained that the Do you really think The Leaves are historical inaccuracy in his piece was, good?? I mean seriously, does the indeed, poetic license.