Went down to the opening of the bookstore below the cafe today. Quite a fun event. Shot a lot of video of but, duh! I had the camera in portrait rather than landscape orientation. OOps. If I can’t rotate it, you’re going to get the video wrong side up. (Ah! Quicktime Pro can do this, [...]
Read more →Gus Gus video showing – well, see the club at the end with the semi-circular bar? That’s where I saw Bloodgroup last night. One way of conceptualizing this place is that it’s 170,000 people. Subtract those who’ve left the scene, and you’re left with a musically / artistically active population around that of Burning Man [...]
Read more →Sirkus (their website seems to be down) is a nifty little bar. I saw a set there tonight which, as the invaluable Inside Reykjavik predicts, I may simply never know the name of because the band was either known to everybody in the bar – personally – or just never announced their name in English [...]
Read more →from Hressingarskálinn (aka Hresso).
Read more →So I’m now officially looking for work in Iceland. I’m still not sure of how long I’m going to stay – I’ve rented a place, so it’s measured in “months” but the question is “months… or years?” So far the environment is appealing. Butt-cold but not much worse than New York, and certainly nothing compared [...]
Read more →I live fairly near the top left hand corner of the red rectangle that marks the city center.
Read more →I’ll start blogging again. Dammit. So here’s the basic scoop. I’m in Iceland. I don’t know why I chose Iceland rather than, say, the South of France, but on arrival I recognized the place as somewhere that I could call home for a while or maybe a lifetime because there’s an energy here that’s very [...]
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