Hey, I'm alive :)

I have this little thing crawling around all over the place now. He spent a week crying after getting himself stuck in a spiderman-like position and doing faceplants so we were worried that we wasn't going to crawl at all, just go straight to walking. But on sunday 2 weeks ago he just went wrooooom and hasn't stopped since, going ba ba ba/ga ga ga/ma ma ma along the way.

( Pictures )

I tried Kæst Skata at lunch. From what I gather that's stingray, a cartilaginous fish made edible by letting it rot until the uric acid breaks down into ammonia and softens the cartilage.
So yes, it's as bad as it sounds, and I can still feel the ammonia in my throat.

Some people love it, some people get ammonia poisoning symptoms ;þ

Hlynur is doing great btw, at five and a half months he's babbling ma ma ma when Kristín leaves the room, smiling pretty much constantly and his first tooth just surfaced :)

http://youarelistening.to/newyork

This is awesome. It plays random 'ambient' tagged songs from soundcloud to live police channel chatter from major cities.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdkGE5bItyE

I've heard the name but I don't know who Glenn Beck is, but combined with Godspeed You Black Emperor! every sentence has impact without a comprehended whole.

http://insomnia.ac/essays/contemporary_art/

Thanks modernism, you broke art?

So, the doctor was all done measuring stuff for the intern that sat in, and we were like - 'Aren't you even going to ask if we want to know' and he was like 'So, you want to peek into the package early?' and we were like 'Hells bells yeah'

( Are you as curious as we were? )

In other news, the photography course went great, everybody loved our pictures!
So, our last official course is over and the first meeting for the final assignment is on monday.

And the weekend has been nuts, I got called into work yesterday after I finished at school, stayed until 8pm putting up the new rental computers and then went in early today. We dumped the system pretty fast - Learning how the program works, ironing out the kinks and shovelling out every piece of equipment we had didn't go well together. And then the manager announced that he was keeping the slopes open until 5:30 instead of 4 ... My back could have smacked him over the head.

I'm in Reykjavik over christmas, living in my brother's basement room at dad's.

2 nights ago, when I turned off the light at 3am I was pretty damn freaked out when I turned around to crawl into bed and saw something omgwtf WHATISTHAT on the nightstand next to the bed ... turns out the cover of the paperback version of Chuck Palahniuk's Haunted glows in the dark, and I saw it upside down so the gasping face was even freakier ... it took me a moment to figure things out and tell myself 'yeah, it's just the face'. I read it when I bought it 2 years ago and I didn't figure this out until now ;þ

So, last night when I picked it up I started looking at the first few pages looking for more surprises and noticed 2 black pages at the beginning had faded white ink, 'ALL STORIES ARE GHOSTS' covering the whole page. The ink had kinda transferred between the two pages, so I checked if the ink glowed or something. It didn't, but when I put the page up to the lamp I noticed that there were some etchings in the right hand page and the left hand page was raised ... Something was written on the title page. So, I flipped the page and found a signature from the author and started thinking, woah, it can't be! It must be a print or a stamp or something. I've been looking at it and there's slight bleed from some of the lines, and ink on the opposite page, plus that you can see the embedding 2-3 pages down so it's pretty certain that someone wrote that with a pen.

Now, if I was anywhere else in the world I wouldn't be surprised, authors sign bookstore copies if they are promoting the book, but how the hell does a hand-signed copy find it's way into Eymundsson's paperback section! I checked amazon's preview, and the title page doesn't have a signature, and this wasn't a used copy.

Man, this is one chain of unlikely discoveries and I would have found out if I hadn't been freaked out by the cover :)

Holy shit, 2010 is almost over! Less than a month left before I have to learn how to write the date properly. After 10 years of writing 2-oo-X I've been getting away with writing 2010 as 2-oo and then adding the 1 between the zeros ;þ

My favourite albums of 2010, in no particular order:
(There's a bunch more music I liked but didn't get into as whole)

How to Destroy Angels - How to Destroy Angels EP
Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
DJ Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse - Dark Night of the Soul
Gil-Scott Heron - I'm new here
Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles (II)
El Trio de Omar Rodriguez Lopez - Ciencia de los Inuiles
Holy Fuck - Latin

2009 albums that I found late:
Mumford and Sons - Sigh no more
Patrick Watson - Wooden Arms

Soundtracks:
Scott Pilgrim vs The World
Repo Men

And then there's Die Antwoord - $O$ ofc

Singles, all around:
Nick Cave - Abbatoir Blues
Earth (Feat. Kurt Cobain ) - Divine and Bright
deadmau5 - Raise your weapon + 1 trick pony
Massive Attack - Paradise Circus
Hypothermia - Skogens hjärta
+ a whole bunch more of Nick Cave and Tom Waits

I'm sure that I'm forgetting a bunch though ;þ

"Jacques Ellul observes in Propaganda: When dialogue begins, propaganda ends. His theme, that propaganda is not this or that ideology but rather the action and coexistence of all media at once, explains why propaganda is environmental and invisible. The total life of any culture tends to be "propaganda", for this reason. It blankets perception and supresses awareness, making the counter environments created by the artist indispensable to survival and freedom"
- Marshall McLuhan (From Cliché to Archetype, 1970)

*snort*

Best song, best movie evarr.

http://ridethetempo.com/2010/09/15/listendownload-deadmau5-raise-your-weapons/

Stuck on repeat for a week now. Good stuff.