Music makes you go "oooh oooh"

Hey,

check out this video by Sigur Ros. It's a dreamy, beautiful video that showcases Iceland, one of the most beautiful and ancient countries in the world. There's something about the land that freezes and boils at the same time, and the hardy group of survivors that call it home. Icelandic people are beautiful, mysterious and industrious. And they party like it's 1999 every freaking weekend.

I found this video via Ftrain.com, who says of the video:

“That's the Sophie's Choice of music videos. What you're seeing in that video is your grandparents going to heaven when they're kids. They escape all of the shit you heard about, like being beaten by the nuns or not being able to afford college, or having to tow a Dodge out of the mud with a mule. There was never that moment when you got the call, when you had to get someone to cover your college radio show, and you end up at some hospice where they leave you in the room alone with him, or her, for a few minutes and you have no idea what to say. Except you see that morphine drip and hear the gurgle in their throat and realize that pain is more complicated than carrying a black leather journal and a variety of colored pens. Twelve years later you're following links and there's some video from Iceland with elves singing and bells and children with perfect skin wearing the latest fashions of 1918, and your dead grandparents start running up that hill together. No polio or cardiac arrest and no car crashes or racism or halitosis. No wonder you're crying.”

Check it out here, then check out the Sigur Ros Myspace, especially the second track listed called Hljomalind.

Thoughts?

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I got my winter bike, my trusty Norco Bush Pilot tuned up for the first time in a very long time. It needed remarkably little done, however now the gears work and the brakes too. Lucky me! Last year I did the flintstones skid stopping method, which was fun at the tine but became harder when the snow went. So this year, I went legit with actual brakes. I know, I know, sellout! So now I have my winter bike ready, my cycling balaclava ready and my long johns ready.

Bring it, winter!

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Sigur Ros makes me want to move to Iceland. That is all for now.

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Take it easy everybody, talk to you soon?