Thanks to someone who posted the video to YouTube with Bulgarian and English subtitles, here are the lyrics to 'Vithrar Vel Til Loftárása'.  One of these days, I'll find out how to make the Icelandic 'th' letter on my computer.

Oh, and in other news, Jónsi, the lead singer, is gay.  Yes!  A cute celebrity crush who might actually respond favourably ( Read more... )

I just found this last night, and while it's not a happy one, it's preferable to that c**t with the guitar.  Sigur Rós, 'Vithrar Vel Til Lóftárasa'.

about this?

And should I contact MySpace to ask them to consider whether it should be on their site at all?

Ha!

You know, sometimes you happen upon a book about which you have heard a lot, and it has an effect on you which you could not have imagined.

There's a small lending library of non-academic, non-Gaelic books at the college here, and I saw that Northern Lights by Philip Pullman was one of them.  It's the first part of the His Dark Materials trilogy, ( Read more... )

How about testing 'the West's' tolerance for idiocy?  Those cartoons, as offensive as they may have been, did not kill six million people (not just Jews).  I cannot believe that they intend this event to be taken seriously.

Sarah: Girls rule, right?

Me: Actually, I beg to differ. Guys are much hotter.

And this is good.  I'm a big fan of dollar coins, and coins in general.

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The wind sounds like an Orange band warming up for a march through central Glasgow, complete with percussion: the sporadic hail.  We even had a bit of thunder, but I'm not going to say what that symbolised.  Walking back to my room in a Highland hailstorm is not fun, though.

A friend e-mailed me this link yesterday.  I'm not a huge Star Wars fan, but-- just proving that my mind is always on the important things-- who else thinks that Mark Hamill (Luke) looks incredibly hot in the opening shot?