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• Sigur Ros, Heima

  Published: September 27, 2007, 5:23 pm

  Tags: Film, Music, Acoustic, Concert, Elves Shit, Heima, Iceland, Icelandic, Live Film, Sigur Ros, Whalesongs, Sigur, Backdrops, Stody, Olny, Spellbinding, Quantities, Folktales

  Sigur Ros’ Heima looks like Radiohead’s Meeting People is Easy, only way less misanthropic; or Pink Floyd’s Live at Pompeii, only less stodgy and with even better backdrops. The film chronicles Sigur Ros’ mostly unannounced 2006 Icelandic tour, where they set up instruments and played to the elves and trolls and shit. And

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• Russian folk tales are strange and compelling

  Published: September 30, 2007, 11:01 am

  Tags: Folk Tales, Folktales, Nursery Rhymes, Nurseryrhymes, Russian Folk Tales, Russianfolktales

  Filed under: Lifestyle, BooksAs you can see, my last name is odd and long. People who I've not met in person tend to think I'm Greek, then change their minds when they see me as "giant" and "blond" doesn't fit in with the whole Greek thing. My last name (which keeps phone solicitors far, far away from my phone, thank you Dad) is actually

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