Icelandic Connection ~ Day In a Life
Have you seen the new trailer for ‘A day in a life’ the documentary project where people all over the globe documented their life on July 24, 2010. The project got over 80,000 submissions and 4,500 hours of footage from 192 countries. Directors Ridley Scott and Kevin Macdonald have been curating the material transforming into [...]
Icelandic Connection ~ Led Zeppelin
We went to Iceland, and it made you think of Vikings and big ships… and John Bonham’s stomach… and bang, there it was – Immigrant Song! ~ Robert Plant Hell to the yes! The Led Zeppelin classic ‘Immigrant song’ is about Iceland. On the 22. of July 1970 the legendary band played a concert in [...]
Icelandic Connection ~ Prince of Persia
Gisli Orn Gardarsson’s shows have been such critical successes, doing what is almost impossible in today’s multimedia society; attracting a new fashionable young audience to the theatre. And, with their continued following of fans, Vesturport, it seems, have helped flamboyant physical theatre one step nearer becoming mainstream entertainment. ~ BBC News Did you know the [...]
Icelandic Connection ~ Eternal Sunshine
You’re the man now, dog! Did you know the editor of Michel Gondry’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) was from Iceland? Her name is Valdís Óskarsdóttir and among movies she has edited are Vinterberg’s Festen (1998), Anders Thomas Jensen’s Mifunes sidste sang (1999), Gus Van Sant’s Finding Forrester (2000) (yeah the one with. [...]
Icelandic Connection – Leatherface
A fact known to all Icelanders but few in the rest of the world. Leatherface was played by an Icelandic actor, Gunnar Hansen. Yes the main baddie from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre hails from Iceland. Hansen is an Icelandic author and actor who since acting in a the cult favorite has been keeping him self [...]
Icelandic Connection – Steven Tobolowsky
Where the Icelandic medical system almost kills Steven Tobolowsky If you are a podcast listener and haven’t been listening to The Tobolowsky Files, you should. The character actor Steven Tobolowsky shares a series of short stories about life, love, and the entertainment industry on the podcast. Tobolowsky is probably most famous for his role as [...]
The Icelandic Connection
When I was younger in my drinking days I would spend a lot of time talking about my unified theory of the Icelandic Connection. Briefly it goes like this. Icelanders are not happy until they find an Icelandic Connection to any event or person in history… ever. No matter what comes up, Icelanders will go [...]
