Mad props to Sigur Rós, who went out and made a video with a bunch of nekkid people running around in the woods and got it banned on You Tube. Score! Cuz, you know, getting a vid banned on You Tube must be a pretty stellar accomplishment, considering all the millions of videos that pass through there on a daily basis that I’m betting are not all rated G. Which of course begs the question why can they make pornographic [note conscious decision to omit 'semi-' prefix] videos of naked girls dancing around and shaking their butt in your face and making like they’re getting themselves off and not get THAT banned on You Tube, but when Sigur Rós makes a perfectly innocent little ditty with folks running around in the buff and just generally having a fun time, the moral majority is all MAYDAY! MAYDAY! MAYDAY!
Anyway, here’s the link, but if you decide to click on it make sure you’re 18 or your BRAIN MAY EXPLODE from seeing somebody’s willie!
MEANWHILE, WE’VE HAD WIND
And plenty of it, too. It was beautifully sunny yesterday and relatively warm [highs of around 15C] which made the gusts somewhat bearable. I went out for some fresh air around noon and took my camera with me, so I’ve uploaded a few more rotating images, and a few more pics to my photostream. This morning it it looked about ready to pour, but the dark clouds have passed us by for now. Instead we have cloudy skies and still that pesky wind - the forecast is for BOTH rain and sun, so we’ll see. Right now 12°C [54F], sunrise was at 3.13 am and sunset due for 11.41 pm.
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Sigur Rós were kind enough to e-mail me a link to their video (and a nice big image of their buttful album cover) along with the info about pre-ordering their new album. I love those guys. Naked butts in my e-mail rather cheered me up, personally.
What a travesty! Their new video is beautiful, and I too was fortunate enough to have the link to the band’s website sent to me. Beautiful song.
p.s. I love your blog.
You aren’t in the video, are you?
Nothing to do with Sigur Ros.
I had a look at your pics and saw the poppy and thought (wrongly) that it was the Welsh poppy, had to have a look in my Icelandic wildlife guide and say that it is the Arctic poppy!
And your daughter is beautiful!
And shame about the bear.
had to watch the sigur ros video a couple of times. i was so entranced by all the ‘free willy’, i couldn’t stop smiling! it’s a totally happy and innocent video. those boneheads at youtube are so jaded when it comes to stupid webcam junk and mostly nekkid bumpin’ and grindin’. they are finding prurient interest in something they don’t get to see very often…non-exploitative joy and love. bravo to sigur ros!
ps. see their dvd “heim”. painfully beautiful!
Valerie - I’m sure naked butts would cheer me up too. It would make a nice change from Viagra ads.
Jessie - hi and welcome and thank you!
Joe - I am, but you have to guess which one is me.
mary - yes, yes and yes!
Doug - Free Wille! Priceless!!
Wow. I can’t believe that was banned. Perfectly innocent and not a bit pornographic. I love that some of them are wearing Wellington boots–very sensible.
Also, what an absolutely gorgeous forest? I hope people aren’t too distracted by the nudity to take in how idyllic the setting is. I wonder where it is?
Rozanne - yes, I wondered the same thing about the forest. I can only tell you that it’s not in Iceland. It reminded me of Canada a bit, but I’m more inclined to think it’s Norway or Finland.
crazy - innit - what drives me mad is that our society seems to have no issue with depictions of violence - but nudity - even if not salacious - is deemed to be outrageous….