These days I wake up at seven to cook breakfast for me and my daughter. After she has gone to school I go back to bed with my latte and laptop, turn on the radio and enjoy not having to rush off to work.
This morning I read a very funny article in one of the local newspapers, about a certain editor of an Icelandic magazine, who has been receiving threats after he published a cat recipe. One of the emails he got contained a recipe for an infant goulash! The lady who wrote it said that since he had already shown such bad taste by the cat recipe, he should publish the infant recipe as well…
Have people no sense of humour?
Anyway, here are two videos for you videophiles, from Austin, City Limits Festival, September 14. The first one was taken backstage just before walking on stage. The second one was taken half a minute later.
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October 9th, 2007 at 11:22 am
Great videos! Every one seem so serious!
The guy with red hair is the tour producer right? Is he “the boss” during the tour? He seems to direct everybody. That must be a very stressful job… isn’t it?
How does he cook his cat? I once ate some meat called “rabbit” in a french cheap restaurant, and my aunt, who lived in China for a few years, told me it was some cat. The taste is very similar. The cat taste a little bit “older” than real rabbit!
Some people have the same reaction than this lady when you cook… horse meat! Maybe this lady has only cats as company in her life… Maybe she once thought of eating one, and reading this article woke some pulsion up, and she couldn’t accept that, because she went hungry while caressing her little cat. A cat owner that doesn’t get hungry watching his cats has no worry by reading a cat recipe… no?
October 9th, 2007 at 11:56 am
Think to make some in South America, Jonas.
Samba+Wanderlust= Sambalust !
Cheers,
Romain
October 9th, 2007 at 12:59 pm
hello jonas. is it true that björk is going to be in colombia next november 17th? they’re already selling tickets but i haven’t seen the show announced in your website.
October 9th, 2007 at 1:41 pm
wow wow wow thoses videos are really exciting ! it’s the first time i enter so far the middle of the action.
i guess you might feel different every nights but … i cannot stop wondering if, at some point, for example for the shows, if you or the other musicians were afraid of playing in front of such a large audience ?
October 9th, 2007 at 4:09 pm
He should be friends with Jonathan Swift…
October 9th, 2007 at 4:26 pm
Well, Icelanders eat the strangest things, I’ve seen (and smelled!) it myself…
October 10th, 2007 at 1:06 am
These are great Jonas ! I love the shots before you go on stage. Maybe you can get one sometime of right when the show is over and show the comparison…..Going on all pumped and excited and coming off all sweaty and wild lol.
It would be fun to see everyone on the bus too.
Won’t it be strange when the tour is over and everyone has to resume their regular lives like us! I wonder if anyone is already feeling a little bummed about that or maybe happy to get back to normal?
Wouldn’t it be fun if Bjork had a contest for the true blues where whoever wins gets to work the tour for a week or two? God I know I would love that.
Thanks for sharing your memories with us.
Kayleigh
October 10th, 2007 at 1:07 am
ILOVEIT!!!ILOVEIT!!!ILOVEIT!!! Thankyou so much for the new videos! Tell Peter van der Velde that I love his hair.
October 10th, 2007 at 1:44 am
Kayleigh, I remember when Depeche Mode ran a contest like that. Select fans got to go on tour with them for a little while. They videotaped them going on the road together. It was made it into a movie called “101″.
October 10th, 2007 at 2:37 am
Well let’s go for 102!!
~K
October 10th, 2007 at 3:14 am
I LOVE these videos! If i were one of you, id feel like im about to explode before going on stage.. im sure you can feel the desperation and energy coming from the audience!
October 10th, 2007 at 6:06 am
last week, I heard something on Terry Gross’ Fresh Air. Some guy who goes all over the world eating outrageous food, and then wrote some book. I forget the title of the book. But he talked about spicy food he found in the American south, and he talked about eating baby eels in England, and eating dog in Korea. He had dog soup. He said it was a good broth, but then half way through the meal, the air conditioning changed, and he got a draft from the back kitchen, and it smelled like wet dog, and it just brought back too many memories of having a dog as a pet, and the way that wet dog smells. so he couldn’t finish his meal. yeah, that story sort of stuck in my mind. Because apparently, most of the younger generation frowns upon eating dog, in Korea. They find it just as brutal as any westerner. But it’s true that we’re sort of hypocrits in the west, acting like we are so much better with our farmed pigs and chickens. …pigs are really smart, too. And we treat them like shit, for massed produced meats.
October 10th, 2007 at 8:35 am
jmmva, i had great laugh reading your comment! And what you say is true. Pigs are smart! They should raise their flag and declare independence. Damn humans…
October 10th, 2007 at 9:29 am
Well Mihfoly, sometimes when I look around I think they’ve already did that! They’re living among us…
October 10th, 2007 at 3:45 pm
I love the videos!!! IF only we could get a compilation of all of Jonas’ “behind the scenes” clips, I’d buy it!!
October 10th, 2007 at 4:27 pm
Hermit_style, maybe some day Damian can videotape Jonas’ grand entrance!
October 11th, 2007 at 8:23 pm
And did you know there are several recipes on placenta?!
I swear! Like placenta-cocktail and placenta-pie!
October 12th, 2007 at 2:04 am
Now that is just sick! But not as sick as the alligator sperm recipe I found lolololol.
-K
October 13th, 2007 at 8:27 am
yeah, don’t people in iceland pee on puffin, and then bury it and then let it rot for a year and then charge tourists a lot of money to taste it, and then call it a delicacy or something? yeah, you guys definitely have a sense of humor over there, getting the gullible tourists to eat something you pissed on and buried in the frozen earth to ferment. wish we could figure something like that out here in San Francisco. …I don’t eat our sourdough french-bread or our ghiradelli chocolate. …both supposedly from here. But I guess the tourists buy it and think it’s unique. if only we could piss on it, bury it in the sand and then get a tourist to think it was delicacy.
October 13th, 2007 at 11:51 am
jmmva, nope
They say that about fermented skate, but it’s really not done that way at all. Sorry to disappoint you.
The cat recipe was basically: One cat, skinned, sliced and served, I think. Didn’t see it myself, though. Pretty obviously not a serious recipe. I’ve got a cat, but can laugh at this, anyway.
Reminds me of the old joke, how do you get a cat to say woof? Pour over it a can of gas and ignite: Whoofff. But how do you teach a dog to miaw? Deepfreeze it and put in a motorsaw… Now that’s sick humour, for you.
(anyway, Jónas, did you look at my putting down of Páll Baldvin’s crit of Ariadne, on my blog?
)
October 13th, 2007 at 12:35 pm
No, but I have now!
October 13th, 2007 at 4:30 pm
Hey Jonas, can you tell us what Björk drinks normally just before going on stage? I’m asking this voice/throat-related.
October 14th, 2007 at 2:10 am
thanks hildigunnar, so I guess it’s just a rumor, or a little myth about the petrified puffin..
yeah, I got the joke about the cat. mildly funny, I guess…
I like Ellen Degeneres humor better. she made a really funny joke about scandinavia when she was doing behind the scenes takes for her international promos, you can see it on her show’s video gallery under behind the scenes and international promos. cracked me up. but it doesn’t mention iceland, so maybe it’s not really funny for you… she just pokes fun at denmark, norway and sweden. she cracks me up though. like side-stitch laughter that hurts it’s that funny, where you start to tear in the corners of your eyes. I keep wishing Bjork would go play on Ellen Degeneres instead of Conan or Jules Holland or whatever. Maybe when you guys are on the west coast, because Ellen is in so.cal. …what is it Burbank? dunno. but she’s great. she has the spirit of play down pat. she dances in every show and she gets these old ladies in the audience to want to dance too, …to like Justin Timberlake, or whatever hip hop stuff. it’ so great. yeah, sorry, I’m rambling about something totally not on topic….
October 14th, 2007 at 8:20 am
…and Iceland isn’t part of Scandinavia…
October 14th, 2007 at 9:33 pm
Whoah! Iceland IS one of the Scandinavian countries!
October 14th, 2007 at 11:40 pm
Rudidejong, don’t you remember, “I thought I could organize freedom. How SCANDINAVIAN of me” ?
October 15th, 2007 at 4:28 pm
well, what was pretty funny also, once, was Ellen copied Bjork, and wore the swan outfit to some awards ceremony too. Totally great.
October 15th, 2007 at 4:29 pm
Hey!!! I remember an interview Björk explaining this exactly: This was referring to the Scandinavian countries like Denmark that had Iceland under their thumb for so many years, trying to organise the free people of Iceland!
So Björk is actually singing: How stupid of me to think I could organise freedom!
(Not how ‘icelandic’ of me to think I could organise freedom)
Whether Iceland is part of Scandinavia is (at least) not totally agreed on:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavia
Declare Independence!
October 15th, 2007 at 6:05 pm
MmMmMmmm Lattes and laptops………
=D
October 15th, 2007 at 11:49 pm
Iceland’s not a part of the Scandinavian peninsula, no. Then again, neither is Denmark. I always prefer speaking of the Nordic countries to Scandinavian countries.