GG: Gould and Bjork

[Bradley P Lehman <bpl@UMICH.EDU>]

Elmer Elevator wrote:
>But bjetcha Bjork would have got GG's attention bjigtime! No investment
>necessary in mastering her oeuvre! A real Plug 'n' Play Pop Diva babe!
>The hottest thing to ever fly out of Reykjavik!

Er, the airport is at Keflavik, not Reykjavik.

Sorry, couldn't resist.

Oh, Gould content?  OK.  That landscape around Keflavik, what a Gouldian
paradise.  Echt North.  Not a tree in sight (which is really strange when
you're standing there and suddenly realize it).  I had a couple of hours
of layover in the Keflavik airport once, and the airline gave any of us a
free lift out to the hot spring for a little adventure.  So hey, free
adventure.  About twenty minutes on a bus through the bizarre lava-land,
and then some time soaking in that warm salty spring and talking with the
odd assortment of people who happened to be there.  There's "the idea of
north" for you, I must say.

Back to the airport and its two duty-free shops, and I stocked up on as
many Icelandic music CDs as my budget would allow.  Mostly the traditional
tunes (wild and so isolationist/northern as they are, and get a load of
all those parallel fifths, such a stark sound!), plus a pretty good piano
trio playing Icelandic jazz, all attributed to Icelandic composers.  (Who
knew?)

OK Elmer, bjack to your bjeer.


Bradley Lehman, Dayton VA