Heima

Speaking of things that make me happy. I would be remiss if I didn't mention the movie 'Heima' documenting Sigur Ros' trek across Iceland as part of my favorite things of 2008. I was lucky enough to see it on the big screen at LACMA's Bing Theater (Thanks Jason!).

In case you are wondering what to get me for Christmas. This is it.

About Heima

Last year, in the endless magic hour of the Icelandic summer, Sigur Rós played a series of concerts around their homeland. Combining both the biggest and smallest shows of their career, the entire tour was filmed, and now provides a unique insight into one of the world’s shyest and least understood bands captured live in their natural habitat.

The culmination of more than a year spent promoting their hugely successful ‘Takk…’ album around the world, the Icelandic tour was free to all-comers and went largely unannounced. Playing in deserted fish factories, outsider art follies, far-flung community halls, sylvan fields, darkened caves and the hoofprint of Odin’s horse, Sleipnir*, the band reached an entirely new spectrum of the Icelandic population; young and old, ardent and merely quizzical, entirely by word-of-mouth. Read more here...

Here are some stills from this amazing film...