#þór

[k-wame]

aυðυnn вlöndal & egιll eιnarѕѕon   cop ѕecreт (2021) ‧ acтιon ‧ dιr. нanneѕ Þór нalldórѕѕon

[ghilliedubh]

Þór-Freyja

I was doing a little lo-fi bedroom blót in honor of Þór and Freyja (and other related deities) and in my mind they suddenly combined into one. I then remembered the part when Þór disguised himself as Freyja, and although he does it somewhat reluctantly in that story, I really like this merged form of Þór and Freyja, or rather Þór-as-Freyja. It felt appropriate since it seems that around this time of year that Perun and Aphrodite would be celebrated, it being the raining season and summer is dipping its toes into autumn. I associate Þór-Freyja with plenty, luscious nature, feasts, strength, indulgence, and I see her as this beautiful, tall, wide shouldered and red-haired woman. She is incredibly strong, as she is of course Þór, but now she is not here to fight. She is here to enjoy food and drink, and look gorgeous while doing so.

[hatari-translations]

Who was the lead singer at Iceland Airwaves that replaced Matthías?

Davíð Þór Katrínarson, also known as Svarti Laxness, the artist who previously collaborated with Hatari on Helvíti! I hear he was great.

[yourfavealbumisgender]

( ) by Sigur Rós is Transfem

requested by @i-never-stoned-the-snail

[all-rock-and-roll-is-homosexual]

Select Magazine February 1992/the Sugarcubes

📸: Aki

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[eurovision-revisited]

Eurovision 2003 - Number 17 - Eivør Pálsdóttir - "Í nótt"

If you want to know what's going to win my national final of the year, I'll spoil it now. Söngvakeppni Sjónvarpsins 2003 is seriously strong. Like Malta in 2002, Iceland and RÚV decided to just go for it in a big way. There's one act in the competition who hasn't made my top 48, who I think would have made the top 20 if she hadn't come up against two other Icelandic entries earlier in the bracket...

One of those who has made it through is Eivør Pálsdóttir. In the grand tradition of Icelandic female singers (including Björk) she was already the lead singer in a band at the age of 15. In Eivør's case, she was the singer of Clickhaze. In 2002 she was recruited to be the singer in Yggdrasil, a Faroese art-collective/folk super-group (Eivør is Faroese). 2002 also saw her move to Reykjavik to study music. When RÚV came calling, how she could refuse the opportunity to sing at Söngvakeppni Sjónvarpsins?

Í nótt (Tonight) is Icelandic bossa nova done just right. Far from the Nordic folk music, this is slow, chill and the whammy bar on the guitar is getting a good twanging throughout. Eivør seduces us with the most relaxed way possible. Her voices glides alongside the guitar in a haze of promises. The mood is languid.

Isn't this just absolutely everything you could want from a national final song? And it's only 18th in my list - craziness.

Unfortunately unlike nearly every other Eivør song, I can't find the lyrics - and that's despite this very song winning several song-writing prizes throughout 2003 and 2004. Given the praise this song has earned, it's only write to credit Fridrik Erlingsson and Ingvi Þór Kormáksson the song-writers. Ingvi has also written four other Söngvakeppni Sjónvarpsins entries, but this was his first.

Eivør has gone on to have huge success in a variety of musical genres. As well as winning Faroese of the year in 2004, she has a grand total of 18 albums, huge numbers of performances and concerts across Europe and perhaps best know outside her devoted following as the singer and co-composer of the Gods of War soundtrack. Many of her songs on YouTube have more than a million views, and her Faroese throat singing is a viral hit with voice coaches and reaction channels . Her Icelandic language cover of Den Vilda also made the Icelandic Chart

Eurovision missed out on this voice. Here's something from a live performance at the Town Hall in Torshavn - Falling Free.

[nofatclips]

Woven Song by Ólafur Arnalds from the album some kind of peace - Directed by Thomas Vanz

[zef-zef]

Bjarni Gunnarsson (Bjarni Þór Gunnarsson) Studio Loos, Den Haag, Netherlands, 2016

source: flickr 📸: Ed Jansen

[newwwwusername]

Fic title : "But, if You Stay, You'll Get Sick Too"

@sicktember 2023 prompt : "But if you stay, you'll get sick too"

Rating : Teen & Up Audiences

Fandom : Heartstone (2016 Movie)

Pairing : Þór/Kristján

Additional tags : Common Cold, Sick Þór (Hjartasteinn | Heartstone), Caring Kristján (Hjartasteinn | Heartstone), Fluff, Good Friend Kristján (Hjartasteinn | Heartstone), Crushes (only alluded to tho)

Word count : 313

[elskaomam]

Of Monsters and Men Instagram Stories - November 2023

[issela-santina]

no one:

Jónsi from Sigur Rós, in at least half the material he's ever sung in: uwu

[human-antithesis]

Au​ð​n - Au​ð​n (November 26th, 2014) Country: Iceland Genre: Atmospheric Black Metal Reuploaded: FLAC

Lineup: Hjalti Sveinsson - Vocals Aðalsteinn Magnússon - Guitars Andri Björn Birgisson - Guitars Hjálmar Gylfason - Bass Sigurður Kjartan Pálsson - Drums

Miscellaneous Staff: Haukur Hannes - Mixing, Mastering Víðir Þrastarson - Cover Art Andri Björn Birgisson - Design Helgi Þór Jóhannsson - Logo

Tracklist:

Klerkaveldi 04:24

Undir blóðmána - 04:04

Sífreri - 04:29

Feigð - 05:15

Landvættur - 04:24

Þjáning heillar þjóðar - 05:10

Auðn - 08:43

[cinemacentral666]

The Boss of It All (2006)

Movie #1,093 • Ranking Lars von Trier #9

LVT does… comedy? For someone so indelibly tied to the worlds of human pain if not inescapable and bludgeoning nihilism, this might seem like a strange departure. And that's entirely the idea. As he mentions in one of narration interludes where von Trier zooms out and speaks directly to the audience in voiceover: The point of comedy — in his mind — is to reveal the comedy. It exists for the sake of existing. The film actually ends with an apology for having made it, as if it so say it's all been a gigantic waste of time. There's nothing of substance to be milked from this genre. This is all, naturally, part of the rouse. And while this one takes some time to get its footing and grab hold of said captive audience, it seriously comes together in the end.

It's such a departure for a director who once killed a donkey on set and has filmed unsimulated sex in more than one production. The workplace comedy? This is seriously uncharted territory. It's skewering the idea of white collar business in addition to "office life" but there are other layers to this, as well. It's about the artifice of film and the great lie that is ACTING.

The editing and framing in this is really weird. It's completely strained and choppy. I know it's intentional — LVT actually "invented" a process called "Automavision" specifically for The Boss of It all (check out this mini-doc explaining it) — but it's still off-putting and takes time to get used to. He never used this technique again.

As for the film, the comedy, itself: it's a genius setup. The joke is one-note on the surface but there's a lot of fun to be had with this concept:

The owner of an IT company, Ravn, wishes to sell it. But, for years, he has pretended that the real boss lives in America and communicates with the staff only by e-mail. That way, all the unpopular decisions can be attributed to the absentee manager, while all the popular ones to him directly. But now, the prospective buyer insists on meeting the big boss in person. In a panic, the owner hires a failed, over-intellectualizing actor to portray this imaginary boss, and the actor proceeds to improvise all his lines, to the consternation of both the buyer and the company staff, who finally get to meet their ghostly boss.

In addition to inserting his own voice, there are several additional meta elements (one character negatively refers to the dogma movement at one point). It's meta in the best ways possible: never making a show of it and never taking itself so seriously. And yet the film still has some serious and fascinating things to say, mostly about the creative process. Just as the cinematic method employed to actually shoot and edit the picture, it ends up being about how actors assert a level of control over the end product that the director can never quite control. It's about how language and writing can only go so far ("the idea is God"). The idea of language (writing) in legal contracts expands on this theme. The difference between writing for art and for the law is just another stand-in for how the idea mutates given the context.

It all works because LVT is a genius writer (he's developed so much in this area over the years). Take the small, seemingly insignificant character played by the American actor and longtime von Trier collaborator, Jean-Marc Barr. His entire personality is that he doesn't quite understand the Danish language. It's a microcosm for anyone who feels confused about the plot, or — more to the point — the motivations of a film/filmmaker. It also seems to echo the naivety of his Europa character in a way. His face, not understanding what's going on, in the background of scenes is delightful.

This ending is perfect. Von Trier manages to perfectly execute the idea in a way that somehow expands upon and embraces his previous style (and self-hating ethos). I didn't know what to expect from this outlier (his only narrative film that doesn't fall into a conceptual trilogy) and so I had no expectations. But I walked away inspired. This might be one of, if not his most underrated film.

SCORE: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I’ll be counting down all of Lars Von Trier’s movies right here at @cinemacentral666 every Thursday through September 2023

[ulrichgebert]

Trotz Umweltaktivismusthematik trifft die Einsortierung des charmanten isländischen Films Kona fer í stríð als “Ökothriller” nur sehr bedingt zu. Unsere tapfere Heldin Halla kämpft neben ihrer Tätigkeit als allseits beliebte Chorleiterin heimlich mit ausgeklügelten Sabotageakten gegen die übermächtige Aluminiumindustrie. Obwohl ganz Einzelkämpferin, bekommt sie Unterstützung von einem gutmütigen Schafzüchter und ihrer eher meditativ veranlagten Zwillingsschwester. Au��erdem hat sie praktischerweise immer ihre Filmmusik dabei, das ist besonders nett.

[medievalandfantasymelee]

THE HOT MEDIEVAL & FANTASY MEN MELEE

QUALIFYING ROUND: 52nd Tilt

Ser Davos Seaworth, Game of Thrones (2011-2019) VS. Gest, When the Raven Flies {Hrafninn flýgur} (1984)

Propaganda

Ser Davos Seaworth, Game of Thrones (2011-2019) Portrayed by:

"SER DAVOS SEAWORTH is the real deal. He's brave and he's honest and he's good with children. Like one single person in the whole of Game of Thrones has managed to dislike Ser Davos Seaworth, and it was because of his moral stand against letting her burn people alive. Every king he meets decides they want this warm-voiced former smuggler on their small council. Hot in a down-to-earth, not-showing-off kind of way. TL;DR: GoT is full of hot psychopaths, but Davos will treat you right.”

Gest, When the Raven Flies {Hrafninn flýgur} (1984) Portrayed by: Jakob Þór Einarsson

“This man was a vital part of my childhood. Watching a guy indiscriminately executing his vengeance on a Viking town while looking swell (Normal response to watching this extremely violent movie at age 12)”

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Additional Propaganda

For Ser Davos Seaworth:

“I'm not usually into older guys, but Davos is hot! My friend calls him ‘Onion Daddy’.”

“He just has such a kind face! I don’t know how better to explain it. And Davos is just so honourable and good, how could you not love him?”

For Gest:

No Additional Propaganda Submitted