Bara heim, bara bjór
2006.01.09
Some of you may remember one of my posts, from last december, about this huge concert that was supposed to take place in Iceland at the Laugardalsholl Stadium, on 7 January 2006. You had bands such as Múm, Sigur Rós, Hjálmar, Egó, or even Björk and Damon Albarn. Well, it did take place and thanks to the Reykjavík Harbor Watch weblog, you can read an exclusive review of the shows.
I like the conclusion of the article, as funny and witty as every line you can read on this blog: “All in all, an astounding evening, and something that will be hard to top. It was an excellent crash-course in Icelandic music, and we were so close that I might recognise some of these people if I ran into them on the street. It’s Iceland- it just might happen. Next up will be a coffee morning at our place with Björk attending.”
You can watch Damon albarn interviewed by the Icelandic TV, if you like… (in English). Or even better: Björk… (in Icelandic, though)
The wild guitar-guy on the picture is Mugison, from Steadystead.
January 10th, 2006 - 07:59
Thanks for the link! I would also like to mention that Icelandreport mentioned some of the guys I missed from the show, and is an equally entertaining read.
January 10th, 2006 - 23:04
Bara heima*, bara bjór.
January 11th, 2006 - 08:41
Takk!
January 11th, 2006 - 12:28
I actually checked this with two native Icelandic speakers before I posted it, and since the meaning was to just GO home and have a beer, it was “bara heim”. If they had said they were just AT home having a beer, it would have been “bara heima”.
January 11th, 2006 - 13:47
Today’s Icelandic grammar lesson: never underestimate the importance of hreyfing on the structure of a sentence. :-)
January 13th, 2006 - 00:36
Well sorry. I assumed you were home and having a beer, not going home, THEN having a beer. The phrase is semanticly wrong, but then I won’t go into that.
If it shows movement and an action following the movement, unrelated to that movement, then there should be a conjonction.
Bera heim, og svo bara bjór.
Unless you mean you drink your beer á leiðinni.
Ljóni :)
January 18th, 2006 - 03:46
Good you didn`t delete the comment of that guy with the list of swedish blogs, `cause I found you thanks to him! Your blog is nice. See mine when you can, you may like it too
best regards
javier
http://niquel757.blogspot.com