icelandic elves and magic mushrooms

i had this friend who swore by the band sigur ros. she'd seen them play at least 10 times, made every member of her immediate family see them and was generally unhealthily obsessed. she tried for years, without success, to get me to understand sigur ros, the way she understood them.

its not that i ever disliked them but they never really moved me, except for in that one scene in vanilla sky where tom cruise's character has to decide whether or not to kill his safe unconscious self and join the real world or remain part of the waking dream he was trapped in. pretty heavy. he takes the fall from a building that reaches far far into the skies, choosing life, as daunting as it may be, while sigur ros epically careens in the background.

fast forward a few years and i was still a rather casual listener of the band but thought i'd see them live just to really make up my mind once and for all whether they were the real deal. free tickets in hand, ryan and i made the trip to the pabst theater only to walk out of their performance mid set, laughing at how ridiculous they were.

forward again 1 1/2 years-ish and i think i'm getting it, finally. totally hauntingly epic.

i'm pretty sure phoebe is into it too cause she's been snuggling up to me ever since i started playing them well over an hour ago.