Reykjavik Rooftop

I´m standing on a Reykjavik rooftop watching the aurora gracefully stride through a sky freckled with stars. My wonderful new friend´s arm is around my shoulder, the buzz of the party coming softly through the open door and up the stairwell.

My disguise is good. No-one seems to suspect I´m young, and have never been to a house party before, nor drunk fruit punch with vodka from the plastic 2 liter bottle we brought. I don´t think they´d care anyway, but I wonder if there´d be pressure if they had been my peers, or whether it´s simply the free thinking caused by long periods away from home in this stunning dark, snowy country.

Downstairs a large, white-blonde Icelandic man in a full suit and bow tie introduces me to a Dutchie. I try to say ´hoi´, and ´waar kom je vandaan?´, but the words leave my mouth muddled up and we quickly switch back to English. His German friend smiles thankfully. It´s surprising she hasn´t found any fellow countrymen yet, I´ve met more Germans than I can remember since I got here.

I wash away the tortilla chips with pesto dip with the last of my water and get up. The Oxford boy I´d been talking to has followed his friends to Prikið. Most other guests are starting to relocate to bars and clubs as well, and part of the way home I am accompanied by suitman and his companions. In his thirties, he nonchalantly puts his arm around my waist,  Maybe I wasn´t in disguise to begin with.

Mesmerising Music III - BOY

Hey mum, you know Vonder and Bloom right? 
BOY is sort of a lighthearted, Swiss-German version of them.

I´ve been listening to them a lot here, at the Icelandic Scout Centre where I´m currently working for room and board. 
Wait, Swiss-German you said? So no Sigur Rós, Ólafur Arnalds, Múm, Frakkur, then? Nah, surprisingly. You know how when you listen to Glosoli, or 3055, or Green Grass of Tunnel, you can kind of see and feel the mountains, the black sand beaches, the little streams all around you? Well, the mountains, black sand beaches and little streams kind of make you hear the music and that makes for quite enough impressions :) 

So back to BOY. Upbeat in a calm way, dreamy but with both feet on the ground, happy in a non-ecstatic way. 

The song that first introduced me to them is this acoustic version of 
´Drive Darling´.
The next link I clicked on was their video for Little Numbers, but it was only yesterday that I really listened to the lyrics, and I loved the ease with which they put that first stage of being in love into words and sounds:)
Oh Boy (just to keep things interesting, titlewise) is a song about that one perfect person we all know and none of us can reach.
Another thing we´ve all felt is stuck, in school, an job, a relationship, a life that provides us with all we require but none of what we need. We´ve all felt like this Waitress.