So here is the famous Bjork interview in which Bjork talks about her TV. It comes from the Sugarcubes concert video, "Live Zabor" (Elektra Video 40110-3). If at first it escapes you, I'll give you a vowel. Bjork is kidding. Icelandics have a bizarre sense of humor. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Bjork is sitting next to her TV with her cheek six inches from the screen.] "Hello. It is Christmas time and I've been sitting here by my TV. I've been watching it very much lately because I'm on a holiday and I've been seeing all those programs, about all sorts of things. About Icelandics being very happy about Christmas, very gay, and also very serious and spiritual, and also seeing Icelandic comic people making jokes, which they are very good, that. "But now I'm curious. I've, I've, I've switched the TV off and now I want to see how it operates. How it, how it can, can, make, put me into all those weird situations. So... "It's about time! [Bjork turns the TV around and stands up to take off the back of the TV.] "See. [Bjork places the TV backplate on the floor and shifts the TV again so you can see the circuit boards. Bjork sits down again. She points at the electronic components.] This is what it looks like. Look at this. This looks like a city. Like a little model of a city. And all the houses which are here. And streets. And this is maybe an elevator to go up, up there. And here are all the wires. These wires [deep sigh] they really take care, take care of all the electrons when they come through here. [Rubbing her nose] They, they, they take care of, they are powerful enough to get all the way through here [pointing to the tube]. I read that in a Danish book this morning. [Bjork turns the TV around so that the screen faces her again.] "And this beautiful television has put me, like I said before, in all sorts of situations. I remember being very scared to it because an Icelandic poet told me that not like in Cinemas, where, uh, the thing, that, that, throws the picture from it, sends lights on the screen. But, but this is different. This is millions and millions of _little_ screens who, who send light on you. Some sort of electrical light. I'm not really sure. But because there's so many frames when you're watching TV, your, your head is very busy all the time to, to calculate and put it all together into one picture. "And, and then because you're so busy doing that, you don't watch very carefully what, what the program you are watching is really about. So you become hypnotized, so all that's on TV, it just goes directly into your brain and you stop judging if it's right or not. So you just swallow and swallow. "This is what an Icelandic poet told me once. And I became so scared to television that I always got headaches when I watched it. But then later on when I got my Danish book on television I stopped being afraid because I, I read the truth. [Big smile] And that's the scientifical truth, which is much better. You shouldn't let poets lie to you." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Epilogue: Once you have seen "Live Zabor" your life will be irrevocably altered. Don't say I didn't warn you. -- Uncle Roy louis@netcom.com