You shouldn't let poets lie.

夕飯を食べながら、年末の旅行先は、今年こそアイスランドに行ってみたいな～なんて話をひとくさり。

アイスランドでは観光客を迎えているどころではないかもしれませんが、こんなご時勢だからこそ、アイスランドに旅行に行くというのもアリなんじゃないかと。
まぁ、本当に行くかどうかはわからないけど。

アイスランドつながりで話がBjörkネタになり(新曲「Nattura」が出たね～とか)、Björkのオモシロ動画の存在を教えてもらいました。
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Björk talking about her TV (subtitled)


おおお、ビューク、若いな。。という第一印象はさておき、あまりに面白くて涙がチョチョ切れました。
好き嫌いは分かれるかと思うけど、自分はこういうジョークが好きなんだな。

冗談を解説するのは野暮なので、字幕を書き写してみる。

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Hello!
It is Christmas time and I'm 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 beeing 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 at.

But now I'm curious.
I've switched the TV off and now I want to see how it operates.
How it, how it can, make put me into all those weird situations.
So... It's about time!
(おもむろにテレビの背面パネルを取り外す)

See.
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.
This is, maybe, an elevator to go up, up, there. 
And here are all the wires. These wires...they realy take care,
take care of all the electrons when they come through here.
They, they, they take care of, they are powerful enough to get all the way through here.
I read that in a Danish book this morning.
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, the thing throws the  picture from it,
just sends lights on the screen.
But, but this(TV) is different.
This is, millions and millions of little screens, who send light on you.
Some sort of electrical light. I'm not really sure.
But because there're so many of them.
In fact, you're watching very, many frames when you're watching on TV.
Your head is very busy 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're 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 headache when I watched it.

But then, later on, when I got my Danish book on television, I stop being afraid.
Because I, I read the truth.
That's the scientifical truth which is much better.
You shouldn't let poets lie to you.
***

さすがは現代のミューゼ。すげーよ。
こういう発想はなかったわｗｗｗ
まさに、「テレビで愉快なアイスランド人がジョークをかます」のを見せつけられました。

いやはや。。。中国でのコンサートで予定にない"Declare Independents" (独立を宣言しよう)を歌い、さらには歌の途中で「チベット、チベット」と囁いて中国当局を大憤慨させておきながら、「あの歌は個人的な悩みを抱える友達への応援歌として作ったんだけど、聴いた人がそれぞれイメージを膨らませてくれてうれしいわ」とサラリとのたまうだけのことはありまする。

「詩人の嘘に騙されちゃダメ」ですね、はい。