bubbi morthens

i went to see the film about bubbi morthens, blindsker. i should write this in icelandic, cause none of you probably know who he is, who arent from this godforsaken country. bubbi morthens is a specially icelandic figure, in that way that i don't know anyone similar abroad. he emerged in the beginning of the eighties and has since been hailed the king of icelandic pop music. he emerged as a folk troubadour, mainly writing about the life of the icelandic working class people. but at the same time he came into view when the punk wave had finally dawned upon this island. that fit well with his heavy alcohol and drug abuse, although bubbi was never really a punk. he was more of a rebel sex symbol. In the eighties he lived only for cocaine and the most extreme promiscuity i have ever heard of. bubbi told this story where he would sleep with a girl and then dump her for her sister the same evening. he didnt bother to mention who she was being dumped for. by the late eighties the fun was wearing thin. bubbi found a new girlfriend, and signed up for drug therapy, and tried to clean up his act, although this did not include ditching cannabis, which bubbi admits to having smoked every day for 18 years. somehow he survived. in the film we get to see a different bubbi, who pronounces life to be a miracle. a sobered family father. and that is what he sings about today. as well as promoting boxing. the best thing about this film is how jekyll and hyde the whole thing seems. from eager self destructive behaviour of his youth, to this christian family father of today. fuck, maybe that's what we had seen had jim morrison lived! maybe the most similar figure to bubbi abroad could be johnny cash. he was kind of too christian for a while, but he could still deliver the tortured rebellious wail of his last records.