What We Loved This Week: Sigur R?s’ Iceland, Mick Jagger’s Knee Pads and the Frugal Traveler (://URLFAN)

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What We Loved This Week: Sigur R?s’ Iceland, Mick Jagger’s Knee Pads and the Frugal Traveler

Post Date: Jul 18, 2008 12:35 p.m.
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World Hum contributors share a favorite travel-related experience from the past seven days. Jim Benning I loved the Sigur R?s documentary, Heima , which aired on Sundance Channel (and will air next week , too). Not only because I like the band’s distinctive, ethereal music, but because the film was shot in more than a dozen places around Iceland and really captures a sense of place. Check out this great trailer in a big-screen format, with its images of ice fields and empty roads, wide-open skies and deserted beaches, and even an airplane fuselage sitting in what appears to be the middle of nowhere. When’s the next flight to Reykjavik? Michael Yessis Stopped in Cleveland while driving to Chicago, and spent a couple hours at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum . The overall experience left me underwhelmed, but I loved many of the artifacts: Mick Jagger’s knee pads; an Elvis jumpsuit; the first-ever U2 T-shirt, silk screened in 1976 by...

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