Odi et Amo 

This sublime aural wonder became my essential background music on the rare occasions my pal Chris parted with his iPod long enough to let me use it! It was by an Icelandic composer I'd never heard of before, Jóhann Jóhannsson so my instant attraction to it, as I stood surrounded for the first time too by all that unforgettable Icelandic landscape, was in itself unforgettable too...

To see my flickr Photo Set "Lost in Iceland" click here

See him perform this live on YouTube...

uk.youtube.com/watch?v=QDV9nkqsrGA

The Poem the song is based on...

Catullus 85

Odi et amo. quare id faciam, fortasse requiris?
nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.

TRANSLATION

I hate and I love. Why do I do it, perchance you might ask?
I don't know, but I feel it happening to me and I'm burning up.

ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/bl_catulluscarmen.htm

community.middlebury.edu/~harris/Texts/catullus.odi.html