__________oh that's nice! ash in my tomatoes!

wednesday, nov 29, 2006
[riverdance]

It's the Echo Christmas party today and, as seems to be the case every year, I'm already extremely tired. So if the evening follows the lovely annual pattern, lots of quality humour ahead.

Also, in a sudden burst of femininity, I bought a new necklace o_O
(Still not sure if I'll wear it, though.)

The joys of Monday morning.

There's plenty more where that came from.

she said she said @ 03:18 pm
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monday, nov 27, 2006
[youtube <3]

Suvi came over for the weekend, and what a blast it was! Hanging around not stressing about school things. Way too much YouTube followed by boyband dancing in the kitchen.

Also, Suvi has now become the first person to see Spice Girls Go Space Girls without having appeared in this cinematographic masterpiece herself. Oh dear.

But anyway. YouTube's finest:
(I love the people who have taken the time to put these online!)
Once they were very young.
Can't wait for the hats to get back in fashion.
Touché!
Ah, the German times.
Why are they always topless?

The absolute must see: Cherry pie! The thing that started the whole YouTube madness yesterday.

And last but not least, my old music video love of 1996: The eyes!

The greatest discovery: Jason Orange is a rather handsome man. Oo.

If only our video footage of us doing the boyband dance (wearing the muhroom hat) was presentable. Or the pictures for that matter. Maybe after some editing... Until then, the camera moments of this morning.

she said she said @ 06:52 pm
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thursday, nov 23, 2006
["no, it's my looks as well"]

I ought to be reading Aristotle's Poetics, and therefore naturally...

:D

"Ooo, I got scissors for hands!"

//edit:
I had visitors today.

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monday, nov 20, 2006
[lentäviä lauseita ja humanistimatikkaa]

Akateemiset ystäväni, koottuja viisauksia, osa 1:

- Mua alkaa pikku hiljaa... vatuttaa, kun ne ei lähetä sitä saatanan infopakettia sieltä perseestä, vittu.
- Mietin, et miks Borat on niin nerokas, ja sitte tajusin, että sehän on ihan kuin Sokrates!
- Mä en oikeesti tiedä, miltä reggae kuulostaa, mutta mä kuvittelisin, että se kuulostaa Paris Hiltonilta.
- Jonkun pitäis kyllä lyödä sitä mummoa, kun se on ihan vittu.
- Tää lasku on 29,95, joten kun se jakaa kahella... sun osuus on siis 19,90.

Kyllä näiden kannatti tulla yliopistoon, ei siitä mihinkään pääse.

(Viisaudenhammas lähti nopeasti ja yllättävän kivuttomasti. Nyt leuassani on valtaisa monttu. Hmmm. Särkylääkehöyryissä on jännittävä olla.)

Aiheeseen liittyen:
Joskus kuva kertoo enemmän kuin tuhat sanaa...

...ja joskus sitten taas ehkä ei.

Tai mene ja tiedä. Niinku.

she said she said @ 06:45 pm
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sunday, nov 19, 2006
[jenna's 20th]

I spent eight(ish) hours in Ahjovaara at Jenna's 20th birthday party yesterday, from 2 to 10pm. What fun!
Add a few hours at Jokela and another few random chit chat, and it all adds up to staying up a bit later than I'd planned.

Result: I've been yawning all day and pretty much wasted it during whatever. In other words, the field work report hasn't progressed like it was supposed to today.
Ah well. I'll get it done in time if I won't get too obsessive about the quality of my writing. Like, pffft. Who'd be interested in reading a good report anyway?

One of my wisdom teeth will be removed tomorrow morning. Eep.

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friday, nov 17, 2006
[officially bad day]

Huh.
How many times have I promised myself to get something done in the afternoon or evening and then failed to do it? When will I learn? Argh.

Afternoons and evenings seem to be the time for feeling depressed, distressed and tired, while my only effective working time is before noon. Bollocks. This pretty much stinks for various reasons, one of them being the ethnomusicology field report I still haven't been bothered to start.

Quite honestly, I don't give a rat's ass about my grade, but I do want to complete the course because it's an obligatory part of my musicology studies, and I really don't want to do it later either. And I've done half of the course work already anyway. But I still don't seem to be able to start it. F-U-K. (Yes, I can spell.)

I'm having problems with deciding whether I ought to go Katja's this evening or just stay at home. I really don't want to sit alone in my room the entire evening, but then again I don't think I'll be good company tonight either. Grah. What am I to do, how am I to proceed?

That quote never gets old. Nor does the film, for that matter.

Ah, anyway. At the moment I'm feeling so extremely pissed off that it's beyond any description. Also, people annoy me today. And I want to skip body balance (but can't). Everything's just kablooey.

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sunday, nov 12, 2006
[sakara tour]

I've been trying to get this thing written since Friday morning, but nothing sensible's come out. So I thought I'd give up on writing a good gig report and settle with random babble. So here we go. Sakara Tour 2006.

Take the hypothetical situation of having to take the history of folk music exam on Friday afternoon. What does a sensible person do on Thursday evening? Spends the evening at home, revises, relaxes, gets a good night sleep. What do I do? Hop into a car with a bunch of friends, drive to Kuopio to see three gigs.

Ah well. Fun was had and the evening was pretty much brilliant. And as I was in the guest list and thus didn't have to pay 20 euros for my ticket, it wasn't terribly expensive either. The pizza I had for dinner, the huge bag of sweets for the drive home (somehow me and Jaakko ate it all), token gig pint, my share of the petrol, cloakroom payment & the ridiculously over-priced take-away coffee I had on the way there adds up to about 20 euros in total.

It's been years since I've queued outside for any gig (save James Marsters in London in 2005, but that doesn't count) and therefore the dreadfully long queue felt a bit distressing at first. But it moved fairly fast, so we were inside in about twenty-five minutes. And our queue frustration was even immortalized: this guy came out with a video camera and shot some footage for whatever - naturally at the point when our amazingly not r'n'r credible bunch was standing very visibly in the foreground. Go us.

The deal with the tour is that Rytmihäiriö plays always the second with Mokoma and Stam1na opening and closing (the order is tossed every time). This time it was Mokoma's turn to open, and though it took me some time to gte into proper mood, it worked very well. So there. The set list was good and I still think their energy is absolutely mind-boggling. I'd hoped to hear Ärräpää, but that unfortunately didn't happen. Ah well. I was fearing they'd also skip Valapatto, but that was in the encore. Thus, happy.

It was actually weird how little they actually played songs from Kuoleman laulukunnaat, maybe only three or four songs (someone correct me if I'm wrong). But with the new EP out, it's not such a surprise, is it?

I don't have too many comments about Rytmihäiriö.
Erm. I think baffling is the word I'm looking for. Even though I didn't appreciate it all that much, I observed almost the entire gig. Half out of curiosity, half for support. I pretty much think the Seppo song topped everything. What the hell?

Not so surprisingly, the Stam1na gig then was pretty much excellent in my opinion. And finally my bad Stam1na karma has been broken! In other words, I managed to see the entire gig (save one loo break) feeling fine (ie. I wasn't about to faint of hunger or running a fever). Though I can't argue that progressive metal would be exactly my cup of tea, I liked the gig, a lot. It's a strange band, really. I don't know. Having listened to the albums probably did its share too, as I now recognised more than two or three songs :D I still can't say I would've experienced any great Stam1na awakening (people tend either to be really into them, or alternatively be all "er.. Stam1na huh?"), but they're effin' good, you have to give them that.

To summarise, good evening, good company, good gigs, and moments of great confusion. I'm so glad we went.

Bonus:
+ everything ran very smoothly so the break between the bands were short
+ no age limit, some of the little people were so cute!
+ earplugs, hurrah!
+ nice evening, good company
+ Matti's sweater (it gave a good excuse for endless taunting, ha!)
+ registration book for a trailer :D

Minus:
- didn't have a proper chance to talk to M. (then again, do I visit all the other people I know at their work places in order to chat? no.)
- the momentarily panics about Friday's exam
- the bad, bad takeaway coffee causing Weird Stomach Feeling
- feet freezing during queueing
- lack of sleep

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On a side note, I did wake up early enough for the exam, but the questions were so inexplicably bad that even thinking about the whole thing makes me want to go "RRRAAHH!".
Also, it was a most exhausting week. Tired now.

she said she said @ 04:06 pm
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thursday, nov 9, 2006
[fairly old]

John: As someone said, the graphic novel is a little bit old-fashioned. It was published nearly twenty-five years ago, I think it was published in 1982...
Hanna: Oi!
John: ...well, it's fairly old anyway.
Hanna: o_O
Jaakko: *pat pat*

(24 is a completely different matter than nearly 25. It is. No further arguments accepted.)

she said she said @ 03:10 pm
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monday, nov 6, 2006
[the good student project]

The aim for next few weeks: be a good student. I've idled away a bit too much recently and have a shitload of things to catch up on. Hurrah!

Hence, hitting the books early every morning this week. Preferably in the library where I can't think of any excuses not to read. The history of folk music exam on Friday demands my full attention at the moment. Gah. Luckily I got the English version of the book, struggling through the 17 pages of Swedish text on the subject was way too much for me already. Ah well. On Saturday, then, I can move on to other interesting things, such as my ethnomusicology field course report. Double gah!

My good student project started yesterday already. I devoted the entire day to LA Confidential and finished reading it this morning. Erm. Confusing much? It was agood book, alright, but all those characters and sub-plots and everything made my head spin and explode. And today Jopi told us that that's the whole point, as the novel is a wonderful example of many aspects of postmodernism, including discontinuity, permutation, randomness and excess. Oh really? :D

I also think that it is a perfect example of a story where you can't make up not reading the book by watching the film. In my opinion, they definitely should add "based loosely on the novel by James Ellroy" to the opening credits of the film. Or to quote Jopi again, "there are some similarities". Ha.

Money day today, I got to dye my hair. Whoopee!

And last but not least: oh, why??!

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wednesday, nov 1, 2006
[morgan spurlock moustache]

The traditional Halloween party last night.

Considering the fact that they were a sort of last moment idea, the costumes of Jaakko, Jari and myself turned out pretty good. Especially Jaakko. I have no idea how it's even possible to pull an Abraham Lincoln by accident.

Why didn't anyone tell me moustache tickles so much? Or maybe it was the glue, who knows.

And I still don't understand how in all the parties, me and Jaakko end up outside just the two of us and giggling like loonies. Hmm. Maybe some day we'll know.

Anyhoo. Photo share time.