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Saturday, July 31, 2004
Anna's coming today and I've got to say I'm slightly nervous. I know we'll probably be alright but it's been a year since I've last seen her at all and a year and a half when I last saw her properly. Eeek.
But if we follow our usual paths we'll either have the best, real conversation ever or - what is more likely - have no real conversation at all.
- I'm hungry.
- Me too.
- What should we eat?
- Let's eat beer.
- Yes, let's eat beer.
- Pizzah!
- Drool.
- Johnny Depp.
- Drool.
Either way, it's usually fun.
Thursday, July 29, 2004
It was very quiet at work today so I got to finish Fången från Azkaban. Ahem. I can't believe I
1) actually read it through in Swedish
2) had forgotten all the things that happen in the book
3) had forgotten how much I adore Sirius
4) and Remus!
My current state of obsessing is reaching alarming (and soon rather distubing) levels.
Today I've spent more than an hour surfing MuggleNet alone. It'll be another week before I get to see the film and knowing that pains me. Luckily it'll be an eventful week with Anna coming to visit and all. Otherwise I'd go nuts just because of the excitement.
I think I'm way more sadder a case than my cousin. And she's 12. But at least I haven't written to Daniel Radcliffe yet :) (She got this size A4 autographed picture back by the way).
I got a text message from Riia this morning, which is highly unusual.
Riia: "It was terrible when that Vlad the Impaler impaled all those people like BOOOOF!" Here I am, however, visiting the man's birthplace. It's raining and everything's all muddy, but who cares :)
Hanna: "We went to Rumania. It was an ok holiday. And cheap." - an advertisement from the wonderful 70s. I try not to be bitter. If you see G. Oldman, grab him in a sack.
Riia: I promise to do that. I'll hide him in cardboard box and mail to you. We'll see about the old Carpathians plan in the future. (And when I leave this place, I'll almost go via the Balkans! :D)
Hanna: No, no more! All the old inside jokes are killing me!
Riia: Ok. This is the last one. This Flying mullet, which is slightly spinning in the head - but Los Bog roll-os & fallen moose still tagging along! E-mail etc.
She lost me somewhere before the last message.. But it was a nice moment. We lived in neigbour towns the whole last year and saw each other once by accident. Something must be done next year. I miss her. And the Balkans :)
Completely useless Potter-related nonsense, last for today, I promise:
Both Rupert Grint and James Phelps seem to be growing their hair long. Ha.
And I hear that Sir Cadogan was cut out of the film. Please somebody tell me it's not true!
Monday, July 26, 2004
Bugger. Samu stood me up again. I am bored out of my mind. I need more friends I can phone on a Monday night. Nobody's ever up for anything this time of the week. :
I'm hooked on the Weasley's kitchen game on the official Prisoner of Azkaban site, for goodness sake!
B o r e d o m l e a k.
Other news: I've been alone at home since Saturday morning and already all the flowers look dead. I'm getting really good at this.
Saw Emilia for a few hours last night for the first time since May. Once again I'd forgotten that she truly is one of a kind. Wow. She never stops amazing me.
Me: Well, I've seen him around. All I can say is that he's still very thin.
Her: How practical!
Yes, very.
O_o
It's been a real day off today. Bad in a way as there are lots of things I need to get done but I think I've deserved one lazy Monday. Samu, Jukka and me formed a film club and watched The School of Rock. That was one predictable film, and not even as entertaining as I expected. But it served the purpose, it was good enough Monday entertainment. And made me miss my Tenacious D mp3s.
Going somewhere with Samu later tonight as well. Pints, pints. Luckily my stomach can't take more than two or three beers at once, otherwise our free nights out would've got out of hand before the end of June. Except that with Samu it might have happened already. Last Saturday he, being terribly hungover, managed to mistake some old granny for me at work. Most flattering.
I'm getting a new stereo system thingie this week. Whee! Jukka made a good offer but I didn't accept it quite yet. I'll look around first.
Friday, July 23, 2004
I've been invited to this costume party tonight and I'd really love to go but I still don't have a costume. Bollocks.
Monday, July 19, 2004
Muuten oli ihan hyvä viikonloppu, mutta Pekka oli keisari.
Pekka myös eilen käski sisällyttää tuon lauseen tähän tesktiin, joten päätin laittaa sen heti alkuun. Oikeasti kenenkään keisarius ei kyllä vaikuttanut minun fiiliksiini positiivisesti eikä negatiivisesti, mutta olkoon.
SBP 2004 olisi nyt sitten juhlittu. Huh. Jannelle töihin pisteitä siitä, että päästi minut pois perjantaina aikaisemmin ja samalla säästi ruotsinkieliseltä kierrokselta. Sinällään harmittaa. Olisi ollut hulppea nähdä, miten pätjään siellä. Toisaalta olen kovasti helpottunut, ruotsi kun on Fången från Azkabanista huolimatta edelleen "jag heter Kjell Petterson"-tasolla. Tosin nyt tiedän, mitä velho ja taikasauva ovat ruotsiksi. Hyötysanaston opettelu ennen kaikkea.
Party sinällään sujui minun osaltani ihan nätisti. Bändäsin vain tuttuja ja jätin Lasse Kurjen rauhaan. Hyvä. Ahvosen keikka oli vähän lattea. Ei huono ollenkaan, mutta kyseisen artistin keikaksi vähän vaisu. Sääli. Odotin sitä taas kuin kuuta nousevaa (ja olen taas niin väsynyt, että vanhoja sanontoja ilmestyy puheeseen ja tekstiin kuin sieniä sateella, hah) ja jorasin kyllä innoissani koko setin, mutta se tuttu superfiilis oli kadoksissa. Penelopea jäin kaipaamaan, mutta onneksi Tarjoilija ja Yliluonnollinen sentään soitettiin :)
Lemonator kyllä rullasi täysillä. Olen edelleen vakuuttunut, että herra Kurki on yksi kooleimmista ikinä. En meinannut kestää I Don't Want To Live Foreveriä, Not Your Gamea, Californiaa, Over Now'ta ja muita omia kestohettejä. Onneksi Emmu oli matkassa, etten pakahtuillut yksinäni. Kadehdin Ripa Eskolinia, kun se saa laulaa Californiassa ne California-osuudet. Phih.
Sunnuntai-illan baaritiimellyksessä ehdin tutustua muutamaan uuteen ihmiseenkin ja vähän syventää tuttavuutta joidenkin entisten pintatuttujen kanssa. Oli ihan hulppeaa. Tuli sitten Monty Pythonit ja Fast Show't käsiteltyä samoin kuin äänen avaaminen oopperan tahtiin autossa aamuisin. Sain myös kuulla olevani "vitun jees mimmi", mikä sinällään ei ole kaunein lausahdus ikinä, mutta lämmitti sydäntä. Sanoja oli kyllä pahuksen päissään (ja minä myös hitusen), mutta asenteesta huomasi, että tuo se tuli ihan oikeasti tarkoitettuna. Muutenkin egoani buustattiin ahkerasti eri tahoilta. Olen kuulemma ihanan tempperamenttinen, aito, itseni, älykäs ja niin edelleen. Pitää kuulemma vaan muistaa, että minä olen minä eikä muuhun tarvitse edes pyrkiä. Valitettavasti en osaa vieläkään ottaa kohteliaisuuksia vastaan, joten päädyin vain hymistelemään ja vaihtamaan puheenaihetta.
Lenny repeatilla keskellä yötä on joskus iloinen asia.
Suvi sitten pääsi Tampereelle ja meinaa kaiketi mennä. Apua! Olen kala! Luulen silti, että tämä on kovempi isku Paulalle kuin minulle. Minulle jää sentään vielä Jaakko, Virpi, Kari (ööö..), Henna jne. Ja voinhan sitten pelastaa Paulan. Ja tietysti napata vaikutuspiiriini kaikki pienet fuksit. Kerään itselleni valtavan possen ja teen itsestäni korvaamattoman. Aukoton suunnitelma. Tässä on kyllä se hyvä puoli, ettei mulla ole enää mitään estemässä Rantsikasta muuttoa. Voin etsiä kämppää lähempää kaikkea elämää. So long, Rantakylä! Whee!
Löysin Partyn sivuilta bugin aamulla, mutten kankkusessani jaksanut korjata. Nyt tietoisuus siitä ärsyttää ja kovasti. Tässäpä projekti huomiselle. Siivoamisen ja kesäteatterin lippujen myymisen ohella siis.
"Mikä se oli se 'olen myrsky valtaisalla merellä'?" -Milla
Tuesday, July 13, 2004
Adding members to Eternity is pain. I haven't touched the listing for two months.
Another thing I haven't touched are the flowers. Jussi probably thinks I'm deliberately trying to kill all his plants while he and mum are away. The ought to be watered daily. I just remembered it. That basically means that the poor flowers haven't been without water since Saturday. Needless to say, they look pretty much dead. I'll try to revive them today, hope it works.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaa!
Monday, July 12, 2004
One cheap pint with Samu last night was majorly extended to a complete bar tour (well, as much you can tour in three bars..) and caused me a terrible day today. Severe overdose of certain people. I also noticed that three beers is enough to cause me a smallish hangover, which is a bit odd as it doesn't happen with other beverages such as cider or long drinks. Hm.
I was wise enough to see people today, though. Ran around town with Milla, had dinner with Emppu and went to see Spiderman 2 with Samu, Anne, Miikka and Tero. Go me! Without all these I probably would've spent the day lying on the sofa and feeling sorry for myself.
Spiderman 2.
I don't know. Anna-Leena warned me about it last week, then again the critics seemed to praise it. I have a feeling they were both right. It was a better film than the first one but as an experience absolutely nothing compared to the one two years ago. Tobey was good. For once he didn't seem to do the same role all over again like he's been doing throughout his career. Alfred Molina was extremely cool. I can't believe those eyebrows.
I still don't care too much for Kirsten Dunst. And James Franco gives me the wiggins. Gah. Forbid from him becoming a bigger star than he already is.. I probably couldn't take it.
The best thing about the film was the beginning, though. More accurately, the six trailers. Even more accurately, the Prisoner of Azkaban trailer. Aaaaaaaaaaaah! I don't think I can wait until August. I feel the hysteria kicking in already. Just one word: Sirius.
Teenybopper.
But thinking of Gary Oldman and Sirius black makes my head spin.
Obviously should stop thinking about the whole thing.
Teenybopper.
Project of the moment: Garri Potter och Fången från Azkaban.
Yes, it would be the third Potter book in Swedish. I want to reivse the story in my mind before seeing the film a little bit and all the Finnish and English copies were taken from the library. With my own copy in Joensuu, I had no choice but to take the Swedish one. My reading is painfully slow but it does me goos, I'm sure. I'm following the text surpringly well. Says she on the page 29..
Fast Show reruns! For a while, life seems perfect.
Wednesday, July 07, 2004
Facts of life.
I'm always complaining about not having a life and now when I do have one, I wish I didn't.
I could rant about the effects of free booze on me and other people but Saturday night feels like it was ages ago.
The Turku castle has been seen. A nice excuse for a holiday as I won't be able to have real one this year.
Saturday, July 03, 2004
I don't know if going to bar after Samu's party instead of home oor Miikka's was Emppu's idea or mine. Whoever came up with it, a good idea it wasn't. Lots of yawning, minimal conversation and a pint of water. Oh, the happy times.
The party itself was nice, though. Samu had invited about all the people he knows and baked and everything. Although it was black currant, I ate a small slice of the pie.
But I do have to say that I curse the people who gave Samu the 70s porn mag, or rather a very graphic novel, with all the texts in four languages. Miikka kept entertaining us and reading it aloud in Dutch way more than was necessary.
Ah, but thanks to the party, I now have the first band signed to my confusing music festival. And while I was talking about it, another - yet to remain secret - band said they were interested. Woo. Two more bands that agree to perform when they're paid in beer they will have to buy themselves and the festivals there! Apart from the place, financial aid, lots of background work and so on, but who really gives a rat's ass?
<< I'm probably downloading it, because the songs sound pretty good. (yes, what I've heard on the tv spot...) That way I won't have to look at the cover :D Superior logic, ne? >>
No! I forbid thee!
You don't download or copy Finnish CDs, you just don't. This is such a small county that it's just wrong. I know Michael Jackson's budget doesn't really suffer if you download one (or all) of his albums but this is different. I'm always ranting about this and now I'm way too tired to do it but I'm just trying to make my point clear briefly.
Copying & downloading entire albums of small bands (including all the Finnish artists) equals evil and thoughtless.
So Rika, I'm afraid we'll have to suffer the terrible cover. We can always go and buy the CD blindfolded :)
Thursday, July 01, 2004
The new bar opened yesterday. J-P asked if I wanted to go but I wasn't really up for it. Luckily he found something else to do so I didn't end up going just for responsibility, sort of.
Actually I thought I might stay in the whole weekend too but then I realised it's Samu's birthday today and skipping the party tomorrow unfortunately is not an option. I wouldn't dare. But I can leave quietly after a few hours and sleep happily until morning. Unless Emppu drags me somewhere with her because I know she wants to go as she has the whole weekend off.
Of course this is also the weekend Emmu's nowhere around here but vacationing with her family. Blast.
I chose my Helsinki day yesterday very well. It rained the whole day and I was soaked even before I went to work, let alone after walking around Helsinki for a few hours in the evening. But it was worth it. I got what I needed, spent some quality time with Emmu and came home.
And couldn't sleep because I had a cafe au lait around 8pm. Too late for me to drink coffee.
While I was desperately trying to sleep, I developed a small panic state about school. I know it won't start before mid September and I won't be going back to Joensuu before the end of August but I couldn't help it. I'm still panicking about the courses and time-tables and new freshmen and things. Lovely. These will be long two months if this doesn't go away.
Random pop culture thing:
Ville Pusa's new CD cover is terrible. Every time I want to buy it, all it takes is the cover to kill the feeling. Shame. I bet it's a good album.
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