My both arms look like this after my first volleyball practise.. Doing sports is good?!
2010-08-31
2010-08-28
2010-08-27
Heavenly gates
Why does it seem like it's always the ones that are good and kind that suffer the most and are taken away from us way before their time..
Today I updated my status in facebook: "Open up those heavenly gates of Yours wide open because one good and kind is coming way before his time.. :'( "
Wishing for the best, expecting the worst..
Today I updated my status in facebook: "Open up those heavenly gates of Yours wide open because one good and kind is coming way before his time.. :'( "
Wishing for the best, expecting the worst..
2010-08-25
"Don't think you are, know you are."
I had difficulties to deside who is the man of the month.. but since the last two have been musicians I suppose change would do good. And one can't go wrong with Keanu Reeves. And he also is a great musician. Besides I got also to use one of my favourite quotes to the title, from the movie Matrix... Time to kick some ass. :)
And what comes to ass-kicking let me happily tell you that my friends' band Modern Day Citizen went to the finals in the Radio Rock's Rockstarba competition. Yay guys!!! They really kick ass with their music, been humming their song Marrow for a couple of days now.. seems it got stuck in my head.. :)
2010-08-22
Boys are back in town
I planned yesterday I would go to the movies to see The Inception with not-so-dreamy DiCaprio but since I was feeling a bit low I went today instead. And because the 5 o'clock show was sold out, instead of finding the crime scene inside my head, I went to see the absolute action movie, The Expendables. There is nothing that makes me bounce back up like a proper action movie. And this one had everything I needed: big guns, big biceps and big badasses getting kicked the hell out of them. And lousy jokes.
I guess it's not a surprise but the plot was poor, nothing to make you wow. But I found myself liking Jason Statham for the first time, actually thinking that the man is a hunk indeed, especially when he smiles. And ofcourse I liked Jet Li, there's no fight scene he can't handle. But I was disappointed that Mr. Willis wasn't taking any actual part in the action... And Stallone and Rourke... a pair of old hags if I may say. The only good part with Stallone was the scene with Mr. Mayor, Arnold Schwarzenegger. Arnold was walking out from the church and Bruce asked Stallone "what's wrong with him" and Sly replied: "He wants to be a president." I bet there was not a single person in the movie theatre that didn't laugh at that point.
So, I wasn't that impressed of this movie. Hopefully The Inception has a better plot.. although I'm not a huge fan of Leo.. But I guess his movie will be able to twist my crooked mind more than these muscular soldiers from hell. And it gives me something to do while I wait for the new Angelina Jolie movie, Salt, to come out.
If you didn't get it yet.. I absolutely LOVE action movies.
I guess it's not a surprise but the plot was poor, nothing to make you wow. But I found myself liking Jason Statham for the first time, actually thinking that the man is a hunk indeed, especially when he smiles. And ofcourse I liked Jet Li, there's no fight scene he can't handle. But I was disappointed that Mr. Willis wasn't taking any actual part in the action... And Stallone and Rourke... a pair of old hags if I may say. The only good part with Stallone was the scene with Mr. Mayor, Arnold Schwarzenegger. Arnold was walking out from the church and Bruce asked Stallone "what's wrong with him" and Sly replied: "He wants to be a president." I bet there was not a single person in the movie theatre that didn't laugh at that point.
So, I wasn't that impressed of this movie. Hopefully The Inception has a better plot.. although I'm not a huge fan of Leo.. But I guess his movie will be able to twist my crooked mind more than these muscular soldiers from hell. And it gives me something to do while I wait for the new Angelina Jolie movie, Salt, to come out.
If you didn't get it yet.. I absolutely LOVE action movies.
2010-08-21
Will it ever be my turn..
..to be loved by someone? Am I destined to pour my heart out and never get anything in return from anyone? If that's the case, could someone please let me know so that I could dig myself a hole and give up this shitty life..
2010-08-19
Beat it
In less than two weeks I have my first volleyball training after having a break from playing for 16 years. Excited!!!! Thrilled!!!! Pumped up!!! :)
2010-08-18
I'm with the band
I'm reading the book written by Pamela des Barres: I'm with the band - confessions of a groupie. I assumed it would tell openly about the life in backstages, using drugs during the years of all-free-love-and-peace (=60's) and having sex with various, famous musicians.. I've read over 100 pages and I'm not impressed yet. Reading goes on...
Hulabalooooo..
It's been quite some time from my last blog entry. I've been busy. And tired. Not at all in the writing mode although I've had some ideas of different subjects I could write about. But hey, creative pause might do good, at least now I have plenty to write about. And this is my first update to you all.
As said I've been busy. There has been all kind of events I've taken part to and I suppose those events are a good thing to start these updates with. I'll start with Karuna unplugged. It's a local happening about 30 km from where I live, by the sea in a little village called Karuna. Only Finnish artists. I decided this one pretty quickly, there was only one artist I wanted to see, Jore Marjaranta, but since the price to the event wasn't that bad, I thought that I could go there and keep some company for my friend as well. And I'm happy that I did. I saw one old friend who came to say hi to me. Haven't seen him or heard of him anything after I moved away from Kemiö and we used to spend quite a lot time together. He is one of the boys I used to hang with as a teenager. We were nothing more than friends, like most of those boys were to me. I played football, tennis, basketball with them. Of course I had huge crush on few of them but thing never evolved to that certain point where I would have dated any of them. Well, anyway.. after the last band in the event we headed to Paimio where we were overnight at my friends parents house and headed back home the next day.
The next event was a bit bigger one.. it was in the news all over the world.. guess it already?!? Yup, I was in Sonisphere Finland. In the storm and all. But to tell this correctly to you, I'll start from Friday 6th. I got home from work quite late and headed to a local gig to a bar named Graceland (I've mentioned it there before if you've read my blog pre-Sonisphere.). I wasn't planning to go to Pori on Friday anyway so this was perfect, a night at a bar with a couple of friends and early start the next morning with bus towards Pori. The star of the night was that troubadour I've mentioned many times before. That mysterious troubadour is the lead singer in The Dagger Thanks, Jimi. The night was splendid, we got to hear the new TDT song before they recorded in the studio and we got to hear it acoustic. The song worked as a charm, I listened with tears in my eyes. Me and Jimi hugged when we left the bar our separate ways, he said his usual "C-U-l8r" to which I answered with not so usual "If I'll survive this weekend". "Sure you will", was his answer before he turned his back to me and walked to the car.. Well, as we can now see, Jimi was right, I did survive the weekend with only some wet clothes and feeling disappointed because Mötley Crüe didn't show up and I missed Iron Maiden as well on Sunday because their show was delayed with two hours and had to make it to the last bus so I could show up at work on Monday morning.. Although the disappointment I had a blast that weekend. I got to know 7 guys from Iisalmi who kept me drinking and eating (All I paid for after arriving to Pori on Saturday was a pack of cigarettes.). Sunday I spent with my friend Marissa and her other half Antti, who were kind enough to let me sleep with them in their car. It was close that we didn't have a beer tent on our necks but luckily nothing serious happened to me or any of my friends.
Last weekend I was in two totally different events, one involving music and the other sports. On Friday I was in a small local festival called 2X Openair (2X referring to a place named Kakskerta [=translated as two times]). The Dagger Thanks was playing a gig there as well as some other (less important) bands. Had a blast, once again. I met a friend I lost contact with about a year ago because of several reasons although I don't have anything against her. Surprisingly she said hi to me, I was positively surprised, I expected that the situation would be awkward but it wasn't. Rest of the weekend I spent watching beach volleyball. My friends came to play here in Turku and I even got to touch the ball, first time in sixteen years. Awesome!!!
So, here is the first update. More text will come soon, maybe even today.
As said I've been busy. There has been all kind of events I've taken part to and I suppose those events are a good thing to start these updates with. I'll start with Karuna unplugged. It's a local happening about 30 km from where I live, by the sea in a little village called Karuna. Only Finnish artists. I decided this one pretty quickly, there was only one artist I wanted to see, Jore Marjaranta, but since the price to the event wasn't that bad, I thought that I could go there and keep some company for my friend as well. And I'm happy that I did. I saw one old friend who came to say hi to me. Haven't seen him or heard of him anything after I moved away from Kemiö and we used to spend quite a lot time together. He is one of the boys I used to hang with as a teenager. We were nothing more than friends, like most of those boys were to me. I played football, tennis, basketball with them. Of course I had huge crush on few of them but thing never evolved to that certain point where I would have dated any of them. Well, anyway.. after the last band in the event we headed to Paimio where we were overnight at my friends parents house and headed back home the next day.
The next event was a bit bigger one.. it was in the news all over the world.. guess it already?!? Yup, I was in Sonisphere Finland. In the storm and all. But to tell this correctly to you, I'll start from Friday 6th. I got home from work quite late and headed to a local gig to a bar named Graceland (I've mentioned it there before if you've read my blog pre-Sonisphere.). I wasn't planning to go to Pori on Friday anyway so this was perfect, a night at a bar with a couple of friends and early start the next morning with bus towards Pori. The star of the night was that troubadour I've mentioned many times before. That mysterious troubadour is the lead singer in The Dagger Thanks, Jimi. The night was splendid, we got to hear the new TDT song before they recorded in the studio and we got to hear it acoustic. The song worked as a charm, I listened with tears in my eyes. Me and Jimi hugged when we left the bar our separate ways, he said his usual "C-U-l8r" to which I answered with not so usual "If I'll survive this weekend". "Sure you will", was his answer before he turned his back to me and walked to the car.. Well, as we can now see, Jimi was right, I did survive the weekend with only some wet clothes and feeling disappointed because Mötley Crüe didn't show up and I missed Iron Maiden as well on Sunday because their show was delayed with two hours and had to make it to the last bus so I could show up at work on Monday morning.. Although the disappointment I had a blast that weekend. I got to know 7 guys from Iisalmi who kept me drinking and eating (All I paid for after arriving to Pori on Saturday was a pack of cigarettes.). Sunday I spent with my friend Marissa and her other half Antti, who were kind enough to let me sleep with them in their car. It was close that we didn't have a beer tent on our necks but luckily nothing serious happened to me or any of my friends.
Last weekend I was in two totally different events, one involving music and the other sports. On Friday I was in a small local festival called 2X Openair (2X referring to a place named Kakskerta [=translated as two times]). The Dagger Thanks was playing a gig there as well as some other (less important) bands. Had a blast, once again. I met a friend I lost contact with about a year ago because of several reasons although I don't have anything against her. Surprisingly she said hi to me, I was positively surprised, I expected that the situation would be awkward but it wasn't. Rest of the weekend I spent watching beach volleyball. My friends came to play here in Turku and I even got to touch the ball, first time in sixteen years. Awesome!!!
So, here is the first update. More text will come soon, maybe even today.
2010-08-10
2010-08-06
Laughing my ass off by myself...
Today to Graceland, tomorrow Sonisphere Finland. My other foot is already going fast... and I'm sitting only on my other butt cheek... and rock or not, but I'm taking some woolen socks with skulls with me to Sonisphere for a friend who lives about 20-30 minutes car drive from me.. because the chances of us meeting there are way better no matter the 40000 people and 2 hours bus drive... x)
PS. It does take away most of the wow-effect if I reveal that Graceland is a bar in Finland, doesn't it..?!? So let's pretend that I didn't reveal the fact that it is just that, okey?!
PS. It does take away most of the wow-effect if I reveal that Graceland is a bar in Finland, doesn't it..?!? So let's pretend that I didn't reveal the fact that it is just that, okey?!
2010-08-05
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