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.