Whooops.. Sweden Rock Festival, here I come

And so it happened..
Just couldn't resist it anymore.
I just had to buy me a ticket to Sweden Rock Festival.
For one reason and one reason only.
Alter Bridge is playing there.
And since Finland isn't on their tour list Sweden Rock is the next best thing.
And I get to mark one thing on my bucketlist as done! :)

All Those Wasted Years

Reading challenge last month led me finally to read the Hanoi Rocks bio All Those Wasted Years. Interesting book in all but I felt it was a small disappointment after all. I must admit I'm not a huge fan of HR and I was mostly interested of their version of the famous Razzle story. And unlike Nikki's books (Heroin Diaries & This Is Gonna Hurt) the book didn't leave me feeling positive or inspired afterwards. I rather felt empty or nothing at all. I can't really say the reason for this. Started another book right after the HR book, Tony Iommi - Iron Man and it is way more interesting and inspiring already and I've barely read 50 pages so far. I wouldn't want to say it is a question of language: I usually read my music bios in English and Hanoi was written in Finnish. But I do have to say that English is somehow more descriptive and flexible as a language. For example I have hard times to imagine the fight scenes in R.A. Salvatore books of Drizzt Do'Urden if I read in Finnish, it sort of falls short.

But nevertheless the lacks in the HR book, reading felt good. I definitely need to do it more often. :) And since the challenge for this month is writing.. reading is said to increase your vocabulary.. ;)

Rise above this

Last months challenge went overall quite well. Only few days when I didn't read at all. And some days when I didn't touch a book but read newspapers or something else. Then again, some days I spent an entire hour reading. Now it's once again time for a new monthly challenge.

This month I chose writing. I came across this site. And so my writing yesterday was a postcard. I decided not to put any time limits on myself since I have trouble holding on any schedules in my personal life, mainly because I don't want to. At the moment it's more than enough to me that work restricts my time use and schedules. So, the challenge is more in the writing DAILY something and not on how much time I use to it or how many words I write.

Looking forward to this challenge. And I'll continue with the reading as well. Many books on my shelf that need to be read. :)