musical stuff

okay, didn’t have time to post anything last week, i had to clean and stuff for my graduation party. but that’s all over now.

so yeah, i have graduated from high school. it’s kind of funny, i always thought when i was younger that when i’d finally get out of high school i’d be all grown up and wise and secure about life. although i realized years ago that life doesn’t work that way, it still surprises me a little that i’m still pretty much the same person with too much imagination and who’s afraid of social situations. oh well, that’s just how it goes.

i’m listening to the new album, Adelphia, by A Skylit Drive and i LOVE it. Jag’s singing voice is so absolutely wonderful, just like everything in this band. this is easily one of the greatest albums this year, if not THE greatest. if their previous album was pure gold, they’ve taken everything that album had and made it even better. listening to this is like swimming in liquid cake. delicious.

but Adelphia isn’t the only great musical thing that i’ve come across this last week. i found this band called Sky Eats Airplane and they’re really interesting. they blend post-hardcore with chiptunes and electronic music in such a unique way, i’ve never heard anything like that before. they’re maybe too experimental for the great public, but if one takes some time and listens to the songs a couple of times, they really begin to open up. granted, this isn’t anything you’d like to listen as background music when for example driving a car, but in a right mood, SEA is a great band.

i’ll be moving to Helsinki in just a few weeks. and my girlfriend’s coming to visit in a week. happy times ahead.

album of the week: a skylit drive – adelphia

a pic of my friend i took some months back. i kind of like the way it turned out.

i like that lake

oh yeah, i managed to hold on to the “at-least-one-post-per-week” principle. not too much has happened this past one and half weeks, mostly some random chores. but i did go to play music with my friends after about 4 months and it felt so good to be able to play with them again. we played a few great songs and just fooled around, yelling to the mics and telling stupid, vulgar jokes. my friend’s girlfriend was there with us too, it was kind of nice to play to an audience, even that it was just one person. and i seem to have learned to sing better, it’s easier on my throat now.

in case someone is actually reading this and wondering where the title of this post comes from, i went to take some photographs of this lake that’s not far from my house, one of which i used to make a comic strip. i really like that lake, it’s about the only thing that i’m gonna miss about this place. that lake just has such a relaxing effect on me and i don’t even know why. i guess it’s the fact that i like water and the lake is pretty big.

my graduation ceremony is next saturday, so my high school days will end after a week. i’m not really sure what to think about that, since i wasn’t accepted into any of the schools i applied to. i guess i should be excited, i get to move to Helsinki after all. but there’s one thing i don’t like about graduating and that’s the visiting relatives. i’m not that much of a family person, and i feel really uncomfortable being surrounded with people who are all paying attention to me. oh well, i’ll go party with all my friends after that, so i guess it isn’t all bad.

as for the band of the week, there’s no other choice than Benton Falls. i’ve liked that band for so long that i don’t even remember, but i had found only three of their songs. but this week i got their both albums and they’re so great. especially the first album, it’s so rare to find a band that’s founded in 2000’s but they play 90’s style indie rock, in the style of Sunny Day Real Estate. the feeling of the songs is so sad yet energetic, the sounds are great and they’re great musicians.

also, my little sister got a new bunny last sunday. he’s so cute.

album of the week: Benton Falls – Fighting Starlight

weekly issue

okay, now it’s again been a while since i’ve updated, but i have a reason this time, i was in Helsinki visiting my girlfriend and my aunt and signing the contract for my civil service. i didn’t want to waste the time i had to sit on computer when i was with my girlfriend, so as a result i didn’t update. i’m planning to start updating weekly now, though, so let’s hope i can keep up to it.

i came back from Helsinki yesterday and  i already want to go back… i have to wait only for a bit over one month until i move there, but it still feels like an eternity. my stay in Helsinki was SO fun, i had great time with my gf and i just love the city. i bought a lovely tank top from there, it’s so comfy. i can’t believe that starting next month i’ll be living in Helsinki, i’ve waited for this for so long.

on a sadder note, i didn’t get into any of the schools i applied to. i’m not too beat down, because i couldn’t have attended to any classes this year anyway, but still you can’t help but feel a little disappointed. it just feels so wrong.

i finally got myself an ipod, i’ve been wanting to get one for about five years. luckily i managed to find some work, even though it is of the most unpleasant kind. i work as a substitute teacher in an elementary school, and i loathe children. i definitely wouldn’t have taken the job if didn’t pay so well. i thought that maybe i would learn to like children a bit, but no, it’s actually the complete opposite, i hate them even more. but the salary is good. why doesn’t even money make children seem more nice?

i’m really looking forward to getting to see Angels & Demons the movie. Tom Hanks is the only actor i really appreciate, the book was great and the Da Vinci Code was a good movie so my expectation are pretty high for the film. i just hope it’s not a awful let-down. but i’m sure it won’t be.

album of the week: Faded Paper Figures – Dynamo

someone to remind me?

why oh why do i always forget to update here? i have to set up some sort of a regular update system for myself, like collecting all that happens during one week and post that… i won’t remember otherwise.

i took my mother’s car to the service station today for a tire change, it has summer tires now. it’s such a bliss to get to drive with summer tires again now that most of the snow has melted. no horrible noise while driving, breaking becomes easier to predict, it’s just so much more fun. i really love driving. too bad i’ll be moving away soon and i won’t get a car of my own, there’s no way i could afford maintaining it. so it’s public transportation for me, helping to save the planet while i’m at it.

on the topic of saving the planet, i read from today’s newspaper that the glaciers are melting faster than expected again. i do believe that man contributes to the climate change but on the other hand it is a completely natural phenomenon, so i’m not sure what to think about. i am for reducing pollution, emissions and private cars, but that won’t stop the climate change completely. well see how it ends.

i’ve been drawing more than usual lately and i think i’m doing progress, especially when drawing ladies. i have finally, after almost ten years, developed my drawing style to the point where i am satisfied with it, so now i can just keep practicing stuff i haven’t earlier paid that much attention to, for example more realistic proportions. there’s still a lot work to do, but i believe i will now have energy to draw more.

also i’ve discovered SO many good bands lately, it’s difficult to listen one album till the end, because i want to be checking out this other band that seems interesting. i just found Digitalism this week and they make the best dance-punk i’ve ever heard, especially their album Idealism is fantastic. i’m about to start listening through the discography of iLiKETRAiNS, a british post-rock/indie band which seems very promising, their music video for the track Terra Nova was great as was the song. i especially liked the story of that song, it’s about Robert Falcon Scott, a british explorer who led a expedition to North Pole called Terra Nova. the expedition failed horribly, ending with all the participants dead. i really like that kind of little stories behind songs.

just to catch a smile

i’ve been listening to a lot of music the past week. i finally got the two Finch albums that i’ve been wanting to get for a while now but i’ve been too lazy to do anything about it. their first album is pure greatness, i love it so much. the second one isn’t as good, their style became more complicated on it, which in my opinion doesn’t really suit them. i like the simpler rock feeling of their first album. i also found many of my old favorite bands again, i really can’t understand how i could’ve gotten bored of Funeral For A Friend or Sunny Day Real Estate or Story Of The Year or Senses Fail or any of those bands. they’re just simply amazing! especially Funeral For A Friend, they’re one of the best bands out there. well, they were, the first too albums are simple perfection, but the third one doesn’t even exist in my records, i can’t understand what they drank before making that pile of crap. i haven’t listened to their latest album yet, i think i’ll do that tonight.

besides from checking out bands i haven’t really been up to much, it’s getting pretty boring around here. i guess i’ll just start drawing more and more once i can force myself to pick up the pen again. i’ll be going to Helsinki again in the beginning of May, i have to go check out my apartment and sign the work service contract, so i can get out of here for a while again. also, i should start photographing more again, i just got to stop being a lazy idiot.

i really should learn to style my hair by myself, i noticed that immediately that my girlfriend’s not around i won’t even try since i know that i’ll just fail horribly.

i’m freeeeeeeeeeeee

i’ve finally done all the works i had to do for my school applications. well i was actually ready already on monday when i posted the works, but i’m writing here about it now. it feels so nice to not have to stress about doing anything anymore, even though i get kind of bored every now and then. so all i have to do now is wait for about 3 months for my civil service to begin. not having to do anything has it’s pros and cons, i can just relax but then on the other hand i (like i already said) get bored occasionally and i have to listen to my mother complaining about how i don’t have anything to do. i would get a job, but my hometown is so small that no one had any work to offer and there’s not really that much to do otherwise. i would start snowboarding again, but my gear’s gotten too small for me and it would cost a fortune to rent a board every time. i wish the snow would met away soon so that i could take my skateboard out of the closet.

i watched Sweeney Todd yesterday after a loooong break and it really is a good movie. i guess i am kind of biased to say that, since i’m a Tim Burton fan, but i really do love Sweeney. the story, the characters, the setting, only thing i can complain about in the movie are Anthony/Johanna parts, since i hate their singing voices. plus it’s so fun to hear Johnny Depp singing, and imagine him as Jack Sparrow. which reminds me that i could do a rerun of the Pirates Of The Caribbean. at least of the first film, since Keira Knightley doesn’t have that big of a role in it. i don’t like her at all.

i guess that’s enough for now. sorry if my grammar’s off, feeling too lazy to spell check this.

containing a funny(?) picture

okay, now i will be back to updating this blog regularly. i have completely forgotten about it, plus i was visiting my girlfriend in helsinki over the weekend and i’ve been working with my art school application. but i promise i will start updating again.

i find it strange how stressing making a couple of art works can be. it’s not that i wouldn’t like doing them, i do, i’ve just never had such strict instructions on how to draw anything, so it feels kind of too restricting. i guess i just have to get used to it.

on a happier note, i finally know the exact date when i will get out of this hellhole of a town where i’ve been living practically my whole life. my civil service begins in june, and i’ll get my own apartment in july when the work service part of the civil service begins. i’m just so happy about it, i’ve been waiting for this so long. i do know that i’ll probably have much more to worry about with my life when i leave, but getting out of here, it’s like a dream come true. i feel like i’ll be able to manage no matter what i’ll have to face.

it’s kind of strange to not have that much  to do now, since my final tests are over and i don’t have go to school anymore. i’m just working on my applications to schools of higher education and lying around the house when i get too pissed off with drawing anything. it’s quite nice actually, but gets a little boring occasionally.

i went to see Watchmen with my girlfriend last saturday and the movie was surprisingly good. i’ve now been reading the comic and i think i’m slowly beginning to turn into a fan. i really like the characters and the story, even though i can’t really tell why.

i’ll write more later when i find something to write about.

crapshitfuxorz

WHY OH WHY CAN’T I REMEMBER TO UPDATE THIS THING!

well, actually i have a pretty good excuse for it, i’ve been busy with my final exams so my thoughts have been more or less concentrated on studying. still, i’ve had much free time, so my excuse is kind of shot down immediately. now i have been working on some pictures i need to take and draw in order to get to study. i really wish that i would get into one of the two schools i mostly have in mind, even though i must postpone the beginning of my studies for a year because of civil service duties.

short post, just putting a reminder that i am still alive.

i’m still alive!

oh god, i’ve completely forgotten to update this thing! i’m so sorry if anyone has been waiting for a new post (which is bloody unlikely). it’s just that i’ve been very busy lately, i’ve had to send my application to college and i’ve been preparing my applications to upper vocational schools and filling my civil service applications (not going to the army, i’ll let other learn to kill, thankyouverymuch). also, my girlfriend (i love her so much) was staying over for a week, so i didn’t update during that time either. unfotunately that week had to end, i miss her so much already.

apart from what i already mentioned, nothing much has been up to. i’ve been studying for my final tests, listening to music, sitting on my computer, that sort of stuff. i bought a collection book of H.P. Lovecraft’s short stories, i love it, he’s my number one favorite author. too bad that collection has so few stories, i should try to find some more books by him once i get more money.

i’ve been kind of excited lately, since the time when i finally get to move to Helsinki is getting closer day by day. next summer is not that far in the future anymore. it’s strange how much faster time goes when you get older. that also reminds me of the fact i’m inevitably getting older, which freaks me out every time i think about it. i really don’t want to get older, things just tend to become more and more difficult the older you get.

i’ve been really dissatisfied with the way Finnish politicians are “taking care” of things lately. i won’t list all of the stupid statements and laws they have done or trying to run through. i’ll just say if the law they’re handling right now becomes valid, i’ll go anarchist.

on a lighter note, i just remembered what a great band The New Pornographers are. i’ll admit some of their songs are quite bad, but the good ones make up for it. i especially fell in love with a song called Unguided. got to love that one.

it’s cold outside. again

it’s again cold outside, about -17 degrees celsius. it wouldn’t be so bad normally, but the wind is so strong that you freeze immediately if you so much as look outside. i didn’t even get any pictures of sunrise or sunset, since the sky was all cloudy. and i was mentally prepared only for a moderately cold day.

i showed our film to the head teacher today and it got approved, yay. i’m so glad i don’t need to cut or edit anything, it would’ve been pain if i’d had to go and figure out how to replace certain scenes. in the worst case we would’ve had to re-film some parts and i don’t believe there would have been enough time to do that. thank god the big lady had enough sense of humor to approve our film. like she said: “if someone is going to take this as an insult, they can look in to a mirror and think”.

i got my hair cut today and i like how it turned out. it is a bit shorter from the back than i had planned, but i think it looks better this way. i’ll post some picture of it once i have the energy to take one.

also, i should remember to fill and post my university application. dang.

just  a stupid filler comic i did some few months ago.