Nov - Dec Mixtape

Earworm:



One of the best finnish tunes ever:



Sweet shoegaze:



From Julian's deluxe package:



Lesbians:



Classic indie:



Just Belle:



Finnish-French collaboration can be fruitful:



Where's the banjo?



Smetanaa ja kuhaa:



Thanks Ken:



Greek music (from the Wire):

3 Di Caprios

Revolutionary Road ★★★



The Reader ★★★★




Blood Diamond ★★★★



Eagle vs. Shark ★★★



Los abrazos rotos ★★★

Disappointing for an Almodovar film.

Where's Will Smith?

District 9 ★★★★

Dalì and Bowie's tranny muse

Thanks Tom

best laughs in a while..



Time didn't treat them too well..

The Firm

The Firm (1988) ★★★

I was trying to download the new adaption of the film but accidentally downloaded the old one, which I've seen before but watched again as it's a classic. 1980s football hooliganism in London.

Paprika

Paprika ★★★

Paprika : Trailer US
envoyé par Playscope. -

Intelligent France

Gotta love the super academic exams in France. One of the four questions in today's exam was something like this:

What was the most important thing you learned during this class and from the readings provided? Discuss.

MY answer was pretty much:
I have done the course before. I didn't learn anything. I hope I won't be punished for not being offered anything new to learn.

My First eBay Purchase

Still waiting for them to arrive though..

No Homo

Safer Milk

Fake Cock

Sex is Comedy ★★

Another Catherine Breillat..

It was the Folkets Hus basement

Ruotsinlaivalla

Brève traversée ★★★

A Catherine Breillat film about a ferry trip (Le Havre - Portsmouth) a young French boy and an older English woman share.

Sadomasochism excites me

Fred

CLICK HERE

Marsatac

Etienne de Crécy was by far the best act last night. However, the biggest positive surprise:



Felix da Housecat was boring and Art Brut just terrible :/

Took the train back from Marseille at 6.05am. Luckily woke up just before Aix.

Marsatac - tonight

and Au Revoir Simone, Art Brut etc.

Mother Night

Mother Night ★★

Boring film adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's boring book.

Mother Night Nick Nolte Keith Gordon Sheryl Lee Diamond | Movie Trailers

New Chromeo Single

You gay?

G sanoo:
"laisse tomber les filles" ????
Glücksnuß! sanoo:
yea..?
G sanoo:
mais non!
Glücksnuß! sanoo:
but of course
G sanoo:
you gay?
Glücksnuß! sanoo:
haha
no

Mur

Disapproving Rabbits

Life is great. Without it, you'd be dead.

Gummo ★★★

Another Harmony Korine film. Again, visually impressive. Here's a few screenshots (no Chloe Sevigny's nipple though):





And the trailer:




Persepolis ★★★★

cs_kimmo

Lamebook

Lamebook

Health Care

In Scotland:

During the first week the Uni provided us with the possibility to register with a local doctor. Filled in a paper and received a confirmation by mail. Didn't have to use the services once during three years as attendance was optional.

In France:

Bring a medical certificate if you're ill, even for one day. All absences must be explained. Where do I find a doctor? Do I have to pay for it? Do they speak English? Blah, easier just to go to class and spread the illness.

ps. the school cafeteria where ~500 people have lunch doesn't have soap in the lavatories..

Bored to Death

HBO's new comedy starring Jason Schwartzman. Two episodes available online...

The Fun That We Had

Julian Plenti - Julian Plenti Is ...Skyscraper ★★★★★



Young Marble Giants - Salad Days ★★★★



jj - jj n° 2s ★★★

How is it possible that a nun can fly

Mr. Lonely ★★★

An American indipendent film by Harmony Korine.

While watching I was constantly comparing the film to Werner Herzog's production without noticing one of the actors was Werner himself! Apparently he's a big fan of the director.



The story was poor to be honest but visually the film was magnificent. This is a screenshot of one of my favourite scenes:

Rognes Gig

My last.fm friend Fred (30 year old female, festival organiser by occupation) gave me, Joni and Markus a ride to Rognes(a small village 20km north from Aix) to see one of the best gigs of my life. The venue was part of an art gallery, wine cost 1€ and the bands were amazing. The supporting act was a debut by Professeur Sloggy. The closest comparison I can make is Manu Chao. As he sang in French, I obviously didn't understand most of the lyrics but I got the main words like "sadistic".

The main act was a joint effort of two bands: Narrow Terence and Mansfield Tya. Imagine young Tom Waits and Shannon Wright, accompanied by two violins, a keyboard, a guitar and a bass.

Narrow Terence @ EMB | 24.10.2008
par hanaofangel

My baby name was Viljo

because this comedy act was popular at the time of my birth.

Coolest on Earth?

This is what my next haircut will be like:



At least the two first ones stolen from Facehunter.

Prince Albert of Finland

I reserved my kilt, sporran etc for graduation today. I chose the Baird tartan as it was on offer.



ps. Beowulf is a narcissistic body builder.

50 Worst Album Covers

Hideous!





I have to disagree with the following three. I think they're fantastic!







50 worst album covers

Exam Belly

I have achieved a new decade, a decade of 70kg.

No Mo' Bacon

Matti Pellonpää vol. 2

La Vie de Bohème ★★★

We had two Parisian couch surfer (Sorbonne) babes as our guests for a day. One of them was an insomniac so I civilised the brute with this Kaurismäki film.



Bi-mong - Dream ★★

The worst I've seen from Kim Ki-Duk. I know it's a bloody fairytale but surely Koreans have heard of caffeine, there's no need to cut your scalp.

But Come Saturday

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart ★★★★

Goji Blitz!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz! ★★★★★

Less screaming than before combined with a more electronic sound. Result: the best album of the year (so far).



Rubik - Dada Bandits ★★★★

I now officially nominate the opening track 'Goji Berries' to the class of the greatest Finnish pop-rock songs ever made. It joins my short list of 22-Pistepirkko's Birdy and The Crash's Sugared. Together with Horrors' Sea within a Sea it is the best single I have heard in YEARS. Please have a listen if you haven't heard it!

Rubik's myspace

This is why you are fat.

Click: This is why you are fat.

Swine Flu

The Rasmus gig cancelled in Mexico City due to swine flu - a coincidence? I think not. I have received information from an unreliable source that the Mexican government purposefully spread international horror to keep the Rasmus away from Mexico. The government is fulfilling its duty by protecting the welfare of its citizens.

Worst Album Ever?

Peter Doherty - Grace/Wastelands ★

Your boyfriend's name was Dave
I was bold and brave

Curiosity Cola

Fentiman's Curiosity Cola is a botanically brewed carbonated cola soft drink. It is produced in the UK and available to buy via mail order and stocked in selected pubs, restaurants and supermarkets. The brewing process used gives the drink an alcohol content of up to 0.5%. Vitun hyvää.

Théo Hakola

Théo Hakola is an American singer-actor-novelist-ex London School of Economics student with Finnish roots. I came across his name when reading about Noir Désir whose first LP he produced in 1987. Apparently one of his books, La Valse des affluents, has been translated into Finnish (Hyväosaisten valssi). Check out Here come the Golem from Theo's Myspace.

The Wire

My life is over. I watched the final episode of the Wire, best tv-series ever made.

★★★★★

Kubrick's

Paths of Glory ★★★★

It will really make you question things about our troubled, convoluted world and how things are to often immorally and inhumanly run all in the sick name of greed and destructive power. Not too lovely, for the director pulls no punches. This film really has grown more profound (and currently pertinent) since its initial release. Also the editing is taut and concise; there isn't a single wasted moment.

-danm99, imdb

Joe Meek

I strongly recommend watching this documentary of Joe Meek, a revolutionary tone-deaf music producer. He was a paranoid gay drug addict who finally shot himself with a shotgun. I am yet to see the bigger budget, Telstar, which was released last year.



During the film I noticed a resemblance between these two acts. I had no idea Jack the Ripper was a cover song.





Later I noticed Crawdaddy Simone was also a cover. I know nothing about music.

The Eyeballing Game

Click here to try The Eyeballing Game

2nd Step

No wonder I didn't become an ice hockey player when I was dressed in these as a kid.

Boethian Wheel

C: COCAINE

Nothing gets a lady to come up to your house more quickly than an eight ball. Nothing makes her more likely to receive your kiss and you more likely to have balls enough to deliver it. The problem is you have to do at least four lines and three songs before you can bust a move and that is not exactly a recipe for an erect penis. Just multiply Shakespeare’s line, “It provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance,” by about a thousand. You’d be an asshole not to have Viagra hanging around, but most of us are assholes, so fuck it, you try to feed it in there like a piece of wet spaghetti. Once it’s two-thirds of the way in, you start “rabbit fucking,” hoping the friction will bring it to life, but alas, her vagina poos it out like a sad worm getting voted off Survivor. The worst part is, if you don’t get a second chance, she tells all her friends and you are forever known in girl land as “Sad Arthur” (or whatever your actual name is).

From Vice

First Step Towards a 100% Fashion Blog

£1 from Poundland, bargain!



My greatest fashion idol is Aleksandr Orlov;

New Horrors Song

Deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelicious!

I'll be the lumberjack, you’ll be the tree

I don't really buy music anymore. Therefore, I thought it's almost worth mentioning when I do!

Nickel Eye: The Time of the Assassins

Nickel Eye is the solo project of Nikolai Fraiture, the bassist of the Strokes. The album was released a few months ago, but it hasn't become too popular. This is mostly due to the Strokes' reunion which means Nikolai's been busy with recording new material with them instead of promoting this. Great album, it's good to know that there's at least one of the Strokes who can go solo in the end.. referring to Albert Hammond's solo albums and random tracks Julian Casablancas has featured in.

This is the single, think I've heard it at least 40 times by now. For me, that's a lot. I usually get bored very easily. What suprises me the most is how well Nikolai uses the monotone singing voice associated with Julian, it's almost more Strokesy than in Strokes' third album!




Jenny Wilson: Hardships

The Swedish daycare centre milf releases her second album.



Agaskodo Teliverek: Psycho Goulash

Recommended to me buy Riina's London entourage. If you get a headache from listening to Battles, Deerhoof etc, don't bother. Doesn't fit most moods a normal human being goes through but when you're buzzing and have endless spring energy in your veins and are going to enjoy a walk outside, it's perfect.

OWN NOTE: Go for a walk. (I must be pale as a zombie, an endless flood of essays and exams has kept me indoors for a month. Painful.)




Sin Fang Bous: Clangour

Another solo project, this time it's Sindri Mar Sigfusson from Seabear. I have to say I prefer this to Seabear. For shy geeks.

Dedicated to Ulla

Apologies to Riina

Nothing happening in my life, too much uni work!

Saying that, there was a woman shouting "Ben" in the middle of the night in our garden for 15 minutes. My solution: earplugs. Ken's: throw an egg at her.

Advert of the Year?

An Awkward Nightly Meeting

10 minutes ago, I heard my flatmate come home from a second date. I barged into the kitchen shouting: "Did you get to second base?!" while further opening the door and realising the girl was standing there..

Prostitution Behind the Veil

After Robocop 3 had finished, I began channel surfing and after a while got stuck on BBC4 watching a Swedish documentary Prostitution Behind the Veil which follows the life of two crack whores in Teheran. At first, I merely kept on following it to brush up my Swedish (for which purpose it's also good as the narrator/director Nahid Persson is foreign and speaks very slowly and clearly) but soon realised it's one of the most interesting documentaries I've seen in ages, and it's available on Google video (with English subs);

Sotaveteraanit, our Founding Fathers

Apologies to the one foreign reader, this post will be, for practical reasons, in Finnish. It includes my favourite quotes from the conversations between two opposing Facebook groups: "Let's Help Our Somali Friends Back Home" and "Let's Help Our Racist Friends Back to Space".


1.

"

(ituhippeli) KAIKKI SOTAVETERAANIT AJATTELEE SAMALLA TAVALLA KU FACEBOOKIN ISÄMMAAN PUALLUSTAJAT. NEKIN 25% JOTKA SODAN JÄLKEEN ÄÄNESTI SKDL:ÄÄ
(punavihree) Toi on kyl paras argumentti ihan mihin tahansa
(punavihree) tän maan pyhin asia ei oo kristus vaan sotaveteraanit
(punavihree) Mitä sotaveteraanit ajattelis jos ostat maahantuotua riisiä?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
(ituhippeli) "SOTAVETERAANIT" on Suomen vastine "FOUNDING FATHERS"ille
(kommari) Mitähän sotaveteraanit ajattelevat siitä ettei nokia enää tarjoa pannarin kanssa kermavaahtoa!
(punavihree) Mitähän sotaveteraanit ajattelisivat siitä jos kermavaahtoon sekoittaisi kaakaojauhetta niin ettei se enää olisikaan vitivalkoista??
(ituhippeli) EI OLLUT JATKOSODASSA KAAKAOTA. KUIVATTUA PASKAA VAAN MAIDONKORVIKKEESEEN SEKOTETTIIN JA SITÄ JUOTIIN. JA RYSSIÄ TAPETTIIN. HOMOSTELTU EI YHTÄÄN. KYLLÄ OLI ASIAT SILLON PAREMMIN. KEKKONEN SIBELIUS TALVISOTA. KAISANIEMEN PUSKAT."

2.

"tuolla vastaryhmässä taitaa olla jonkinsortin ikuisia opiskelijoita? kenenköhän rahoilla nekin elelee? ja ainaki perustaja näyttää silt että on tainnu jäädä intti käymättä."

3.

"Kukkahatut"

4.

Näköjään perustettu gruuppi "Autetaan rasisti-ystävämme takaisin avaruuteen" miks tollanen nimi, en mä oo ainakaan ufo.

Miss Finland 2009

The generations affected by Chernobyl's radiation seem to have entered the Miss Finland competition this year. Please, I beg you, let's not send anyone to Miss Universe next year to spoil our reputation. Eino Makunen would turn in his grave. (He is dead, right?)

My personal favourites:

πολεμικως

Snow arrived, again. Busses and lectures cancelled. People mindlessly throwing a dozen snowballs at anyone who happens to pass by. Makes me miss the civilized country of Finland..

"La Petite Morte"

I bet Cristiano Ronaldo would be the master of this game, being such a wanker. Ha ha.



the website of the joydick project

Natalie Portman Raps

Doughball

It's been a bad day. The new regime has fallen; I missed my first lectures of the semester, mainly to avoid seeing certain three faces I can't stand. Even the hot Italian master's student girl wouldn't have made up for the misery seeing those three assfaces would've made me feel that early in the morning. Well, the presentation is over and hopefully I will never have to speak to them again. I thought I had relatively good team working skills, but this project has made want to withdraw to a cabin in the Finnish lake district and never come back.

And how the hell did David Thewlis ..



.. score the most beautiful woman ever to exist, Anna Friel?



She must be a doughball!