Unicycling

A rather mysterious common factor was found between me and my flatmate Kenneth; my uncle, who committed a suicide in his early twenties, was one the best unicyclists in Finland, whereas Ken's great uncle once unicycled backwards from London to Brighton. Fascinating.

Ps. Am I the only one who thinks this box with a pink glove stuck into it looks like Dr. Zoidberg from Futurama?

You walk way too much

Lately I've been mostly practising how to say shit with an afro-american accent. My idol is senator Clay Davis

Dream: January 20th, 2007

I'm a train conductor
making love to Paris Hilton.
The train escapes.

Cadillac

At the age of nine, before I became the number one fan of E-Rotic, my favourite song in the world was 'Cadillac' by The Renegades. I even took my Simply the best of the 60s c-cassette to school were we had a 'levyraati', a song competition, in which we gave points to songs others had brought. Of course the cool kids usually won with their Smurfs CDs. I think I actally won once too, when I had Captain Jack's video with me. You can't beat babes in wet white t-shirts.

Well, back to the Renegades. The story of the band is quite unusual. In 1964, they came for a one off gig to Finland to play at a fashion show and everyone went crazy about them. A seven week tour at local dance floors made them the 2nd Beatles and they ended up recording 4 albums in Finland. After that they had some success in Italy and continental Europe. What makes their story unusual is that they never achieved any big success in their home country and still managed to have such a high impact on the rock culture in a country as remote as Finland at the time.

Mentally Retiring

On Friday I went to see Risto at Tavastia.



On Saturday I saw Polanski's Cul-de-sac at Orion:

"Deux gangsters en cavale vont bouleverser l'existence de George et Teresa, un couple de petits bourgeois qui vivent isolés sur une île.

Polanski présenta parfois Cul-de-Sac comme son meilleur film. Nombreuses furent les difficultés durant le tournage. C'est une œuvre d'une grande liberté de ton. Françoise Dorléac est superbe et Donald Pleasance très étonnant."



Evening & Nepalese food. Almost as good as Dundonian curry.



On Sunday I visited the Finnish Museum of Natural History. I had forgotten how cool dinosaurs are.

River Delta

On New Year's Eve I attended the opening of the new Suisto (River delta) club in my home town Hämeenlinna. The tickets were shit expensive (18e) so we took the liberty to smuggle in some rhum of our own with Oskari. Result: I talked to several mums, danced with them, invited a million people to Scotland, criticised the lighting of the club - well, was obnoxious in general.