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Finnish Music:
Posted Jan 21, 2003
Check out these great finnish bands:
Apulanta http://www.apulanta.fi
CMX http://www.cmx.info
Deep Insight http://www.deepinsight.net
Jumpin' China http://www.jumpinchina.cjb.net
Jacks Of All Trades http://www.jacksofalltrades.net
Kent http://www.kent.nu
Paleface http://www.paleface.fm
Stratovarius http://www.stratovarius.com
Timo Rautiainen & Trio Niskalaukaus http://www.trioniskalaukaus.net
Have fun!
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Teosto
Posted Jan 18, 2003
In Finland we have an organization to protect artists' rights on their music. It's called Teosto. http://www.teosto.fi They charge 0,5 cents for every minute of space on empty CD-Rs and stuff. And now they want to charge children's daycare centers for copyrighted songs they sing there. That sucks! Next thing they are propably going to charge a fee, when I say some word, someone has used before...
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Relics and Finnish spirit...
Posted Jan 18, 2003
Couple of days ago, in school, we read about medievil relics. Looks like one very popular was Jesus' foreskin. There were 15 of them around europe.
Heard a joke that really radiates the finnish spirit. Here you go:
A finnish man was driving around finnish countryside one night. About 3 o'clock he broke a tire of his car, so he had to pull over. Of course he didn't have a jack with him. He looked around thinking bout what to do. Then he saw a light coming from a little away. He started walking towards it, in hope of getting to borrow a jack. He thought: "They'll propably be unhappy bout waking up in the middle of the night. But hey, countrymen are always hospitable, they'll help. But then again, I might be seeing a shotgun. No way, they'll help me! But maybe not..." ...and so on. When he finally got to the house, he threw a stone at the window and yelled: "Keep your f****n' jack!"
Now that I got started, another joke:
A finnish man had an appointment at 20 o'clock. (8 pm, in the U.S.). He decided to go to sauna first. While being there, he happened to look at the wall and said to himself: "Damn, I'm 60 hours late!"
For those of you, who haven't been in a sauna, I can tell you, they usually have something there to know the temperature...
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I hate library CDs...
Posted Jan 12, 2003
I've just recently been introduced to music of Mike Oldfield. http://tubular.net/ During christmas holiday I went to see some relatives, who took me to a local library. I discovered they had a 4-CD version of the "Elements" -compilation by Mike Oldfield. When I got back home I asked if I could lend it through my own library. It was OK, and I paid 2 euros for it. Now that I have those discs, they keep skipping portions of songs and jumping around. That's really f*****g annoying! People should respect those enough, not to scratch them, especially the more rare discs.
And another thing is the idiotical way they put adhesive tapes around the CD-cases. they put it all the way over the hinges, so that even if you do break the cover, it still opens the same way, since the tape is attached to both pieces of the case. And usually they have their own bar-code stickers just over the tracklist in the back.
I feel like screaming... 
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Harry Potter and little kids....
Posted Jan 12, 2003
Ok, I went to see the new Harry Potter film last night, The Chamber Of Secrets. Film was fairly good, with some cool features, like a flying Ford Anglia, messages on the wall written with blood and some giant spiders. One thing I was thinking bout was, when the little 1st-grader girl was writing those messages under the control of the "big evil guy", where did she get the blood??? Was it her own? Did the bad guy cut himself? Did she really kill someone? Did the director give her a bottle of fake blood? Disturbing...
Another, even more disturbing thing was not a part of the film, but the whole experience. Little kids with cell-phones. I counted at least 12 times during the film I could hear a cell-phone beeping somewhere. (Plus a couple of times which I think were just the voices in my head...). Why can't they shut those things off for the film??? I shut off mine everytime.
But that's not all about little girls of my town. You see, when I was walking home from the movies, I spotted 2 little girls. Must have been under 12, I thought. Well, first they were standing in front of me about 20 meters away. They were talking to a cell-phone. Ok, fine by me. Heard them ask someone whether or not that someone had been calling prank calls to them during the film. I wasn't really interested in them so I walked past.
Well they apparently finished the call and started running from behind me. They went past me, one from the left, and the other one from the right. They ran for about 30 meters, and once again started a call with a cell-phone. Still fine by me. I passed them again. Maybe I looked them a little too long, I don't know, but they started following me, still talking to the phone. I heard a bit: "...a boy ahead of us, staring...", so I looked back at them. Heard another piece of conversation: "...he heard us...". I wanted to say something to them, but decided to be quiet since I don't know them.
Well I was coming to a four-way crossroads and I needed to cross one of the four roads. The was a bus coming from exactly the opposite road, apparently it was going to use the same road I was about to cross. I looked at it and decided it had enough time to go before me, even if I don't stop and wait. (One's gotta be careful not to hurt those buses by walking at them...)
Well when I started crossing the street, those two girls started running towards me and screaming: "Bus! Bus!". I looked at them like, "so what?". After I and they had crossed the street, they started jumping around me. They said something, but I couldn't register A) what it was they said, and B) whether they said to each other or me. Shortly after that they ran into a pizza place and I walked home.
Weird...
I might as well state now that all of this and propably most of my forth-coming adventures happens in a little town called Virrat in the middle of a little country called Finland.
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