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Blogit: The Other World  Weird behaviour...
Kirjoitettu: 22.07.2010, 14:38:47 | What is it with old men coming to talk to me in the park? I mean, I'm just sitting there daydreaming and eating ice scream and suddenly some old man comes over to sit next to me, talk to me that informationally so very burdened small talk and then ask me if he could come over to my place for a cup of coffee. This has happened four times this summer!
So, what is it? Is it that they are really, REALLY lonely or what the hell is this kind of behaviour? And most importantly: how to avoid it? | |
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Kirjoitettu: 14.07.2010, 11:25:41 | The same jehova from a month or two back returned (you know, the subject of the Black hole/Singularity rant). This time he brought his daughter.
HE BROUGHT HIS SOON 8-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER WITH HIM TO HIS CONVERSIONS!!! I mean, by all this good and respectable, she should have been playing! It's summer, for fuck's sake! She looked so bored...
There are some things about religion that make me furious but only a couple make me reach my boiling point in seconds. One of them is the child abuse, the brainwash, that we call "bringing up to the parent's belief system". Fuck!!! They take a child, an empty canvas, and smudge it with double standards, prejudices and believes that makes independency, critical thinking and education bad, immoral things. AND THESE PEOPLE CLAIM A COPYRIGHT TO HIGHER MORAL STANDARDS!!!
I am disgusted. All I can do is hope that little girl grows to appreciate her uniqueness and strength and find happiness beyond the limits set by her parents. | |
Please, stop!
Kirjoitettu: 14.07.2010, 01:23:00 | It's... so... hot...
So hot and no wind to speak of... I need the wind back... wind... WIND!!! | |
 NOOOOOOOO!!!
Kirjoitettu: 10.07.2010, 03:06:13 | Why does this keep happening to me?! Why do I always find out about something interesting somewhere else right at the last minute so I don't have time to adjust and plan everything in advance?
This time the root of my annoyance.. actually, annoyance to the power of thousand, is this: http://2010.finncon.org/
FinnCon 2010! Why didn't I find out about this before! It's made for me! Literature, culture, sciece fiction, science (there would have been a chance to get to see a particle accelarator!!! SERIOUSLY!!!) and so much more!!!
But 3 (5) days is NOT enough to plan everything. Okay, I could manage trains, maps, locations, but accommodation and adjusting to the trip mentally... no. I bet all single hostel rooms anywhere near the university are taken long ago. And there's no way to rush the mental process.
BELGIUM!!! FRECK!!!
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Gloomy Saturday.
Kirjoitettu: 26.06.2010, 13:34:30 (Muokattu: 26.06.2010, 18:42:20) | This summer isn't starting well. Another month and a half left and this one weekend already is battering me down really badly. I suppose it's partly caused by the holiday; it's one of the many holidays that people spend with their friends having fun. Good for them but every time I look out of the window and see the silent streets, I am reminded about my own social life.. or lack thereof. No friends, no acquitances, no one. Alone.
I don't even get much out of books. I've watched Dexter's third season and Torchwood's first season today and yesterday, and now I don't have no company left of any kind. Even radio is playing just pre-recorded playlists.
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 Anime Marathon
Kirjoitettu: 23.06.2010, 03:47:47 | On the menu:
Laputa - Linna taivaalla (Hayao Miyazaki)
Naapurini Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki)
Kikin lähettipalvelu (Hayao Miyazaki)
Sydämen kuiskaus (Yoshifumi Kondo)
Henkien kätkemä (Hayao Miyazaki)
Liikkuva linna (Hayao Miyazaki)
Hellsing the Series (Tomokazu Tokoro)
Ergo Proxy the Series (Shukou Murase)
Requiem from the Darkness 1-2 (Hideki Tonokatsu)
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The layout if this place has changed since the last time I visited the site. I kind of like the news caption in the sidebar (bloody Russia...). The 'Most Recent Entries' column seems a bit odd at first since it can have several entries from one blogger instead of the latest before but I suppose I'll get used to it at some point. Nice to have a new look, though, from time to time. :)
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Kirjoitettu: 10.06.2010, 21:57:08 | | Did something very unexpected and daring today. You know these people in larger towns who collect donors for Unicef or SPR or Pelastakaa lapset ry or WWF etc.? I was approached by one of them today. We talked, I signed up and then -without giving it much thought- I said: "This is really irrelevant but I have to say that you have beautiful eyes." And she did! Light turquose, a bit greenish ice. In my opinion it was kind of like saying something nice to someone but I have to admit it did have a little -not much even though she didn't wear an engagement or wedding ring- sexual undertones in it, just a little. I do know I'm not sexually attractive (except to certain type of straight men) and today most certainly not but.. somehow I had the courage to say what I thought and feel good about it and myself even though I know she wasn't into me. And guess what? It made me feel good. I bet the people passing me on the street probably thought I was a bit loony (they most certainly looked at me like that) but who cares?! I feel good! | |
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Kirjoitettu: 30.05.2010, 11:49:35 | As expected, Germany won. I have to admit that I did like Turkey's song, too. But what the fuck did Romania do as the third?! Their song was such bullshit! Plus, I was (and am) still a bit bitter that the voters did not see the genius of Estonia's song; ML could have replaced any of the many monotonous ballads in the final.. like Belarus of Portugal or Belgium.
And now, even though Eurovision is over I'll be off to listen to Ukraine's song; it is so good! And I have to write down the Japanese lecture times. Sayonara! | |
Eurovision 2010 - Semi-final 1
Kirjoitettu: 25.05.2010, 23:26:38 (Muokattu: 25.05.2010, 23:59:54) | Even though the music isn't usually exactly my cup of tea, I can't . There's something so odd about this event: the shameless and exhilarating joy of all the contestants as well as the audience. And thus it begins. I watched all the first semifinal performers on YouTube (and some others as well); let's see if the live performance changes my opinions at all.
Moldova - Yes, Mr Saxonfonist, we know your a guy even without the crotch swinging... I have to wonder how those violins work, though, since they're hollow... Nonetheless, the song sounds to me as a mundane disco/dance song, which tends to equal flowing through my mind without leaving any kind of a mark. A nil-flow...
Russia - I kinda like the vocalist's voice (and pronunciation, of course) but seriously, what would all the song writers do if they were told they can't write a song about love?
Estonia - YEAH! So Depeche Mode and I love it! The video is so amazing, too! Not quite the wardrobe I expected but okay. I really like the alternative song, singing and performance. This is my absolute favourite in this group!
Slovakia - A peculiar Robin Hood-goes-Conan wardrobe... Credit for the language choice, though... Another nil-flow although the language choice keeps this in my mind longer than those sung in English.
Finland - Hmm... I would have wanted to see the English translation of the song.. I wish I could see this through the eyes of one who doesn't understand Finnish or have my cultural bias. Personally I still can't let the dialect connotations go... I doubt this is odd in the positive way enough to get us to the finals. Well, we'll see...
Latvia - Oh fuck, another ballad... Here's a question of my own: why bother writing a song about the mysteries of life and write them off with one line about a diety? Boooooring...
Serbia - Points for the language choice again... that guy is very stereotypical gay man which might be a good thing if he wouldn't be from Serbia.. I doubt the LGBT rights bloom in a country still solving the war crimes from 20 years back.
Bosnia & Herzegovina - Finally some rock aspect to this thing! This I could listen to again, no doubt about it. The lyrics are very well chosen for this part of the world, for the reasons I stated in the previous song. I hope this gets to the finals so we get some musical diversity in there.
Poland - I have a long minus for this... oh, shit, it's the stupid cheating video love song! The intro would be so nice for a power metal song. Again, plus for the bits in Polish but really, you have twenty of these in a dozen. I like the Snow White-ish co-singer, though, apple and all.
Belgium - Oh please kill me... At least it's not a love song about the female love of his life. I'm watching this via web and seriously, if this is the quality with which YLE is planning to make everyone pay.. well, fuck that. This buffers and tilts this about twice a minute with no warning. Hmm, maybe it's the live situation.
Malta - What is it with Malta and love ballads? The only reason I even finished the video was to watch the development of her background dancer in the angel costume. This is so.. Radio Nova!!! And that is not a compliment. And the tilting makes it even worse.
Albania - Yet another love song... The lyrics are such a cliché and the music is another nil-flow. I kinda like her voice but there's only so much that helps. And her gospel background has apparently followed her in the form of the background vocalists. Oh, they're from USA.. well that explains it.
Greece - The intro of the video was so promising.. they've apparently cut that from the live performance. To me this seems like a Greek male Pussycat Dolls: intricate choreography all the band is about the singer whose "friends" seem to contribute to the song only by shouting "hey" and "opa". The only positive thing I can think of is the short inclusion of the weird instrument played by the guy in black.
Portugal - Again, points for not using English... and another love ballad. A Radio Nove nil-flow.
FYR Macedonia - This is quite a medley: a pop A part, a rock B part, a rap sequence, and back to rock. Well, at least it's rock and not in English. The background dancers are such a cliché, though: women dancing in small clothing. But this does have an excellent guitar solo!
Belarus - another fucking ballad, and about another cliché: butterflies as women. So BORING! And as a lepidopterophibic I've heard some very questionable things about the live performance. I do hope it's just a rumour... Apparently an exaggerated truth... plastic wings...
Iceland - When I first heard this, I was ready to boot it. But after the previous I rather listen to this 90's dance song. The song's pretty mundane but you've got to like her voice! Not as immense as that of the vocalist of Infernal but better than others in this semifinal. There was a rather interesting plot to the video, too.
My three votes go to numbers 3 (Estonia), 8 (Bosnia & Herzegovina) and 17 (Iceland). Special non-voting support to Macedonia.
Minusvotes to Belarus, Malta and Belgium. An extra minus for Latvia. And Portugal. Sorry, guys, but I really don't like ballads and songs saying absolutely nothing.
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Semi-Final Qualifiers have been chosen. Two of my favourites got to the finals but unfortunately not Estonia. Those guys could have replaced any of the bloody ballads. Like the remaining countries would have no ballads at all and they should all come from the first semifinals! Bollocks, I say. And now I'm going to go and download my top three and perhaps even Germany if that's downloadable (I admit, I like it, I really do!).
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 Singularities in minds
Kirjoitettu: 25.05.2010, 12:29:44 | A new set of Jehovas decided to try and convert me (or "teach" me, as they say, they don't "convert"... yeah, right). Alas, my daily rhythm is pretty much the opposite of normal which means that I was already in bed reading and getting ready to sleep when I felt tired. For some reason I got up and answered the door; I guess I haven't spoken to anyone again for a while which tends to drive me passively towards some human contact. Anyway, the discussion went as usual. He says one thing, I contradict, he says the same thing again and I contradict. As I was a bit tired I decided to fuck politeness and made some rather sarcastic and just downright mean remarks (although even the mean ones were valid but I could have delivered them differently).
The guy kept insisting he didn't interpret the bible but while reading Revelations he did exactly that! When I pointed that out he said plainly stated he didn't interpret it, that it had been interpreted by a mysterious "orjakansa". I tried to ask a definition for that and what do I get? Nada, niente, absolutely nothing. No straight answer to what one would expect to be a simple question since he kept referring to the same thing so many times. He kept saying no Jehova's Witness interprets the bible. But still... Can't find the part he quoted. It was something about the signs of endtimes, of "portto" and something about ten horns and whatever (John must have had one hell of a trip.. so to speak). And all the time while reading he kept interepreting these to me: "portto" is actually organised religion (oh, the irony!!!) and politics and the ten horns signify the UN (nowadays I just might agree with the metaphor) and so on. He didn't even answer my question as to why an omnipotent being would even write text that used such metaphors (=interpretations!) rather than putting it there plainly. One of the never-ending dilemmas of all delusional nutter faith-heads.
This time I actually went to get my colour-marked bible of all the contradictions I've found (first I also tried to mark red all the morally questionable parts but the paper slips took too much space). I took the most simple example I know: which came first, humans or animals? Simple, not a question of interpretation (unlike the death of Judas being explained away by saying there just happened to be two Judases who both hanged around with the apostels and who both had a guilty conscious and 30 pieces of silver...).
Splenetic: "Niin jumala loi suuret meripedot ja kaikki muut elävät olennot, joita vedet vilisevät (1. Mooses 1:21) --- Jumala teki villieläimet, karjaeläimet ja erilaiset pikkueläimet (:25) --- Jumala sanoi: 'Tehkäämme ihmisen...' (:26)"
The goddelusional: Just like I said, animals came first.
S: "Ja herra jumala muovasi maan tomusta ihmisen ja puhalsi hänen sieraimiinsa elämän henkäyksen (1. Mooses 2:7) -- Ja herra jumala muovasi maasta kaikki villieläimet ja kaikki taivaan linnut (:19)" There, the contradiction.
G: There's no contradiction.
S: What? In the first chapter animals came first, in the second chapter after the human. How is that *not* a contradiction?!
G: It's not.
I don't know how Richard Dawkins does it. How can he camply state the same things over and over and time after time face the same inanity with serenity? After ten minutes I was beginning to boil: how can he not understand? How much simpler does this have to be for him to get it? How small and basic pieces do I have to break this easy sentence for him to see the plain contradiction?!
I wish I could see inside their minds, see that black hole in their brain that drains all logic that passes through the synapses and warps everything -even the most basic words!- into something else, something that fits to the delusion it feeds -and which in turn feeds it. How can they live in such a state, a state of continuous self-deceit? How can they live such a blatant lie?
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Kirjoitettu: 19.05.2010, 22:11:26 | I just watched 'Avatar' on DVD. I can see why it's so popular. To some extent it's similar to 'The Lord of the Rings', with the invented languages and the epic battle between good (humanism) and evil (capitalism). And, besides, what's to complain with Sigourney Weaver! ;)
It's really stunning visually, too. The ultimate paradise, especially with the phosphorescent plants, floating mountains and huge trees and waterfalls. One has to love the medusa-like seeds of the Sacred Tree. Amazing!
I just wish the Na'vi language book were real, I would love to learn Na'vi like Klingon and Sindarin. I'm a geek and very proud of it!
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Kirjoitettu: 19.05.2010, 00:07:14 | Wonderful. Now my night dreams of having sex with a man have penetrated my waking dreams.. so to speak.
Only one conclusion to draw: I really need to get laid. Otherwise someone should find a way to use all the spilling sexual energy within us forcefully celibate individuals this planet holds. We could each light up an entire town for quite a while...
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Just my luck...
Kirjoitettu: 14.05.2010, 08:02:51 | Guess what yours truly discovered this morning. Hint: I can't chew properly, swallowing hurts and there's a constant pain on my maxilla (= upper jaw bone). Yup, a wisdom tooth. I made some quick search on the matter now that the short thundering went by (a bit odd feeling to be so cut off from the world, which in my case meant no TV, no radio and especially no internet). It appears I'm going to need the extensive operation. Usually wisdom teeth in the maxilla are left alone unless they inflict the above-mentioned symptoms. For once I can be happy for all the correcting treatments I had as a kid and a teen: I have no fear of dentists. I do, however, cringe on the idea of the post-operative three-day pain and swelling. How am I supposed to eat? What am I supposed to eat? Soups and yoghurt probably. And ice cream to comfort the swelling.
The student health care organisation's self help pages to contact the dentist as soon as possible, preferribly BEFORE the above-mentioned symptoms, especially the pain. But of course the place is closed today. And today I'm leaving for my cousin's third birthday. Ooo, I've completely forgot to mention: she became a big sister not a month ago! This should be interesting now that I've seen her grow, maybe when the baby is given for me to hold I won't go stiff and whispers panicked "takeitaway, takeitaway, takeitaway!".
But. Four days of pain ahead. Whehey...
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 Pope Song!
Kirjoitettu: 03.05.2010, 11:30:14 | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHRDfut2Vx0
Fuck the motherfucker, fuck the motherfucker,
Fuck the motherfucker hes a fucking motherfucker.
Fuck the motherfucker, fuck the fucking fucker,
Fuck the motherfucker hes a total fucking fucker
Fuck the motherfucker, fuck the motherfucker,
Fuck the mother fucker, fuck him, fuck the motherfucker.
Fuck the motherfucker, fuck the motherfucking pope.
Fuck the motherfucker, and fuck you motherfucker
If you think that motherfucker is sacred.
If you cover for another motherfucker whos a kiddy-fucker,
Fuck you, youre no better than the motherfucking rapist.
And if you dont like the swearing that this motherfucker forced from me
And reckon it shows moral or intellectual paucity
Then fuck you motherfucker, this is language one employs
When one is fucking cross about fuckers fucking boys
I dont give a fuck if calling the pope a motherfucker
Means you unthinkingly brand me an unthinking apostate.
This has nowt to do with other fucking godly motherfuckers
Im not interested right now in fucking scriptural debate.
There are other fucking songs and there are other fucking ways,
Ill be a religious apologist on other fucking days,
But the fact remains if you protect a SINGLE kiddy fucker
Then Pope or Prince or Plumber, youre a fucking mother fucker.
See I dont give a fuck what any other motherfucker
Believes about Jesus and his motherfucking mother.
Ive no problem with the spiritual beliefs of all these fuckers
While those beliefs dont impact on the happiness of others,
But if you build your church on claims of fucking moral authority
And with threats of hell impose it on others in society,
Then you, you motherfuckers, can expect some fucking wrath
When it turns out youve been fucking us in our motherfucking asses.
So fuck the motherfucker, and fuck you motherfucker
If youre still a motherfucking papist.
If he covered for a single motherfucker whos a kiddy-fucker,
Fuck the motherfucker, hes as evil as the rapist.
And if you look into your motherfucking heart and tell me true
If this motherfucking stupid fucking song offended you,
With its filthy fucking language and its fucking direspect,
If it made you feel angry, go ahead and write a letter,
But if you find me more offensive than the fucking possibility
The pope protected priests when they were getting fucking fiddly
Then listen to me motherfucker - this here is a fact,
You are just as morally misguided as that motherfucking,
Power-hungry, self-aggrandized bigot in the stupid fucking hat.
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Kirjoitettu: 21.04.2010, 21:30:26 | Wake up.
Turn on the computer.
See today's headlines.
"Hallitus myönsi luvat kahdelle ydinvoimalalle."
"Kaikki puolueet lupailivat maksuttoman koulutuksen säilyttämistä" (bullocks; political memory is clearly very short since the very same people pushed for the exact opposite!)
Go back to sleep.
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The following will sound just downright cruel. Sometimes I wish my paternal grandfather was dead. Not for myself but for my grandmother. First her father literally sold her (at the age of 17) to my grandfather, 13 years of her senior. She has been put down all her life, threatened with never seeing her kids again if she divorced, and now when she's on pension her husband, my grandfather, age 80+, is dementic and requires constant care for which she gets no support (monetary or otherwise) from the state. It makes me so angry. Even now he has some kind of power over her: she's afraid to speak of things in front of him. She told me she'd like to see Budabest; I agreed to go with her and settle everything, but now she's backing up. I phoned her today: she said nothing of the trip at all and towards the end her voice became a whisper. Later she sent me a text message explaining she couldn't talk about the trip because my grandfather was there.
I'm angry. Her whole life she's been a servant to others and their whims. Even now, during her last years she's tied to home so much she can't even take five days to do what she's dreamt of. I am so angry at the people and the state that make this possible.
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Visually...
Kirjoitettu: 12.04.2010, 16:47:38 | I just had a stomach-groping feeling not long ago. I was paying my grosseries with three bills. The girl, however, said it was about ten euros less than I was supposed to give. I looked at the money again; I'm sometimes absent-minded so it's possible, especially since I had just handed in the wrong bonus card. But in my opinion and with my maths I was correct and I said it. She disagreed again. When we disagreed for the third time I was already worried: had I finally lost it? Luckily I hadn't. For some reason she was mistaken.
What I kept wondering on my way home was my own reaction. My first thought was that there must be something biologically wrong with my brain if I'm seeing a 10€ bill in a 5€ bill. It's just so weird that my first potential disease was the worst: "A brain tumor!" Why is it that when something's wrong people tend to assume the worst? Statistically brain tumors are rare and therefore a hallucination is unlikely to be caused by a tumor. In everything else we think according to Occam's razor -the less assumptions an explanation requires, the more likely it is to be the right explanation- but not with illnesses. Brain cancer, bening tumors, haematomas, strokes... it seems that being wrong just isn't an option.
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So embarrasing...
Kirjoitettu: 12.04.2010, 09:49:32 | Emphasising universities' life depending on capitalists' sponsoring. Making higher education something to sell. Making education submissive to capitalist rules of making money no matter what the quality of the education.
It seems that all of Kokoomus's attempts (and achievements) to undermine Finnish higher education system are thought stupid in SYL and in every other university than the one I attend to. It is so embarrasing to keep reading all the argumentations against these Kokkari "ideas" but my university's student union embraces all these ideas apparently without the slightest questioning. It makes me SO EMBARRASED to read about the rest of the higher education student unions in the whole fucking country to unite against these things and then read all the statements from the student union saying the exact opposite.
How the fuck do we have such a Kokoomus board running the whole fucking university short-sightedly but according to whatever whims the party comes up with? Do they have any brains of their own to THINK?!
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Kirjoitettu: 10.04.2010, 12:13:42 (Muokattu: 10.04.2010, 12:15:35) | What is it that normal people have?
Where do you find friends? Where do you find spouses?
How can you develop either type of relationship?
How can you understand what other people want or don't want, especially since people don't say it out loud or even say the exact opposite?
How do you understand what they mean?
To what extent can you form a relationship with the assumption that all they've just said might be not true but that the other is just pretending because of the stupid social rules that dictate so?
What are all those important questions you should ask right away so that you wouldn't waste time and energy for something that seems to be going fine and is then demolished by a fundamental characteristic in the other that is something you can't accept?
To what extent can you accept the other's faults?
What do you speak about with a stranger yo want to get to know better?
Why can't those topics be of some importance instead of something completely useless like the weather?
Why do people want to talk about these types of things anyway?
Who cares about a notion of weather you can see for yourself?
How do people meet others?
Techincally speaking the likelihood of encountering someone with similar objects of interest and morals are so small that it would require meeting so many others with utterly incompatible characteristics which in turn would take so much time and energy?
Is finding friends and spouses really worth all that trouble and if so, why?
Why do we have to have cravings for social relations, friends and lovers, when at the same time we have severe incababalities to have and sustain them in the first place?
What is it about people others look for?
If I'm supposed to tolerate others' faults, why are my faults so much worse than theirs?
Why do I even have to have those faults?
What kind of faults are people willing to tolerate better?
What can you talk about with strangers?
How can you ignore the pretentious and lying nature of that very conduct, small talk, that people seem to think is the only way to connect with others?
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 The beginning of a genre...
Kirjoitettu: 05.04.2010, 21:11:24 (Muokattu: 05.04.2010, 21:13:36) | In remembrance of the only useful literary contribution 'Bible' ever had on the history of world literature: zombies.
Read 'Tuhansien zombien maa' to revere this classic story.
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Kirjoitettu: 01.04.2010, 16:54:12 | Perkeleen pääsiäinen! Joka saatanan kevät menee rutiinit päin helvettiä "pyhien" takia. Ei pääse edes kirjastoon!!!
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Unbelievable...
Kirjoitettu: 18.03.2010, 00:59:25 | The reason I managed to lock myself out of my own apartment was a film I watched earlier today. You may have heard of it: 'The Stoning of Soraya M.' It brought me in such a rage, hatred, sorrow, loathing, pity, will to kill that I actually forgot my keys. Considering leaving my keys in is a continuing phobia of sorts, it takes much for me to ignore that neurosis.
Anyway, back to the title. What I find unbelievable is what I just encountered. The movie is based on a book of the same name and I was going to get it. Emphasis on the word "was", since I can't find it anywhere. Absolutely nowhere I know to look. Not even AdLibris. That place is the one that has never failed me. It seemed that it made no difference whether it was a bestseller or some obscure and marginal book, it was there.
Until now, of course. Freidoune Sahebjam's book which only has its Danish translation listed. I tried BookPlus, Akateeminen and Suomalainen, I tried Huuto, BookMooch, all I could think of. The only place I found it was Amazon UK. But as I don't do credit cards... yeah, well, unless my sister has one and she orders it for me, I need to find some other place. Any suggestions? Is there some place I've missed?
As for the movie, watch it. That's all I'm capable of phrasing logically at the moment about it. Just watch it. Don't argue with me, watch it. Everyone. No excuses not to, for anyone.
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Kirjoitettu: 17.03.2010, 20:53:09 | | I better enjoy this pizza VERY much. As it so happened, I locked myself out of my apartment. It costs 20 euros to get back in (no wonder at this hour). So: I better enjoy this cold Alla Pollo of mine. | |
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Kirjoitettu: 13.03.2010, 12:12:39 (Muokattu: 13.03.2010, 12:13:17) | After several months of waiting, it finally happened: Tim Burton's latest "Alice in Wonderland" came out. Of course I had to go and see it right away. In fact, twice in a row.
But, oh the disappointment! The movie was alright but it didn't live up to the hype. I did enjoy it as far as escapism went but unfortunately that's it. The bad side of being a genious like Tim Burton is that the bar is pretty fucking high for each movie; what would be amazing by any other director is now quite neutral in his own category. One specific thing that eats me is the use of clichés: I mean, seriously, why use Red Queen's repeated line when decapitating her champion in the final fight? I do think having the head bounce down the stairs to Red Queen's feet would have been fantastic without that patronising cliché that was used. Also, too bad Alan Rickman's face wasn't used in the CGI compilation of the caterpillar in the end.
On positive side, the Hatter was pretty interesting. Not as mad as I expected -although Depp does really nice job with the occasional glimpses of more plain insanity. Luckily we have the Hare! Now that's fantastic! He's hilarious.. "spoon!". While watching I kept wondering just exactly how some of the things were done, like expanding Bonham Carter's head like that. Perhaps the DVD release will have extras in it; I' probably going to get it so I can watch them and the movie in 2D.
Speaking of 2D... I will never again go see two 3D movies in a row. The system does indeed cause headache before long (to me the limit is about three hours).. the question is why? I'll have to see if I can find that out somewhere. Until then I suggest taking the glasses off: you can watch the film without them but the picture will be a bit odd, as if you're seeing in double. The 3D factor wasn't really used in the film much. In some occasions, most notably during the falling sequence (and the poor hedgehog!), it was interesting but most of the time it was just there. I am very much looking forward to seeing the film in the regular way. And I am so not going to go and watch "Avatar" after this. DVDs in waiting again...
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Torture porn?
Kirjoitettu: 10.03.2010, 23:24:11 | Yes, you read the title right. I just finished watching the sixtha nd the final Saw movie. Now, some people mocked it by claiming it's torture porn. I assume that with this the aim is to propose that the sole purpose of Saw movies is to offer people an opportunity to watch others suffer, seriously suffer, both physically and psychologically (and morally in traps involving more than one person), not so much to offer an actual plausible story in which torture is just a way of carrying out the motivations of the characters.
I suppose it all boils down to one question: which came first, the storyline or the traps? I've watched all the extras the DVDs have to offer and it seems it's a bit of a borderline case. I mean, it similar to the cases (in film, music, art etc.) which are provocative and, in fact, require thinking. The first one to come to mind is the art exhibition by some Finnish female artist who criticised child porn through photographs of minors. Another example would be the movie "An American Crime", which has been accused of sensetionalising the events that actually took place, and being blurring about whether the movie is a drama that has violence or violence with celluloid drama. I think the Finnish phrase "mässäillä väkivallalla/seksillä" is quite sufficient.
So basically: is the controversal thing there for its own sake or does it serve a "higher", more abstract purpose? If you look at Saw movies separately, I suppose one could interpret them as torture porn. However, this in turn boils down to another question: the question whether a viewer perceives Jigsaw's logic of the person's crime matching the game they are chained into, so to speak. If the viewer disagrees, and thus is in need of an even higher purpose, they are more likely to view it as torture porn. But if the viewer does agree, they may be more likely to consider the given purpose sufficient and/or is willing to wait and see what the rest of the movie has to explain on the matter (as there always is a plot twist) or perhaps to the rest of the series (Saw VI did wrap up many loose ends). Of course this division isn't infallible as all Saw movies have several traps and thus propose numerous situation, each in which the viewer must take a stand to agree or disagree with Jigsaw's logic of punishment.
The whole concept of porn (torture or regular) is also slightly problematic as there are also different views on that. Is porn for porn's sake okay? I'm sure there are plenty of people more than willing to disagree but I think it is okay. There's an interesting to this attitude within the adult film community, too: (1) Do the writers/directors take porn for porn's sake without making a plot around it to make it perhaps more believable or to point out clearer that the film is indeed fiction? (2) Do the writers/directors make up a sloppy, superficial, a-few-cliché-lines dialogue as if to.. yeah, what? Does someone need that kind of dialogue and unbelievable plot? (3) Or, do the makers, regardless of the genre and therefore, by definition, having sex in it, make a nice and believable background story and characters for the actors (I'd like to refer all lesbian porn fans to Girlfriends Films but I'm pretty sure you're aware of the production already)? Personally, I'm in favour of numbers 1 and 3. Perhaps this is why I don't get passionate over the possibility of Saws as torture porn as they make the storyline plausible enough to fall to the third category.
Apparently there's no clean-cut answer for this question (and my essay writing has clearly left my brain on the academic writing mode...). Below is a link to a YouTuber called Nykytyne2 from whom I got the term torture porn.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRVRYK7G4oU
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Perkele...
Kirjoitettu: 10.03.2010, 10:41:05 (Muokattu: 10.03.2010, 10:41:16) | Yliopiston lakko ensi viikolta peruttu. Kaikki tahot kuitenkin vain toistavat samaa (luultavasti etukäteen erittäin tarkasti) laadittua tiedotetta asiasta, joka on niin epämääräinen kuin olla ja voi työsopimuksen nykyisistä ehdoista. Palkkakehitys kyllä kuvataan, mutta entäs ne sunnuntain työmääräykset ilman työntekijältä kysymistä? Sairaustapaukset? Jotain epämääräistä jälkimmäisestä on kahden aiemman mallin yhdistämisestä, mutta älkää vain kertoko mikä se uusi malli on saatika mitä ne kaksi edellistä olivat!
Perkele kun voi olla saatanan vaikeaa julkaista suoraselkäistä viestiä, helvetti!!! Pitääkö tässä opiskelijan lähteä soittelemaan Sytyyn ja tenttaamaan niiltä tarkempia tietoja, kun eivät laita niitä itse tiedotteeseen mukaan?! | |
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Kirjoitettu: 09.03.2010, 05:23:50 (Muokattu: 09.03.2010, 08:06:23) | To honour the International Women's Day five hours past I gathered a short list of female artists or vocalists I love.
The amazing Simone Simons (Epica):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNGzltK_tlc
Tori Amos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8ljHOSqc4A
The diverse and angry Candece Clot (Eths):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S97oUM_fjs8
Speaks for herself.. Cristina Scabbia (Lacuna Coil):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCxFTh-XDy8
What a voice! Floor Jansen (ex-After Forever):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjm4BrNAf6s - Not the best possible example of the unbelievable range of her voice but good enough
The angelic Sharon den Adel (Within Temptation):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bqRn0rLq1c
JESSI FREY!!! (Velcra):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBFMeOm7F5s
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Kirjoitettu: 08.03.2010, 07:51:09 | Apparently nothing's been going on in my life in the past weeks. Well... really, nothing useful. The most important thing is that I managed to uncloister today by sleeping approximately 16 hours and got up at five. A bit early for someone with lectures starting at noon but at least I'll be attending the class and I won't be late. And I'm going to need some caffeine to stay up.
Post scriptum: Yes, I'm pretty sure no one cares about my sleeping rhythm but I had to think of something to write as the previous entry was getting boring.
Oh, I did get the "personal" astrological reading. Bullocks, just like I thought. Apparently they just fill in the name in every second name to make it personal. Not to mention that it was over-positive. Another thing is that it repeated same phrases and sentences and paragraphs all the time. The 3-page thing can be reduced into less that 1 ½ pages when deleting all the repetition. At least it didn't make the mistake of "predicting" my love life which undoubtedly would have been straight. Bullshit. Does someone actually fall for that?!
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Oh dear...
Kirjoitettu: 25.02.2010, 12:11:23 | For the second time in three months I'm contacted by a firm that wants me to consider saving/investing/whatever with their system. First was the poor guy who tried to sell me the pensions system, now I was called to a meeting with a firm (I did some background checking: it's another savings/investment bank) to discuss my finances with an expert. I'll do it just for the fun of it, and maybe I'll learn something new.
But... getting calls about pension, working, savings and investments. Does this make me officially an adult? | |
This should be interesting... Vol. 1
Kirjoitettu: 24.02.2010, 15:05:48 (Muokattu: 24.02.2010, 15:06:15) | In a rather odd place (Pharyngula) Google positioned an ad for an astrologer who will do a reading for free. So of course I had to submit a request. Now don't get me wrong: I'm open-minded. Sceptic but open-minded. If she manages (or any of her numerous assistants which she must have to respond to all the requests) to give a detailed, passing-my-linguistic-analysis reading that has no self-fulfilling prophecies and these actually happen, I'm willing to give her some credit. This is my personal Randi test.
I should have a response in a couple of days. Then comes the part 2. Stay tuned.
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Kirjoitettu: 24.02.2010, 01:32:46 | Oh.. wow...!!! Now that's the type of society structure I want!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icx5TucPZpw
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