Sigur Rös ja Anima Kultiksella 29.10.2005

Kävin eilen Villen kanssa Sigur Rös:in keikalla. Paikalle oli raahattu Anima(?) niminen tyttökvartetti. Sigur Rös:sin pojat saivat sillä tavalla halvemmalla jouset taustalle omalle keikalleen.

Anima(?) oli tekotaiteellista paskaa, juuri sellaista musiikkia, mitä taidelukiolaiset pikkutytöt saa irti käyttäessään luovasti erilaisia instrumentteja, kuten viinilaseja. No ehkä tämä olisi toiminut turbiinihallissa selällään patjalla maatessa, mutta ei selkäkipuisena jalat puuduksissa seisomapaikalla kultsalla, jossa oli jotenkin sellainen epätodellinen nuoriseurantalolla fiilis.

Sigur Rös tarjosi koko skaalan; unetttavasta paskasta maailman historian hienoimpiin popkyltyyrisiin sisäisen maailman manifestointeihin. Tykkäsin kovasti aina silloin, kun uni ei meinannut tulla silmiin. Olin autolla, joten lasi viiniä ei riittänyt euforiaan, mutta sopivalla fiilisten virittelyllä eilinen olisi noussut keikat kautta aikain -listalla kärkisijoille. Mixaus oli varsin onnistunut, tosin saattaahan tuo salin akustiikkakin auttaa asiaa. Ei olisi kylläkään kannattanut ottaa seisomapaikkoja. A ja J saivat "näköalarajoitteiset" paikat takaa keskeltä, tod.näk paljon mukavaisempaa olisi ollut siellä.

Levyistä

Sigur Rös; Takk
Uskomattoman hieno albumi. Onnistuin vielä saamaan liput kultsalle. Vielä olisi tarjolla paikka permannolta jollekin onnelliselle. Metacritics: 84

Q: Takk... [is] a thing of... supple, muscular beauty, throwing off the stultifying air of reverence that has sometimes surrounded them. [Oct 2005, p.116]

Dungen; Ta det lungt
Kyllä ne ruotsalaiset osaa poppinsa tehdä. Guestbookin perusteella näyttävät minibreikanneet jenkeissä. En ollut aiemmin kuullut, mutta mikäli tulevat Suomessa käymään niin menen varmasti keikalle. Hieno bändi tämäkin. Metcritics: 88

Ta Det Lugnt feels less like a new release than some ancient tome, a fully formed masterpiece dropped unexpectedly on corduroy laps from some blue-brown sky. It's so aesthetically tight, jangly verdant, and musty that even carbon dating insists that it could not be post-millennial.
Pitchfork

Franz Ferdinand: You could have it so much better
Ei ehkä niin hyvä kuin edellinen. Metacritics: 82

Vhs or beta; Night on fire
Kuuluu sarjaan postpunk-New York-disco. Formulatermein erittttäin loistava. Mixaus hieman ohut (vai pitäisikö sanoa tuotanto?). Kiertävät par'aikaa Braveryn kanssa, olispa niiin mukava päästä sille keikalle. metacritics läimää: 57 pojoa.

New Pornographers: Twin Cinema
Yritin ostaa tän levyn jo edellisellä reissulla, mutta silloin Rasputinissa väittivät, että levyä ei oltu vielä julkaistu, vaikkakin arvostelu löytyi lehdistä. Aivan loistava bändi, muistuttaa kovasti Velocity Girl:iä. Ellette ole jo tutustuneet, niin mars lähimpään levykauppaan ja heti. Metacritics: 84.
Goldspot; tally of the yes men
Hiukka Curea, pikkasen 90-luvun brittipoppia ja tuhnaus americanaa. Kuulostaa välillä loistavalta, mutta pieni epäilys on, että tähän saattaa väsyä. Lyriikat kuulostavat oivaltavilta, mutta oikeasti en ole niihin ehtinyt tutustua. Suosittelen tutustumista. Metacritics: N/A

LA Weekly Review
"The stars aligned for Goldspot recently — after years of tilling the fringes of L.A.’s play-to-your-friends club scene — with the release of their elegantly singable debut album, Tally of the Yes Men. Taste-shaping KCRW DJ Nic Harcourt embraced the disc, and crowds swelled accordingly (tonight’s an outdoor KCRW show, along with local post-punk folkers Earlimart). Gorgeously oblivious to fads and fashion, Goldspot have woven their Cure/R.E.M./Smiths patchwork with threads of exotic melody lingering from main-man Siddhartha’s Indian upbringing. Onstage they rightly bask in the strength of their material, and Siddhartha’s a willing focal point, complete with love-it-or-hate-it affected-eccentric demeanor. And note to bands everywhere: Goldspot reign in the instrumental volume, allowing Siddhartha to examine every nuance of his Buckley/Orbison timbre."

Flyleaf; Flyleaf
Pre-debut EP. Formaattirokkia, sopii kaljanjuontiin taustamusiikiksi. Webbisivut on nätit.

Kohtuullisen tarkka GPS paikannus

http://www.digitoday.fi/

Yhdysvaltain suurlähettiläs John Beyrle huomasi matkapuhelimensa kadonneen Bulgarian tullissa. Puhelin katosi, kun lähettilään matkatavaroita tutkittiin läpivalaisulaitteella.

Beyrle huomautti asiasta tullivirkailijoille, jotka etsivät laitetta ympäri tullin tiloja.

Sitten Beyrle muisti, että puhelimessa on gps-paikannusjärjestelmä. Hän otti kannettavan tietokoneensa esiin, ja ruudulla näkyi heti, missä laite oli: erään tullimiehen taskussa.

Tahtoo tuollaisen GPS:n, joka toimii sisätiloissa ja on vielä niin tarkka, että paikantuu jonkun taskuun.

Greetings from San Francisco

The sun is shining, people, even the homeless, are smiling and are dancing in the streets, hugging and kissing ... even in Hooters. Warf's not Frisco, this is the turist area. Even the bars close at 1am. All the parties are in North Beach. Luckily wee did not go there yesterday. Stayed at the Cranary(?) to half past twelve and had a coulpe of beers. The place has 85 different draft beers! Alaskan Amber is on of my favorites.
Got the neverlost this time ... only that the car is soooooo crappy; Kia Optima. There's nothing optimal in it. It is downright dangerous to drive. If anything unexpected should happen the car would not tolerate any kind of sudden steering operation, but send me to the orbit. I'm gonna have it changed.
Bought some cds and made my new personal record ($100) at the Tower:
- feist; let it die
- dungen; ta det lungt
- carmen rizzo; the lost art of the idle moment
- goldspot; tally of the yes men
- flyleaf; flyleaf
- sigur rös; takk
- sonic youth; goo (2cd deluxe edition, with lots of extras)
- vhs or beta; night on fire

There was then Barnes&Nobles at the next doors... Anyway today work and muirwoods, promised to take Mika there. I've been there in the early nineteens.

About the caching here

I mentioned being in the woods trecking. First comment was: "Are you fool it is dangerous here, there are snakes!". I took it calmly and asked about the spiders, the anwer was: "Yeah those too, there are some black widows." The general rule is, you better keep away of those spiders unless you know them. Guess how many different spiders I was at the cache site. A little hint, I had a wooden stick with which I tried to remove the webs from the path I was walking through.

Country Club here I come

I was invited to the local country club for a dinner. Very nice, I guess. They are stil fighting the civil war round here... Better not make any remarks of Bush and Iraq, even if asked. Better not to say anything, unless asked, I guess. Luckily I can always control myself. I need a tie to get in... so far from my jeans and free t-shirt world. I do not hunt, golf, ride horses... luckily I do sail, so I have at least one acceptable gentleman's hobby.
Well I never have been in a county club. I was prepared by mentioning that this is the finest club in the NC and "there's more people living in NC than in whole Finland." So out of my league, I bet I'll miss frendi at some point.
So country club, ready or not, here I come!

Quartes

New Quarters:
* Mississippi
* Alabama
* Florida
* Minnesota

Missing:
1999:
Delaware
New Jersey
Gergia
2000:
Maryland
2001:
North Carolina
Vermont
2002:
Tennesee
Ohio
Indiana
2003:
2004:
Michigan
2005:
California

Word verification

I had a second blog for a while, but I destroyed it. There was not too many postings, but still it got the spam comments and I had to removed it. I have now activated the word recognition service in this blog -- I still hope you'd make comment, although there is now an extra twist. I am just trying to avoid my primary blog to get flooded with commercial announcements.

Waiting for the rash

Went trecking yesterday. Beutiful wheather. Sun was shining and it was very warm, hence I wore shorts and a t-shirt. I went into the woods and looked for a cache that should have been a easy one. I did not read all the logs, not after I return to the hotel. On the latest logs people were making remarks of rattle snakes and poison ivy on the cache location. I did not spot any snakes... but I am not so sure about the ivy. I did not go to any serious bush whacking and I did realize the obvious shortcomings of my clothing, but I did go around a bit. I did not find the cache, since I did not go deep enough to the bush, but did I accidentally had a contact with ivy? How can I know? Well I guess the only time will tell.

TomToms and lost again

borrowed a tom tom from a friend of mine and it was very cool. It finds the location after power-up in seconds and the guidance map is pretty good. BUT on my way back to the hotel from a outlet mall the tom tom tried to get me to do U-turn and go back when I took a turn to where I thought that I should go. First I thought that the machine must be better navigator than me, but since I had a slightest doubt I checked the direction from my handheld GPSr and it confirmed my decicion. For some reason the tom tom had not selected the best possible route to the destination. Anyway it is a pretty impressive device, although it seems that one cannot fully trust its judgement skills.
I have not heard anything from either travel agent or hertz ... well my lack of navigation device is not their problem (funny though I have now three devices with a map and route capabilites: tom tom, my garmin etrex and my laptop with mapsource). Who needs "¤"%%"!!¤"#¤" neverlost? Actually only real problem with the tom tom is, that it speaks swedish...

This does not make any sense, I repeat...

New development from my travel agency vs. my rental car company case. I learned today that my travel agency had:

1) reserved a car with navigation system
2) canceled this reservation for the car with navigation system
3) reserved a car without navigation system

All in about a day ... and for both of my Raleigh and for my California car reservations... WTF. I really do not understand what has happened. My travel agent blames my car rental company and vise versa. I, on the otherhand, will end up driving back and forth around the interstates and other highways.
I bet someone is pulling the old fashion: "Ladies and gentlemen this is Chewbacca. Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk, but Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now, think about that. THAT DOES NOT MAKE SENSE!" -defence (or offence). I wonder what will happen next...
BTW I bought an authentic 3x5 ft American patriot "himaflägä" from local HW-store -- I still do not know why.
And BTW 3 caches found.

Luck does change...

Send this to UA:
The problem: I had my carry-on luggage with me all the way from Finland to Washington with no problem. In Washington however we were stuffed in such a small airplane that my backback did not fit to overhead compartment. I asked flight attendant to help and she took my backback and put it to somewhere -- never asking me whether it is ok to throw it to the cargo bay. I had a wine bottle there and you can imagine the rest. I do understand that you cannot put wine bottles to cargo, that's not the problem. IT WAS MY CARRY-ON LUGGAGE. IT HAD NO BUSINESS BEIGN IN THE CARGO BAY! IT WAS CARRY-ON LUGGAGE FOR A REASON! I saw the crew in Raleigh to throw my bag, tossing it around. There were very valuable things inside! I lost my md-player, maglite, book etc. just because of trusting the stewardess! The crew in the plane and at the airport denied they had any responsibility, in a pretty rude way -- with no appologies. They just gave me a number to United customer relationship toll free number, but that does not work either, does it? Check you call logs and you can find I truly tried to get through, but it seems to be intentionally design so that noone can get through. I demand you take the responsibility and pay for what you did. These damages do not mean nothing to you, for me they are pretty severe! I am TRULY pissed off your service! Before You decide to just ignore this mail as not my problem I propose that you check the company I work for and check my latest travels. I can always fly with one world, cannot I?
The question is what are you going to do to make me less angry?

Someone said that I should have shoved the bag under the seat in front of me, yeah, I sat on the first row -- for the first time in my life.

And travel agency forgot the reserve a car with navigation system, I had nice Raleigh by night experience. Thank whatever I had my GPSr with me... And the map was sure for great assistance.

Mitähä n kristinuskosta olisi tullut, jos Jesus olisi ollut aussi?

Here's an example

When Mary is told God has chosen her to be the mother of Jesus: "The angel said to her, 'G'day Mary. You are a pretty special sheila. God has his eye on you'.

"Mary went weak at the knees, and wondered what was going on. Then she said, 'My soul is as happy as Larry!"'

Otteet täältä:
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/08/21/1061434992750.html

Ehtoollisella tölkki Fostersia?

Hah

You Are A: Bear Cub!

Bears are strong and independent creatures who roam in the forest in search of food. Bears are usually gentle, but anger one and be prepared for their full fury! You're big, you're tough, you won't back down from a fight, you have a bit of a temper -- classic attributes of a bear. Intelligent and resourceful, though lazy at times, you are a fascinating creature of the wild.

You were almost a: Pony or a Duck
You are least like a: Chipmunk or a MouseWhat Cute Animal Are You?

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Ja 1. palkinto meni kha:lle

Yllättäen ja ehkä hieman epäilyttävästi FTF:n veti kha -- ja ihan puhtaasti, en antanut, eikä kha edes pyytänyt neuvoa. Meni kuulemaan viisi minuuttia. Tähän mennessä 3 DNF:ää ja vain yksi löytä -- well nobody said that it would be easy. Kha:n successia avitti ehkä se, että meillä on samanlaiset gpsr:t. Se saattaa auttaa löytämään oikean kohdan.

Ihan kaikki eivät ole tuota ottaneet huumorilla: "Well.. Very mature way to develop this sport. Positive thing was that we met Jyrki&Sari at location. Hope you enjoy your revenge!"

Ellei tuosta sitten ollut hymiö tipahtanut pois. Kätkön nimi on siis Revenge ja se on omistettu kaikille niille, jotka ovat menneet laittamaan kätön kivimuuriin -- eli esim. minä nyt. Tällä kertaa kivimuuri on tehty sullomalla alta nyrkin kokoisia kiviä katiskoihin ja niistä on pinottu n. 6 metriä korkea ja vähintään 30 metriä pitkä seinä ... siinähän etsitte ;-) Tuon joko löytää heti tai sitten sitä ei löydä ollenkaan, kjäh kjäh. Oon aika tyytyväinen siitä, että toi on oma, eikä mun tarvi sitä sieltä yrittää etsiä. Kuten sanottu kuvia ku kerkiän.