This is summary of my web-log Elämä ja Teot in Finnish. Unfortunately it doesn't include all my writings, because I'm too lazy to translate every word.
If you have any questions or comments, feel free to leave them by clicking Eikö niin? after the chapter, or by sending an email to jmkark(a)utu.fi
Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat writes today "Aura as European Culturalriver". (Aura is a river, which flows trough my home town Turku)
Aura has get in on European culture project "Rivers as Cultural Infrastructures" as only Finnish river. Project led by italian university of Ferrara includes five other fivers of same type from Europe. Budget of the project is circa 300 000 euros.
Three hundred thousand euros! Are they joking? Yes, it's nice to have an "culture river" (or whatever) in your hometown, but how can it cost so much? It's difficult to defend funds for cultural purposes after these kind of projects. Let me think, what else could this money do... scholarships for few hundred years, music education for the young, an amateur art circle would go on forver with this money...
But I hope this will do also something good. I hope it will make world better place. Possibly this will remain forever in the memory of those who live by the Aura. (or what is more brobable, 90% of them will never even hear about it).
20.3.2006
Unlike rest of the universe, I don't really like the spring. I don't know why, but for some reason too much lightness causes me an insuperable depression, whereas the dark and rainy autumn only light melancholy.
For my surprise I found these verses from Kanteletar (wich is collection of Finnish folkpoetry). So this denotates, that it just might be in my Finnish geens.
Minkä päivänen yleni,
Sen mun mieleni aleni;
Minkä päivä lämpimämpi,
Sen mun mieleni vilumpi;
Minkä päivä kaunihimpi,
Minun mieleni pahempi.
(
the more is the sun rising up
the even more I'm bowed down
the warmer might be the weather
the colder it'll be in my mind
the more beautifull is a day
the more foul will become my mood
)(awfull translation mine, JK)
20.2.2006
On Jylland-Posten and Mohammed cartoons, this is my message for all involved: GROW UP, MORONS!
No, son! Onanism's a gross orgasm sin -- a no-no, son.
Was it a bar or a bat I saw?
Won't cat lovers revolt? Act now!
A man, a plan, a canal - Panama!
A Toyota. Race fast, safe car. A Toyota
Finnish is one of the best palindrome languages. One example is Esa Hirvonens palindromepoems.
17.9.2005
Today I was in a record store, and heard a band playing "psychedelic electroheavyfusionrock" wich sounded a bit like Hidria Spacefolk. I asked the clerk, who said it was a band called Taipuva luotisuora. Because the record wasn't horrible expensive, I invested on Finnish music. If you like Ozric Tentacles alike music, I recommend to familiarize yourself with these two bands. Other great Finnish bands are also Giant Robot, Don Johnson Bigband and Nuspirit Helsinki, wich are more like jazzy hiphop. Most of mentioned bands provide free samples of their music in mp3-format.
14.9.2005
It's nice to have a real job now and then. When I come home at night, I'm tired, but not weary. And as a machinist, I see the results of my work instantly. As a stundent, I don't see them until after years and years, if ever.
The place isn't bad. Workmates are fond, and nobody is rushing me too much. And you cope with even the worst job, if you take it as an experience. Taste the life of a proletarian! Be a metal worker for two weeks!
9.9.2005
When artist's name is Katrina, ja and the band's name is The Waves, it's quite obvious that they're boycotted by american radiostations. Even if the name of their hit single was Walking on sunshine.
8.9.2005
Ouh, the life of an alcoholic is definitely not my thing...I feel sick as a dog...
Yesterday whe had kind of welcome party for new students. Luckily it rained, so those who did arrive, could not escape so easily. I suppose they expected little bit more groovy party and got bored.
These new students are so...normal. No alternative bohemian wanna-be-hippies? No long haired boys and short haired girls? These young ladies could be medics. Where is the angst? Where is the red wine and bad poems? I bet these studenst will graduate in adequate time with good grades.
6.9.2005
Pastor Bill Shanks from New Orleans says:
“New Orleans now is abortion free. New Orleans now is Mardi Gras free. New Orleans now is free of Southern Decadence and the sodomites, the witchcraft workers, false religion -- it's free of all of those things now," Shanks says. "God simply, I believe, in His mercy purged all of that stuff out of there -- and now we're going to start over again." Agape Press, Reliable News from a Christian Source 2.9.2006
And after that you may read an article on Barbara Bush visiting hurricane relief centers in Houston
"And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this--this (she chuckles slightly) is working very well for them."
3.9.2005
United States sends tens of thousands guardsmen to New Orleans. The soldiers are supposed to stop the looting and violence, wich is also harming the rescue operations.
Under Secretary of Emergency Preparedness Michael Brown said on Friday, that there will be over 40 000 soldiers in New Orleans. 14 000 of them are already there. Troops have license to kill if necessary.
I try not to be the wise ass, but I'm deeply concerned about this philosophy everyone having a gun and using it when panicked. As far as I know, under the tsunami disaster in Asia, the rescue operations were quite quick and effective. In spite of extreme poverty and deprivation, things got solved, and people co-operated.
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