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End of an era [Apr. 5th, 2017|10:52 pm]
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Okay, I got a Dreamwidth account. Not yet deleting this journal however. I chose a new username, it felt appropriate with the whole starting anew thing. If you guys have DWs, feel free to comment here with their urls! 
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2016 in books [Jan. 4th, 2017|04:02 pm]
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Hello 2017! I have had a friend over for the whole of 2017 (haha) so all my 2016 lists and memes are late. But here is the one on books that I have been drafting since last year.

2016 Reading Stats

•    Number Of Books You Read: 53
•    Number of Re-Reads: None really
•    Genre You Read The Most From: Scottish crime, football non-fiction

Best in Books 2016

•    1 Best Book You Read In 2016? Lauren Beukes: The Shining Girls

•    2 Book You Were Excited About & Thought You Were Going To Love More But Didn’t? Grant Michaels's Dead as a Doornail and Dead on your Feet. I got one via Bookmooch years ago, never read it, but discovered my local library had another in the series, so I borrowed that. Oh boy it was terribly written! The main character always going on about his Strong Slavic Legs and how he's like this or that because he is a gemini. I struggled through both the library copy (it took me so long I got fined for not returning it in time!) and the one I owned and will not touch a Stan Kraychick mystery ever again.

  •    3 Most surprising (in a good way or bad way) book you read in 2016? Sandro Modeo's Barca. I was expecting a regular team history, but it was stuffed full with curious references to Pink Floyd, quantum mechanics, Radiohead and all sorts of definitely not football things XD Very amusing and enjoyable, though!

•    4 Book You “Pushed” The Most People To Read (And They Did) In 2016? Hmm. I did lend Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein to my sister for light bathroom reading and she's been raving about it ever since. Good. I also picked some new murder mysteries for mum but without reading them myself first.

•    5 Best series you started in 2016? Best Sequel of 2016? Best Series Ender of 2016? Denise Mina's Alex Morrow books. Looking forward to more of them.

•    6 Favorite new author you discovered in 2016? Never knew that Rammstein's keyboard player could write, so Flake it is.

•    7 Best book from a genre you don’t typically read/was out of your comfort zone? I finally read the infamous Star Trek tie-in Killing Time! (Censored version, or not the first printing.) It was very fanfiction-y and not as controversial as I thought it could be (though I would like to get my hands on the first printing to see that). I don't think I'll read any more tie-ins, and the ones I get my hands on I give to my Trekkie friend.

•    8 Most action-packed/thrilling/unputdownable book of the year? Lauren Beukes: The Shining Girls

•    9 Book You Read In 2016 That You Are Most Likely To Re-Read Next Year? I rarely re-read things that aren't childhood classics, but I could give Unseen Academicals another spin.

•    10 Favorite cover of a book you read in 2016? Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix looks just like an IKEA catalogue, not just the cover but the entire design of the book.

•    11 Most memorable character of 2016? Benco Macarona of Unseen Academicals, the decidedly queer foreign football wizard definitely modeled (and named, Diego Maradona anyone?) after some real world players.

•    12 Most beautifully written book read in 2016? M Train by Patti Smith. Not as amazing as Just Kids, but I love the small moments she captures and chronicles.

•    13 Most Thought-Provoking/ Life-Changing Book of 2016? That Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

•    14 Book you can’t believe you waited UNTIL 2016 to finally read? Miss Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg. A friend sent it to me, I had known of it for years but never took the time to read.

•    15 Favorite Passage/Quote From A Book You Read In 2016?

"It is considered in the Sto Plains that only scoundrels know the second verse of their national anthem, since anyone spending time memorising that would be up to no good purpose. The Ankh-Morpork national anthem, therefore, had a second verse that was deliberately written as ‘ner ner ners’ and the occasional coherent word desperately trying to stay afloat, on the basis that this is how it would sound in any case." Terry Pratchett: Unseen Academicals

•    16 Shortest & Longest Book You Read In 2016? Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper and other stories was quite short. I didn't actually read any proper doorstoppers this year.

•    17 Book That Shocked You The Most The Boy Called Moonstone or whatever it is called, I don't even know if it's been translated into English.

•    18 Favorite Romantic Relationship of the Year Alex Morrow and her husband aren't the focal point in her series, the crimes are, but it's nice that she has a doting hubby and family to balance the awful things in her day job.

•    19 Favorite Non-Romantic Relationship Of The Year I liked the character interactions in Unseen Academicals.

•    20 Favorite Book You Read in 2016 From An Author You’ve Read Previously Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett. I read some Pratchett in my teens and when I liked fantasy more, but just stopped catching up at some point. Nobody told me he had written a football book!

•    21 Best Book You Read In 2016 That You Read Based SOLELY On A Recommendation From Somebody Else/Peer Pressure: Krik? Krak! by Edwidge Danticat. Got The Yellow Wallpaper in the mail from a dear friend, and Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow from another.

•    22 Newest fictional crush from a book you read in 2016? Naah

•    23 Best 2016 debut you read? Mindy Kaling's Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? And Other Concerns. I can't bring myself to get interested in the US Office, but this was a hilarious little autobio-thing that I breezed through in an evening (and flicked back to re-read my favourite passages after finishing it)

•    24 Best Worldbuilding/Most Vivid Setting You Read This Year? The Southern Reach trilogy by Jeff Vandermeer. Though I would have liked to know more about the weirdness and what caused it.

•    25 Book That Put A Smile On Your Face/Was The Most FUN To Read? Stockmann Yard by Antto Terras. I love tell-all behind the scenes books like Imogen Edwards-Jones's Babylon series, and this was like a Finnish version of it. It was a hilarious, scathing account on the career of Finland's most prestige department store's shop detective. Twenty or so years in that job and you'll get a bunch of amusing anecdotes and weird stories.

•    26 Book That Made You Cry Or Nearly Cry in 2016? Some of the stories in Krik? Krak!

•    27 Hidden Gem Of The Year? It's not a hidden gem as it's quite well known, but I only read the Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi this year.

•    28 Book That Crushed Your Soul? Patricia Duncker: Hallucinating Foucault

•    29 Most Unique Book You Read In 2016? Flake's autobiography. I don't know if it's been translated into English yet, but it's called the Keyboard Wanker or the likes of it, and it was a hilarious memoir about East Germany's punk scene, cars, horses and cats stepping on yout computer when you're typing. It was shelved in the music memoirs as it is by a Rammstein member, but that band was only mentioned briefly in the end. There were no headlines, no chapters, just a stream of consciousness with only a fleeting chronology. Also lots of photos that either made sense or did not.

•    30 Book That Made You The Most Mad (doesn’t necessarily mean you didn’t like it)? The essay collections by Anu Silfverberg and Eveliina Talvitie.

Looking Ahead to 2017

    •    1 One Book You Didn’t Get To In 2017 But Will Be Your Number 1 Priority in 2016? Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's novels (and the feminism pamphlet)

•   2 Book You Are Most Anticipating For 2017 (non-debut)? Didn't get to read Mr Mercedes by Stephen King in 2016, hopefully by 2017 it'll appear in the library in the regular length loans.

•   3 2017 Debut You Are Most Anticipating? Not exactly anticipating but I'm wondering if Katri Lipson's Detroit will get translated into English. An older book of hers has, so maybe this too?

•   4 Series Ending/A Sequel You Are Most Anticipating in 2017? More Morrow by Mina maybe.

•   5 One Thing You Hope To Accomplish Or Do In Your Reading/Blogging Life In 2017? At least 52 books read. Finish the ones currently waiting under my bed.
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52 Films by Women Directors [Dec. 12th, 2016|12:38 am]
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https://womeninfilm.org/52-films/

Here's a nice challenge I got from the Fuck Yeah Women Directors blog. I might attempt it on my own? Challenges like that are fun but when there isn't really that much of independent cinema in town and Netflix's selection on my shores is poorer than that of the stateside users, (at least Ava DuVernay's doc The 13th is there for good) it will definitely be a challenge in more ways than one.

Also I only count films that I haven't seen before, so I wouldn't count a re-watch of, say, Beau Travail, In the name of..., A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night, Priest or Point Break into this. (Maybe I should, to make life easier, but when have I ever made anyone's life easier? Also I want to see all those films again!) Well, there is the library, the local rental place, and there is a tv in the flat (though not in my room). I am sure the Wonder Woman movie will get a release in here though! Looking forward to the guest announcements for my favourite film festival, past years they have had Athina Rachel Tsangari and Malgorzata Szumowska there, and films by Claire Denis and Germaine Dulac...

That said, I did go see Toni Erdmann in the cinema solely because it had a woman director, but I wasn't as impressed with it as some critics were. (Also I had no idea it was almost three hours long and went in without having lunch first. I was in the Subway next to the cinema probably before the credits had stopped rolling..)

(Been thinking about all-woman authors as well, but Stephen King would have to get a pass because he is my Comfort Read Horror Uncle and I haven't yet found his latest in the library.)

Anyways, women directors! Yes good!
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Cymru feel the noize [May. 25th, 2016|11:03 pm]
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Last weekend I thought I'd listen Guy Garvey's radio show on BBC 6, but there was a banner for Radcliffe & Maconie featuring Manics. I had no idea they had written a song for Wales NT for the Euro games, but of course they had. And put everything and the kitchen sink in. The video's chock-full too, there's the band, archive material, the team, name signs, happy people. It's uplifting, dramatic, ridiculous and I love it. (It's def better than World in Motion. But I like World in Motion too! En-ger-land!) Considering rooting for Wales instead of Zlatan Sweden.

I just like silly fitba songs! Other faves: Shakira - Dare (La La La) Actually I prefer the lyrics of the album version (kissing and dancing are recommended goal celebration activities), but the video is so entertaining, a bigger version of the Wales clip. A hodgepodge of the artist herself, a choice of players (did Neymar not get the 'shirtless' memo?) and epic face paint and children and animals and flags and traditional garb, all in glorious sepia shades. Sponsored by the poop yoghurt company. For charity. As you do.

Anastacia: Boom. This one is actually an official World Cup song.  Oh my god those sunglasses and a lens flare abducting random people. Also breakdancing. It's so very 2002, but I liked 2002, I was young and everything was possible!

Ricky Martin: La Copa De La Vida. The official song for the 1998 World Cup. Sounds exactly like all the other Ricky Martin songs in the late 1990s. It's not a bad thing. Happy for Ricky now that he's a gay dad and not a closeted latin lover stereotype. Go go go!

Seven Nation Army is a curious one, definitely not intended as a soccer song but it's cute how even the local ultras have adopted the distinctive beat for their own chants. A proper look at its history.

Bubblin' under is Scooter: How Much Is The Fish? (not the first time I write about it...) It came out in 1998 and its video features footie heavily. (Weirdly the band is dressed in American football gear? Why? Maybe all those pads and black greasepaint under eyes is a tougher look than the traditional fitba kit of knee socks and shorts..) The first time I attended a match in the local excuse of an arena, I was thrilled to hear it. Yeah! ...Only to discover later that they play it quite often, twice during another game I was watching. I wonder how well a suggestion of a more diverse playlist would go down? (I'd list at least all the aforementioned, and some Pet Shop Boys, maybe Scissor Sisters and other fabulous artists. This is why I can't have nice things.)

There are plenty of other footie songs out there, (such as the theme for my local boys) better articles about them and whole collections of beloved stand anthems. Also so many football and music connections (and I'm not talking about horrid novelty records), Nicky Manic coulda been a player, James Allan of Glasvegas briefly was, NME just ran a short Kasabian interview on Leicester.. But I better put a cap on this entry now before I fall into a youtube hole, never to return.
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Third and last and always [Apr. 23rd, 2016|01:22 pm]
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The last 3 books I've read: The Room by Emma Donoghue, Even Dogs in the Wild by Ian Rankin, Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi

The last 3 movies I saw: Kung fu Panda 3, Egde of Tomorrow, Eddie the Eagle

The last 3 TV-Shows I've watched: Peaky Blinders, Endeavour, late night news
My 3 latest crushes:
The last 3 things I bought: A flowery hairband-thing, duct tape, Irn Bru

The last 3 places I visited: Sister's house, the library, the biggest shop

The last 3 songs I've listened to: Grimes: Kill v Maim, The Raconteurs: Steady as she Goes, Mercury Rev: Goddess on a Highway

The last 3 things I discovered for myself: (for this question you can name anything you want such as food, sport, a TV-Show....) Uh, well.. I am the least adventurous person I know and rarely discover anything cool. Maybe the salad I'm making all the time these days, my own recipe born out of my hatred of all things usually found in salads. I like to browse the library and pick up interesting things I've never heard of, sometimes they're good, sometimes not. The portrait of D. Craig by Neil Irons hung in my scottish university's library, it was a good painting.
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And another nicked from the 'Bot [Mar. 13th, 2016|06:16 pm]
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1. 4 favourite tv programmes? (at the moment) Silicon Valley, Peaky Blinders, Endeavour, 30 Rock
2. 4 favourite films? Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Frances Ha, Reservoir Dogs, Star Trek IV: T The One With The Whales
3. 4 favourite recipes to cook? Not-actually-feta salad, minced meat tortillas, pizza, Weightwatchers cake that requires no baking just assembling.
4. 4 childhood games you use to play when you were younger Civilization, Chip's Challenge, SkiFree, Rodent's Revenge :D The fuck was I angry when the computer containing these was given away without my knowledge
5. 4 of your favourite animals Corgi, owls, magpies, walrus
6. 4 favourite drinks you like to drink Water, hot chocolate, Irn Bru, Cream soda
7. 4 childhood cartoons you watched or still watch now Moomins, Biker Mice from Mars, Olipa kerran elämä/ihminen, Animaniacs
8. 4 favourite fruit or vegetables Apples, carrots, pineapple, basil
9. 4 things you or family member collects I don't call it collecting but I have a lot of: Glittery bargain bin nail polishes, owls, postcards and UK popular culture magazines
10. 4 favourite chocolate/candy Pätkis, Yorkie, Love Hearts, Parma Violets
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Book meme was here [Jan. 2nd, 2016|02:30 pm]
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2015 Reading Stats

   •    Number Of Books You Read: For some reason I kept separate lists of books and books about football (soccer, obviously) 43 books, 13 football books (includes essay collections, player biographies, poetic musings of the beautiful game)
   •    Number of Re-Reads: Moominvalley in November, Moominpappa and The Sea
   •    Genre You Read The Most From: Football non-fiction.

Best in Books 2015

    •    1 Best Book You Read In 2015? This'll get really repetitive, but Fredrik Backman: Britt-Marie var här.

   •    2 Book You Were Excited About & Thought You Were Going To Love More But Didn’t? The first two books of Glen Duncan's Werewolf trilogy. WHY THERE HAD TO BE VAMPIRES FFS. Fry's More Fool Me felt a bit cheaty since there was a lot of old diary entries.

  •    3 Most surprising (in a good way or bad way) book you read in 2015? I thought Henrik Andersen's Turvavyöhyke would've been more about football than the forbidden romance of the player character's East/West German parents. Oh well.

   •    4 Book You “Pushed” The Most People To Read (And They Did) In 2015? Dave Eggers: The Circle. Though I'm not sure if either of friends I recommended it have yet read it... Sister read the Lena Dunham autobio that I borrowed from the library for myself, as well as Caitlin Moran's Moranthology. Pushed Britt-Marie var här to my mum perhaps too hard, apparently auntie was also going to read it. Pekka Hiltunen: Iso to mum as well.

   •    5 Best series you started in 2015? Best Sequel of 2015? Best Series Ender of 2015? Imogen Edwards-Jones: Restaurant Babylon is in a series in a way. I love her Babylon books, no matter what the subject is. I don't really read series these days, started the werewolf saga mentioned in question 2 but not going to call it best of anything, blah.

   •    6 Favorite new author you discovered in 2015? Pekka Hiltunen. He writes thrillers for his day job, I guess, but was added to the very short list of male authors who write women well. (Others are Alexander McCall Smith and Fredrik Backman)

   •    7 Best book from a genre you don’t typically read/was out of your comfort zone? Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis trilogy was hard science fiction and I don't usually like that. But it was a fascinating experience, the complete overhaul of the world, gender, family, nature as we know it.

   •    8 Most action-packed/thrilling/unputdownable book of the year? Chuck Palahniuk: Lullaby.

   •    9 Book You Read In 2015 That You Are Most Likely To Re-Read Next Year? Maybe Wolves by Simon Ings as I bought it and plan to keep it.

   •    10 Favorite cover of a book you read in 2015? The Luminaries and Goldfinch were both pretty tomes, but Coming Out To Play, the Robbie Robertson tell-all had a back flap of player cards you could tear out, that was a really fun design idea.

   •    11 Most memorable character of 2015? The eponymoys heroine of Britt-Marie var här.

   •    12 Most beautifully written book read in 2015? Britt-Marie again

   •    13 Most Thought-Provoking/ Life-Changing Book of 2015? House Next Door and Wolves stuck with me for days but didn't exactly change my life.

   •    14 Book you can’t believe you waited UNTIL 2015 to finally read? Anne Rivers Siddons: The House Next Door. I mooched it in...2010 I think and only read now. It was good! Read it! (I can't lend my copy though as I gave it away in a spooky book swap)

   •    15 Favorite Passage/Quote From A Book You Read In 2015?

"A bunch of kids in heat, demonstrating their lack of materialism by destroying someone else's stuff. It is an unpleasant reminder that the human world falls apart, not through catastrophe, but from mounting internal failure."

   •    16 Shortest & Longest Book You Read In 2015? The Luminaries and The Goldfinch were both pretty hefty. Mielensäpahoittaja was probably the shortest, as it was the first printing or some early version.

   •    17 Book That Shocked You The Most Dave Eggers: The Circle.

   •    18 Favorite Romantic Relationship of the Year The fumbly fucked-up boys in Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch? Was it even that much of a romance than one-sided pining, but whatever.

   •    19 Favorite Non-Romantic Relationship Of The Year Britt-Marie and Joku.

   •    20 Favorite Book You Read in 2015 From An Author You’ve Read Previously Wolves, as I read a Simon Ings many tears ago. (The city of the iron fish? Which was goddamn queerbaiting and annoyed me, but luckily Wolves... does some things right)

   •    21 Best Book You Read In 2015 That You Read Based SOLELY On A Recommendation From Somebody Else/Peer Pressure: V lent me Douglas Copeland: Generation X and it was just what I needed.

   •    22 Newest fictional crush from a book you read in 2015? No. Ask me about my cinematic crushes, however..

   •    23 Best 2015 debut you read? I think it came out last year but Pajtim Stankovci's Kissani Jugoslavia

   •    24 Best Worldbuilding/Most Vivid Setting You Read This Year? Sean Stewart: Matkijalintu (can't remember the original name, can't be arsed to check).

   •    25 Book That Put A Smile On Your Face/Was The Most FUN To Read? Caitlin Moran's Moranthology, a collection of her newspaper columns.

   •    26 Book That Made You Cry Or Nearly Cry in 2015? Britt-Marie var här by Fredrik Backman. Also, Stephen King's Joyland

   •    27 Hidden Gem Of The Year? Nick Walker: Blackbox. Another random mooch, a story told in 400 or so chapters, multiple characters, crossing plot lines, arch words/things/numbers whatever.

   •    28 Book That Crushed Your Soul? The Circle, Wolves and Gillian Flynn's Sharp Objects were all quite wrenching.

   •    29 Most Unique Book You Read In 2015? Molly Crabapple: Drawing Blood. It was an autobio/memoir, but also illustrated by the author herself.

   •    30 Book That Made You The Most Mad (doesn’t necessarily mean you didn’t like it)? Declan Hill: The Fix. Non-fiction about the shady side of football.

Looking Ahead to 2016

    •    1 One Book You Didn’t Get To In 2015 But Will Be Your Number 1 Priority in 2016? Rest of the Rankins

   •   2 Book You Are Most Anticipating For 2016 (non-debut)? Don't really know. Maybe the new Emmi Itäranta? It came out in 2015 but haven't yet found it in the library.

   •   3 2016 Debut You Are Most Anticipating? No idea.

   •   4 Series Ending/A Sequel You Are Most Anticipating in 2016? Let's just say the Rebus/Fox books, though they're all out already, I just haven't read them yet.

   •   5 One Thing You Hope To Accomplish Or Do In Your Reading/Blogging Life In 2016? I don't really have that specific goals
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Some books [Dec. 29th, 2015|11:07 pm]
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A short update re: this entry, I'll do the rest later

Looking Ahead to 2015/How that turned out

    •    1 One Book You Didn’t Get To In 2014 But Will Be Your Number 1 Priority in 2015? More Fool Me by Stephen Fry wasn't as stellar as Moab and Chronicles. Read it, gave it away.
    •   2 Book You Are Most Anticipating For 2015 (non-debut)? Well I read some new King translations, yeah
    •   3 2015 Debut You Are Most Anticipating? Didn't read the Kate Beaton children's book, but got Step Aside, Pops! And both Nimona and TJ & Amal, they are in my bookshelf and they are beautiful
    •   4 Series Ending/A Sequel You Are Most Anticipating in 2015? I just finished The Impossible Dead, but the two Fox/Rebus-collaborations will have to wait until 2016.
    •   5 One Thing You Hope To Accomplish Or Do In Your Reading/Blogging Life In 2015? I DID IT I WROTE THE STUPID THESIS AND GOT TO READ FUN BOOKS FOR FUN SANS GUILT, YAY
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Rewind [Nov. 20th, 2015|10:42 pm]
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Once again, we steal questions from S-B [Jun. 16th, 2015|04:44 pm]
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1.    What was the last song you listened to? La Roux: Uptight Downtown
2.    What is your favorite thing about the place you live? Easy to walk around, near water, many fleamarkets and other necessities in town, has an operating train station.
3.    What is your earliest childhood memory? Sunlight, the building mother used to work in
4.    Is there a movie that always makes you cry? Yes. Many. The Fall for example.
5.    If you could be an animal, what would you be? Small angry owl. Then again, I like small angry owls, but maybe a lazy pampered indoor cat that couldn't survive overnight in the nature would be more truthful.
6.    What is the first album you ever bought? Either Bomfunk MCs or The Offspring
7.    What was your favorite tv show as a kid? Moomins, ALF, Naurun paikka ("Akka mulahti.")
8. If you could travel back to any era which one would it be? 90s Britpop days. I'd be happy browsing Virgin Megastores and going to gigs until I'd keel over from the migraine caused by the then-legal indoor smoking though, ugh
9.    Who do you trust the most in your life? Mum.
10.    How many languages can you say hello in? Don't know, actually, never counted.
11.    What is your favorite kind of weather? Whenever the sky is at least partly visible.
12.    How did you discover that Santa wasn't real and how old were you? I don't remember, I was always skeptic why uncle had to go outside to do a task and just miss Santa...
13.    What is the best feeling in the world? The overwhelming love for the never-setting sun, films and beauty of everything I often experience at MSFF.
14.    What is your favorite color? Caribbean blue, powerful red
15.    Is there a language you would like to learn? Spanish
16.    How do you feel about reality tv? It's horrid and stupid. However I watch this one show that's filmed around here because I find it fun to recognise streets and buildings, and because it tries so hard to be dramatic and action-packed when in reality it's just cops waving their fingers to teenagers drinking and telling fighting drunks to calm down and go home. Also tattoo reality shows are my guilty pleasures, they have in fact put me off of ever wanting to have any ink, haha!
17.    Did you ever skip school as a kid? Not as a kid but as a teenager sometimes.
18.    What is your least favorite food? I have an irrational hatred for all things mushroom. Also tomatoes that aren't ketchup. I eat soups with a fork.
19.    Do you have any pets? No, and my sole houseplant just died. Do not give me living things.
20.    Do you have a good luck charm? No, but some t-shirts I save for special occasions. Also my day gets ruined if I go anywhere without my pencil case or any analogic note-making equipment.
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Just putting this in here [May. 23rd, 2015|04:59 pm]
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Eternal lust list of magical scriptures BOOKS

In Finnish:

Karin Fossum: Hullujenhuone (mikä tahansa painos.)
Ian Rankin: Ristinolla (pokkari olisi kiva mutta kovakantinenkin käy)
Daniel Clowes: Ghost World (suomiversio siis)
Martin & Hewlett: Tank Girl (Jalavan mustavalkoinen suomipainos)

In English

Matthew Sheret: Phonogram vs the Fans  (Sold out limited edition zine, so there)
Phonogram: Rue Britannia single issues 1-6, The Singles Club 1-4, 6
Donna Barr: Seven Peaches - The first seven Desert Peach episodes
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Super Dictionary
Sam Taylor-Wood: Crying Men (my Scottish uni had TWO of these in the library, uh. Still want my own copy.)
Della von Hise: Killing Time FIRST PRINTING (Probably super rare bibliophilic treasure but one can hope)

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Corgenstern [Mar. 31st, 2015|04:27 pm]
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Something awful [Mar. 23rd, 2015|10:18 pm]
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Mietin tänään että Mikä se yksi ysäribiisi oli. Hain tuubista ja se oli Waldo's Peoplen U Drive Me Crazy. Ja sen sivupalkissa oli E-Typen Angels Crying, mitä en ole koskaan unohtanut, ja jonka päätin katsoa, muistan että se video oli semmoinen kauhuvaikutteinen ja olihan se. Hyvin meta myös, minkä tajuaa nyt kun on vanhempi/Jyrki tai Lista ei nappase loppua pois. Nyt kyllä lähinnä nauratti suihkussa vääntelehtivä vokalisti-go-go-tanssija-voi hyvä luoja tuollaiset hiukset oli silloin. Ja Here I Go, joka kuulostaa lähes täysin samalta, ja Russian Lullaby vielä josta muistan häiritsevästi jotain kohtia. En koskaan omistanut E-Typen levyä, muistan sen yhden viikinkikannen, ehkä kasetilla oli kappale tai pari kavereilta tai radiosta.

Sitten jos ja kun elän ysivitoseksi ja aivoni ovat raejuustoa, en muista siskonpoikieni jälkeläisten nimiä mutta muistan E-Typen. Vittu. Ja varmasti Scooterin. Kyllä se on dementoitunu kun kyselee vaan paljonko on kala!
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Quirky noir [Feb. 17th, 2015|10:40 am]
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Film meme 3/3

51. A movie that was better than the book? Filth (I guess, can't remember the book that well but don't want to re-read really)

52. Vin Diesel or Bruce Willis? Iron Giant & Die Hard

53. A movie that not many have heard of that you’ve seen? Intacto, I Went Down

54. A movie that changed the way you view the world? Tough question. Probably some film I saw as a teenager, but I think books and comics and other things have been more important than single films.

55. Favorite sci-fi movie? A Scanner Darkly. Though it's not sci fi per se, more of a new weird, near future thing.

56. Movie you completely nerd-out over every time it’s mentioned? Any Edgar Wright film

57. Movie that you’ve seen all the behind-the-scenes action for? Any Edgar Wright film

58. Movie where your favorite actor was the only good part? Star Trek Into Darkness

59. Movie from an actor you hate that was better than you expected? Magnolia was good even it had the slimiest Tom Cruise

60. Most visually stunning movie you’ve seen? The Fall

61. A movie your parents introduced you to? Probably the James Bond films dad watched (and still does)

62. Favorite genre? Film noir, quirky indie

63. Least favorite genre? Torture porn, horror

64. Comedy movie that you didn’t find funny? Knocked Up. Eww. 

65. Horror movie that didn’t scare you? Carrie re-make. I was mostly cheering her on. (Yes I have seen the original, the best Carrie too)

66. Favorite remake of an old movie? The Thing

67. A movie that started a passion for you? Dogma

68. A movie that sparked an interesting conversation? The Lego Movie

69. The main movie you remember from your childhood? The Lion King, George of the Jungle, Twister

70. The first movie you saw on it’s opening night? Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring? 

71. A move that made you ache for love. 500 Days of Summer maybe?
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Film meme 2/3

26. Best experience going to the movies? First Midnight Sun Film Festival, Lawrence of Arabia at the DCA, Pride at Pathé's own cinema 

27. Top 5 actors? 90s Robert Carlyle, Michael Fassbender, Idris Elba, Ben Whishaw, Domhnall Gleeson

28. Top 5 actresses? Emma Thompson, Judi Dench, Sally Hawkins, Tilda Swinton, Olivia Colman
29. Movie you completely regret seeing? ERASERHEAD

30. Movie you wish was never made? I'd like to say Saw because it started the torture porn trend, but I liked it because at the time it was different, more of a thriller really. So I'll say Hostel instead. 

31. Movie your parent showed you? My folks never really made me watch anything, these days I recommend things to them. 

32. Last movie you watched? Shaun The Sheep Movie 

33. An overrated movie? 400 Blows 

34. An underrated movie? Looking for Eric. I thought it was really sweet, but nobody seems to have heard of it.

35. Favorite comedy movie? Top Secret
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36. Movie quote you live by? [It's over. All the endorsements, everything gone.] Oh my God, I can't get a real job; it'll kill me! -Stranz van Waldenberg, (Will Arnett) Blades of Glory

37. Movie quote that will always make you laugh? MONTY YOU TERRIBLE CUNT

38. Film(s) you’ve watched on a date? .... Godzilla ... 

39. Favorite cult film? Bubba Ho-Tep
, Donnie Darko
40. Directors you’d like to see work together? Kathryn Bigelow and Angelina Jolie

41. Actors you’d like to see work together? Many good actors have done films together so I don't think I really have a dream team in that sense, but WHAT they should play together, and the answer is always lovers.
42. Films you wanted to watch, but never got around to watching? Well, I missed Interstellar's cinema run on my shores

43. Favorite teen movie? Mean Girls

44. Top 5 favorite films? Reservoir Dogs, Maurice, The World's End, Fight Club, Tinker Tailor Sodier Spy

45. Favorite superhero film? Thor: The Dark World, Batman Returns

46. Favorite cop film? The Heat, Hot Fuzz

47. Favorite road trip film? Little Miss Sunshine

48. A disappointing film from your favorite actor? Love Actually
49. A disappointing film from your favorite director? Django Unchained suffered greatly from the fact that Tarantino's trusted editor had died. (Sally Menke passed away before Inglourious Basters if I remember, but that film just about made it. Already dreading The Hateful 8.)

50. The first movie you ever remember watching in theaters? Might have been The Lion King?
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