Also known as: Sonata Arctica @ Pakkahuone, Tampere, tonight.

( Full report with pics, clicky clicky. )

I promised pictures, and pictures you shall have, whether you wanted or not. (Then again, if you didn't, I suppose you don't have to click the link to see them... Oh well.)

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What looks like a drowned rat, smells of the henna hair dye (still a week later my hair smells like herbal mud when wet) but feels absolutely fabulous? Ile after ~half an hour walk home in the rain after an Anathema gig.

It was amazing. I fully expected to enjoy it - Anathema was one of the bands that Sina introduced to me back in 2004 and one of ( Read more... )

My hair has been in dire need of new dye for a while now, but I was going to wait until late November because I wanted a fresh dye before the London trip and couldn't justify spending twice the money that it would cost to have my hair dyed at the hairdresser's to do it once before uni started and again in late November. And I have bad experience ( Read more... )

Okay, I already kind of gave up on even trying to get 50k words before the end of August - and with what a mess this summer has been, I'm happy to be writing even as much as I have been. That's not the problem, I can live with not finishing the Camp NaNoWriMo event, not a big deal ( Read more... )

I think it was sometime last November that I read a post on Tumblr by a fellow writer, talking about how he found it ridiculous when people say that their "stories write themselves" or that their "characters took over the plot". And I completely see where he was coming from. At the end of the day, you write the story. If you quit writing, the story ( Read more... )

I think I mentioned that I was reading A Dance With Dragons. And I was unimpressed by it so far. Well, since then I've read on... and a few chapters on, came across Jaime Lannister. He spent most of his chapter just being generally awesome, and at the end of it, took off with... Brienne. Who was last seen (years and years ago) getting hanged by ( Read more... )

After listening to this album for... uh, a month? Something like that. Anyway. I guess it's time to say something about it. So we have Sonata Arctica with their latest album called Stones Grow Her Name.

First, the overall impression is... a bit random. It hasn't become my all-time Sonata favourite, not by a long shot, but to be fair, topping Days of ( Read more... )

Just finished The Way of Shadows, the first book of The Night Angel trilogy by Brent Weeks. I discovered this quite by accident - my brother had read it (because I forgot to bring him more Malazan books and he ran out of stuff to read) and now the past weekend I found myself with nothing to read and decided to give it a shot. I was skeptical at ( Read more... )

Because naturally the best time to be writing a novel is while I have two essays to finish in the next couple of weeks and one more exam next Tuesday. Oh well. But the positive thing is that I've actually been writing. Hoping to rewrite the whole thing during the summer, it shouldn't be too demanding a goal. I find myself freaking out a bit because ( Read more... )