Nothing quite as sad as a blog neglected. There it mopes and whines in the rain of electrons, thick rivulets running down its sides, hair matted and plagued with digital fleas too stubborn to drown. Searching desperately for sustenance, it's been known from time to time to even engage in cannibalism, and the shame of those acts reflects in the ( Read more... )

Sitting here, in the comforting glow of my newly acquired lcd to rival movie theaters, drowning in the jet engine roar of my dust-clogged laptop and sipping the last of my hot chocolate before heading off to work, I find a certain calm that has been missing for a long time. Even though once again I'm only certain of todays employment, the reality ( Read more... )

It's not like there aren't viable subjects aplenty. In the last few weeks events and states have ranged from cozy to surreal, but I'm just too tired to put it all into words. After work the only thing I can really think of is getting rid of my sweat-soaked clothes, taking a shower and crawling into bed to die. Maybe eat something and watch some ( Read more... )

Saturday shambled by in a hung over daze. The other half of last nights pizza, half a bowl of popcorn and some cold meatballs kept me going, but after going to sauna in the evening, I was at zero stamina. On sunday I got up late and spent the whole day productively in the lands of Azeroth. More than that, I spent the following night there too - ( Read more... )

Ah, the gray, dank, lightning-blistered beauty of the finnish monsoon season. While smoking on the balcony, the fine spray from the rain on the railing misting my face, I noticed that I had used the adjective torrential to describe the weather twice in back-to-back posts. And both in the opening paragraphs too. What an embarrassing slip. I really ( Read more... )

The friday before last saw us packed in a station wagon borrowed from our parents, heading south for what would be just about the last possibility of a festival experience this summer. Three of us journeyed through first sun, then drizzle and finally a torrential downpour that had me thinking about building an ark to salvage what was left of decent ( Read more... )

After what seemed to me like years of torrential rain and damp, dready clouds hanging down level with my shoulders, the sun emerged from its hiding. I spent most of the morning with string instruments and studio software, sketching up and fleshing out an idea I'd had the night before. Still a work in progress, though. Some two minutes of track ( Read more... )

I never really got classical music before I listened to Rachmaninovs third piano concerto.

I slept way too little the night before last and way too much after work yesterday morning. As the end result I spent the rest of the day in a really queer mood; The kind of anxiety you get from wanting to create something - anything - but failing to start ( Read more... )

She's in her kitchen, cooking. To be exact, she's spinning around, phone in hand, searching for her spices and holding a conversation at the same time, asking the other person where to find things. Not that the other one would know, really. Röyksopp is playing in the background. Not quite night club volume, but two notches above the threshold where ( Read more... )

For a full week of sunny days I wanted to write about how the sky up here looks so limitless and deep that I could fall in if I just let go of the balcony. I've missed seeing the clouds stretch far away to the horizon. I've wanted to write of much more, but first I couldn't find the words and next I couldn't quite even find the time to search for ( Read more... )