Oi! (and a whole lot of ska)
HELLO AGAIN. Now, the situation is that people living in post-Bush America have got great news: Obama is president. That was a cause for celebration, which lead to a beer in bar Kuka yesterday afternoon. Ran into Tritam in the bus who was thinking of it, but not saying: losers, drinking beer in the middle of an afternoon though they could be working. True or not? I don't know, not to badmouth Tritam or anything.
Anyhow, great changes in my life in the past few weeks. Well, there was the communal elections in which I didn't participate. I don't even want to start ranting on why I didn't vote. It's a thing I still have to justify for myself, then maybe to others. I started the Lapinjärvi thing, finishing in like two weeks now. Haven't spent much time there because of, well, things. I'm currently on leave because of my IB retakes.
Been living the last few weeks in hopes of getting Christmas early. Nothing's been happening on that account.. Although the city of Turku decided to put up the Christmas lights on pretty early this year (although I think it's happened a few times before). So I spent the last Sunday brunching, window shopping and feeling like Christmassy. So now queue the Christmas music!
I decided to label myself, and put myself into boxes for fun. It kinda makes it easier to find new friends when people can identify the stereotypes. Actually people tend to get stuck on the stereotype, get annoyed and overall skip my name in the speeddating applications. Oh bother. So. First of all, I think I am geek. In the broadest terms of the word 'geek'. I like comics, scifi, horror movies, physics, video games etc. But not geek as in "I own the whole series of Star Trek Second Generation action figures - mint condition!", more like I just like the stuff and enjoy references (and allusions) to stuff I think of as 'geek'. But I guess that's not even antisocial anymore in this day of the 21st century. ALL - and I do say ALL - indie people are geeks in a certain way. Indie people tend to keep things retro, meaning FAMICOM, 80's comics and retro fashion. And stuff. And that's the second thing I think myself as. Indie. But that's a really really broad term - indie.
I could go on for ages about the word 'indie' and what it used to mean, and what it means now. It's horrible, I tell you. Horrible. The word has been misused! But moving on (since I'm not a purist of any kind). I'm indie, I listen to stuff that could be labeled indie, I look like an indie boy (cute, glasses.. erm, is there anything else that indie boys should look like?) and general stuff. Lets not go into the details, I might get smited by someone more knowing of things. Next order of business: music junkie. I love music. Music is love. Couldn't live without my iPod or my guitar(s), which are abruptly named. My first ever instrument - my bass - is named after my best friend, Nea; my second instrument ever - a cherry red Epiphone SG G400 - has a kind of a hybrid name, it's named after a punk goddess of the 21st century and my other good friend whom I completely love: Brody/Jutta (hybrid because I never got around to choose which is better..); and finally my latest addition to the family of guitars - my Ibanez acoustic - which I have not named yet. It's just this black hunk of wood and electronics.
And that leads to another thing I am - I like to name stuff. I am the infamous namegiver to a certain bananatree, Angus. I also have two plants to whom I've given distinct names. A dragontree named Kalle/Francois and a ficus bonsai called Mr. Miyagi. Also my former iPod was called Frankie after Frank Iero of My Chemical Romance, and my iPod now is just called Nintendo for the lack of imagination.
Be back later to finish this... byes for now
Anyhow, great changes in my life in the past few weeks. Well, there was the communal elections in which I didn't participate. I don't even want to start ranting on why I didn't vote. It's a thing I still have to justify for myself, then maybe to others. I started the Lapinjärvi thing, finishing in like two weeks now. Haven't spent much time there because of, well, things. I'm currently on leave because of my IB retakes.
Been living the last few weeks in hopes of getting Christmas early. Nothing's been happening on that account.. Although the city of Turku decided to put up the Christmas lights on pretty early this year (although I think it's happened a few times before). So I spent the last Sunday brunching, window shopping and feeling like Christmassy. So now queue the Christmas music!
I decided to label myself, and put myself into boxes for fun. It kinda makes it easier to find new friends when people can identify the stereotypes. Actually people tend to get stuck on the stereotype, get annoyed and overall skip my name in the speeddating applications. Oh bother. So. First of all, I think I am geek. In the broadest terms of the word 'geek'. I like comics, scifi, horror movies, physics, video games etc. But not geek as in "I own the whole series of Star Trek Second Generation action figures - mint condition!", more like I just like the stuff and enjoy references (and allusions) to stuff I think of as 'geek'. But I guess that's not even antisocial anymore in this day of the 21st century. ALL - and I do say ALL - indie people are geeks in a certain way. Indie people tend to keep things retro, meaning FAMICOM, 80's comics and retro fashion. And stuff. And that's the second thing I think myself as. Indie. But that's a really really broad term - indie.
I could go on for ages about the word 'indie' and what it used to mean, and what it means now. It's horrible, I tell you. Horrible. The word has been misused! But moving on (since I'm not a purist of any kind). I'm indie, I listen to stuff that could be labeled indie, I look like an indie boy (cute, glasses.. erm, is there anything else that indie boys should look like?) and general stuff. Lets not go into the details, I might get smited by someone more knowing of things. Next order of business: music junkie. I love music. Music is love. Couldn't live without my iPod or my guitar(s), which are abruptly named. My first ever instrument - my bass - is named after my best friend, Nea; my second instrument ever - a cherry red Epiphone SG G400 - has a kind of a hybrid name, it's named after a punk goddess of the 21st century and my other good friend whom I completely love: Brody/Jutta (hybrid because I never got around to choose which is better..); and finally my latest addition to the family of guitars - my Ibanez acoustic - which I have not named yet. It's just this black hunk of wood and electronics.
And that leads to another thing I am - I like to name stuff. I am the infamous namegiver to a certain bananatree, Angus. I also have two plants to whom I've given distinct names. A dragontree named Kalle/Francois and a ficus bonsai called Mr. Miyagi. Also my former iPod was called Frankie after Frank Iero of My Chemical Romance, and my iPod now is just called Nintendo for the lack of imagination.
Be back later to finish this... byes for now