Partytime
What an awful summer this has been - the weather I mean. It has been raining almost every day and if it has not been raining, it has been cold. If I hadn't had the puppy I would have booked the first flight possible to southern Europe.
Despite the stupid weather we will have J's birthday party at his house in the countryside tonight. It does not rain (yet). J's birthday is actually on August 2nd, but because I had to change my vacation time, we were forced to have this party earlier. He does not know too much about his party, only thing he knows is that he was told to go to the fleamarket and buy a suit - the kind of suit that men wore at 1939. He has one now.
I got the idea of that one Clive Owen fan made video - not the video, nor Hemingway and Gellhorn, but the music. It was Xavier Cugat's Perfidia (recorded 1939). Good year because it was before the war started, that is why I chose that particular year.
But when I searced partymusic on youtube (thank god for youtube), I changed my plans a bit. Perfidia will be on the playlist, but I also happened to find a couple of great electro swing songs. I remembered that J had visited an electro swing club when he was in Paris and he had liked that a lot. And as usual - we don't have that kind of clubs in Finland.
I have heard a couple of electro swing songs before, but had not paid much attention on those.
I absolutely love this The Puppini Sisters version of Beyonce's Crazy in love.
And the Bart & Baker version of Istanbul (not Constantinople).
And the Tim Tim version of Rum and Coca Cola.
Rum and coke is not very Finnish drink - vodka is, but we we have both. Food will be very old fashioned Finnish food.
And guess what - it started to rain while I was writing this. Damn.
Despite the stupid weather we will have J's birthday party at his house in the countryside tonight. It does not rain (yet). J's birthday is actually on August 2nd, but because I had to change my vacation time, we were forced to have this party earlier. He does not know too much about his party, only thing he knows is that he was told to go to the fleamarket and buy a suit - the kind of suit that men wore at 1939. He has one now.
I got the idea of that one Clive Owen fan made video - not the video, nor Hemingway and Gellhorn, but the music. It was Xavier Cugat's Perfidia (recorded 1939). Good year because it was before the war started, that is why I chose that particular year.
But when I searced partymusic on youtube (thank god for youtube), I changed my plans a bit. Perfidia will be on the playlist, but I also happened to find a couple of great electro swing songs. I remembered that J had visited an electro swing club when he was in Paris and he had liked that a lot. And as usual - we don't have that kind of clubs in Finland.
I have heard a couple of electro swing songs before, but had not paid much attention on those.
I absolutely love this The Puppini Sisters version of Beyonce's Crazy in love.
And the Bart & Baker version of Istanbul (not Constantinople).
And the Tim Tim version of Rum and Coca Cola.
Rum and coke is not very Finnish drink - vodka is, but we we have both. Food will be very old fashioned Finnish food.
And guess what - it started to rain while I was writing this. Damn.