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My Hipstamatic love letter to Toronto. I will go back as soon as possible.

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Two things I've heard this week that I don't agree with.1. Life in countryside is more real than life in cities.2. Life in Kallio is more real than life in other parts of Helsinki.

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I'm still alive. One day I'll feel like it. Nothing serious, just something that happens every year in these early spring days, sleeping through days and waiting. Short walks, some working, studying at home. A cup of tea, tofu, too much coffee. Soon it's time to wash the windows.

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10 years, 25 best albums.Interpol: Turn on the Bright Lights (Leif Erikson!)The Arcade Fire: FuneralJenny Wilson: Love and YouthThe Decemberists: ...Present Picaresque22 Pistepirkko: Drops & KicksDeath Cab for Cutie: PlansJulian Plenti: Julian Plenti is... SkyscraperAntony and the Johnsons: I'm a bird nowRadiohead: In RainbowsEditors: The Back RoomMew: And the Glass Handed KitesTom Waits: Real

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November leaves.Once again I'm buzzing around like a crazy busy bee. I have one more week left in school before a long holiday. I also started a new job less than a week ago (I'm working as a writer after seven years of everything else) and my phone rings in every five minutes. And I still have to deal with my old job. I'm feeling a bit guilty about neglecting this blog, but I'm trying to be back

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Greetings from the floor! I've been nesting in front of our television for a week. During weeks like this I really wish our apartment was big enough for a couch to fit in instead of two leather chairs. (Problem with our bedroom is that it's colder than our living room and there's no tv.)I got The Divine Award from one of my favourite bloggers, Anna. Now I have to confess five of my sins. Only one

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Yesterday. A long walk in our neighbourhood. Dinner in a good Chinese restaurant. Cold air, icy bond and sunshine. Branches and fallen leaves under our feet. *Silversun Pickups - Panic SwitchJoy Division - ShadowplayMuse - BlissNew Order - True FaithTom Waits - Rain DogsThe Cure - LullabyBeth Gibbons & Rustin Man- Funny Time Of YearEditors - MunichSuede - TrashArcade Fire - No Cars GoKate Bush -

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The first snow fell down today. I sat in front of the window, drank coffee and watched our Budapest photos over and over again.

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Yesterday: Project Runway, juice and cookies at my friend's place. The guinea pig and cute Japanese creature live there.Today: Salsa lesson and staying home doing nothing.

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Balconies in Budapest, taken with a Diana camera. I usually try to avoid things such as traffic signs which can date the image but this time I wanted the sign to be in the picture.

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Somewhere between Kotka and HelsinkiToday I was lucky while walking home. I saw a live fox and the minute I opened my home door the rain started.There are albums for the springtime, records that tell to go out, meet some friends, have a beer, but there are also albums for these stormy autumn days, for staying inside, for rubber boots and blankets. One of my favourites of those albums is Patrick

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In Budapest the last hour before the sunset is amazing. Everything gleams golden, the buildings, the river, mountains, the warm air. (I love that particular hour in many other countries too.) When watching these photos it's hard to believe that it's already autumn! My vacation just started! I'm afraid of the winter. Soon all I can think about is "Brrrr. Cold. F*ck." or "I NEED SOME SUNSHINE." or

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Pedal cars in Sziget, Budapest. Taken with Smena Symbol, bought from flea market in Budapest.Today I'm 27. It's been a good day.

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We are back from hot Budapest with two new cameras and a lot of photos which I'm going to show you one by one in long winter days. The blue thing is on again so no more text today. I just hope that my hand will feel better one day.

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So my holiday finally started and so started the raining. But I have my books and I have my records, and in a week we are off to, if not to the mountains, but to at least to mount Gellért in Budapest. It's been seven years since my last visit to Budapest, I have forgotten a lot. It will be nice to visit the same places which bring back the memories and to find some new ones to remember too. I

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I promised to Elsa to introduce five of my favourite places in my hometown, Helsinki. They could be bars, cafés, restaurants, shops, anything. I started to think the places and this challenge yesterday, and it was extremely hard because there's so many alternatives! Then I decided to narrow my search and to think only about my own neighborhood, Kallio (and neighbouring areas such as Harju). It

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jeans: Uniqlotop: 2or+ by YAT (underneath I wore a Filippa K top)bracelet: 2or + by YATanother "bracelet": Tamla for Terveystalo health care (this stays on my wrist for a week)

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My phone tells me that I've seen a lot of water this summer. Maybe I'll see some mountains too when it's time for my summer holiday in August.Today I'm staying home. Almost everyone is in Ilosaarirock, I've turned my cellphone off and soon I'll be away from computer. Nothing can come between me and my books. I have ice cream, Bat For Lashes, I have Leonard Cohen and maybe a good movie, just maybe

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Laura from Murmansk behind a pint of beerMy meds worked their magic, migraine is gone, so we paid a quick visit to Tampere with two great bands, Murmansk and Mesmer. It's sometimes good to see other, unfamiliar, towns in Finland to realise how much I love my own, after all. It's small, sometimes boring, grey, but it's my hometown.

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I'm (barely) alive. I've been suffering from migraine headaches for almost a week now and today I gave up and went to see a doctor. As I presumed, more different kinds of prescription drugs. Let's hope they'll help this time, lying in bed or in the bathroom floor like yesterday is not my idea of a perfect summer vacation.While waiting for my meds to do their thing, I'll try to focus on good

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I don't usually care about compilation albums, but there is one exception - Dark Was The Night. "Dark Was The Night will be released on February 17th, 2009. It’s comprised of 31 exclusive tracks and it will be available as a double cd/triple vinyl/download and will benefit the Red Hot Organization – an international charity dedicated to raising money and awareness for HIV and AIDS through popular

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Our mid summer. Three different places, Porvoo, Fiskars, Vääksy. Porvoo. I've never seen a town this empty! We walked around for a while, had some coffee and drove back home.Vääksy. It was raining so much and because of that my back hurt like hell all night long but I met lots of nice new people and some old ones too.Fiskars. A rare glimpse of miss Pigeon and better weather.It was nice having a

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I'm not so busy anymore, but after all the rush I was still very tired, so I spent the weekend with my parents, reading books, playing board games, sleeping, sunshine, thunder storm and a long bicycle ride, about 30 kilometres (I love bicycles!). I also cancelled some next weeks events and meetings and I already feel more relaxed. Now just some more sunshine, good music and so my summer begins.

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Last days of school before the summer, last exams, salsa lessons, great gigs... That means I'm busy busy busy. But I heard some very happy news today.

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Sunshine, rain, sunshine, thunderstorm, sunshine, rain, sunshine. Cheesecake, brownies (too much), tea, coffee (too much), hot chocolate. Old music. Old friend and her dog. Sunshine.

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Murmansk, one of the most interesting bands in Finland, is having their second album's release show at Bar Loose tonight. Great way to celebrate the fact that my flu went away!

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Lazy, sunny days, drinking coffee with a friend, sun, seagulls, perhaps it's time to clean the windows, what else could a girl need?

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This is something that can happen only to me. I was going to write an entry, with lots of pictures and I had actually something to say. But I took a shower 20 minutes ago and noticed just now that I didn't rinse my hair! So I'm writing with shampoo in my hair! Talking about being absent-minded... I guess I'm going back to the bathtub and try again tomorrow. Please watch Lyckans Undulat by

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This morning I went jogging and took a camera with me. I'm not actually a big fan of digital cameras. I take better pictures with film camera. Taking digital photographs is way too easy. I think photography should be more difficult. Shooting with film requires more thinking and concentration and that can be seen in the results. That's a perfect way to learn to take better photos. (Toy cameras

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My poor bird! It's been with me at so many occasions, clubs, gigs, parties, everywhere, and then it snapped while I tied my shoelaces. Well, we had fun for an year and a half. I could order similar one but it wouldn't be the same magpie. Let's hope it still could be fixed somehow. I don't have that many pieces of jewellery that I like to use. This week this also happened to someone else.The red

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It snowed today. The weird and disturbing thing was that it was snowing from earth to the sky. Funny winds. I've been trying to study the whole day, not a big success though. I only went outside for my dancing lesson so old photo today again.Tonight it's Tavastia and Fever Ray (Karin Dreijer Andersson, the other half of the Knife).Some of the old pictures are not visible right now. They will be

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My sequin Converses got out yesterday. They went with me, my boyfriend, my little brother and a bunch of other friends to see Antony and the Johnsons. They were great. I'm usually not a big fan of long gigs, but this time two hours felt short. After Antony, we went to a friends sisters home warming party, felt a little out of place, left early, went to Dubrovnik to see Kap Kap, met other friends,

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Yep, spring is finally here. I wake up too early every morning because of the sun and the warmth, there is a fresh wind blowing outside, seagulls and other birds are coming back from south and I stop caring about things. My new spring shoes want to get out, they want to run and play, meet new people and hear some great music. One of the things that always happen in the springtime is that there is

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Old photo from 2005. An year later I found The Decemberists, especially their album Picaresque and I still love it's stories of mariners, their wifes and Eli, The Barrow Boy.

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Still old photos, maybe 2004 or early 2005? Spring is here and maybe I should finally tell someone that I have a blog again.

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Holga + age old film + shot in 2004, developed in 2009 + bad scanning = 1 almost recognizable image. This film was not the only age old film that I developed. There were other rolls with more recognizable pictures. It felt quite strange to see these old, somehow familiar and somehow very strange old photos. Oh well, another lesson learned - don't leave your films in the fridge for five years. It

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Quick note: must love the new Andrew Bird album Noble Beast. And the older one, Armchair Apocrypha, too.

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I've always loved lazy days. Stolen moments. Drinking tea, playing saxophone, reading a book and listening to music (today: PJ Harvey, Pariisin kevät and Feist) when I know I should be doing something else. And when I should get some rest (when sick, very tired, etc...), I swim, go to gym, do everything but rest. It's always been like that.

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...or a walk with a friend and her young but not so little dog.

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Finally some sun. Somehow french word "lumière" reminds me of Arcade Fire, one of the best bands in the world. With the sunlight, also finally some sleep. I spent the holidays at my parents place and came back Saturday. I couldn't sleep there. It was so quiet. I guess I missed the sounds of the city, but at least I read many comic books (mostly Donald Ducks) during the long silent nights! At the

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Rough Trade, Notting Hill, LondonI was very tired after walking around London. I had already bought several albums, had decided not to buy more, just to wait for my boyfriend to finish his shopping so we could move on. Then the shop assistant made me change my mind. She played something that won my heart over immediately. She played Tunng album "Good Arrows".Back home I've listened the album over

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Still no sunshine. I miss Paris. Well, London too and maybe Lisbon but mostly Paris. Picture is from London though.

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... here's some camera phone pictures from the last summer. 

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I'm still not completely happy with the outfit of the blog but it can wait. But so long I've been happy with the last two weeks: meeting many of my favourite people, trip to Jyväskylä with much snow, good gigs and peacefull days. And this band took care of the good music yesterday. Please enjoy the video, I did.

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